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.
Trying to find your way around this place? Like most expositions, we offer a map: Map of The World's Fair
October 31, 2008
Category: Nature as in Earth, as in Global, as in Global Issues Generally
Recently, we had an opportunity to host a variety of great talks for science teachers. One of the talks was by Dr. William Rees. It was a nice little introduction into the conundrum of our reliance on "progress" to...
Posted by David Ng at 5:41 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
New breakthrough in this year's stratigraphy. Big news. Huge, chewy news. Sticky, chocolatey chewy news.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 28 Comments •
October 28, 2008
Category: Industrial Agriculture
Same ole same ole when it comes to animal slaughter.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:00 PM • 7 Comments •
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
So, this is one of the things that has been keeping me busy the last couple of weeks. Essentially, the lab hosted a largish conference for high school science teachers (about 95 registrants) - as well, we took the tact...
Posted by David Ng at 10:33 AM • 1 Comments •
October 27, 2008
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Friend of the Fair Oronte Churm has a note on engineers over at The Education of Oronte Churm, "The Engineers Think On It." Eating at a diner with a book of poetry in hand, he posits the engineer's quest for...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 2:20 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
In which we see: soldiers (humanity), nuclear blasts (inhumanity), and the sky (supra-humanity).
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 2 Comments •
October 26, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Forgive me, faith, for never having any.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:00 PM • 0 Comments •
October 24, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
The Telegraph's website has an "Atlas of the Real World." There are 18 different versions of the world map, where software depicts "the nations of the world, not by their physical size, but by their demographic importance on a range...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 5:00 PM • 3 Comments •
October 23, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
#4: Refusing to Listen to the Only Living Jedi in the Galaxy
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:20 PM • 2 Comments •
October 22, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Sorry I've been vacant from the blog lately. Sort of an unholy convergence of teaching/marking, event planning, burst water main, event planning again, kids with flu, and grant writing. We also had my son's Star Wars themed birthday party this...
Posted by David Ng at 1:00 PM • 0 Comments •
October 21, 2008
Category: Industrial Agriculture
Most of the problems our food system faces today are because of its reliance on fossil fuels
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:50 AM • 1 Comments •
October 20, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
"...presume to write, as it were, upon things that exist not, and travel by maps yet unmade..." Walt Whitman, from "Democratic Vistas" (1871)...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:00 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
the human contrivance of fencing, bordering, containing, demarcating in contrast with the uncontrived terrain
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:00 AM • 3 Comments •
October 17, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
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Posted by David Ng at 4:49 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
"To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair." --Walker Percy...
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:15 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: Industrial Agriculture
What you eat is at least as important as where it comes from...and CSA meals feature less packaging, less processing, and less meat
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 12:00 PM • 10 Comments •
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
a modern clash of color and mountain and angles and fabrication amidst/against the scale of sky
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:45 AM • 2 Comments •
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Pictures of a White Bengal Tiger, Odin: six years old, 10 feet long (tail to nose), living at a zoo in Vallejo, California.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 8:15 AM • 2 Comments •
October 14, 2008
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
(A) because it will make your mom proud, (B) because society depends upon it, or (C) both A and B?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 1:00 PM • 1 Comments •
October 13, 2008
Category: Industrial Agriculture
Once milk is converted to cream, it's processed. Is that local farm then a farm or a factory?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 10:30 AM • 2 Comments •
October 10, 2008
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
I tell you - first we have a great video from Beck on sustainability, and now he goes and uses the word genome in a new B-side. The word genome - a rare word, indeed, when you look on...
Posted by David Ng at 5:50 PM • 1 Comments •
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Tracking dirty coal money into politics, from Appalachian Voices.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 12:10 PM • 2 Comments •
October 9, 2008
Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
An election blog worth reading.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 4:00 PM • 0 Comments •
October 7, 2008
Category: Humor stuff, and in the best of worlds, science humor stuff
I've got a pin-up published at the Science Creative Quarterly today (you can download the pdf at the link). At its heart, this flowchart is really a comparison of the carbon tax, cap and trade, and the Conservative's somewhat...
Posted by David Ng at 4:35 PM • 4 Comments •
October 3, 2008
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Although Jennifer and I had our 1,000,000th comment party a few weeks back, I only just had an opportunity to get the video footage on to YouTube. It was funny, but the "having to video" bit was a little surprising,...
Posted by David Ng at 3:38 PM • 0 Comments •
Category: About writing generally
700,000,000,000 - approximate number of US dollars proposed in the bail out bill (link). 0.7 - percentage of GDP agreed upon in 1970 to be set aside for foreign aid. Often sited as an appropriate funding goal to help meet...
Posted by David Ng at 10:39 AM • 0 Comments •
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
You know the scoop. Every little donation counts (and I just noticed we got our first one!), and it's all in the name of education. In this case, environmental sciences. And just like the title says, we're not asking...
Posted by David Ng at 10:34 AM • 1 Comments •
Category: Author Meets Bloggers
How can science serve the interests of environmental & social justice, rather than continuing to fuel war and environmental and social inequality?
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 0 Comments •
October 2, 2008
Category: Author Meets Bloggers
We are living in a country with huge environmental and social inequalities--the stakes are too high to simply write for each other in a small, hyper-professionalized field.
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 1 Comments •
October 1, 2008
Category: Author Meets Bloggers
How disease has been an important force in the history of environmental change and in changing perceptions of the environment
Posted by Benjamin Cohen at 9:00 AM • 2 Comments •
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