The Power of Girls’ Comics: What can Shojo Manga Tell You?
Somebody passed this on to me. Masami Toku, from the University of California, Chico, is going to give a talk this afternoon (2pm, UBC Buchanan Building,…
Read articleBecoming a professor is hard these days…
I wrote a humour piece on Faculty hiring a while back. With the UBC budgetary status so challenged these days, I’d imagine some of the criteria…
Read articleCould You Write a Science Haiku?
I’ve decided to take foot to Dave Ng’s call for science+art writing. What I’ve done is reached back through the 5 years of undergraduate science courses…
Read articleWriting contest for a great children’s book on squids.
Not sure if I’ve mentioned this before, but I happen to be the editor of a webzine known as the Science Creative Quarterly. Anyway, it’s sort…
Read articleTEDtalks: Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
Continuing along with things related to TEDtalks… Shagufta mentioned in a comment that this talk is wonderful. I checked it out last night, and she’s right.…
Read articleHaving a go at science+ arts songwriting (be nice) – plus stuff about the writing challenge…
So, I’m sitting here checking out submissions for the Terry Writing Challenge, and admittedly it seems a little slow going. This is particularly true when it…
Read articleHmmm… maybe we can do something similar the ASIC 200 course. Biochemistry and interpretative dance: together, for the first time.
Don’t tempt me… But, man, talk about creativity. Truth is, I can’t really say more than what the title gives away. The good stuff starts about…
Read articleSo Long, Development, and Thanks for All the Fish.
Aid: Give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day. Development: Teach a man to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime. Modernization: If we could…
Read articleA note of encouragement
Dear self, I see you’ve stalled in your search for both inspiration and the ever-elusive catharsis that continually evades capture by those on the circuitous path to an ‘original intellectual…
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A Paradigm Shift
By Shagufta Pasta,
Political science is not the only way to understand the world. It seems like a simple statement, but when I first entered the Faculty of Arts…
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