Testing, testing…  Hi there.  I’m a new blogger on the Terry network, and looking forward to writing a thing or two from time to time.  I’m a professor who specializes in Latin American Studies, so if the point of Terry is to promote interdisciplinarity and “global issues,” then I’m right there already.  After [...]

More evolution talks are headed our way. This series being put on by Cecil Green College looks so good, I almost didn’t want to share it with you guys. Almost.

(Hey, when the seats are first come, first serve, a Darwinist has to do what a Darwinist has to do. It is survival of [...]

This is a rather disconcerting article. Basically Google is killing the planet. Perfect. The article claims:

While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal [...]

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The Little Mountain Housing Complex, a social housing project in East Vancouver, is being shut down and sold off by the province for redevlopment, which is the last thing that Vancouver, with its exploding housing crisis and homelessness, needs.  To draw attention to this issue, Community Advocates [...]

Woah! It’s not every day you get a chance to play in Carnegie Hall. I just found out about this project on YouTube. Tan Dun, the composer who wrote the film music for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Hero, was commissioned by Google to write a symphonic piece for the project. People who want to [...]