All manner of human creativity on display
David Ng is Director of the Advanced Molecular Biology Laboratory at the University of British Columbia - this is a just a fancier way of calling himself a science teacher.
Benjamin Cohen is an Asst. Professor of Science, Tech., and Society at the University of Virginia. He studies the place of S & T in environmental history, policy, and ethics. He also writes other stuff.
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March 28, 2008
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Boy, talk about consumption. Great music video featuring the digital art prowess of Chris Jordan. We offer this as a follow-up to last summer's "What We Waste," a post on Jordan's work that was part of a larger discussion of...
Posted by David Ng at 1:39 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 27, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
(see the show here - go to video 6) Just got back from some time off, where my wife (Kate) and I had a week to explore the city of New York. It was the first time for us,...
Posted by David Ng at 11:56 AM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 26, 2008
Category: About writing generally
Don't you just hate it when you're about to be dead in five minutes?
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March 24, 2008
Category: Industrial Agriculture
As much energy to run the farmer's market for a day as running a household for a year...but so?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:30 AM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 21, 2008
Category: Ethics Palace: Where ethical questions go to live or die
Not for any particular reason, DARPA seeks innovative proposals to develop technology to create insect-cyborgs.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 2:45 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 17, 2008
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Food is a big issue these days - none more so than where I live in Richmond (at this very moment). - - - To: GCL Public Hearings, Richmond, BC Attn: Richmond City Clerk Re: Public hearing on the Garden...
Posted by David Ng at 2:39 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 14, 2008
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
Not just exceptional, but awesome......
Posted by David Ng at 3:51 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 12, 2008
Category: Author Meets Bloggers
Wrath of God? Payback for human interference with the natural order? More science and weather within.
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March 11, 2008
Category: Author Meets Bloggers
Talking weather and placing scientific practices (record-keeping, instruments use) in their cultural context
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March 10, 2008
Category: The STS Compages
Maybe for Morris, it's not the perfection of technique but the selective obscuring of it that matters.
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March 5, 2008
Category: Nature, as in parts, bits, molecular and stuff
The opener for my lecture last week. Note that I got the biggest laughs with Grimace (Grimace is always good for a laugh), and with the Olympic mascots (a Vancouver thing). Know any others? (click on the movie). (Click on...
Posted by David Ng at 11:15 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
March 3, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
A competing version of the apt. of the future, this one from 1884.
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