The Thunderbird Gazette

As part of UBC’s Cel­eb­rate Research week, a great event is hap­pen­ing this Sat­urday at UBC:
MULTIDISCIPLINARY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE (MURC)
Irving K. Barber Learn­ing Centre, Jubilee Room (4^th floor)
Sat­urday March 6, 2010
MURC cel­eb­rates the con­tri­bu­tions of under­gradu­ate research at UBC.  The con­fer­ence provides an oppor­tun­ity for stu­dents in any dis­cip­line from across cam­pus to present […]

As the latest in our Terry obses­sion with Science-Inspired Music, check out Jim Bumgardner’s “Wheel of Stars”

Image: European Space Agency/Hubble
To make this, I down­loaded pub­lic data from Hip­par­cos, a satel­lite launched by the European Space Agency in 1989 that accur­ately meas­ured over a hun­dred thou­sand stars. The data I down­loaded con­tains pos­i­tion, par­al­lax, mag­nitude, and […]

It seems like science-inspired music is a com­mon theme around here. Dis­cover Magazine recently announced the win­ners of their “Evol­u­tion in Two Minutes” video con­test. Top-pick went to this rock-anthem by Fresno, Cali­for­nia high-school teacher Scott Hatfield.

The rest of the top-5 are here, along with a mes­sage from the contest’s judge, inter­net science-blog polemic PZ […]

It is a shame­ful story that few know. Alan Tur­ing, known as the father of mod­ern Com­puter Sci­ence, and largely respons­ible for the Allied vic­tory in World War 2 thanks to his decryp­tion of the Enigma code, was pro­sec­uted by the Brit­ish gov­ern­ment for his homo­sexu­al­ity and forced to undergo chem­ical cas­tra­tion. This humi­li­at­ing treatment […]