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October 30, 2009
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
Realclimate.org has a great post today called "An Open Letter to Steven Levitt." In case, you haven't heard, this is the economist, and one of the noted authors of the Freakonomics, who recently published Superfreakonomics, a book that is fast...
Posted by David Ng at 11:44 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 29, 2009
Category: Gift Shop & Haberdashery
(I'm guessing that at least one of my five readers are from UBC, so here goes). Of course, this happens just before Halloween... The other night, I moved a human anatomy torso model from my lab to my car. This...
Posted by David Ng at 6:35 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 20, 2009
Category: NatureLand: What They Used to Call the Environment
I've just had a piece published in the Walrus, and it's also available to read at their website. Basically, the piece is about how this 85ft Blue Whale skeleton was discovered and prepped for a new museum at the University...
Posted by David Ng at 3:33 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 15, 2009
Category: The Art/Science (Non?)Divide Building
Today, seedmagazine.com has a piece about Luke Jerram, the artist that I wrote about earlier (he of the incredible glass microbe structures). Anyway, I was asked to write something to go along with the piece, and have done so here....
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October 9, 2009
Category: About writing generally
From the earth to the moon, "the most rewarding travel [is] the kind where each footstep on the outside is accompanied by an echoing footstep within"
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October 7, 2009
Category: Knoxville '82: Where Miscellany Thrive
Calling out for people who do not know what a "Chewbacca" is.
Posted by David Ng at 1:16 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
October 1, 2009
Category: Links to Other Conversations and Articles
Other things you may find in this column: Italian food in Chinatown; Japanese tourists; Albert Bierstadt; a French fellow; green denim on Germans; the serenity of heartwarming public space; and Obama's "Hope" poster.
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