Posts by David Ng

Looking for some help with the Phylomon project

Not sure if you remember this, but I’ve been happily watching a little web project of mine grow over time. It’s known as the Phylo project,…

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Through Whose Eyes? A forum on representation.

Tess Baker says: “Never sacrifice a good story for the truth.” Good advice, usually. But what about when the story is someone else’s story? Engineers Without…

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Yes, you too can get yourself the NUCLEAR WAR card game…

…AND expansion sets! Seriously, you can still buy it for $29.95. Better yet, there’s a number of extras you can get including (from wiki): Nuclear Escalation…

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DNA fingerprint data for ASIC200 class.

Details can be found here. It’s like quite a few didn’t get a good read on their sample, but, oh well, that isn’t necessarily a strange…

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As I write this, you have only 24 hours to vote (choosing your new SUB building)

This is, of course, being held at the worst possible time, but there is a vote afoot which will help the AMS narrow down the field…

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DNA fingerprinting or (altogether now) the Polymerase Chain Reaction! (ASIC200 stuff)

(This material will not be on final exam – lab commentary info can be found here) First, a primer on the polymerase chain reaction (the lecture…

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Hey look at that! I’m on YouTube (and I’m not doing a silly dance!)

In this video, I’m actually speaking (as oppose to dancing silly), since it looks like TEDx has released the mini talks we gave on our experiences…

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Sam Harris: Science can answer moral questions (TEDtalk)

One of the more compelling talks at this years TED conference. Quite powerful, definitely interesting for discussion, and certainly worth a look.

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The PHYLO(MON) project: Information Meeting Numero Uno (March 25th)

O.K. We’re just about ready to launch this thing, so it’s high time, I had a proper chance to talk about it. So… If you are…

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UBC MIX Program! (Sounds like a dating service, but not really)

Just a little heads up that the Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund has kindly green lighted funding for Geoff’s TEDxTt2008 Wish. Which, in case, you don’t…

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