World TB Day at UBC
Tomorrow, Wednesday March 24th, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology is co-hosting a TB awareness day to mark World TB Day. From the event website: WTBD-UBC…
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Happy new year Terry folk! I hope you all had a restful and wonderful holiday season. I moved back into residence this past weekend, and in…
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Hey all! I’ve been asked to pass on a message from Trisha, the president of MSF UBC about MSF’s Canada-wide campaign to collect donations in the…
Read articleScience, Literature, and the Nature of Happiness
Here’s a question for you Terry readers: What makes us happy? Well? Maybe it’s obvious to you. But I think it’s not always as easy as…
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From the latest edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: The well-known proton, neutron, and electron are now thought to be members of a group…
Read article‘Cause we need a little controversy (or, a prize-winning talk on HIV)
Dr. Michael Worobey (above) will be presenting the SFU Sterling Prize in Controversy lecture this coming tuesday (October 13th) on his work on the evolution and…
Read articleSix Months in Sudan
For any MSF fans in the Terrysphere (Terryverse?), Dr. James Maskalyk will be at the Chapters on Robson tomorrow evening to discuss his new book, Six…
Read articleInformation is beautiful
I stumbled across a fabulous website this morning. Information is Beautiful. It’s run by David McCandless, a writer and designer in London who does things like this:…
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Cool Research at UBC: Is Success Written in Your Genes?
By Sarah Andersen,
Of all the poems she wrote, few evoke Sylvia Plath’s own particular torturous reality as plainly as “The Disquieting Muses”. By the time it was written,…
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