China, India, Nigeria: “We Don’t Want Your Electronic Garbage”
Recently, I stumbled across a number of interesting articles concerning the growing export of electronic waste (and all the accompanying nastiness) to the third world. A…
Read articleIt’s 1972, The World’s Warming – What Can We Do? -or- What Are Your Paleofuture Predictions of Climate Change?
Andrew Revkin, NYT Eco-Science blogger, has an interesting post, “Imagine Everyone Was Equal, in Emissions.” He brings up a question that has long plagued the international…
Read articleSpeaking with the Voiceless: Principles and Perspectives.
For all who were lucky enough to see Stephen Lewis at UBC’s recent Student Leadership Conference, consider yourself honoured. It is to my continual wonderment that…
Read articleThe Ultimate Oxymoron: Obtaining an MSc in Creation Science
…more like BS(c) The American Geophysical Union has emailed its members (via OIIFTG) regarding the recent uprooting and movement of the Institute of Creation Research (hah!)…
Read articleThe SUV Diet
So, as my immigrant family adjusts to living in Canada, one of the challenges was finding the foods we missed back home. We sought for replacements,…
Read articleHidden Costs of An Oil Economy
UBC has canceled classes in the Biological Sciences Building after receiving another campus wide threat. Faculty, staff, and graduate students that work in the building were…
Read articleJustifying Sustainable Living: Doing vs. Knowing
Mo D’s comment over at my “Paper, Plastic, or Neither” post brought up something I’ve been struggling with: [Photo by Roger Cullman] How does a student…
Read articleThe 1950’s Called To Say I Told You So – or – “How Experts Think We’ll Live in 2000 AD”
Hat tip – Paleofuture The AP ran an article in 1950 titled, “How Experts Think We’ll Live in 2000AD”, covering a number of Terry*ish topics, including:…
Read article“Science of Climate Change” lectures: hits and misses.
This week, I get to relax a little for the ASIC course, since Allen will now take the reins and look at some of the social…
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Fortress of Freedom/Democracy/Tony Romas?
By Vivian Wong,
Stay away from our ribs Just read an excellent article in Foreign Policy that raises a lot of the same questions I asked ever since the…
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