Of all the poems she wrote, few evoke Sylvia Plath’s own particular torturous reality as plainly as “The Disquieting Muses”. By the time it was written, in 1957, Plath had already survived a descent into serious depression and one failed suicide attempt. Six years later she would try again and succeed.
The Disquieting Muses by Giorgio […]
The results of too much coffee before early morning genetics…
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A little internet is a dangerous thing.
Ten points to anyone who can identify the images or, even better, continue the set…
Happy new year Terry folk! I hope you all had a restful and wonderful holiday season.
I moved back into residence this past weekend, and in the spirit of the new decade, I’ve been wanting to shake things up a bit and give our generic student apartment a new year’s makeover. While I was trolling the […]
Hey all! I’ve been asked to pass on a message from Trisha, the president of MSF UBC about MSF’s Canada-wide campaign to collect donations in the form of Aeroplan miles. (Important note: donate tomorrow and Aeroplan will match your contribution!!) Here is Trisha’s message:
Donate your Aeroplan Miles to Médécins Sans Frontières (MSF)/ Doctors Without Borders.
Double […]
Here’s a question for you Terry readers: What makes us happy?
Well?
Maybe it’s obvious to you. But I think it’s not always as easy as we like to think. Sometimes unusual patterns emerge. Sometimes it’s not the things we’d expect.
Speaking personally, I would say well-crafted language, the power gained by expression through writing, the study of […]
From the latest edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics:
The well-known proton, neutron, and electron are now thought to be members of a group that includes other fundamental particles that have been discovered or hypothesized by physicists. These very elemental particles, of which all matter is made, are now thought to belong to one of two […]
Dr. Michael Worobey (above) will be presenting the SFU Sterling Prize in Controversy lecture this coming tuesday (October 13th) on his work on the evolution and origins of the HIV epidemic. To quote:
Worobey’s work on the origins of HIV, published in Nature and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, prompted attacks from some […]
For any MSF fans in the Terrysphere (Terryverse?), Dr. James Maskalyk will be at the Chapters on Robson tomorrow evening to discuss his new book, Six Months in Sudan, about his time as an MSF volunteer in Abyei.
More information can be found here. And here. Should be interesting stuff!
I stumbled across a fabulous website this morning. Information is Beautiful. It’s run by David McCandless, a writer and designer in London who does things like this:
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As a species we generate a LOT of data–especially since the advent of computers. The amount of information being generated by genomic sequencing alone is massive. (in fact, they’re […]
