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July 31, 2008
Category: Books that are just good - literature in general
This is great. And this is also an image that seems appropriate when choosing to speak about water as a resource generally - it might, for instance, be a good prelude to discussions like this....
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July 30, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Would appreciate it if you could pass this on somehow? Thoughts?...
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Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
This got published a while back in the Walrus, but I just noticed that it's also now freely available online. 0.7%, in case, you're not aware is the hallmark figure suggested by Pearson as a target for foreign aid...
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Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
The response for the "Things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly" post was awesome, and so, I've tried to formalize the suggestions into a fairly definitive list. The ones that didn't make it tended to be more debatable,...
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July 29, 2008
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
With no more crabgrass killer, lawns do it all. Plus Robert Frost.
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Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
The problem of the 13 culture divide.
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July 28, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
As plans for our student speaker conference are ramping up, we've been talking about ways to recruit excellent speakers to the project (this is where we're trying to host a university centric TED talks sort of thing). One idea,...
Posted by David Ng at 5:00 PM • 47 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
July 24, 2008
Category: Links to interesting sites and discussion of them
8. Hide the Nano in a bowl of lutefisk; take it to Norsefest Lutefisk Eating Competition in Madison, Minnesota.
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July 23, 2008
Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
"Using the iPhone to solve disputes between Moqtada al-Sadr and certain Sunni elements within Iraq without causing an escalation of hostilities"
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Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Just a quick note. Although it's been a while, a few of us are meeting for drinks on Friday night (July 25th) at The Revel Room in Gastown, Vancouver (8pm on). It just so happens that it's about the...
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