Seems like TED.com is releasing videos on my list of favourites. Sit back and enjoy!
As an aside, I’m curious what she thinks of this vaccine nonsense – as someone who relishes in the details, she would have been a great spokesperson in setting the Jenny McCarthys of the world straight.
Terry readers! Hope you’re doing well and enjoying the weather and the cherry blossoms and whatever it is you have planned for Reading Break.
In fact, I can’t wait to hear all about it. Our next Terry tales session is planned for March 1st, and I want you to come so we can eat cookies [...]
Philip K. Howard: Four ways to fix a broken legal system (TED2010 talk)
This was one of my favourite talks at TED2010. Worth a viewing – Mr. Howard makes a lot of good sense.
Waiting for … the World or The Trouble with Consumerism
A One Act Tragicomedy based on the style and characters of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot
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A city street in Vancouver. No trees.
Dawn.
The near future.
Vladimir flat on the ground. Sleeping.
Estragon standing, teeth clenched, pressing buttons on his flip cell phone. Flips it open, flips it [...]
(2009) Major Angst: Camille Israel
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Name: Camille Israel
Talk Title: “Major Angst”
Notes: Faculty of Arts, Department of Anthropology, 4th year
Topic:Sometime during her first year at UBC, Camille started collecting examples of famous people with seemingly random majors. Did you know Garfunkel of Simon & Garfunkel was a Math major? Julia Roberts [...]
Is Bon Jovi an idea worth spreading? Not sure, but it seemed to do wonders with a certain amount of context at a conference I recently attended. This being the TEDactive conference: a satellite event where attendees viewed and immersed themselves in the TED universe at an “off site” locale, all the while [...]
Our Torch to Bear
By Matt Whiteman
On the evening of February 11th, just before the Olympic torch arrived on UBC campus, I met with our university’s president, Stephen J. Toope, along with about twenty other students representing globally-engaged groups at UBC. Together, these groups form the founding members of the Global Lounge, a new space housed at Marine [...]
$5 student Rush tickets on sale for Sport, Peace and Development beginning at 9:30am TODAY
Beginning today at 9:30am, UBC students with a valid student ID can purchase Rush tickets for Sport, Peace and Development featuring development and community building advocates Stephen Lewis and Johann Koss.
Student rush tickets are $5 and will be available at the Chan Centre box office beginning at 9:30am. Regular tickets are $23 and [...]
Oh Terry readers! No happiness is complete without sharing it with you, and I am most definitely in a wonderful mood. It is days after our Terry Tales event on Feb 8th, and I’m still floating on a cloud of joy.
If you’re still confused about what exactly Terry Tales is though, what sort of [...]
“Darwin’s Strange Inversion of Reasoning”
(January 14th, 2009, Frederick Wood Theatre)
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One of Darwin’s earliest critics noted his “strange inversion of reasoning: in order to make a perfect and beautiful machine it is not requisite to know how to make it.” This is indeed a counterintuitive idea, [...]
Since I can find no previous mention on Terry, I thought I’d share one of my favourite webcomics. Hark, A Vagrant!, by Canadian Kate Beaton is in many ways to the Humanities what XKCD is to science and engineering (with suitably better illustrations).
In fact, one improvement is [...]
From (strangely enough) the International Business Times:
The Indian government has moved to establish its own body to address and monitor science surrounding climate change, saying it “cannot rely” on the official United Nation panel.
The move is a severe blow to the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following the revelation parts [...]
Yes, it’s that easy. As mentioned before, I keep getting free books from TED.com, and we’ve decided to give them away at the Terry tales.
Here, we’re hoping a few people will volunteer 5 to 10 minutes of their time to tell the rest of the crowd a small story. It would be lovely [...]
This in the from VAG – the show opens this Saturday.
Leonardo da Vinci was the quintessential Renaissance man. He explored the world with an unrivalled spirit of curiosity, making discoveries centuries ahead of his time. Leonardo appears to have collaborated with the University of Pavia to participate in dissections of corpses, which in the [...]
Or so says a student housing demand study that was recently completed by McClanaghan & Associates.
Kera says:
In December, a student housing demand study was completed by McClanaghan & Associates. It was commissioned by Campus and Community Planning and Student Housing and Hospitality Services to forecast the need and demand for on-campus student [...]
What role does Sport play in your life?
The Olympics are coming to Vancouver… and whether you’re excited about the Games or not, there are going to be lots and lots of great events that you can attend. For example, the Sport and Society speaker series at the Chan on campus looks really interesting. The first speaker is Dick Pound, an outspoken [...]
Terry readers, you know that lovely feeling of being in the midst of amazing conversations and wonderfully interesting people? And how that heady mix of excitement and energy and passion stays with you long after you’ve left the room? That’s what our first Terry Tales [...]
Genetic Art – Featuring You!
I recently came across a website, DNA 11, whose catchphrase is There is Only One Original. They are, of course, referring to you your genetic make-up which the company collects and creates artwork out of. It sounds absurd but this is how it works.
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