In short:
Novartis wants to allow “evergreening” in India. This is an IP trick that allows a drug patent, about to expire, a pseudo extension due to slight structural modifications. i.e. very sneaky. Currently, India doesn’t abide by this, and hence is a major source of generics for the developing world. If Novartis [...]
Hello all, Just a quick message to let you know that tomorrow is TEDxVancouver. It’s actually happening on campus at the Chan Centre, and unfortunately spots have long been accounted for. However, you can still watch the whole thing in its entirety via a livestream that the TEDxVancouver organizers have set up.
Livestream [...]
(If you write a blog post about TEDxTerryTalks 2011, please do let us know by leaving a link in the comment section – we’ll try to compile them with a link round-up at the bottom of this post. This kind of feedback is also handy for things like grant writing so that we can keep [...]
Seriously, just leave a comment letting us know what you’re going as (or if, instead, you’re the sort who refuses to dress up). I’ll be doing my standard Jedi Knight costume, but only because that gives me an excuse to buy a cool toy lightsaber.
Finally, and still on the subject of cool things: don’t [...]
Just saw Gordon’s post on the different types of levitation, and noticed that he didn’t include “Quantum Levitation.” I don’t actually understand it (being a geneticist myself), but I do know that it is very very cool. Watch the video and imagine a future when there’s an app for your iPhone that lets [...]
Some sound advice for any student. What not to do when speaking publicly… #TEDxTt
Well, I’ve got to say, that as someone who has seen the first round of rehearsal talks for TEDxTerry Talks 2011, we are really in for a treat. No wait, that phrase doesn’t really do it justice – let’s just say that it’s going to be both awesome and epic, which as far as adjectives [...]
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.
[...]
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. [...]
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!” [...]
UBC Science Grad students invent drug that cures everything.
I especially liked the bit where the folks from Vienna said that personalized medicine is where the “medicine makes you happy.” Anyway, if you liked this video, it would be great if you click on the “like” button (which you’ll need an account to do).
This is very very funny, and is seriously a contender for the “official” comic piece for the Arts/Science Integrated Course on Global Issues that I teach (I like the bit at the end about macroeconomics).
This is cool.
Note that the “making of” video is also a sight to see.
I’ll start:
1. Worked on the finishing touches on my slides for my first class (SCIE113). This is kind of a first for me – I don’t think I’ve ever taught to first years on their very first day of classes. Hopefully, I won’t mess with the students’ heads here.
2. General website [...]
So one of my favourite moments of all time was when I shared a one to one car ride with Stephen Lewis. He, of the HIV meds advocacy and master of the eloquent word, was one of our very first Terry speakers (check it out here), and having had the chance to chat [...]
Although we’re not completely finished (a logo is on its way for instance), you are more or less looking at the new Terry website. Or in other words, ta da! Which begs us to ask the question: Well, what do you think?
As well, in the upcoming weeks, we’ll also be recruiting some new [...]
Which is to say, that we’re doing a bit of revamping. Will hopefully have things sorted out by the afternoon.
Game on!
Kim says:
“I’m writing about a non-work matter that I thought you might be able
to help me with. My dear friend Dorothy Parvaz is a journalist with Al
Jazeera. In April she travelled to Syria to cover the political
situation there. She has been missing for weeks, and [...]
Killing Bill C-393 would be a facepalm of the highest possible order.
(Reprinted from Boingboing)
Access to life-saving medicines is not a luxury, but a human right.
~Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
To me, the above statement is one of those things that sound like a no-brainer. Put another way, if I were to ask you whether you thought a person’s income should determine [...]
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