International Baccalaureate (IB) world Student Conference is coming to UBC this year with “The New Green: Making Things Better, Not Just Less Bad” conference theme. The…

We all see the ads. Sad girl on bus, chin on hand, perhaps sighing, always alone – and a phone number below saying there’s a place to reach out. Twenty years ago, hell, five years ago, you didn’t see many ads like this.

The biggest scandal rocking the financial world has to do with something you’ve probably never heard of, the LIBOR rate. It is the rate at which…

In a 1958 interview with the Paris Review, Hemingway famously stated that the ending to ‘A Farewell to Arms” had been written “39 times before I…

Well this is rather dejecting, and hilarious. From OpenCulture: There is even a law-school one! Also from OpenCulture, check out the illustrated guide to a PhD.…

Here’s an interesting conversation that simply would not happen with any modern day conservative. William F. Buckley of the program “Firing Line” speaks to the poet…

Undoubtedly my  favorite blog on national security, modern warfare, and surveillance is the Wired’s Danger Room. Not only is a look at cutting edge technology, with…

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…