In this video, I’m actually speaking (as oppose to dancing silly), since it looks like TEDx has released the mini talks we gave on our experiences hosting a TEDx conference.
Anyway, it only confirms my theory that most people on TV have huge heads (this is data gathered from interacting with the odd TV [...]
(2009) What Synthetic Biology Can Do For You: Eric Ma
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Name: Eric Ma
Talk Title: “What Synthetic Biology Can Do For You”
Notes: Faculty of Science, Integrated Sciences in Biochemistry, Cancer Biology andMicrobiology, 4th year
Topic:Synthetic Biology is an ascending interdisciplinary field, crossing the traditional boundary between Science and Engineering, while simultaneously raising new possibilities and questions in [...]
Because this is a crazy interesting topic, you should attend.
When: Thursday, April 1, 2010, 4-6PM
Where: Asian Centre
Who: Kavita Datla, Mt. Holyoke College
What: The Fate of Urdu: Muslims, Language Politics, and Colonial Hyderabad
Despite its long and varied history, by the 1920s Urdu had increasingly come to be identified [...]
(mirrored from my blog) Courtesy of SuperForest.org
I just finished participating in Earth Hour by turning off my lights and electrical appliances from 8:30-9:30pm. In case you haven’t heard about Earth Hour before, or are not exactly sure what it entails, here’s some interesting tidbits from the official site:
Earth Hour started [...]
(mirrored from my blog)
Background:
This post is a little late for Pi Day, but it’s never a bad time for discourse related to everyone’s favourite mathematical constant. Twas on Pi Day of this year that I somehow came across this site, which describes the Constrained Writing task of [...]
Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions (TEDtalk)
One of the more compelling talks at this years TED conference. Quite powerful, definitely interesting for discussion, and certainly worth a look.
Shagufta says:
Dear Terry lovers, it’s here! The penultimate Terry Tales event. =(
Our last session twas a night of beautiful stories, beautiful conversations, beautiful participants and as always, ever so yummy cookies. (Hard to explain, you had to be there).
And it’s not too late! You can still experience that magical feeling of being [...]
World TB Day at UBC
Tomorrow, Wednesday March 24th, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology is co-hosting a TB awareness day to mark World TB Day.
From the event website:
WTBD-UBC 2010 is designed to raise awareness about tuberculosis in the university community and in the general public. Tuberculosis (TB) remains an epidemic in [...]
It has been three months since I last contributed to Terry* and like the inconsistent blogger I am, I felt it was time for another edition for my random posts. As always, it will be an olio (crossword word) of thoughts and ideas.
Perspectives on life:
As I slowly meet more people and get [...]
Tiffany says:
“Have you ever thought about what $1 can do? Get a cookie from Blue Chip? Here’s a chance to do a social experiment to see how combining $1, passionate people, and voting can become a chemical reaction for change. The UBC Dollar Project and the Global Lounge presents The Briefing – the first [...]
…and I did (during Alan’s lecture in today’s ASIC class).
How much does a first edition copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein: the Modern Prometheus cost? A cool $170 grand.
Is pigeon kosher? Yes (but ostriches aren’t)!
What does a GloFish look like? It glows (under a [...]
The PHYLO(MON) project: Information Meeting Numero Uno (March 25th)
O.K.
We’re just about ready to launch this thing, so it’s high time, I had a proper chance to talk about it. So… If you are in any way curious about what an amalgamation of biodiversity and Pokemon might look like, then do please see if you have an hour to spare so I [...]
UBC MIX Program! (Sounds like a dating service, but not really)
Just a little heads up that the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund has kindly green lighted funding for Geoff’s TEDxTt2008 Wish. Which, in case, you don’t recall, was all about figuring out how to get students of different disciplines to interact more in their classes.
In grant speak, this means that:
[...]
(2009) Malaria: How We Are Biting Back: Nadine Qureshi
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Name: Nadine Qureshi
Talk Title: “Malaria: How We Are Biting Back”
Notes:Faculty of Science, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, 3rd year
Topic: Nadine has heard a life-time of stories from her dad and her grandma of what it was like to grow up in Tanzania, East Africa. [...]
Phylomon project update!
This is straight from the main page. As well, the first UBC phylomon info meeting will be held on March 25th, 4:30pm at the Michael Smith Building (details here):
Things are humming along! We have over 100 images submitted, 30 or so queued up for card production, and over 40 [...]
A student in tonight’s class brought up the story of an artist implanting an ear onto his arm (reminiscent of the ear on a Vacanti mouse). I did a bit of googling, and found his website (here). His name is Stelarc. Here’s his ear:
From the BBC:
The ear does not [...]
As Dave noted in class this evening, a study published in 1997 demonstrated that human mate choice was based partially on a protein found in human urine. Given this study is almost 15 years old, I decided to check Web of Science for any new literature on the subject. A review came up, “An [...]
With issues of sustainability behind us, and big agro on deck for this week’s ASIC class, I thought I’d share with you the following graph of food production in the US (care of Sociological Images; click through for larger versions):
Notice the high levels of production of chickens throughout the southeast. This [...]
UBC Admin has a Blog!
Over the past two months a group of students and courageous administrators have been working to develop a new way of communicating to students what is happening on campus. The first project that they have taken on is blogging. Now anyone with technologically challenged parents will know that expectations of someone of the ‘pre-internet’ generation [...]
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Terry lovers, I’ve met my ‘almost twin’ in a Bollywood movie. Confused? This weekend I saw a delightful film titled “Wake up Sid!” and fell completely in love with the female protagonist. Her name is Aisha, and by the time we meet her, she’s moved to Bombay (the film doesn’t use the name Mumbai) with [...]