Artful Weekend: Heads or Tails at Plank Gallery
Another weekend, another gallery show. This Saturday, Plank Gallery is holding “Heads or Tails: a group exhibition regarding animals, humans, and print media.” The basic premise…
Read articleWhoa… cool. (Meteor over Edmonton)
Good thing it didn’t hit the tar sands, or else I presume we would have seen something even more spectacular.
Read articlePeriodic Table of Elem…er, Videos!
It’s about freaking time. A nerdy group of chemists (read: a group of chemists) have put together a video library of all 118 elements on the…
Read articleSomething I totally forgot to tell you about: Skewed Magazine, the unofficial visual arts magazine of UBC
Skewed Magazine is UBC’s unofficial visual arts magazine, and it’s pretty freaking awesome. I’m not saying this just because they featured some work of mine in…
Read articleBill Rees – Towards Sustainability: Does Science Matter?
Photo by: Nick Wiebe Recently, we had an opportunity to host a variety of great talks for science teachers. One of the talks was by Dr.…
Read articleOcean fertilization as a climate mitigation strategy…is it worth the risks?
The Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences is hosting a sort of “open dialogue” with Adrian Machetti (UW) next Thursday, Nov 6. This seminar format is…
Read articleGreen Porno, with Isabella Rossellini
I, I, I…just watch it. You’re back? You saw the children show-esque characters of snails getting down and dirty? Good. Do you feel uncomfortable as I…
Read articleNothing to Crow About
“Crows seem to be able to use causal reasoning to solve a problem, a feat previously undocumented in any other non-human animal, including chimps.” — NewScientist.com…
Read articleA War of Books Ensues at Chapters
I love my camera phone. I spent the afternoon bumming around a few of my favorite haunts in my hood and I found myself doing some…
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If Natural Products are Chemical-Free, Pay me 1,000,000 Quid
By Dave Semeniuk,
This has irked me for a very long time. Claims that organic foods and natural products are chemical free are nonsensical. Everything is a chemical. Even…
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