“Have we always had a whale?”
Sometimes I feel like a tourist in my own city. Aside from the usual places (the aquarium, Granville Island, Gastown, etc), Vancouver has many other sites…
Read articleMix it up in 2012
It’s the first week of the year, first week of the term… A time of reflection and projection. A time to mix things up and try…
Read articleNumb to the Numbers
Research is simply not enough. Although R&D is the root of discovery and innovation, it in and of itself does not exact the change we want…
Read articleQuantum Levitation… That is all.
Just saw Gordon’s post on the different types of levitation, and noticed that he didn’t include “Quantum Levitation.” I don’t actually understand it (being a geneticist…
Read articleI…am…Scientist…Asian…Rockstar… (O.K. maybe not a rockstar). What science subject should I write my next song about?
Yes, it’s true! In my younger days, I had many a futile dream of being a rockstar in a rock band. Nowadays, I live this dream…
Read articleFor Science! For… Umm… Well what else would work?
From Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal This one was funny enough to make me spit out coffee. What I particularly like about this cartoon is the fact…
Read articleUBC Polar Club Seminar Series
There’s a new club on campus, the UBC Polar Club, that I think will interest many of you folks out there in the Terry-verse. The club…
Read articleThe Three Course Connection Dinner!
Anisa says: Does it feel like Science, Arts and Commerce at UBC are completely segregated disciplines to the point that the students from each faculty seemed…
Read articleA conference on counter intuition?
Lisa says: One of the main objectives of modern science is to improve the welfare of society. We strive to accomplish this by various means: disease…
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St. Matthew’s Island
By Sarah Andersen,
Working in a microbiology lab, I’ve seen my fair share of bacterial growth curves. They all follow the same pattern: a lag phase or period of…
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