This flash applet from the University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center is just cool. It is absurdly cool. It is almost inappropriately cool. I cannot even begin to describe how amazingly cool and valuable and needed this kind of thing is. Please check this out.
Here’s your chance to “delurk” (as in show yourself as someone who reads this blog and is going to leave their first ever comment).
So… are you dressing up for Halloween, and if so, as what. If you live on campus, do you still trick or treat by passing yourself off as an exceptionally “tall” [...]
Check this out:
Yes, this here video is showing a crow making its own freaking hook! Man, I could just go on about how marvelous these creatures are, but wait… why don’t I let an expert do that for me.
Namely, this one:
Of course, this happens just before Halloween…
The other night, I moved a human anatomy torso model from my lab to my car. This was in preparation for an elementary school visit the following morning. It’s basically this model shown here:
Anyway, the organs can be removed for closer examination, and essentially I dropped [...]
I recently discovered a website and I love it (next to terry* of course). I’m not sure if any of you know of it, but I figure the internet’s for sharing so here it is: Good. With a name like that, it’s gotta be [okay I'll refrain from my very lame humour]. I [...]
Make space in your calendar this week! This looks awesome.
The Division of Health Care Communications and the Community Liaison for Integrating Study and Service are pleased to invite you to the “Health Care Involves Everybody” Fair as a part of the Celebrate Learning Week events.
Zack says:
“Greetings!
On October 24 – 30, 2009, UBC will be abuzz with activity during Celebrate Learning Week! It is a week-long initiative that seeks recognize the different ways students, faculty, and staff learn at UBC. From interactive workshops, to special lectures, a variety of activities will be held across campus. Some highlights include:
[...]
Science, Literature, and the Nature of Happiness
Here’s a question for you Terry readers: What makes us happy?
Well?
Maybe it’s obvious to you. But I think it’s not always as easy as we like to think. Sometimes unusual patterns emerge. Sometimes it’s not the things we’d expect.
Seminar! A CO2-sequestering geothermal power plant
Martin Saar from the University of Manitoba will be presenting, “A CO2-sequestering geothermal power plant.” Unfortunately, there was no abstract provided, and I am unable to find any background material on this matter (except for the brief blurb on Wikipedia). In any case, I’m going!
Location: EOS Main 330a (link)
[...]
Let me explain…
First take a peek at this:
I actually posted this earlier, but basically, what you’re seeing here is the promotional video for a student conference, called TEDx Terry talks. This, we just finished up the other day (it was amazing and you can see the synopsis here).
Anyway, [...]
Unfortunately, all tickets have now been picked up.
Courtesy of the David Suzuki Foundation (thanks Elois!), we’ve got about 50 or so free passes to the premiere of “Darwin’s Brave New World.”
Featuring a superb cast and commentators including David Suzuki, Richard Dawkins, Jared Diamond and Iain McCalman, this is the story of [...]
We all know that students have become very passionate about sustainability. Now is your chance to let the UBC administration know how important it is and ensure that sustainability becomes a pillar in the our academic life.
A group of students has been trying to lobby for [...]
From the latest edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics:
The well-known proton, neutron, and electron are now thought to be members of a group that includes other fundamental particles that have been discovered or hypothesized by physicists. These very elemental particles, of [...]
Imagine it’s 2055, and well, we’ve basically messed up with the whole Climate Change thing. Sort of let it be, and then watch the world around us change. What would you, in 2055, as an older citizen of the Earth think? How would you look back? What would you be thinking? Well, that’s part of [...]
Please attempt to name the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Peace.
His name is Martti Ahtisaari, a supremely accomplished diplomat, peacemaker, and former president of Finland. And unless you’re interested in international diplomacy, you’ve probably never heard of him. Whether you think this is a good/bad thing (Ahtisaari’s non-popularity among people [...]
At least he knows it (via Reuters):
“I do not view it as a recognition of my own accomplishments but rather an affirmation of American leadership,” he said in the White House Rose Garden. “I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations to confront the common challenges [...]
There is a seminar this afternoon that should be prove to be very interesting. Ben Rostrom will be presenting “Geological Storage of Carbon on a Large Scale: the IEA-GHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project.” This monitoring and storage project is a world’s first in serious research on the carbon capture in geological stores. The [...]
Dr. Michael Worobey (above) will be presenting the SFU Sterling Prize in Controversy lecture this coming tuesday (October 13th) on his work on the evolution and origins of the HIV epidemic. To quote:
Worobey’s work on the origins of HIV, published in Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of [...]
The Conference for Learning and Academic Student Success (CLASS) is proud to announce that delegate registration is now open. What is CLASS all about? Check out the video below to find out!
This year, CLASS will take place on Saturday, October 24, 2009 marking the start of UBC Celebrate [...]
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Didja miss me? Cos I sure have missed you.
Terry readers! Dear wonderful delightful readers. Oh how I’ve missed you these past few weeks! I’ve been absent from the action here lately- there’s been a lot going on personally, and that’s translated into me doing a bit of a disappearing act. Even the pieces I’ve been trying to scribble lately haven’t worked out, and [...]