Social Media: Too Much of a Good Thing? | Samia Khan | TEDxTerryTalks
Join Samia as she discusses how social media impacts us, from our mood to our mental health, and particularly in the university setting. From this, she…
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Read articleInformation Session: The UBC Global Crisis Simulation
Attention Science, Engineering, Commerce and Arts students! Are you interested in: running an international conference in Mumbai, India? Representing UBC at a conference in Princeton? Honing your…
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There might not be a truer visual representation of our contemporary wired world than Jon Rafman’s web-based “9 Eyes” project, for which he culled the most…
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“Engage or die.” That’s the kind of line we’re fed everyday, those of us attending or anyway attached to social media
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By DAVID NG Their eyes. A politician’s eyes appear to be fully capable of eliciting an empty yet intense robot gaze. Intriguing because this look is…
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Katic: On College 2.0.
By Gordon Katic,
There is an educational revolution taking place. Students are increasingly learning from new technologies, like Wikipedia, Khan Academy, podcasts, and iTunes U. And now, a consortium…
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