I’m currently sitting with Jenny and Kelvin at A Conversation on Leadership & Creating a Sustainable Future: Perspectives from Sweden & Canada in the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS). Although this conference required RSVP, I didn’t end up getting a seat–it was full. Regardless, I am at the conference, and although most of the seats are full, there are quite a few empty seats (why do people have so many issues with committment?). Anyhow, tonight should be an interesting discussion featuring the following speakers: Göran Carstedt, John Holmberg, and John Robinson.
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Feb 202012
This past weekend was the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). I was a session aide at all of the plenary lectures, which involved counting the people present at each of those sessions three times throughout the event, and also at each of those times evaluate the engagement of the audience. It was pretty dull work, but it got me conference access for free, so I can’t really complain. Anyhow, in this post, I’m going to walk through my experience of the conference, and also include a list of the sessions that I was unable to attend that I’d love to get notes on from people if they have them.
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Feb 152012
As I listen to Whitney Houston’s I Have Nothing on repeat, I am writing this blog post on the bus. Yes, another blog post written on the bus. I need to make more time for blogging again…
Anyhow, as I recently noted, this past week and a half was Outweek 2012. I attended a couple of the events (two discussions and one of the movies) with some friends. Seeing as I have recently been annoyed with the accuracy of some of my other theories (“I have this theory that goes like this…” “Oh, yeah, that’s the going theory in Human Sexuality right now.” “…wtf? I didn’t even know that was a field! So if I was born earlier and went into that field, that could have been called the Tyler Theory?!” *annoyed*), I decided to see how people perceived another one of my theories during one of the discussions.
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Feb 082012
Another update (finally) for the 2011 TEDxTerry talks videos. In addition to the two posted in December, here’s three more!
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Feb 052012
Here’s the schedule for Outweek 2012:
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Feb 052012
TerreWeb‘s Seminar Series for this Spring have a theme of Perspectives on Challenges for Effective Communication of Science and Global Change. All their seminars take place in FSC 1003 from 1:00 PM until 2:30 PM, and they all take place on Thursdays. Unfortunately, I missed two of the seminars that I particularly wanted to see (Science Communication: Myths, Gaps and Denial and The Medium Delivers the Message: Bridging the Gap Between Science and Policy with Film), but there are many more to come that should also be interesting!
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Feb 042012
The Dead Of Night by John Marsden
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is the second book in the Tomorrow series, following Tomorrow, When the War Began, by John Marsden. It continues the story of Ellie and her friends as they try to survive an invasion of their home country, Australia, by some un-named country or alliance of countries. Unfortunately, in writing this book review, I have come to realize that it will be difficult to write much about this young adult novel without spoiling how the previous book ended. Continue reading »
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Guess who has no finals this term? 8D
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I think this is an important issue, and I’m glad Cindy Gallop brought it up. (I have another taboo topic, brought up by a UBC staff member, that I’m hoping to also blog about soon…)
Be sure to check out Make Love, Not Porn!
Here’s a list of quotes I obtained from Linda Carson at the Combining Two Cultures (C2C) conference (for a comprehensive overview of the conference, check out my other blog post here):
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