EVENT: Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference
As part of UBC’s Celebrate Research week, a great event is happening this Saturday at UBC: MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE (MURC) Irving K. Barber Learning Centre,…
Read articleTRUST IN THE NEW SCIENCES: Remaking the Human
The Canadian Centre for Ethics in Public Affairs and the Situating Science Cluster for the Humanist and Social Studies of Science (Jeez, that’s a mouthful –…
Read article(2009) Sharing Wonder: Jennifer Kaban
Name: Jennifer Kaban Talk Title: “Sharing Wonder” Notes: Unclassified Student Topic: Jennifer believes that the most precious gift we can give each other is a sense…
Read articleDo you kind of wish Pokemon cards had REAL creatures not FAKE creatures?
If so, you should join this facebook group. Here’s part of what started this group: a friend of mine passed on this “letter to Santa:” It…
Read articleThe Music of the Stars
As the latest in our Terry obsession with Science-Inspired Music, check out Jim Bumgardner’s “Wheel of Stars” Image: European Space Agency/Hubble To make this, I downloaded…
Read articleTwitter: as in actual science jargon (something to do with marmosets and shrews)
Since playing around with twitter for the last couple of days (I’m @dnghub), I think I’m starting to a hit this threshold that’s feeling a little…
Read articleSaying hello to Carl Zimmer
Carl is currently in Vancouver, and he was gracious enough to come out for drinks with us last night. This was after a great talk he…
Read articleAutotune Becomes Useful
People who understand and appreciate science sometimes find it difficult to communicate that sense of understanding and appreciation in a way that is accessible and interesting…
Read articleCrows are cool. That is all.
Check this out: Yes, this here video is showing a crow making its own freaking hook! Man, I could just go on about how marvelous these…
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Cool Research at UBC: Is Success Written in Your Genes?
By Sarah Andersen,
Of all the poems she wrote, few evoke Sylvia Plath’s own particular torturous reality as plainly as “The Disquieting Muses”. By the time it was written,…
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