Posts from the ‘science’ category

Chemistry Seminar Next Tuesday: Bugs, Bacteria and Drugs from Nature

Click for more information about Dr. Clardy. I’ve heard that he is a very engaging speaker. There will be tea and cookies served as well.

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Upcoming Rap Tribute to Darwin at The Norm…check it.

Baba Brinkman performs his brand new one-man show “The Rap Guide to Evolution” at the Vancouver Evolution Festival before taking it to the Edinburgh Fringe in…

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Mr. Darwin pops by the lab. Talks about macro-evolution, Dawkins, and Sir Elton John

With the exception of my slip up during the introductions (I introduced Charles as “Sir Charles…”), here is a pretty great video of old Chuck talking…

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US Rep. John Shimkus (R-IL.) on Climate Change

March 2009, US Subcommittee on Energy and Environment: “The Earth will end only when God declares it is time to be over.” “There is a theological…

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DNA fingerprinting or (altogether now) the Polymerase Chain Reaction! (ASIC200 stuff)

(This material will not be on final exam – lab commentary info can be found here) The polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, is a powerful genetic…

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Trek to Save the UBC Farm

Have you been wondering what’s been going on with the UBC Farm lately? If so, this news release from the AMS has a nice summary: PAST:…

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Robosects…

Filed under: Holy Crap. From Mike Libby’s Insect Lab (link): In science fiction, insects are frequently featured as robotic critters. Either scurrying across the galaxy as…

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Mathemagic Land, The Land of Adventure (1959)

A rediscovered joy from my youth: Part 2 and Part 3 below…

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More Confusion on Evolution: The Conservative’s Aren’t Alone

UPDATE: The Globe is holding a poll (link):  Do you believe in evolution?  The results, as of 12:15pm (Wed): Yes: 52% (18711 votes) No: 46% (16608…

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Visualizing Your Carbon Footprint: A Six Story Compressed Gas Cylinder

I’m not sure why that I have waited this long to calculate my carbon footprint.  After inputting my information to the calculator at goBEYOND, it spit…

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