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Operation ‘Top Kill’- blast stuff to fill the ruptured well.

Place dome over the leak (later blocked by ice crystals).

Mile long tube to capture gushing oil.

Use underwater robot (with its saw) to hack off leaking pipe.

If you were thinking Batman and [...]

I’m back in Shanghai, spending the summer with my parents. The must-see event in Shanghai right now: the World Expo, of course. And so I headed over to the MASSIVE Expo lot with my dad today. Can I just emphasize the word MASSIVE? I don’t know how many miles or kilometers it was, but it [...]

The Under-17 and Under-20 Lesotho national football (soccer) teams made it through the first stage of qualification for their African youth championships and will move on to play Cameroon and South Africa respectively.  These results occurred after the Lesotho Football Association cut funding to its senior mens’ team to concentrate on youth development.

BBC has [...]

A totally random thought on love:

I have what you could call a mindless summer job: data entry. I spend my days entering numbers into spread sheets and data fields. Fun times. So to combat the encroaching insanity I’ve been listening to a lot of podcasts and music.

At the moment I’m particularly [...]

Diversity in “Action!” Film Festival, January 14, 2011

Hello everyone!  Finally, the long awaited and anticipated update on my wish from TEDX Terry talks 2009 (my wish video can be viewed here). The TEDx Terry talk wish explored how we can find diversity within ourselves, rather than through comparing masses of people together, [...]

After spending much too long in a whiteboard marker fumed boardroom with Allen, Dave, Chad and Florin, we have narrowed down potential speakers for the 2010-2011 year. Everyone gave great suggestions, but after considering resources, wideness of appeal and of course- cage fight matches between the five of us, this is our current list of [...]

I recently walked past a poster on campus that read “Have you witnessed animal rights abuses in UBC labs? Contact us…”

This got me thinking about a course I took last semester on Injury Bio-Mechanics. In short, it’s the application of the same engineering principles you use to analyze a bridge [...]

Hello All,

I’m new to Terry*.  I saw a link on the Terry* site for the SDP talk that took place prior to the Olympics, so I am making a huge assumption that people have a general idea of what sport for development and peace is.  If you don’t, there are links throughout this post [...]

My good friend Duncan McNicholl is currently working in Malawi with Engineers Without Borders (Canada). He’s been working hard to set up a photography project called Perspectives of Poverty that has recently gone viral on the interwebs:

We’ve all seen it: the photo of a teary-eyed African child, dressed in rags, [...]

I’ve been involved for years in various public outreach campaigns and “awareness weeks”.

I’ve also been on the other end of the messaging. Anytime the sun is out and I’m walking from IKB to Koerner, I’m being “made aware” and engaged by Greenpeace, Amnesty, Red Cross, World Vision, and the list [...]

Taking  a break from the rigours of standardized testing, I watched a documentary centred around Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief of Vogue magazine. If you haven’t yet heard of Wintour aka “the single most important figure in the $300-billion fashion industry”, check out The September Issue trailer here, winner of a 2009 Sundance Film Festival Award. I’ll admittedly [...]

It’s Christmas in May! As usual, the Terry team is asking for your input before our Speaker Series wish list meeting next week.

Economists? Scientists? Global activists? Celebrity? Let’s hear ‘em!

I’ve been finding a lot of interesting stuff in the lunch room magazine stack recently. Today someone left out a copy of the April 16 issue of Cell, which had a really cool feature article on the use of video games in science education (“Video Games and the Second Life of Science Class”).

America’s [...]

Who’s heard of the compulsive shopping disorder? Do you suffer from caffeine intoxication disorder? Personally, I think I may be a candidate for the mathematics disorder.

The Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (the Big Book of Mental Health definitions) is working on its fifth edition and considering adding a whole list of new mental [...]

(source – Inhabitat)

From Times Online:

Bill Gates, the Microsoft billionaire, is funding research into machines to suck up ten tonnes of seawater every second and spray it upwards. This would seed vast banks of white clouds to reflect the Sun’s rays away from Earth.

The British and American scientists [...]

I realize that this is extremely short notice, but  I heard from a volunteer coordinator I know who works closely with members of the DTES community that there will be a rally starting in about an hour to protest Vancouver Coastal Health’s decision to close the Health Contact Centre in the bottom of the Roosevelt [...]

I saw something today that peaked my interest.

While waiting in line for brunch this morning, I noticed a man ahead of me wearing a very stylized t-shirt that had “Abbott”, “Hastings”, a couple of other street names, as well as “DTES” printed in a large Helvetica-type font.

I did some poking around the internet [...]

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