Browsing Tag Graham Templeton
Canadians are becoming what they hate
| 12:01 am | 0 CommentBy Graham Templeton It’s become a bit of a latter-day tradition for my friends and I to head down to Washington each year to attend the Sasquatch music festival. It’s got a beautiful venue, fantastic music, and is usually a delightful four-day jaunt into Americana and sad-happy hipster music. Last year, however, this wonderful ritual was tainted, as have been so more...
SFU should focus on problems it can solve
| 12:01 am | 0 CommentBy Graham Templeton When Maple Batalia was tragically killed, SFU sent out a letter. It was a perfunctory letter, hardly inspiring or bracing, but it would be unreasonable to expect anything better — such obligatory messages have no ability to be more than a simple formality. They might as well have written nothing at all. Actually, nothing at all would have been a more...
My wiener theory
| 12:01 am | 0 CommentBy Graham Templeton I have a wiener theory. This is it. This is my wiener theory, which I am about to tell you. Here I go. Wieners have become one of the Western world’s most reviled foodstuffs. I think it has to be at least partly based on elitism; wieners are seen as the food of the proletariat, eaten outdoors after being cooked on an open flame and slapped onto more...
Police ‘preparedness’ is tyranny
| 12:01 am | 0 CommentBy Graham Templeton In the fallout of the Stanley Cup riot, the police have gotten off relatively easily. Attention was mostly given to possible causes of the violence, the damage done to our international profile, and the fascinating emergence of social media as an expression of public outrage. In comparison to other riots, both in Vancouver and elsewhere, the police more...
“Tough on crime” is an attack on civil liberties
| 2:21 am | 0 CommentBy Graham Templeton The definition of insanity is not, as commonly claimed, doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different result. This definition can more easily be applied to stubbornness, or stupidity, or (I will argue) tough-on-crime legislation. It’s shorthand for the type of politicking that has become popular in Harper’s Conservative government, more...
SFU researcher exposes the human search for structure
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Graham TempletonAn SFU researcher may have provided you with an excuse for all those times youve laughed at seemingly horrifying things, or at things which make no sense at all. Psychology professor Travis Proulx has published a study that draws a connection between humour and those things that break our expectations about our environments and ourselves.We are more...
SFU chemists technique could lead to new drugs
| 12:00 am | 0 CommentBy Graham TempletonSFU Chemist Andrew Bennet and Ph.D student Jeff Chan have developed a technique that they believe could allow the synthesis of new, highly specific antiviral drugs. Their study, recently published online in Nature Chemical Biology, served as a proof-of-concept for the first step in their proposed new approach to the design of therapeutic molecules. more...
