Hey Terry crew! Check out this screening of Living in Emergency, a film about the medical NGO, Médecins Sans Frontières. (Film Trailer)

I saw this film a few years back and I remember it being quite powerful. A good film for anyone interested in humanitarian aid, international conflict, and health. Even better, there will [...]

Another cool event to check out! Plus the chance to get published and win money. Via Friends of MSF UBC and GOSA.

Think. Speak. Inspire.  Global Health Essay Competition and Symposium

Friends of Médecins Sans Frontières, UBC and Global Outreach Students’ Association (GOSA) are holding a Global Health Essay Competition and Symposium.   This is [...]

What do you think of when you think of HIV and AIDS?

To be honest, I do not jump to Africa or Southeast Asia. Not because HIV/AIDS is not devastating to so many people and countries in those regions–it is. But because I am pre-occupied by its presence in our own city and province.

I [...]

I always get a little excited at the beginning of a new school year (even if I’m also getting itchy graduation feet this time around….). So much to do, so many clubs to join, a little upcoming talk by someone named K’NAAN. (No big deal).

Here’s one more really [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The results of too much coffee before early morning genetics…

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Happy new year Terry folk! I hope you all had a restful and wonderful holiday season.

I moved back into residence this past weekend, and in the spirit of the new decade, I’ve been wanting to shake things up a bit and give our generic student apartment a new year’s [...]

Hey all! I’ve been asked to pass on a message from Trisha, the president of MSF UBC about MSF’s Canada-wide campaign to collect donations in the form of Aeroplan miles.  (Important note: donate tomorrow and Aeroplan will match your contribution!!) Here is Trisha’s message:

Donate your Aeroplan Miles to Médécins Sans Frontières [...]

From the latest edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics:

The well-known proton, neutron, and electron are now thought to be members of a group that includes other fundamental particles that have been discovered or hypothesized by physicists. These very elemental particles, of [...]

Dr. Michael Worobey (above) will be presenting the SFU Sterling Prize in Controversy lecture this coming tuesday (October 13th) on his work on the evolution and origins of the HIV epidemic. To quote:

Worobey’s work on the origins of HIV, published in Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of [...]

For any MSF fans in the Terrysphere (Terryverse?), Dr. James Maskalyk will be at the Chapters on Robson tomorrow evening to discuss his new book, Six Months in Sudan, about his time as an MSF volunteer in Abyei.

More information can be found here. And here. Should be interesting stuff!

I stumbled across a fabulous website this morning. Information is Beautiful. It’s run by David McCandless, a writer and designer in London who does things like this:

and this:

As a species we generate a LOT of data–especially since the advent of computers. The amount of [...]