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The Expanding Universe of Cold War Science
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The Expanding Universe of Cold War Science
-by Andrei Barvinsky (Cecil H. and Ida Green Visiting Professor in Residence)
An excerpt from Andrei’s lecture on “The Expanding Universe: Historical, Theoretical and Aesthetic Observations”
From Green College to "The Nature of Canada"
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FROM GREEN COLLEGE TO THE NATURE OF CANADA
by Graeme Wynn (Faculty Member of Common Room)
Meet Julen Etxabe, Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights and Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law, Green College Leading Scholar 2019-21
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Julen Etxabe, Canada Research Chair in Jurisprudence and Human Rights and Assistant Professor, Peter A. Allard School of Law
2020 Re-Visions: Thinking Other Futures Now
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2020 Re-Visions: Thinking Other Futures Now
A Prospectus for Public Programs at Green College UBC in 2020-21
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What does it mean to think in and from a university, now?
A Literary Scholar, an Ecologist and an Anthropologist Walk Into a Bar...
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– by Mollie Chapman (Green College Society Member)
A story about how the Great-tailed Grackle is seen as a pest in Costa Rica, and how the idea of writing a paper on eco-xenophobia came to be
What is Love?
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Love stories. They are filled with tragedy, joy and all the emotions you can fit in a novel, a three-minute ballad, or a 14-line poem written in iambic pentameter. Love is depicted in many ways, but the question of what love is has never really gone away. In the sci-fi film The Fifth Element, the plot’s central claim is that love is (SPOILER ALERT) the fifth element, and the one thing that can save the world from alien annihilation.