Posts from the ‘technology’ category

What is twitter good for? (some reading for the procastinator)

Well, it’s been about four weeks since I signed up for a personal account on twitter (you can follow me here if you’re interested – my…

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(2009) Public Health in the 21st Century: the Open-Source Outbreak: Jennifer Gardy

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…

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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…

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The Underdog Tactics of Internet Politics (WTF?)

Check this site out that I got forwarded recently through a couple of political contacts. Republicans For Ignatieff So my first response to this site is…

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“A China on Your Desktop” – Open Source Manufacturing

Open source technology has changed the world. The results of OST can be seen in programs we use everyday – Firefox, bitTorrents, WordPress, etc. Leading programs…

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Politics, Modernity and Twitter

When trying to decide on what to write about in my first Terry entry, I knew I wanted to cover an event that represented, in some…

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One Step Closer to the Holodeck

For all those tech/video game geeks out there you probably already know about E3. For those of you who don’t, E3 stands for the Electronic Entertainment…

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A Terryific Chat: Exploring Tech Tools and Social Change

I have a secret confession to make. Don’t laugh, but I’m not very tech savvy. A couple of years ago I was invited to a training…

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Seminar: Synthetic Sea, Synthetic Me: Plastic debris in the marine environment

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…

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Human Computation: Harnessing the Power of Procrastination

In order to comment on a Terry post, you have to fill out a form which looks like this: If you’ve spent any time at all…

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