This year’s winner: the 2012 Republican candidates for the President of the United States (article)

Some choice quotes:

Rick Santorum: “There is no such thing as global warming…it’s just an excuse for more government control of your life and I’ve never been for any scheme or even accepted the junk science behind the whole [...]

Perhaps he should take ASIC 200 as a primer to global issues:

Edit: should have known better, “This site is not endorsed by Donald J. Trump”

Engineers would make (and probably are – I just don’t know any) great lab researchers.  They have the theoretical tools and know how to solve practical problems with which many “pure” scientists have difficulty addressing.  I am one of these “pure” scientists, so I have much respect and envy towards engineers. [...]

From the bill (pdf):

Sec.A51.979. PROHIBITION OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON RESEARCH RELATED TO INTELLIGENT DESIGN. An institution of higher education may not discriminate against or penalize in any manner, especially with regard to employment or academic support, a faculty member or student based on the faculty member ’s or student ’s conduct of research relating to the theory of [...]

Some days I just don’t feel like being in the lab.  Or finishing that proposal, or writing that application, etc.  Sometimes, I just want to nerd-out and catch up on what’s happening in the world of science.  So, this afternoon, while browsing the last few dozen issues of Nature and Science, I’ve come across a [...]

According to the Frontier Centre for Public Policy, Vancouver is the third least affordable city to own a home…in the world (link).  The average income (not sure if this is personal or household – my bet is household) in Vancouver is $63,000 a year, and the average cost of a home is $620,000 (

UBC’s Museum of Anthropology has cancelled “The Forgotten Project”, an exhibition of portraits painted by Vancouver artist Pamela Masik.  In case you’re not familar with this project, from the project’s website:

THE FORGOTTEN is a large-scale, powerful series of portraits of women’s faces. Sixty-nine portraits, to be precise – the number of [...]

If global warming is real then why is it cold is a collection of political cartoons in which the artists confuse weather events with climate change.  My favorite (can you spot the irony?):

Note: you’re supposed to be laughing with the cartoon, not at it…

This article from The Onion is particularly relevant for ASIC 200, given the time it took ASIC 200 students to come up with “Climate change” as a potential “Doomsday” maker:

Report: Global Warming issue from 2 or 3 years ago may still be a problem

My choice quote:

“Last year’s federal budget included more [...]

Hello ASICers!  I’ve dug up a recent Angus Reid poll (link) regarding the belief in creationism in Canada (and the USA and UK).  Here’s the Canadian data (from this pdf):

By Province:

Remember the botched COP15 talks last year?  Remember the press response and the blame put on China?  Well, documents leaked last month by Wikileaks reveals that the US and China were secretly negotiating months in advance of COP15 (source).  Furthermore, the US used some fairly unscrupulous means to garner support for the [...]