Do you read your UBC mass emails?

If you’re like many students I know, you keep your interchange account specifically to avoid these UBC “notices” (and those sign-up lists for clubs/organisations in the SUB).  The world of gmail, hotmail, yahoo and msn are just so much more appealing.  Better colours and better layout.  However, those [...]

In this morning’s Globe and Mail, an article about an interesting approach to overcoming social prejudices currently at Guelph University, amongst other places. The initiative is called Living Library – where the “books” are people from marginalized minority groups, and “readers” sign up for 30-minute sessions to talk with these people and learn [...]

I came across this great article in the Journal of Cell Science via the NY times about the value of stupidity in science. To quote:

For almost all of us, one of the reasons that we liked science in high school and college is that we were good at it. That can’t be the only reason – [...]

I was just at an event that had some team-building activities, one of which involved people surveying each other in partners and making up questions. One of my favorites was the title of this post. So, if you could see the future, would you? And if the answer is affirmative, what place and/or person and/or [...]

Do you get bored with Top-40 radio, or the same 500 songs you’ve been listening to for months on your iPod? Ever feel like what you’d really like to be listening to is a robotic voice reading off all the known base-pairs of the human genome? Well now you can! The same people who produced [...]

Luncheon with a Canadian Peacekeeping Hero

On 20 March 2009 twenty-five students will have the opportunity to attend a luncheon with Dr. Philip Lancaster, a Canadian peacekeeping hero.

Major (retired) Philip Lancaster, PhD. Dr. Lancaster was General Romeo Dallaire?s Military Assistant during the latter half of the Rwandan Genocide and was recently stationed in Goma, [...]

The fifteenth Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will take place in Copenhagen on 6-18 December 2009. Here are my top ten questions in the lead up to the Summit:

1. Will there be an agreement? It is no secret that much of the content of any [...]

Special Event Notice • Saturday March 7th at 1:30PM

Join us for the Green Chain matinee followed by a panel discussion with a some of Vancouver’s Green Giants, including:

The Green Chain Writer/Director/Producer: Mark Leiren-Young
Greenpeace: Eduardo Sousa
Big Room.ca: Jacob Malthouse
David Suzuki Foundation: Michelle Connolly
BC Green Party candidate [...]