In case you missed it, the CERN physicists made a huge discovery today. The Higgs boson, which some have called “the God particle.” I won’t pretend…

Tim Kreider in the New York Times has a must-read rant on busy-ness as “existential reassurance.” Here’s an excerpt, but I highly recommend your read the…

Patriotism makes me uncomfortable. It is to put real estate over principles, it is to hate people you have never met, it is mindless tribalism that…

From the Pembina Institute: The most important sign of success is that B.C.’s climate policies appear to be reducing emissions. That’s the main message from a…

From Open Culture, a website you should read every single day: Right in time for the Tour de France (which gets underway tomorrow) the Open University…

This video game enthusiast hasn’t, and I seriously envy him. From buzzfeed: Part of the reason why university is so attractive to me right now–why I…

Last Saturday was the centennial of Alan Turing’s birth, the famous mathematician who imagined Turing Machines. From the Stanford Encycolpedia of Philosophy: Turing machines, first described…

The controversial drilling practice known as “fracking” has been a hot-button issue in American politics, and now this issue has come to British Columbia. Provincially, both…

UBC Mix is excited to invite you to our first ever panel on Interdisciplinarity and Student Involvement! This panel will be especially useful to arts and…

They’re going away, it seems. From the New York Times: If nothing changes, clean energy funding will drop from a peak of $44.3 billion in 2009…