Posts from the ‘education’ category

SENSibility 4: Gore’s Film has Nine Errors (But Students can Still Watch It)

A British High Court judge has ruled that Al Gore’s climate film, An Inconvenient Truth, contains nine “scientific errors.” According to Justice Burton, the nine “errors”…

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Michael Ignatieff is coming for a chat!

Well, actually he is coming to give a “talk” but what the heck. Most Canadians know Michael Ignatieff as the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Opposition…

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SENSibility 3: Time for an Extinction Clock?

Earlier this month the World Conservation Union identified more than 16,000 species threatened with extinction. Prospects for survival improved for exactly one species on the planet…

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Seven Books

Seven books he knows, seven books he read. In my father’s village, were seven books. He read em all, seven times a day, seven days a…

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SENSibility 2: Don’t Forget the Garbage

We hear a lot about climate change these days. It is The Big Dark Thought of our time, just as nuclear Armageddon was The Big Dark…

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THE BIODIVERSITY PLUS POKEMON-ISH PROJECT: IT’S A GO!

Don’t you think it’s twisted that so many kids know whatthis creature is, but so few can go about naming the birds in their backyard? –…

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SENSibility 1: The Sensible Blog

Sensibility (n.) 1. the capacity for physical sensation 2. [often plural] delicate, sensitive awareness or feelings Sensible (adj.) 1. that can cause physical sensation 2. easily…

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It’s Here! It’s Here! ASIC 200 is Here!

Well, we are finally pleased to announce what was really the true catalyst for this entire “Terry” project. That is, the creation of an undergraduate course,…

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PLANET U: ALLURE OF THE IVORY TOWER

We’d like to thank Professor M’Gonigle for lending the Terry Project an excerpt from his new book that he co-wrote with Justine Starke, entitled Planet U:…

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MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: THE LOCAL LIBRARY

Who knew dusty shelves and pin-drop silence had such an intimate connection to the health of the planet? At the recent Vancouver International Writers (and Readers!)…

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