Posts from the ‘Cool Stuff’ category

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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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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The Hidden Life Within

This post is a bit late, but unfortunately I only recently came across Giuseppe Penone. This  past winter, Penone’s “the Hidden Life Within” was exhibited at the Art…

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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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Photos of invisible bicycles.

No sign of Wonder Woman though… “If you look closely, you’ll notice a pretty key element is missing from these photographs! China-born photographer Zhao Huasen created…

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Life-changing ideas

When I was a kid, my mother used to read stories before I went to sleep.  In those fairy-tales and fables, she read to me that…

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Mix it up in 2012

It’s the first week of the year, first week of the term… A time of reflection and projection. A time to mix things up and try…

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Toby

An introduction is in order. First, though, a personal TV hero (are those allowed?) He’s perhaps a familiar face to those who watch The West Wing, a…

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So with Halloween and all, what does the average UBC student dress up as these days?

Seriously, just leave a comment letting us know what you’re going as (or if, instead, you’re the sort who refuses to dress up). I’ll be doing…

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