This is my first Terry blog and needless to say, I’m a bit nervous! I’ve done a bit of blogging before but it’s either been about nostalgic family memories or food for an iPhone app I worked on over the summer.
I’m a third year student (Sociology major and Commerce minor) but my true passions [...]
Mwaiseni! Bemba (Zambia)
Kuwakaribisha! Swahili (Kenya, Tanzania…)
As you may have probably read, my name is Chisala Chamaombe. I am currently a third year [...]
UBC is a beautiful campus jam-packed with students and staff – a vibrant and growing community. I’ve been working on campus for 12 years and sure, I won’t lie to you, I feel pretty blessed to work at the job I do with the benefits I have, in such an wonderful natural backdrop.
But one [...]
We’d like to introduce a new project Terry has undertaken this year, the Terry Project Podcast.
The Terry Project Podcast is a radio show to be broadcast on CiTR 101.9FM at UBC and available on iTunes. Hosted by myself, with members of the Terry project–professors Fox, Ng, and Sens–as frequent guests, [...]
As a typical busy student who does not have time to have a proper social life, I am half-forced half-willingly to rest my need of gossip with the academic world. For those of you who spend most of your time inside labs with your lab mates, you have to understand the solitary nature of many [...]
Hi everyone,
When a friend of mine recently sent me a link to www.23andme.com, at first I suspected it was just spam.
I mean, sending a sample of your saliva in for DNA testing and bam, less than two months later you know everything there is to know [...]
In my Terry Blogging debut I’m going to cautiously begin with a critical observation of the Terry Blog. In spite of my love for the Terry Project and the new blog, I noticed something odd as soon as I began writing my first post. There are over 50 categories for posts, including expected topics such [...]
Wanna talk at TEDxTerry Talks? How about these topics? #TEDxTt #UBC
Don’t know what TEDxTerry Talks is all about? Well, it’s a student conference where UBC students are given the TED platform to speak. Here, you’ll be given 18 minutes in front of 300 audience members, as well as the opportunity to be professionally filmed, and have that video forwarded to the TED folks in NYC.
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Yes, it’s true! In my younger days, I had many a futile dream of being a rockstar in a rock band. Nowadays, I live this dream vicariously with the odd song (poorly) written and recorded for science’s sake. Generally, this is done as a challenge, whereupon I make the comments section a place for suggestions. [...]
Now that it’s almost a month in since Imagine 2011 and hitting hard at your textbooks and assignments, which I’m sure is the case, let me take you back to Imagine Day. Let’s really think about what really took place during this day. Mostly good stuff actually: 6000 new [...]
I didn’t notice the new layout of Facebook has changed until last night. One reason is that I use Tweetdeck and that gives me few reason to ever open the Facebook page. The other one is that I set my language to by English UK. So when my friends started complaining about the new layout, [...]
The first-ever Interuniversity Conference on Education will be happening across Canada on October 15th, Saturday. The day-long conference focuses on finding solutions to existing problems in education, and we would like to invite students and educators alike to take part in this wonderful event!
Active discussion, sharing of innovative ideas, as well as tips [...]
I think I should spare the modesty of being “not very athletically talented” and just admit to the truth – I am rather athletically retarded.
To give you some background: my main source of workout is to walk from my desk to the kitchen or the washroom; I usually get tired half way through the [...]
Well well well, here I am. In the middle of the night just done with one item out of maybe dozens on my to-do list. So typically me.
Oh, you ask who is this “me”? Graphically speaking, I’m exactly what you see in my avatar–a panda with red scarf. What does that mean exactly? Well, [...]
There is a perception that universities are isolated places, ‘ivory towers’ sequestered from the local community. Despite doing tremendous work for the public good, there can be very little engagement with the actual public.
However, we attend a university that has made community engagement a priority, at least in its strategic documents. It is a [...]
Hi guys,
So I stumbled upon this little illustration and thought I’d share it with you.
Enjoy!
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Imagine a circle that contains all of human knowledge:
By the time you finish elementary school, you know a little:
By the time you finish high school, you know a bit more:
With a bachelor’s degree, [...]
Whoa… this is very innovative…
Via @aronlao
From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
This one was funny enough to make me spit out coffee.
What I particularly like about this cartoon is the fact that I’ve been substituting other words for “science” and seeing if I can get the same desired effect.
In other words, try: “For Social Science!” [...]
Hi everyone!!
I am beyond excited to start blogging, so bear with me if at any point I sound overeager.
My name is Michelle and I’m a second year student at UBC majoring in Biology (meaning my schedule is swamped with Genetics, Physiology, Vertebrates, Cell Bio, and all that fun stuff). Born and raised in [...]
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