A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change
The author of The Ethics of Climate Change, James Garvey, has an interesting essay on the same topic (hat tip: OIIFTG): I’ll start with some easy…
Read articleMore Intuitive Ways of Looking at Climate Data
[Original source; Hat Tip – OIIFTG] I really like this graph for two reasons: It does a great job representing the current warming trend over…
Read articleA Terry Science Experiment: Redux
While sitting in the kick-off ASIC class this evening, a few unconnected things Dr. Ng and Dr. Sens said resonated with me. As Dr. Sens explained,…
Read articleThe Globe 2008 Student Sponsorship Program
Happy New Year to all! And to bring the new year in on a high note, check out the great opportunity offered by the Globe Foundation…
Read articleShare Your Student Experience with the B.C. Government
Here is a great opportunity to share your experience as a university student in British Columbia and how you would like to see that experience change.…
Read articleMaking a list,checking it twice: My Holiday Reading
I can’t stop thinking about Doris Lessing’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I’ve always prided myself on being a bookworm, but her words…
Read articleA 60 second lecture on “Human History”
Just caught this at Boingboing: Here you have history professor, Dr. Alan Charles Kors, attempting to encapsulate the entirety of human history in a 60 second…
Read articleThe Art of Science – The Science of Art?
We started a new unit in my grade 12 biology class yesterday, on the mechanisms of inheritance. I wanted to impress on my students how the…
Read articleIntelligent Design on Trial
Duh, over! Intelligent Design is not real science. You can’t teach it in science class. Debate over. Perhaps you remember the good ‘ol flying spaghetti monster.…
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“Science of Climate Change” lectures: hits and misses.
By David Ng,
This week, I get to relax a little for the ASIC course, since Allen will now take the reins and look at some of the social…
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