(2009) WISH TALK: Broken Mosaic: Challenging Canadian Diversity: Tahira Ebrahim
Name: Tahira Ebrahim Talk Title: “Broken Mosaic: Challenging Canadian Diversity” Notes: Faculty of Arts, Human Geography, 4th year Topic:Within our university’s (UBC) 200 largest clubs listed,…
Read articleThinking Critically About our Diet
Gordon Katic says: What is critical thinking? What isn’t critical thinking? How do we know if our convictions have been arrived at by sound reasoning or…
Read article(2009) What Synthetic Biology Can Do For You: Eric Ma
Name: Eric Ma Talk Title: “What Synthetic Biology Can Do For You” Notes: Faculty of Science, Integrated Sciences in Biochemistry, Cancer Biology andMicrobiology, 4th year Topic:Synthetic…
Read articleTerry tales! March 29th
Shagufta says: Dear Terry lovers, it’s here! The penultimate Terry Tales event. =( Our last session twas a night of beautiful stories, beautiful conversations, beautiful participants…
Read articleONE DOLLAR, FIVE MINUTES, BIG IMPACT!
Tiffany says: “Have you ever thought about what $1 can do? Get a cookie from Blue Chip? Here’s a chance to do a social experiment to…
Read article(2009) Malaria: How We Are Biting Back: Nadine Qureshi
Name: Nadine Qureshi Talk Title: “Malaria: How We Are Biting Back” Notes:Faculty of Science, Department of Cell Biology and Genetics, 3rd year Topic: Nadine has heard…
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THE ELEMENT: HOW FINDING YOUR PASSION CHANGES EVERYTHING
SIR KEN ROBINSON (VIDEO)
SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
Have you gone through your education with no clear idea of what it is that you love to and of what it is that you do…
Read article(2009) Major Angst: Camille Israel
Name: Camille Israel Talk Title: “Major Angst” Notes: Faculty of Arts, Department of Anthropology, 4th year Topic:Sometime during her first year at UBC, Camille started collecting…
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DARWIN’S STRANGE INVERSION OF REASONING (VIDEO)
DANIEL DENNETT
JANUARY 14th, 2009
“Darwin’s Strange Inversion of Reasoning” (January 14th, 2009, Frederick Wood Theatre) – – – One of Darwin’s earliest critics noted his “strange inversion of reasoning: in…
Read article(2009) Sharing Wonder: Jennifer Kaban
Name: Jennifer Kaban Talk Title: “Sharing Wonder” Notes: Unclassified Student Topic: Jennifer believes that the most precious gift we can give each other is a sense…
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