An Open Letter To Stephen Harper RE: Creative Arts Funding
Dear Prime Minister, You suck (from the National Post): The Conservatives are cancelling the $4.7-million PromArt program administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and International…
Read articleScience! -or- How I Spent my Summer Vacation
Some of you may have noticed (those of you who care, that is) that I’ve been a little quiet on the Terry* front over the past…
Read articlePope on the environment: ‘Insatiable consumption’ threatening the Earth
Back in March, the Vatican issued a new set of 7 sins for Catholics to adhere to. Included among them was environmental pollution. Well, the Pope…
Read articleUBC just got 2000+ nerds richer.
If you’re on campus this week, you may wonder what all the hullabaloo is going on around the SRC, McInnes Field, and various other buildings. Well,…
Read articleWatch your ass, Bicycle Man -or- Walking, Riding, and Being Ridden Over on the Burrard Street Bridge
It was so beautiful today that I decided to walk home from MacDonald and Broadway. This requires that, at some point, I cross a bridge to…
Read articleMovie Turned Opera: The Fly -or- Egad! I hope Jeff Goldblum makes a cameo
Yes. The Fly. The “mutated mad scientist, Jeff Goldblum, hopping around a loft-turned-laboratory, spitting up stomach acids on to is food while his fingernails and unmentionables…
Read articleIt was critical mass day today -or- Get your two feet and a heart beat on a bicycle!
But so is every last Friday of the month. What made tonight special (either than the fact that my apartment building was on their route) is…
Read articleGHGs, Skype, and Rogue Groin Shots.
There was a news article from CTV recently that interested me (here) – can gas prices put strain on our long-distance relationships? Now, the article chose…
Read articleAre cloth bags all they’re cracked up to be?
I’m very disappointed to say that I’ve had to throw out at least four of the recycled plastic (cloth) bags I’ve purchased from either Superstore or…
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Science Students Secretly Love The Arts
By Dave Semeniuk,
I’ve been around science-y types in a university setting for 7 years now. If there was one thing that’s been nearly constant during that time period…
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