Posts by David Ng

Brilliant witty banners, a few of which would make great visuals for all sorts of different discussions.

You know, maybe for developmental biology/stem cell stuff (the whole marvelous thing about going from a single cell zygote to the fully formed little organism), or…

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The Moon Hoax of 1836: in which we see that science has always been misrepresented.

This is really quite something. Both the narrative of the hoax, as well as these awesome illustrations. I can totally see some parallels with how folks…

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Enbridge satire possibly pulled by newspaper because of fiscal pressure from Enbridge.

Apparently, a video made by the Province’s cartoonist, Dan Murphy, was forcibly pulled due to Enbridge pressure. According to the CBC, there’s a number of different…

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George Monbiot’s Guardian piece about the futility of Rio is worth a solemn read.

“Descent,” Josh Keyes, 2011 George, in a piece entitled “After Rio, we know. Governments have given up on the planet“, pretty much nails it. The Rio+20…

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Bird art made from maps.

(Click on images for larger version – recommended for proper effect) By Jason LaFerrera. —

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This Snow Globe has a Coal Plant and Emits Smog.

Called No Globe and also for sale at a price of £2000: “No Globes Mixed media snow globe H20 x W20 x D20cm The single greatest…

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Coral Reef Deck for Phylomon Project now available as a free pdf download.

Sponsored by the fine folks over at the World Science Festival, I must say that this deck looks awesome! Go here for details on the deck…

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Garbaged plastic bottles repurposed for environmental art’s sake #coolfishsculpture

“As part of the UN Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) an enormous outdoor installation of fish was constructed using discarded plastic bottles on Botafogo beach in…

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Interested in bridging #UBC with the Downtown Eastside? UBC Learning Exchange is looking for a new Academic Director.

Kind of needs a new awning don’t you think? Something cool like this? And maybe you know of a great prof who would be awesome for…

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