Pine Beetle Infestation Turns BC Forests into Atmospheric Carbon Source
This just out in Nature: BC researchers estimate the Pine beetle to be responsible for more than 5 times the carbon dioxide emissions released from all…
Read articleFounder and Former Greenpeace Leader: “Why I left Greenpeace”
The Wallstreet journal published an opinions piece (not a big surprise) by Patrick Moore, and why he left Greenpeace. His answer: don’t be mixing your politics…
Read articleCrew Sails To Giant Pacific Garbage Patch – or so they thought?
this is very rad A group of online television folks decided, after having read all the news articles and seen all the mock-up drawings of the…
Read articleResearchers Slingin’ Dope to Animated Mice – or – Fun ways to teach kids about their brains on drugs
this is fun Researchers at the University of Utah have put together a fun, interactive animation to teach users about, “The physiology of the high.” There…
Read articleThe H.M.S. Beagle Project: geeky science pin-up number 3!
Today at my lab’s SCQ, there’s an awesome piece that imagines Charles Darwin being brought back to life for next year’s bicentennial celebration. As well, the…
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 articleUndergraduate Science Researchers – Here’s Your Chance to Present Your Work to a National Audience
I don’t think this has received enough attention, so here goes. The first Rising Stars of Research poster competition, a national undergraduate research symposium, is being…
Read articleThe Mythology – and Potential – of the Public Intellectual. Learning from Rachel Carson
“It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks…the public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it…
Read articleSENSibility 10: The “Cosmic Ray” Theory of Global Warming Takes a Hit
One of the favourite theories of climate change skeptics is in big trouble. Danish scientist Henrik Svensmark has championed the idea that global warming is not…
Read articlePublic Seminar! – “How We Treat the Atmosphere Like a Sewer”
My department’s very own Prof. Douw Steyn will be addressing the Vancouver Institute this Saturday (Mar 29), at 8:15pm in Instructional Hall 2 of Woodward Instructional…
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