I was raised on a pretty steady diet of the New York Times, so I kind of assumed that everyone had heard of Nicholas Kristof. However, I’ve brought up his name a couple of times in the last week in regards to the current events in Egypt, and people don’t seem to have heard of [...]

Collecting firewood with his two brothers, Sopphart stepped on a land mine. When his brothers rushed toward their younger sibling, one of them ran into the tripwire of another mine, triggering a second explosion. Not only did Sopphart lose part of one foot and sight in one eye; he [...]

Jacaranda students with the harvest from the school garden.

On Saturday, at the Terry Talks, the Jacaranda School for Orphans received the most votes during The Briefing portion of the day.

Thank you so much to those that voted for Jacaranda.

The plan is to mobilize students [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday the comedy group Stand Up for Mental Health was on campus. I went to see the show at Totem Park.

I had no idea what I was in for. I mean: I knew it was a comedy show. I knew it had something to do with mental illness. Other than that… no clue. Admittedly, [...]

If you were on campus today you probably saw the Main Event Carnival. I don’t know how you wouldn’t have—it was huge! There were booths and clubs for everything: academics, sports, nationality, sexuality, religion, hobbies. Everything! You’d be hard pressed to not find something you were interested in.

One club that is particularly near and [...]

As Iran appears ready to explode, I thought it was an appropriate time to reflect on a vaguely similar protest that occurred twenty years ago this month. I am, of course, referring to the infamous Tiananmen Square protests and accompanying massacre that happened between April 15th and June 4th in Beijing, just outside the forbidden [...]

According to Sandra Day O’Connor on The Daily Show, only one third of Americans can name-wait for it-the three branches of government. Not what they do, what they are!

And yet 75% of Americans can name one judge on the American Idol.

Now, before some of you get on your high horse of Canadian-ism, I [...]

This is a rather disconcerting article. Basically Google is killing the planet. Perfect. The article claims:

While millions of people tap into Google without considering the environment, a typical search generates about 7g of CO2 Boiling a kettle generates about 15g. “Google operates huge data centres around the world that consume a great deal [...]

Thought I would just add my two cents on the Terry Talks: It was amazing.

Two cents over.

But seriously, it was a fascinating day. I had to leave in the middle for a bit to do some advising things, but I saw the first two and the last four speeches. And I participated in [...]

Something has been amazing and perplexing me lately; something rather unexpected.

I’m taking five classes: The History of Modern China and the West, The History of the World Since 1900, An Introduction to International Relations, Political Theory and English.

Some of these classes are certainly related, but some, at first glance, seem to have no [...]