Vancouver Evergreen Skytrain Receives $350 Million
In Burnaby this morning, Stephan Harper announced that Translink would receive $350 million of federal funding to complete the Evergreen Line, a skytrain line starting in…
Read articleBraaaains. Fish Braaaains.
When I was a kid, I wanted a see-through gameboy. My rich friends had one, so of course I begged for it. My parent’s being the…
Read articleThis is incredibly disappointing
A NASA satellite designed to track carbon dioxide emissions has landed in the ocean near Antarctica after failing to reach orbit early Tuesday. […] The OCO…
Read articleTerry housekeeping stuff…
Just answering a few quick housekeeping questions that have been coming up lately. 1. Daniel Dennett’s talk will be videotaped, but he has asked that the…
Read articleSTAND for Housing
Are you concerned about the increasing levels of homelessness in Vancouver? What about the fact that the government is not keeping the social housing promise it…
Read articleTerry talk application deadline extended…
Just updated this at the Terry talks website. “We’ve noticed that we’ve had quite a few queries on the video part of the application- i.e. having…
Read articleTerry talks: applications to speak (DUE OCT 14)
(MAKE THAT OCT 14th: deadline has been extended to October 14th – woot!) THINGS TO AVOID WHEN SPEAKING PUBLICLY Egad! Is it already that close to…
Read articleGirl Meets LHC, Girls Commits Suicide -or- I’m a little doubtful this is actually true…
UPDATE: Reuters has picked up the story. According to their report: But in deeply religious and superstitious India, fears about the experiment and the minor risks…
Read articleDear United States Government: stop stealing my data.
Today, as part of my departmental monthly newsletter, I received a note about the Department of Homeland Security. If you were unaware, over the past few…
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Is Iran Evil?
By Dave Semeniuk,
Stephen Harper, Canada’s Prime Minister, thinks so. From the Toronto Star: Speaking to the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial board, Harper criticized Iran, which the West accuses…
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