Posts by David Ng

The Age of Stupid

Imagine it’s 2055, and well, we’ve basically messed up with the whole Climate Change thing. Sort of let it be, and then watch the world around…

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Microbes as glass sculptures: in a word, beautiful.

Dear Luke, I just saw a photo of your glass sculpture of HIV. I can’t stop looking at it. Knowing that millions of those guys are…

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Freakishly big atrium in need of interesting booths

O.K. So the October 3rd TEDxTerry talks is looming large, and we’ll soon be announcing our speakers. We’ve got a full house, but are starting to…

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Nigeria trip was fun (and exhausting)

This past summer, I was in Ibadan, Nigeria to help pull off a workshop on molecular techniques. This was a training session for scientists in this…

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They Might Be Giants = Science is Real = Awesome!

This is up (I’m sure) everywhere, but I can’t resist also showing it off, especially since I’ve played around with the science song genre myself. And…

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Does the name Dr. Krisana Kraisintu ring a bell? (If not, might be worth reading this)

A review of Cocktail: A Play about the Life and HIV Drug Development Work of Dr. Krisana Kraisintu by Vince LiCata and Ping Chong Truth be…

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A kind of medical Apartheid (or How much money are we spending on this swine flu thing?)

First, take a quick peek at this Gapminder.org video for a general sense of the problem:

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Imagined Talks We’d Be Curious To See (A Promo Video for TEDx Terrytalks 2009)

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…

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Dancing with the Stars? Science version.

Science Scout twitter feed Tonight, I’ll be heading out to the Vancouver Cafe Scientifique, where noted bee biologist, Dr. Mark Winston, will be giving a talk…

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Who owns science? Sir John Sulston on May 19th

– – – This is just a heads up to say that John is giving a free talk at 12:30pm on May 19th. And basically, during…

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