Every year, global leaders attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how to better the world. With YouTube, you now have the chance to join them. Pablo Camacho, a student and independent writer from Bogotá, Colombia is reporting from the floor. Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/user/thedavosquestion
With the international community [...]
Wednesday, February 4, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Steamworks
375 Water Street, Vancouver, British Columbia
Join the leading Canadian and Californian cancer stem cell researchers for discussion, debate, and refreshments. Space is limited, so please RSVP: cafescientifique@cihr-irsc.gc.ca
The age of stem cell research has offered up a new hope in the fight against cancer. [...]
While Alan was speaking of transitioning economies after the cold war with respect to CO2 emissions (see Romania, USSR/Russia, Poland, etc.), I was reminded of a post I wrote last year – here it is:
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I really enjoyed last week’s lecture. I was oblivious to the international [...]
This also came up in class tonight: the infamous Luntz Memo: You can download the pdf here (via the Environmental Working Group). Here’s a bit (wiki) on Senator Inhofe’s environmental record (I especially like his comparison of environmentalism and the Third Reich..sheesh).
During tonight’s class, someone asked about the relative contribution of transportation to a product’s total GHG emission, and how the GHG emissions of vegetables/grains compare with meat. After a bit of digging, I found the following peer-reviewed research paper published last year – here’s the abstract (and here’s the paper):
Despite significant recent public [...]
In first semester I took an inorganic coordination chemistry class. (Not a catchy way to start a blog post, I know, but bear with me here). In this course, I learned that a ligand is the chemical species that donates a pair of electrons to a specific type of chemical bond (called a coordination bond, [...]
Are you hungry for change?
923 million people across the world are hungry.
Almost 16,000 children die from hunger-related causes everyday. That’s one child every five seconds. Or about 1/3 of the undergraduate student body at UBC.
Please join me, February 10th 2009 at Performance Works on Granville Island, for Hungry4Change [...]
Garbage, garbage, everywhere
I found a few pages of a discarded Vancouver Sun the other day on the bus, and was kind of disturbed by an article about “islands of garbage” showing up in the middle of the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian oceans, at the center of slowly circular ocean currents called gyres. I did a little bit [...]
(2008) Using Value Chains to Alleviate Poverty: Duncan McNicholl
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Name: Duncan McNicholl
Talk Title: “Using value chains to alleviate poverty.”
Notes: Faculty of Applied Science, Civil Engineering (Environmental Option), 4th year.
Vice President, Engineers Without Borders UBC Chapter.
Video: Click on image.
Topic: ” I spent this past summer in Malawi with Engineers Without [...]
1) 150,000 packages of Cadbury mini eggs
2) Sarah Palin’s failed vice presidential wardrobe
3) 15,000 peoples’ lives in malaria ridden regions ($10 per mosquito net)
4) A cloned dog
Even those keen on petty collegiate rivalries will surely agree with the campaign to protest underfunding at Simon Fraser. Without rivals, rivalries are no fun.
A 2.63% cut in the provincial grant has led to the university facing a $6.3 million shortfall, and an immediate hiring freeze.
There seems to be no doubt that [...]
Does it matter if this will never be read by the people it’s meant for?
Dear those who cannot read this,
I am sorry. You don’t know my name and you probably can’t comprehend my life. But that’s okay, because I don’t know your name or your life either. I’m writing this letter to apologize. [...]
Like any virgin I’ve been feeling timid about my first time… especially since I have to do it in front of so many people (potentially), blogging can be an intimidating practice when you’re fairly sure that someone might read it. But, one really does have to get the first time out of the way in [...]
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Name: Elysa Hogg
Talk Title: “Learning our future.”
Notes: Faculty of Arts, Political Science, 3rd year.
UBC Model United Nations Secretary-General.
Topic: “I want to use the Terry Talks to speak to students about how we can become tomorrow’s global leaders. Students and [...]
Jamil says:
The Science Undergraduate Society is proud to present James Randi as our Science Week 2009 Keynote speaker. Mr. Randi is a world renowned skeptic of the paranormal and pseudo-scientific claims, who, amongst many other achievements helped debunk “spoon benders” and faith healers such as Uri Geller and Peter Popoff, who have deceived [...]
A sense of hope. It’s the overwhelming sentiment that I’ve heard people talking about in reaction to President Obama’s inaugural address. A hope for peace, a hope that the US will repair itself, and even, a hope for Science. As I listened to Barrak’s speech, I found myself filled with hope on so many different [...]
Will I really be the first one?
I feel sort of weird that I will be the first one to make the post on tomorrow. You know, that history-making, nation-changing, beginning-marking, hope-inspiring day otherwise known as Obamapolooza. It actually started on Sunday with a concert, and will end with the swearing in of [...]
Recently, I’ve become enraptured with some of the great American documentary/street level photographers : Stephen Shore, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, William Eggleston, Gary Winogrand, Joel Meyerowitz, just to name a few. These artists could transform the banal and ordinary moments and aspects of American life (throughout the country) into [...]
Here at UBC we have our very own MUN (Model United Nations) conference every year in January. Basically it is an opportunity for a whole bunch of super nerdy high school and university students to converge and pretend that they are really important people. They represent a variety of nations, and get to discuss the [...]
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Payback
I just finished Margaret Atwood’s latest book, Payback – Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth. She was recently here at UBC to deliver part two of her Massey Lectures. I went to see her at the Chan and really enjoyed the humor in her reading. Especially since her subject of “Debt and Sin” and [...]