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Name: Tiffany Tong
Talk Title: “Redefining boundaries: urban agriculture.”
Notes: Faculty of Land and Food Systems, Global Resource Systems, 3rd year.
Student Environment Centre: “Food is Fundamental” conference coordinator and active member.
Topic: How often do we connect the words “urban” and “agriculture” [...]
Mike from EWB says:
“What do a bicycle-powered water pump, a combination washer/irrigation system, and a mobile solar cooker have in common? They were all designed by students like you, following the noble vision of a world without poverty. As DSW participants, they were guided by a simple philosophy: sustainable designs will improve [...]
How does music impact global issues?
Please don’t say Bono.
Recently, I wrote a letter that suffered some backlash. Unintended but there, nonetheless. I debated removing the post but figured it was in the spirit of the site to leave it up. I debated whether or not to give a response [...]
From the following article at the BBC, “Number of Alien Worlds Quantified” came this beaut:
While researchers often come up with overall estimates of the likelihood of intelligent life in the universe, it is a process fraught with guesswork; recent guesses put the number anywhere between a million and less than one.
(Emphasis added)
Not sure why evolution seems to be perpetually on my radar these days. (Edit: although Darwin’s approaching 200th birthday could have something to do with it).
In any case, another set of interesting lectures are on the horizon.
In particular, the one on religion by Dr. Ara Norenzayan, a psychologist here at [...]
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Name: Allen Manser
Talk Title: “Conscious learning for the cognitive economy.”
Notes: UBC Alumni (Sauder School of Business class of 2006).
Topic: Why formal education is no longer a means to an end and how a new appreciation for ideation, multiple intelligences, and passion are paramount to [...]
Don’t forget to have your spouses spayed or neutered.
Dear Citizen,
Congratulations on your first newborn! We hope the immeasurable happiness that accompanies such a joyous occasion reaches you well. Please be alerted that, within the proceeding 4 weeks, you must undergo assisted sterilization, as mandated by your peers.
Kind regards,
The Human Race
Dr. John Feeney, an environmental journalist residing in [...]
Finally something uplifting to counter all the stories of bank executives and hedge fund managers installing $15000 toilets and $300 000 rugs. Proof that ethical business can be profitable.
It reminds me a bit of the Gateman Goes Global lecture last fall. Only, at the time, I was frustrated by the pervasive [...]
Just finished producing the last of the Terry talks videos, and will hopefully have all 9 up by the end of tomorrow. Having the chance to view all of them lately has really hit home for me that there are some amazing students out there.
Anyway, kind of reminded me of this poem by [...]
(2008) Making Medicines for People, Not for Profit: Mike Gretes
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Name: Mike Gretes
Talk Title: “Making medicines for people, not for profit.”
Notes: Faculty of Science, Biochemistry, PhD student.
UBC Universities Allied for Essential Medicines.
Topic: All lives, no matter where they are lived, have equal value. Yet access to life-saving drugs is most [...]
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