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The Integrated Sciences Students Association is presenting INNOVATE: an integrative conference discussing innovation and technology in the 21st century. This conference hopes to inspire delegates to explore novel technology ideas as well as avenues to utilize existing technologies in new [...]
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Take a moment and think about the title of this latest climate action conference: No Other World (NOW!). By now we’ve all heard the climate spiel; that we’re headed for disaster if we don’t drastically change our lifestyles within a few years. We have scientists, (some) politicians, heck even [...]
(2009) Major Angst: Camille Israel
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Name: Camille Israel
Talk Title: “Major Angst”
Notes: Faculty of Arts, Department of Anthropology, 4th year
Topic:Sometime during her first year at UBC, Camille started collecting examples of famous people with seemingly random majors. Did you know Garfunkel of Simon & Garfunkel was a Math major? Julia Roberts [...]
(2009) Sharing Wonder: Jennifer Kaban
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Name: Jennifer Kaban
Talk Title: “Sharing Wonder”
Notes: Unclassified Student
Topic: Jennifer believes that the most precious gift we can give each other is a sense of wonder. And she believes that the best way to achieve this is to share the world of science with non-scientists. She [...]
Carl is currently in Vancouver, and he was gracious enough to come out for drinks with us last night. This was after a great talk he gave on the how scientists have been following the evolutionary tracks of the H1N1 flu, so that folks can get a sense of (1) what it is, (2) [...]
This sounds like an evening filled with much awesomeness. So excited to hear him speak!
The Dr. Richard B. Splane Lecture presents Miloon Kothari, former UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Commission on Human Rights, in a public lecture on the right to adequate housing.
When: Thursday 26 Nov 2009, 5:30 pm
Where: [...]
Carl is giving a free talk courtesy of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum (along with a number of partners including Terry), on November 18th, at 7pm. The lecture will be held in Rm 2 of the Woodward building (that’s the big BIG lecture hall), and is entitled, “The Origin of Species – 1859 Meets 2009″ [...]
(2009) Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak: Jennifer Gardy
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Name: Jennifer Gardy
Talk Title: “Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak”
Notes: UBC Alumni (Faculty of Science, 2000).
Topic: Dr. Jennifer Gardy, an alumnus speaker at the event, is co-leading the new genome research lab at the BC Centre for Disease Control (BCCDC). She [...]
Check this out:
Yes, this here video is showing a crow making its own freaking hook! Man, I could just go on about how marvelous these creatures are, but wait… why don’t I let an expert do that for me.
Namely, this one:
Seminar! A CO2-sequestering geothermal power plant
Martin Saar from the University of Manitoba will be presenting, “A CO2-sequestering geothermal power plant.” Unfortunately, there was no abstract provided, and I am unable to find any background material on this matter (except for the brief blurb on Wikipedia). In any case, I’m going!
Location: EOS Main 330a (link)
[...]
Let me explain…
First take a peek at this:
I actually posted this earlier, but basically, what you’re seeing here is the promotional video for a student conference, called TEDx Terry talks. This, we just finished up the other day (it was amazing and you can see the synopsis here).
Anyway, [...]
There is a seminar this afternoon that should be prove to be very interesting. Ben Rostrom will be presenting “Geological Storage of Carbon on a Large Scale: the IEA-GHG Weyburn-Midale CO2 Monitoring and Storage Project.” This monitoring and storage project is a world’s first in serious research on the carbon capture in geological stores. The [...]
Just a note to say that Sir Ken’s schedule on Wednesday is very tight (he has a flight to catch that afternoon). In any event, we’ve been working with his schedule to see if we can include some time for a little something extra beyond the usual talk and Q&A.
Anyway, we’re happy to [...]
It’s that time of year again, where I need to make a goofy video to promote Terrytalks (or technically, now TEDxTerrytalks). Last year, I did one on Things to Avoid When Speaking Publicly; this year I had to make sure Chewbacca was figured prominently.
Do spread the word about TEDxTerrytalks 2009 [...]
I can’t quite describe the joy I feel in writing this post. We’ve been working this summer on organising the first speaker for the Terry Speaker Series, and we finally have details we can release!
Are you ready?
Are you sitting down?
*cue music and drumroll*…
It’s Ken Robinson!
To fully savour how truly amazing [...]
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This is just a heads up to say that John is giving a free talk at 12:30pm on May 19th. And basically, during this time he will address the awfully big question of exactly “Who owns science?” and maybe more importantly, who should be owning science?
In case, you’ve [...]
Click for more information about Dr. Clardy. I’ve heard that he is a very engaging speaker. There will be tea and cookies served as well.
Baba Brinkman performs his brand new one-man show “The Rap Guide to Evolution” at the Vancouver Evolution Festival before taking it to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. The “Rap Guide” was commissioned by UK Microbiologist Dr. Mark Pallen to celebrate Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday and the 150th anniversary of the [...]
Place: AERL 120 (map) Date: Friday, April 3 Time: 11am
Dr. Marcus Eriksen and Anna Cummins are from the Algalita Marine Research Foundation (AMRF), where Marcus is the Director of Research and Education, and Anna is an Education Advisor. Both are published authors with a focus on educational outreach materials and have a number [...]
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Name: Andre Malan
Talk Title: “What education will look like in ten years time.”
Notes: Faculty of Science, Computer Science, 3rd year.
Web Developer, UBC Office of Learning Technology.
Topic: I would like to talk about the potential for technology to change the [...]
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