Yes. Yet another “Sh*t ___ Says” video but I swear I’m not just trolling you. It‘s somewhat relevant alludes to my upcoming post. Plus I think UBC students would really appreciate the campus specific nuances embedded in this cinematic piece.
It’s been a long time since I blogged last time. Life has been extremely busy and tough for me, but fortunately I recovered. For some reason, this phrase keeps surfacing in my mind, so much so that I think it warrants a post about it–”intangible values”.
To start with, here is a question for though: [...]
Richard Kemick delivers a scathing and very very funny diatribe as he laments the disparity between the “have” and “have not” University Faculties.
“Richard Kemick is originally from Calgary, Alberta and is studying English Literature and History at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. He has a semi-erotic obsession with Shakespeare, Canada, and [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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).
Finally had a chance to check this video out (bouncing around the internets from Tetsuro’s TEDxTerrytalks video), and it’s pretty funny.
If you’re not sure what this is all about, it was essentially a response to MacLean’s controversial “Too Asian” piece in their university issue. As the youtube blurb reads:
As [...]
The Awesomeness of Your Contradictions: Tetsuro Shigematsu
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Name: Tetsuro Shigematsu
Talk Title: “The Awesomeness of Your Contradictions”
Notes: Faculty of Arts, Creative Writing, M.F.A., New Media, 2nd year.
Topic:Stick out your thumb. That’s the thickness of my press package. If you flip through it, fanning past you would be clippings from all manner of periodicals; from monthly community [...]
A fun article by my friend, Chris Keam, published over at Tyee.
But while the heroes of Hollywood’s cinematic comic strips may save the world on occasion, how do they stack up at saving the environment? Turns out only a couple of comic book creations can rightfully say they put the green on screen. [...]
(mirrored from my blog)
Background:
This post is a little late for Pi Day, but it’s never a bad time for discourse related to everyone’s favourite mathematical constant. Twas on Pi Day of this year that I somehow came across this site, which describes the Constrained Writing task of [...]
Have you gone through your education with no clear idea of what it is that you love to and of what it is that you do best? From one of the world’s leading thinkers and speakers on creativity and self-fulfillment, a talk about talent, passion, and achievement.
The element is the point at which [...]
Since I can find no previous mention on Terry, I thought I’d share one of my favourite webcomics. Hark, A Vagrant!, by Canadian Kate Beaton is in many ways to the Humanities what XKCD is to science and engineering (with suitably better illustrations).
In fact, one improvement is [...]
The Conspiracy of the Century! … or maybe not.
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks (or buried in textbooks, as the case might more likely be), you’ve probably heard about a the case of a group of hackers stealing and releasing emails from the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit. This has kicked off a ludicrous [...]
The Ubyssey reports:
The AMS has filed a complaint to the United Nations regarding the federal and provincial government’s failure to meet obligations to provide accessible post-secondary education for international students.
The complaint was submitted to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem Pillay. The report reads that the AMS is [...]
All I can say is, is that this is brilliant…
And there’s much more here from Christopher Niemann from the NYT Abstract City Blog. (via Magpie&Whiskeyjack)
A lot of us students continually struggle with a difficult question: What am I going to do after I graduate?
Well, that search is over for me. I’m going to do a PhD. What changed my mind? This paper.
Ovulatory cycle effects on tip earnings by lapdancers: economic evidence for human estrus?
Abstract
[...]
These are scary times. Without asking your permission, Muslims are daring to write articles, create films, develop radio programs, and produce art that unabashedly celebrates the complex and textured role Islam plays in their lives. They say Islamic feminism is alive and well; that they’re perfectly capable of saving themselves thank you very much, that [...]
March 2009, US Subcommittee on Energy and Environment:
“The Earth will end only when God declares it is time to be over.”
“There is a theological debate that this is a carbon starved planet, not too much carbon…”
If you haven’t read anything from the The Perry Bible Fellowship, then it’s about time you did:
(click image for larger version)
PBF is a bizarre and eclectic mix of social commentary, macabre, science gone wrong (and right), and unadulterated silliness that works very well. Case in point: Robin Hood, [...]
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I consider my Roget’s Thesaurus a close personal friend. I wait for the perfect opportunity to use a new word. Troglodyte for example.
“Brian! Do your dishes. Ugh…you’re such [...]