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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.

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"The world is full of light and life, and the true crime is not to be interested in it." A.S. Byatt

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July 31, 2008

Water water everywhere. Great children's book image on the subject of water.

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

Just want to throw this out there: An unconference on Science Communication (actually, a Jamboree for the Science Scouts?)

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Would appreciate it if you could pass this on somehow? Thoughts?...

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An open letter to 0.7%

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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The "speaking publicly" list formulized (plus a bit with some clown humour)

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

Science. Technology. Nature. Lawn.

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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One culture, two culture, three culture, four

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

The problem of the 13 culture divide.

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July 28, 2008

Hopefully, the start of a definitive list of things to avoid at all cost when speaking publicly.

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,...

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July 24, 2008

Eight Ways to Kill Someone By Using an iPod Nano...

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

The iPhone: A User's Guide

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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Happy 500 (or so) days for the Science Scouts - a little get together this coming Friday for all you Vancouverites reading Scienceblogs.

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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July 22, 2008

The iPod Zepto: Inconceivably Small

Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles

And look for the iPod Yocto--the world's first subatomic media player--coming soon.

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3 Song Mix #5

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

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WALL-E: a great movie, but oh the irony of a movie about a lot of garbage creating a lot of garbage...

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

I recently had a chance to catch the movie WALL-E, and I must say, it's very good. Still, I couldn't quite shake the irony of a show with (I thought) a fairly implicit environmental message that also happens to...

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July 21, 2008

Ignorance is This, or: A Science Writer's Apology

Category: About writing generally

In this lab of accelerator physicists, I am the village idiot. I'm not from here. Maybe that's good.

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Love is a Mixed Tape

Category: The Book Building

It's been a while since I've enjoyed a book this much. That's all....

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My water consumption versus someone in India...

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

As of 2007, residents of Vancouver, on average used 295 litres of water per day (Per capita water consumption number is 542 litres per day factoring in non-residential water use). (link) After reading the above article, I did a...

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July 18, 2008

Write a little something sciency - win a dinosaur book!

Category: The Book Building

The SCQ children's book contest is back again. link...

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July 17, 2008

Environmental histories of settlement in Canada and New Zealand

Category: Podcastia

New Zealand and Canada both "received a significant number of settlers from Scotland and Ireland. Did these groups bring a particular set of land management techniques with them that had a particular impact on the landscape and environment? Did a...

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July 16, 2008

Darwin and Creationism Podcasts: on scientific method; the Cold War; and Jews, Catholics, Muslims

Category: Podcastia

For example, How did the Civil War and the Cold War affect the acceptance of evolution in the United States?

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July 15, 2008

The Great Pacific Trash Vortex

Category: Podcastia

Q: How much trash is swirling around the sea? A: Helluva lot.

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Sizzle. Enjoyable but more dazzle perhaps?

Category: The Film Building

A few days ago, I had a chance (with other ScienceBloggers) to check out Randy Olson's new flick, Sizzle. Now let me first start by saying that I'm hardly a movie aficionado - my favourite movie is still Star Wars,...

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July 14, 2008

Faith and Mystery

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

Who can believe in the Loch Ness monster when Antarctica is open to tourists?

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July 13, 2008

The real story of a life is the story of its humiliations: Seshadri's "Memoir"

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

Radioactive to the end of time, a poem of clarity and simplicity, both even and profound.

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July 10, 2008

What did they recall today?

Category: Industrial Agriculture

Go grab a burger with a slice of tomato, put your Swiftlik safety raft on, take a swig of that Nestle Purified Water, keep a bottle of your oldest antipsychotic drugs on hand, send an HP fax to your friend to tell them all about it, and call it a day well recalled.

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July 9, 2008

Just about the most perfect picture (and book) you can use to start talking to kids about climate change.

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

Isn't this picture great?...

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3 Song Mix #4

Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive

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July 8, 2008

Types of Biological Modification - the Breakfast of Champions cartoon version.

Category: The Film Building

I doodle a bit, and sometimes, it has this Breakfast of Champions look to it - which to be frank is deliberate, since I think it's a great visual style, especially for the purpose of teaching. Anyway, since, I'm playing...

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The Ineffability of Happiness

Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles

There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you'll hear about them.

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July 7, 2008

Alphametics: What they are and how you get them

Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building

Do you know what these are? Word games. And math. Or math. Kind of.

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July 2, 2008

Boy Band sings about automated pipetting [the video]

Category: Nature, as in parts, bits, molecular and stuff

This is silly is so many ways. Hat tip to the filter....

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Carbon Offsets in the World of Flying: A Big Picture - What would it take exactly? How's about a forest the size of Oregon...

Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally

To offset flights out of North America in 2007, you'd need to plant a forest the size of Oregon. In this summer's issue of the Walrus, there's a great piece by UBC'er, David Beers, called "Grounded" which imagines circumstances...

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