TEDx Terry Talks 2012: “A Canadian Composer’s Crisis,” Joseph Glaser
Joseph Glaser, a 3rd year student at UBC’s School of Music, takes us on a journey to find and/or create music that best represents “Canadian Identity.”…
Read articleTEDx Terry Talks 2012: “Unmanned Aerial Vehicles,” Alexander Wuolle.
Alexander Wuolle is a 3rd year UBC Computer Engineering student who is passionate about UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles). Here, he discusses some basic information about the…
Read articleTEDxTT 2012: “Don’t Just Follow Your Passion: A Talk for Generation Y,” Eunice Hii
Eunice Hii, a recent graduate of the UBC Sauder School of Business, talks about the challenges of “following your passion,” especially as an individual who is,…
Read articleTEDxTT: “Being Sincere in an Era of Digital Creation,” Stefana Fratila
In this thought provoking talk, Stefana Fratila, a 4th year UBC Political Science student, explores the concepts of sincerity and enchantment in the context of Web…
Read articleTEDxTT 2012: “Soil, it’s not a Dirty Word,” Alisha Hackinen
“Dirt is not the same as soil.” With this phrase, Alisha Hackinen, a Master’s student in UBC Land and Foods Systems, takes us on a tour…
Read articleTEDxTT 2012: “Social Capital and the No Tankers Movement,” Ryan Vandecasteven
In 2010, UBC Alumni Ryan Vandecasteven spent two months kayaking down the coast of British Columbia to gain insight into the potential impacts from a proposed oil pipeline…
Read articleTEDxTT 2012: “How a Toilet Can Save Your Life,” Eric Brown.
Eric Brown, a Microbiology and Immunology graduate student at UBC, talks about a little known disease called environmental enteropathy. This is where accumulation of “bad” gut…
Read articleTEDxTT 2012: “Lessons from a 6.3 Earthquake,” Rebekah Parker
Rebekah Parker, an Australian-Canadian 5th year Interdisciplinary Studies UBC student, shares her experience of being on exchange in ChristChurch, New Zealand during and after its devastating…
Read articleTEDxTT 2012: “Dying for Land,” Sam Eifling.
Sam Eifling (@sameifling), a recent graduate of the UBC School of Journalism, takes us on a Brazilian journey that examines the tensions which exist between the…
Read articleTEDxTT 2012: “Your Boyfriend Wants to be Pretty,” Nick Thornton.
Occasionally, and probably not often enough, young men are told to embrace their feminine side. But what does getting in touch with your “feminine side” actually…
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