Good morning! Are you hot? I’m hot. But I’m happy to report that we’re more than halfway through this heatwave. It’ll hit 88 today, but tomorrow it’s smooth sailing with a high of 72. For today, the name of...
MONDAY 6/15
Disappearance at the Rocky Mountain Leatherdyke Snowpicnic
(THEATER) I’ve been saying it for years: Pride month needs more ski slope murder mysteries. Thankfully, the good people at the Annex Theatre have listened. Writer Monty Rozema and director Adrian...
Image: Courtesy Porchfest
A couple of years ago, I walked a few blocks north from my Wallingford home toward sounds of the annual Tangletown Porchfest. A hundred or so of my neighbors gathered in the street as bands rocked out...
Cell reprogramming — the technique of returning adult cells to a more youthful state using four genetic factors identified in Nobel Prize-winning research — has become the buzziest approach in longevity science, displacing earlier obsessions with telomere lengthening and...
Quentin Stafford-Fraser was working in the Trojan Room of Cambridge University’s old Computer Lab when he and a colleague rigged a grey-scale CCD camera, pointed it at the communal Krups coffee machine, and wired it through a video-capture card...
Innovation UBC has appointed Ian Bell as Associate Director, Innovation Partnerships, adding more than 25 years of international experience in technology transfer, research commercialization, partnership development, and intellectual property strategy to the university’s innovation team.
Bell officially stepped into the...
A collaboration between the federal government and the government of British Columbia continues to equip households throughout the province with reliable access to high-speed internet.
“High-speed internet is essential infrastructure for people to learn, work, connect, access healthcare, and grow...
Talk to any fintech founder in Gastown or a mortgage tech innovator downtown, and the conversation always circles back to the same two headaches: the terrifying cost of running AI models at scale, and the endless regulatory red tape...
Moment of truth
It was a picture of a woman, spotted as he flipped through a newspaper in the day room at Snohomish County Jail, that caused Vik Chopra to reevaluate his situation. She looked like the wife of one...
Twenty electric prime movers will hit Australian roads faster than expected after a first-of-its-kind project secured a $5 million boost.
New Energy Transport on Monday revealed it would deploy a heavy-duty electric truck fleet months earlier than planned following the...
