Is it harder to make friends as an adult?
This NYT piece is rather interesting & slightly depressing, if mostly heteronormative. That thought struck Lisa Degliantoni, an educational fund-raising executive in Chicago, a few months…
Read articleRestoring Marine ecosystems via a Coral Sperm Bank
Dr. Hadedorn from Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology at Coconut Island attempts to create a sperm bank for corals. These corals are from around the world…
Read articleUBC Mix’s Panel on Interdisciplinarity and Student Involvement
When UBC undergraduate Geoff Costeloe gave a Tedx Terry Talk in 2008 about his experience as a double major in biology and political science he could…
Read articleHelp us find our next speaker!
Over the next few weeks Gordon and I will be brainstorming names and topics for next year’s Global Speaker Series and would love your input. Have…
Read articleF the Media (and a Few Other Reflections on the Tragic ‘Dark Knight Shooting’)
You’d think they’d have learned by now. After all, it is 2012. Yet we still receive our information about current events via biased, privilege-sodden media outlets that engage in…
Read articleQuestioning Volunteerism
I have this thing about volunteerism. You know, the type of tourism where people spend amazing amounts of money to go to a foreign country and…
Read articleHow a Muslim Introduced One Man to Humanism
This piece reminds me yet again that the binary of religious vs. non-religious isn’t as sound as it’s made out to be. After years of evading…
Read articleThe Raw Milk Debate
Touted as being a milestone in disease prevention, the discovery of pasteurization drastically reduced human exposure to harmful bacterias present in milk. However, as popularity and…
Read articleInstagram- backwards innovation?
Instagram. What’s the hype all about? It’s more or less a new technology that makes photos look old. It’s basically the new Polaroid. Facebook recently bought…
Read articleSENSibility: The GEO 5 Report (and why I noticed)
Vancouver, July 17, 2012. On June 6 of this year, the United Nations Environment Program released its GEO 5 Report. This report, the fifth in an…
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