Free movie passes! And yet another chance to see James Orbinski.
Patrick Reed has very kindly given us some movie passes (each good for two people) to hand out. What is the movie you ask? Well, it…
Read articleCreating the space to be human. Dr. James Orbinski – noon, Nov 7th, Chan Centre (Tickets now available)
Just a note to say that James Orbinski tickets are now available for pick up at the Chan Centre Box Office. Currently, tickets are limited to…
Read articleSecond Annual Blog Action Day: Poverty
Manea’s dream is to go back to Romania and find his mother. He smiles inside his beard, looking upward. Manea is currently homeless and thinks his…
Read articleSome numbers of interest – bail outs, foreign aid, saving wall street, saving the world
700,000,000,000 – approximate number of US dollars proposed in the bail out bill (link). 0.7 – percentage of GDP agreed upon in 1970 to be set…
Read articleAre you Crazy if you Electrify Your Bike?
I used to think that electric bikes were for crazy old guys with headphones that swerve down the bike path singing their own eccentric tunes. But…
Read articleSomething to add to your weekly reading:
Ben Fry’s Blog An MIT alumnus, he wrote “Visualizing Data”, perhaps better known among certain social circles as, “Hot Science Porn”. Fry thinks up novel, intuitive…
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THE BOTTOM BILLION (VIDEO)
PAUL COLLIER
MARCH 11TH, 2008
“The Bottom Billion – Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It” (March 11th, 2008, Sty-Wet-Tan Hall, UBC First Nation’s Longhouse)…
Read articleDas Rad – Rockmen On The Evolution of Humans
This is a cute short animation, nominated for an Oscar (and winner of 8 other international awards) in 2003: The short follows the conversation between two…
Read articleObservations / Reflections on Status Quo
1. Trees in the city (at winter) we are surrounded by pavement. shallow roots and bare branches. perhaps strung with christmas lights or strangled by these…
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Watch your ass, Bicycle Man -or- Walking, Riding, and Being Ridden Over on the Burrard Street Bridge
By Dave Semeniuk,
It was so beautiful today that I decided to walk home from MacDonald and Broadway. This requires that, at some point, I cross a bridge to…
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