SWARM08 – Check it.
SWARM is as it sounds – two frenzied nights of visual and mental stimuli from Vancouver’s visual arts community, it is mixed with food, sound, and…
Read articleTerry talks: Game on! (plus check out our video)
(link to Terry talks) Details are finally here. “Imagine UBC’s most fascinating and engaging students coming together for a day, giving ‘the talk of their lives,’…
Read articlePope on the environment: ‘Insatiable consumption’ threatening the Earth
Back in March, the Vatican issued a new set of 7 sins for Catholics to adhere to. Included among them was environmental pollution. Well, the Pope…
Read articleUBC just got 2000+ nerds richer.
If you’re on campus this week, you may wonder what all the hullabaloo is going on around the SRC, McInnes Field, and various other buildings. Well,…
Read articleHere we go again… Speaker invites – know any of these to extend an invitation for tea (or maybe a talk for 1000 or so folks)?
Well, our prospective second speaker looks like it fell through. So the other day, we went through the usual “make a list” rite, and came up…
Read articleMovie Turned Opera: The Fly -or- Egad! I hope Jeff Goldblum makes a cameo
Yes. The Fly. The “mutated mad scientist, Jeff Goldblum, hopping around a loft-turned-laboratory, spitting up stomach acids on to is food while his fingernails and unmentionables…
Read articleAnother reason to love the internet: finding out if you neighbour has donated money to a presidential candidate, and how much -or- On the origins of family feuds.
The Huffington Post has created an interactive database of every donation made to the 2008 US presidential candidates that you can peruse at your own leisure.…
Read articleZero Mile Diet Trend A Provincial Hit?
I’ve been scooped! From the Tyee: The director of a Vancouver non-profit urban-agriculture group suggests that the eat-local movement may have reached a new tipping point.…
Read articleHow To: Avoid using synthetic furniture oils
I was watching something on television recently (I can’t remember the program) where a crew of people were helping families to “green up” their lives. Besides…
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I have no words…
By Shagufta Pasta,
This article brought tears to my eyes this morning. Weeks away from university graduation, I can’t help thinking about the stereotypes and Islamophobic behaviour that await…
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