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profile.gif 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.

profile.gifBenjamin 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

Timebomb - everybody dance.

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...

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March 27, 2008

Glitter, Martha Stewart, Easter Pie, Darfur and Bill Clinton: Now there's a list you don't see very often...

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,...

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March 26, 2008

The Best Thing on the Net Right Now

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

Who's Out to Get Them?: Localism and the Politics of Food

Category: Industrial Agriculture

As much energy to run the farmer's market for a day as running a household for a year...but so?

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March 21, 2008

Insect Cyborg Engineering

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.

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March 17, 2008

Food security in my neck of the woods, Richmond, Vancouver, British Columbia

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...

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March 14, 2008

A big hurrah to all those who participated in THE INAUGURAL FIRST ANNUAL "MOST EXCEPTIONAL ESCAPADES IN SCIENCE" HIGH SCHOOL CONFERENCE!

Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery

Not just exceptional, but awesome......

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March 12, 2008

Storm Worlds of the Enlightenment: Part 2 with historian Jan Golinski

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

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment: Between the Scientific and Traditional with Historian Jan Golinski

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

Epistemic Shadows: Can sunlight explain a photographic mystery?

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

GMO?

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...

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March 3, 2008

The Apartment of the Future

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

A competing version of the apt. of the future, this one from 1884.

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