Category: science
My friend Mike was on BoingBoing the other day, in the form of his TedxUBC talk about Universities Allied for Essential Medicines. BoingBoing, people! I’m pretty sure this makes me one degree away from famous. UAEM is a nonprofit that focuses on ensuring access to medicine and public health technologies for poor nations. Check out […]
Sign from the Restoring Sanity rally: Props to Dr. Dan, who brought this to my attention after seeing it here, who posted it after they saw it here.
I miss being in the lab sometimes. For the uninitiated, this is a parody of the Flight of the Conchords’ “Most Beautiful Girl in the Room”: Props to my friend Nora, who posted this in Facebook and from whom I shamelessly stole the idea to post it here. Rock on, Nora. Rock on.
September 9 is International Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Awareness Day. The 9th day of the 9th month was chosen to remind people that they shouldn’t drink for the 9 months of pregnancy. Seeing as my doctoral research was on FASD, it’s an issue that is near and dear to my heart. A few facts […]
Spotted on a mailbox downtown: Props to Kalev for bringing this hilariousness to my attention!
So, as I’m sure I’ve never mentioned on here before, I love data. I used the Runkeeper app to track my running data, the Sleep Cycle app to track my sleeping data and (the now open source) wesabe to track my money data. So, not surprisingly, one of the blogs I follow is Information is Beautiful. […]
Well, well, well. Documents handed over to the Commons Industry Committee reveal that, as we all knew anyway, the Conservatives did, in fact, know that Statistics Canada did not support the scrapping of the mandatory long form of the census and then replacing it with a voluntary survey. Furthermore, they tried to get Stats Canada […]
Darren tweeted this today and I though I’d share it here: http://datalibre.ca/census-watch/ It’s a list of organizations and individuals who are for and against the government’s decision to scrap the mandatory long-form of the census. That’s 212 against the government ((and I am pleased to report that two organizations to which I belong – the […]
Today I finally got to meet my long-lost British twin! I mean, sure we don’t look anything alike and were born a month apart ((I looked up her birthday on Facebook!)) on separate continents, but I can think of no other explanation for our similarities than the separated-at-birth theory. We are both scientists who chose […]
I wrote this posting for my other blog, but I figured that I’d post it here too, given that (a) most of my readers probably don’t read my other blog and (b) I just had a little debate on the issue on my Facebook wall, which prompted me to share this info a little more […]