Google Trending Influenza
Google’s philanthropic unit (philanthropic unit?) has taken their ever so popular (well, popular on Terry – see here, here, here, and here) Google Trends tool and…
Read articleChristmas is coming…do you know what that means?
It means that the Bakeforachange contest will be starting soon! Check back for more details in the coming two weeks, and while you waiting, go get…
Read articleUBC TRANSIT ACTION AT BROADWAY STATION
From their facebook group: This is a joint SFU-UBC initiative to get students involved and informed about transit issues for the upcoming elections! There will be a municipal…
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 articleBarack Wins, Gays Lose.
Last night, gay marriage was banned in Arizona, California (well, it’s close), and Florida while gays were denied the right to adopt children in Arkansas (source).…
Read articleMedia Awareness Week: Nov 3-7
It’s media education week (MEW)! So…what is it? Media education is the process through which individuals become media literate – able to critically understand the…
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…
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Waste the Hun, Help the Food.
By Dave Semeniuk,
Another weekend rolls by and inevitably I end up at bumming around Chapters. I don’t usually buy anything there except for magazines. Instead, I find myself drawn to…
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