Posts by Dave Semeniuk

This is freaking awesome – AMS Batman Spoof

Click picture to watch! If there was any reason not to can the film studies program at UBC, this might be it: a batman parody that…

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The Annotated Fuld -or- Lehman Employees Respond to Bankruptcy in Creative Way -or- “This Sucks”

Many of you are likely somewhat familiar with the mortgage fiasco currently underway in the United States.  This year alone, the USG has bailed out three…

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Upcoming UBC Talk: Carbon Storage

Wed Sep 17 12:00 PM  Venue: Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory, Room 120, 2202 Main Mall  Mike Celia, Professor of Civil Engineering, Princeton University Title: Geological Storage…

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Girl Meets LHC, Girls Commits Suicide -or- I’m a little doubtful this is actually true…

UPDATE: Reuters has picked up the story.  According to their report: But in deeply religious and superstitious India, fears about the experiment and the minor risks…

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Dear United States Government: stop stealing my data.

Today, as part of my departmental monthly newsletter, I received a note about the Department of Homeland Security.  If you were unaware, over the past few…

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Ever wonder what Charlie Brown’s skeleton looks like?

Thanks to Portland based artist Michael Paulus, we need no longer wonder.  Paulus has put together a series of pen and ink drawings depicting what a…

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Awesome Science Abstracts: Astrophysics, meet Usain Bolt.

Oh my god oh my god oh my god oh my god (hat tip to Sean at Cosmic Variance). Velocity dispersions in a cluster of stars:…

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SWARM08 – Check it.

SWARM is as it sounds – two frenzied nights of visual and mental stimuli from Vancouver’s visual arts community, it is mixed with food, sound, and…

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More on Science Humour – Puns are awesome and unavoidable.

I googled fibromyalgia and this came up – what *is* it? Along with a few other science flavored pieces (including one from the curator of SCQ’s…

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A Trip to the Big Valley Creation Science Museum -or- You know, I don’t even care to finish this.

A little over a year ago, a 60,000 sq.ft. museum opened in Petersburg KY dedicated to the Judeo-Christian interpretation of the origins of humans, the universe,…

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