Counting Down Our Confectionary Contest
Yea…those are bears sledding down the snowy hill on inner tubes. Tomorrow marks 10 days – that is, 10 days until your sustainable masterpiece mansions of…
Read articleDo The Humanities Have Superpowers? – or – “Post-Modern Man vs. The Naughty Nihilist”
Dave Ng has a call for “What kind of scientist is Santa?” which got me thinking about, “What super powers might Santa have?” which ultimately led…
Read articleThink you have what it takes to run the AMS?
Its that election time of year once again! Nominations close on January 11th 2008. More information can be found here .
Read articleFloral Kaleidescope
White Agapanthus Some years ago I began photographing exotic tropical hibiscus blooms to catalog my collection. Part of the appeal in growing these beauties is cross…
Read articlePaper, Plastic, or Neither? An Olympic Terry Challenge
Some Olympic math … The 2010 Olympics are coming to Vancouver in approximately 785 days (according to the monstrous countdown clock outside the Vancouver Art…
Read articleSustainable Design by Designers
Staying in line with the essence of my previous post on constructing sustainable buildings, I’ve been following this great blog lately: Inhabitat Inhabitat.com is a weblog…
Read articleLooking for Water
Rosy McKinnon stood in the barn doorway with a battered yellow bucket. She was watching the sunset above the arid landscape of the farm, adorning the…
Read articleFree Movie Nights by Cinema Politica
Check this out, a student in one of my classes just told me about, Cinema Politica at UBC. Every Wednesday they show a movie at the…
Read articleGoogle This: Terry* Trends
I’m totally stealing this from a post by Julianne at Cosmic Variance. Through the magic of Google Trends, we now must face the brutal truth. No…
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Is All Science Humour Punny?
By Dave Semeniuk,
I wrote this on my lab’s blackboard about a month ago: I was curious about what sort of jokes the my lab mates and users would…
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