Welcome!

The Un-Distinguished Lecture Series (UDLS) is a series of free, casual lectures on a variety of topics held Fridays at 5pm in the 8th floor boardroom (X836) of the ICICS/CS building at UBC, Vancouver. These are given by and for students, staff, and faculty at UBC. Although most speakers and attendees are from computer science, everybody is welcome.

The series has included 456 lectures over 17 years since it first began in early 2007 (see History of UDLS).

Questions?

Have a look at the FAQ.

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Put your name in the signup spreadsheet.

Want to learn more?

Email Finn Hackett, fhackett@cs.ubc.ca


Date

Title

Speaker


Mar 15, 2024
Wine in one hour
Shaurya Patel

Mar 8, 2024
Suprematism: Pure artistic feeling
Paulette Koronkevitch

Mar 1, 2024
The Queen of Trees
Matt Oddo

Feb 16, 2024
Come paint and draw stuff while listening to original music
Mishaal Kazmi and Finn Hackett

Feb 7, 2024
Тетрис
Joseph Wonsil

Feb 2, 2024
Guess the Other Song
Finn Hackett

Jan 26, 2024
A Brief History of Synths and Audio Stuff
Finn Hackett

Dec 8, 2023
Reading SMBC Too Closely
Paul Bucci

Dec 1, 2023
The Gang Makes a Dating Profile
Ryan Smith

Nov 24, 2023
The Untold Story of Tech Job Market
Shayan Hosseini

Nov 17, 2023
The Home Computer Revolution!
Paulette Koronkevitch

Nov 10, 2023
Shark Tank
Ryan Smith

Oct 20, 2023
ultimate frisbee is the best sport fr fr
Rocco Ruan

Oct 13, 2023
What's the biggest animal you think you could take in a fight?
Ryan Smith

Oct 6, 2023
When the Sus is not Amogus
Finn Hackett

Sep 29, 2023
Can't believe Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are dating. I called this back in like 2015.
Ryan Smith

Sep 22, 2023
The Joys of (Film) Photography
Sean Bocirnea

Sep 15, 2023
Déjà vu
Finn Hackett

Sep 8, 2023
What's the UDLS again?
Finn Hackett

Apr 14, 2023
Pakistani Music: the best music in the world
Gautam Luhana

Mar 31, 2023
UBC CS Grad Students: What Do They Know? Do They Know Things?? Let's Find Out!
Bereket Guta

Mar 24, 2023
A quick guide to buying a home before the age of 25
Nichole Boufford

Mar 17, 2023
Tax Codes and Tax No's
Ryan Smith

Mar 10, 2023
Zen
Jason Yoo

Feb 17, 2023
Architecture and art in the city of Ahmedabad
Shaurya Patel

Feb 10, 2023
Competitive Programming
Shayan Hosseini

Feb 3, 2023
Iberian architecture - a semi-structured vacation picture slide show
Adam Geller

Jan 27, 2023
Lip Sync for Your Life: Fantasy Drag Race: The Game
Rubia Guerra and Hannah Elbaggari

Jan 20, 2023
Tricking you into hearing drums
Finn Hackett

Nov 18, 2022
Sports: What are sports and how to sports
Ryan Smith

Oct 21, 2022
Women's Movements in Iran
Shayan Hosseini

Oct 14, 2022
Scary Lectures to Tell in the Dark
Joseph Wonsil

Oct 7, 2022
Apartment Vermincomposting
Nichole Boufford

Sep 23, 2022
How to Win Survivor from Your Couch
Shruthi C

Sep 16, 2022
A balcony garden and a neighborhood vandal: A story of how a hobby was had and a nemesis made
Baraa Orabi

Sep 9, 2022
A Brief and Mostly Useless History and Geography Lesson About Vancouver
Joe Wonsil

Oct 22, 2021
Silence of the Vowels
Jonathan Chan

Oct 15, 2021
Kimchi
James Yoo

Oct 8, 2021
3arabizi, and other oddities of Arabic language interactions with modern technology
Baraa Orabi

Oct 1, 2021
This One Cool Material Will Make WorkSafeBC Hate You (Number 1,2,3, and 4 will kill you)
Adam Geller

Sep 24, 2021
I Hate Beamer
Victor Sanches Portella

Sep 10, 2021
Vine: A history and compilation
James Yoo

Jul 23, 2021
Lepidoptera Heterocera
Joseph Wonsil

May 7, 2021
How (not) to Apply to Grad School and Survive your First Year
James Yoo

Mar 12, 2021
Pygmy Goats
Paulette Koronkevich

Feb 5, 2021
A brief review of using technology to assist with refereeing sports
Adam Geller

Jan 29, 2021
Earthquakes: Because we don't have enough to worry about
Felipe Bañados Schwerter

Dec 11, 2020
A Eulogy for Flash
Dave Pagurek

Dec 4, 2020
Alistair the Many Breaks Down Some Original Tracks, Live in the (Virtual) Studio
Finn Hackett

Nov 27, 2020
A Virtual Presentation about a Virtual Pandemic during a Pandemic
Joseph Wonsil

Nov 13, 2020
Never Gonna Give You Up -- The Rickroll: past, present, future
James Yoo

Oct 30, 2020
Got Milk, part one: Farming
Felipe Bañados Schwerter

Oct 9, 2020
An Undistinguished History Lesson
Adam Geller

Sep 25, 2020
Regeneration
Kattie Sepehri

Sep 18, 2020
Bananas
Nico Ritschel

Sep 11, 2020
I scream, you scream, we all scream!!!! ICECREAM!!!!!!!
Preeti Vyas

Sep 4, 2020
Real Actual Magic: Film, VFX, and Mary Poppins
Dave Pagurek

Aug 28, 2020
Tool Assisted Speedruns
Greg d'Eon

Apr 24, 2020
Noodles: Now More Than Ever
Chris Chen

Apr 10, 2020
The Cutting Room Floor
Noah Weninger

Apr 3, 2020
Italian Renaissance Architecture
Nico Ritschel & Adam Geller

Mar 20, 2020
NOWRUZ (Persian New Year)
Maryam Raiyat

Feb 14, 2020
Lindy Hop and Swing Dancing
Victor Sanches Portella

Jan 31, 2020
Cascadia: The Greatest Nation That Isn't (Yet)
Adam Geller

Jan 24, 2020
C++ Roast
Tim Straubinger

Jan 17, 2020
Twisty Puzzles
Greg d'Eon

Jan 10, 2020
Impromptu UDLSes
Vaastav, Greg, Victor, Nico, Chris, Joe, Noah, Adam, Jimmy, Pauline, Tim

Nov 29, 2019
Don't Cross Me: A Rockumentary
Dave Pagurek

Nov 22, 2019
German Fairy Tales
Tim Straubinger

Nov 15, 2019
One weird trick to advance your career: Twitter
Paulette Koronkevich

Nov 8, 2019
Florida Man: The World's Worst Superhero
Steve Kasica

Oct 25, 2019
Bytebeat
Noah Weninger

Oct 18, 2019
"cs is just fancy string manipulation" but categorical
Zach Goldthorpe

Oct 11, 2019
Tattoos
Giovanni Viviani

Oct 4, 2019
Fantasy Sports
Vaastav Anand

Sep 20, 2019
Performance Art
Paul Bucci

Apr 25, 2019
SFU
Alex Sweeten

Apr 12, 2019
Tabletop Role-Playing
Giovanni Viviani

Apr 5, 2019
Ultramarathons
Nico Ritschel

Mar 29, 2019
Coffee (again)
Jan Pilzer

Mar 22, 2019
Indian Weddings
Puneet Mehrotra

Mar 15, 2019
How to spy on people? Lessons from the NSA
Gleb Naumenko

Mar 8, 2019
Word Provenance
Vaastav Anand

Mar 1, 2019
Cake Engineering
Margo Seltzer

Feb 15, 2019
Cat Types
Chris Chen

Feb 8, 2019
A Brief History of Steves
Steve Kasica

Jan 25, 2019
3D Printing
Alistair Wick

Jan 18, 2019
World War II Air Combat
Adam Geller

Jan 11, 2019
So you want to buy a home?
Yasha Pushak

Dec 6, 2018
MLMs
Hayley Guillou

Nov 30, 2018
Skiing
Michael Oppermann

Nov 16, 2018
Lego
Anna Scholtz

Nov 9, 2018
UDLS Karaoke
Yasha Pushak, Vaden Masrani, Clement "The King" Fung, Matthew Chun, Siddhesh "Brown Sugar" Khandelwal, Alistair "John" Wick, Ahmed Elhamy Mostafa

Nov 2, 2018
Speedrunning
Giovanni Viviani

Oct 26, 2018
Fencing
Adam Geller

Oct 12, 2018
Theranos
Neil Newman

Oct 5, 2018
Time Zones
Vaastav Anand

Sep 28, 2018
SpaceX
Alistair Wick

Sep 21, 2018
Water Sports
Jan Pilzer

Sep 14, 2018
The Second Undistinguished Puzzle Hunt
Amon Ge

Sep 7, 2018
A Tour of the Breakfast Cereal Aisle
Clement Fung

Aug 31, 2018
Eascaping East Germany
Anna Scholtz

Aug 10, 2018
The Death and Life of Great American Highways
Clement Fung

Aug 3, 2018
Crowdfunding
Nico Ritschel

Jul 27, 2018
Formula 1
Siddhesh Khandelwal

Jun 15, 2018
Pride Month
Puneet Mehrotra

Jun 8, 2018
A Comprehensive Guide to Pinball Wizardry
Clement Fung

May 18, 2018
World Cup Stories
Ahmed Elhamy

May 4, 2018
Rapid Transit
Jan Pilzer

Apr 27, 2018
The European Union
Nico Ritschel

Apr 20, 2018
> Text Adventure: Escape from ICICS
Amon Ge

Apr 6, 2018
MUSC 666: Introduction to Metal
Giovanni Viviani

Mar 23, 2018
Kazakhstan: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Alexandra Kim

Mar 16, 2018
Stories from the 2018 Olympics
Amon Ge

Mar 9, 2018
Firearm Ownership in America
Amanda Carbonari and Austin Levin

Jan 26, 2018
Indian Republic Day
Puneet Mehrotra

Jan 12, 2018
Stories from the Shaanxi History Museum
Yanan Sun

Jan 5, 2018
Not Afraid of Heights: An Introduction to Rock Climbing
Nico Ritschel

Nov 24, 2017
Explore the World of Flying
Amanda Carbonari and Austin Levin

Nov 17, 2017
The Dying Art of Stenography
Amon Ge

Nov 10, 2017
The Wonderful World of FIFA
Clement Fung

Nov 3, 2017
Early history of film
Alexandra Kim

Oct 27, 2017
Lies, fraud, and a murder hotel
Hayley Guillou

Oct 20, 2017
Stamps
Jan Pilzer

Oct 6, 2017
High Speed Railway in China
Xing Zeng

Sep 29, 2017
Screws
Devon Graham

Sep 22, 2017
Bach and the Art of Fugue
Gudbrand

Sep 15, 2017
The Undistinguished Puzzle Hunt
Amon Ge

Sep 8, 2017
China: A Short History
Matthew Chun

Jun 9, 2017
Poker (the only casino game worth playing)
Amon Ge

May 19, 2017
Mineral Deposits
Chris Cameron

May 5, 2017
Native Advertising and Content Marketing
Neil Newman

Apr 28, 2017
Fentanyl: The Drug Deadlier than Heroin
VICE

Apr 14, 2017
Reading from "This Is How You Die" while candles melt
Amon Ge

Apr 7, 2017
The Science of Martial Arts
Kuba Karpierz

Mar 31, 2017
The Cultists are the Best
Clement Fung & Kuba Karpierz

Mar 24, 2017
Norouz/Iranian new year
Hedayat Zarkoob

Mar 17, 2017
The Pug. A comprehensive excursion on its roles and perception with an emphasis on German culture
Max Limper

Mar 10, 2017
Of undistinguished Tuesday Teas & Beer Calls
Jolande Fooken

Jan 27, 2017
Korean Reunification
Amon Ge

Jan 20, 2017
Film Appreciation Part 2: Film Styles
Sampoorna Biswas

Jan 13, 2017
Beans, gas, poop and what you can do to help
Yasha Pushak

Nov 18, 2016
A History of Photography: From Representation Towards Expression
Matthew Chun

Nov 4, 2016
Politics in the animal kingdom
Yasha Pushak

Oct 21, 2016
Of Diversity and National Identity
Sampoorna Biswas

Oct 14, 2016
The history of Singapore
Clement Fung

Sep 30, 2016
Exercitus Romanus
Giovanni Viviani

Sep 23, 2016
SCUBA diving: the (not-so) dangerous underwater sport
Dilan Ustek

Sep 16, 2016
The Rise and (mostly) Fall of Poland
Kuba Karpierz

Sep 9, 2016
Olives: what are they anyways?
Yasha Pushak

Jul 8, 2016
Gambling in the videogame era
Giovanni Viviani

Jun 24, 2016
A (brief) overview of modernism
Vaden Masrani

Jun 3, 2016
Gentle summary of current AI
Issam Laradji

May 27, 2016
DLL Injection and x86 hooking demystified
Giorgio Gori

May 20, 2016
The History of Ultimate, and other Frisbee games
Sam Creed

Jun 6, 2016
Chess
Julieta Martinez

Apr 22, 2016
7 Years of Grad School at UBC: Some Parting Thoughts
Matthew Brehmer

Apr 15, 2016
Metagaming
Giovanni Viviani

Apr 8, 2016
Caravaggio
Peter Chen

Mar 18, 2016
Grad School - Your Worst Financial Decision Yet
Louie Dinh

Mar 11, 2016
The Pokemon Phenomenon
Sam Creed

Feb 19, 2016
The trip of the Cavaquinho, Ukelele and Keroncong
Joao Cardoso

Feb 12, 2016
Vedic Mathematics
Meghana Venkatswamy

Feb 5, 2016
Film Appreciation Part 1: How to Read a Film
Sampoorna Biswas

Jan 29, 2016
The Origins of Hip-Hop
Jacob Chen

Jan 15, 2016
300th UDLS
Prithu Banerjee, Wali Usmani, Albert Thompson, Prashant Sachdeva, Jason Hartford, Matthew Brehmer, Sam Creed

Jan 8, 2016
Science Fiction
Neil Newman

Dec 4, 2015
Advantageous Disadvantages
Johanna Fulda

Nov 27, 2015
Because 71 genders are not enough
Julieta Martinez

Nov 13, 2015
How Tricks are Tricked
Prithu Banerjee

Nov 6, 2015
Your Kitchen is a First Aid Kit
Sampoorna Biswas

Oct 30, 2015
Stories from Greek Mythologies
Wali Usmani

Oct 23, 2015
Free Will - Why it's an illusion and why that's a good thing
Vaden Masrani

Oct 16, 2015
Landmark Judgments of the Indian Supreme Court
Prashant Sachdeva

Oct 9, 2015
Urban Legends
Sam Creed

Oct 2, 2015
Balkan: A Powder Keg
Marko Gasparic

Sep 18, 2015
The Great Switzerland
Giovanni Viviani

Sep 11, 2015
Social engineering
Neil Newman

Aug 28, 2015
And they died happily ever after
Jolande Fooken

Aug 14, 2015
Western Philosophy
Issam Laradji

Jul 31, 2015
The first pride parade was a riot
Daniel Rozenberg

Jul 10, 2015
Time Travel
Sam Creed

Jun 19, 2015
Roma Caput Mundi, Part 1
Giovanni Viviani

Jun 5, 2015
Sneaky Brain
Johanna Fulda

May 22, 2015
History of Western Architecture
Daniel Rozenberg

May 8, 2015
Ferdinand Magellan and the First Circumnavigation of the World
Sam Creed

Apr 24, 2015
Facts about (human) babies
Nodir Kodirov

Apr 17, 2015
Table-top Game Design
Neil Newman

Apr 10, 2015
Intro to MOBA: DotA 101
Wali Usmani

Mar 27, 2015
What happens when experiments are misplanned: the story of Stanford Prison Experiment
Giovanni Viviani

Mar 20, 2015
Sharpen your pitchforks: Someone’s wrong on the internet!
Jason Hartford

Mar 13, 2015
A Tour of the Nerd Kingdom, Part II
Neil Traft

Feb 13, 2015
Not Just Curry
Prashant Sachdeva

Feb 6, 2015
I Only Understand Train Station
Jolande Fooken

Jan 30, 2015
A Tour of the Nerd Kingdom
Neil Traft

Jan 23, 2015
Esport: A brief history of professional gaming
Giovanni Viviani

Jan 16, 2015
The Simpsons: Best. TV Show. Ever.
Sam Creed

Jan 9, 2015
Migrations in European History
Antoine Ponsard

Nov 28, 2014
Cured and Pickled Fish
Matt Brehmer

Nov 21, 2014
Winter Special — PowerPoint Roulette
Jason Hartford, Prashant Sachdeva, Jolande Fooken, Antoine Ponsard, João Cardoso, Sampoorna Biswas, Nodir Kodirov, Neil Newman

Nov 14, 2014
The Franklin Expedition: A Canadian Myth
Neil Newman

Nov 7, 2014
Storytime: Ramayana
Nayantara Duttachoudhury

Oct 31, 2014
Scary Science
Jason Hartford

Oct 24, 2014
Neil's Roundup of the World's Scariest Robots
Neil Traft

Oct 17, 2014
Curling
Jolande Fooken

Oct 10, 2014
Janteloven — The Very Essence of All Evil
Johanna Fulda

Oct 3, 2014
Are Poor People Stupid?
Antoine Ponsard

Sep 26, 2014
The Old Friends of the Chinese People
Kolya

Sep 19, 2014
From Bean to Cup: A History of Coffee
Michael Firmin

Sep 12, 2014
How your native language shapes your world
Daniel Rozenberg

Sep 5, 2014
Stereotype Canada
Jolande Fooken

Apr 18, 2014
Yogurt
Michael Phan-Ba

Apr 4, 2014
Crazy things a brain can/cannot do
Kailun Zhang

Mar 14, 2014
Mardi Gras in New Orleans
Neil Traft

Feb 28, 2014
Rock Climbing through the Ages
Michael Firmin

Feb 14, 2014
Spring Celebrations around the World
Prashant Sachdeva

Feb 7, 2014
Carrying the Torch
Mike Wu

Jan 31, 2014
It's Chinese New Year
Decedents of the Dragon

Jan 24, 2014
Long Distance Bicycle Trips
Victor Gan

Jan 17, 2014
The Most Badass Quotes in History
Antoine Ponsard

Jan 10, 2014
Space Commercialization and More
Nodir Kodirov

Nov 22, 2013
Dance and Happiness
Prashant Sachdeva

Nov 15, 2013
Stereotype Germany
Jolande Fooken

Nov 8, 2013
Sleep 101
Mike Wu

Nov 1, 2013
Brain Chemistry
Natasha Jaques

Oct 25, 2013
Burmese Copy Tunes
Matt Brehmer

Oct 18, 2013
Space Photography
Mihir Nanavati

Oct 11, 2013
Synthesizers
Peter Beshai

Oct 4, 2013
Li's Field
Zongxu Mu

Sep 20, 2013
Wikileaks
Anurag Ranjan

Sep 13, 2013
Coffee Shops Around Vancouver
Michael Firmin

Sep 6, 2013
Traveling Around the World (As a Student)
Prashant Sachdeva

Apr 12, 2013
How to Hide your Money in the South Pacific
Matt Brehmer

Apr 5, 2013
The Kivu conflict in the eastern Congo—When bad people fight bad people for the wrong reasons and innocent people die
Árni Már Þrastarson

Mar 22, 2013
Transporters, Translators, (FTL) Travel… oh my!
Sara Bainbridge

Mar 15, 2013
Patents!
Sancho McCann

Mar 8, 2013
The Placebo Effect
Matt Gingerich

Mar 1, 2013
Homemade Liqueur and Infusions: The Basics
Jessica Dawson

Feb 8, 2013
Curling: Shuffleboard on Ice
Jillian Slind

Feb 1, 2013
Robotic Sports
Christopher Head

Jan 25, 2013
Team Handball
Árni Már Þrastarson

Jan 18, 2013
Language and Human Nature
Prashant Sachdeva

Jan 11, 2013
Neti Pots and Other Fun Cleansing Techniques
Peter Beshai

Jan 4, 2013
Quaint European Towns (outside of Europe)
Matt Brehmer

Dec 7, 2012
Makers Making Making Machines: The Magical World of DIY CNC
John Harris

Nov 30, 2012
UFOs
Vignesh Sankaranaray

Nov 23, 2012
Future Transportation
Mihir Nanavati

Nov 16, 2012
Drawing Games
Sara Bainbridge

Nov 9, 2012
Baking
Mark Spear

Nov 2, 2012
Sprint Canoe
Diane Tam

Oct 26, 2012
December 21, 2012: The Mayan Apocalypse
Michael Firmin

Oct 12, 2012
Homebrewing
Patrick Colp

Oct 5, 2012
ABCs of Brewing Coffee
alexandru totolici

Sep 28, 2012
Human Pyramids Worldwide
Matt Gingerich

Sep 21, 2012
Board Games
Jill Slind

Sep 14, 2012
The Northern Cities Vowel Shift
Evan Morien

Sep 7, 2012
Vancouver’s Live Music Scene
Matt Brehmer

Jul 6, 2012
Serial Killers: bet ’cha can’t brutally murder just one
Ben Jones

Jun 29, 2012
Urban Gardening 101: Grad Students Edition
Jessica Dawson

Jun 15, 2012
Orienteering
Louise Oram

Jun 8, 2012
“This Will Not End Well”: Dystopian Literature
Matt Brehmer

Jun 1, 2012
25 Years in 25 Minutes
Mihir Nanavati

May 18, 2012
Is Pinterest Legal? US Copyright Law and Fair Use of Digital Works
Sancho McCann

Mar 16, 2012
Coffee Vs. Chocolate Battle Royale: War of the Chemical Stimulants
Mihir Nanavati & Nathan Taylor

Feb 10, 2012
Musical Avant Gardin’ 2: Spectral Boogaloo
Nathan Taylor

Feb 3, 2012
Strength Training for Novices
Sancho McCann

Jan 27, 2012
Molecular Gastronomy
Mihir Nanavati

Dec 9, 2011
Metalheads & Headbangers: 30 mins of Heavy Metal
Suman Mukherjee

Dec 2, 2011
Locksport 101
alexandru totolici

Nov 25, 2011
An Introduction to Contemporary A Cappella
Crawford Doran

Nov 18, 2011
Cricket
Vignesh Sankaranaray

Nov 4, 2011
Vlad Tepes
Matt Brehmer

Oct 28, 2011
Different Ways to Make Stuff
John Harris

Oct 21, 2011
Algorithmic and Computer-Composed Music
Nathan Taylor

Oct 14, 2011
Breakfast Cereals
Ian Dewancker

Oct 7, 2011
Swordplay: Taste of the Renaissance
Mark Spear

Sep 30, 2011
What Is Love?
Ben Humberston

Sep 23, 2011
Rush
Murray Patterson

Sep 16, 2011
Dodgeball 101
Juliette Link

Sep 9, 2011
Aristocrats, Backpackers, CouchSurfers
Ron Maharik

Sep 2, 2011
Famous and Successful Grad School Dropouts
Nathan Taylor

Jul 29, 2011
The Habit-Changing Lecture
Oana Sandu

Jul 22, 2011
The Invisible Armpit: The world’s most bizarre economies
Ron Maharik

Jul 15, 2011
How to build a bicycle, and some other neat stuff about bikes
Evan Morien

Jul 8, 2011
Electromagnetic (and Other Esoteric Means of) Eavesdropping
alexandru totolici

Jun 24, 2011
The Golden Age of Personal Computers: The Apple II
Jeff Sember

Jun 17, 2011
Digital Currencies
Chris Head

Jun 3, 2011
Spiders
Suwen Wang

May 27, 2011
2012 Republican Presidential Candidates
Ben Jones

May 20, 2011
Amateur Economics
Jerome Li

May 13, 2011
Teenage Paranormal Romance Novels
Nathan Taylor

May 6, 2011
Go (the game, not the programming language)
Essex Edwards

Apr 29, 2011
A Random Photographic Journey Through India
Mohan Rajamanickam

Apr 15, 2011
Behind Enemy Lines: Espionage and Covert Operations
Mihir Nanavati

Apr 8, 2011
Light and Color
Mikhail Bessmeltsev

Apr 1, 2011
Mashups
Ben “DJBJ” Jones

Mar 18, 2011
The HeLa Cell Line
Matt Brehmer

Mar 11, 2011
Avalanche Safety: on playing hard and reducing risk in the backcountry
Ron Maharik

Mar 4, 2011
The Loudness Wars
Evan Morien

Feb 25, 2011
Boston, California: The Vancouver Film Industry
Nathan Taylor

Feb 11, 2011
Bounty Hunters
Ben Jones

Feb 4, 2011
Minimal Living
Sancho McCann

Jan 28, 2011
City Planning
Ron Maharik

Jan 21, 2011
Psychoneuroimmunology
Leon French

Jan 14, 2011
Amorality
Nimalan Mahendran

Jan 7, 2011
A History of Hardcore in 30 minutes or Less
Evan Morien

Dec 3, 2010
The Companions of St. Nicholas
Ryan O’Connor

Nov 26, 2010
The Darwin Awards
Mihir Nanavati

Nov 19, 2010
Debunking Death Panels: A Foray into Health Care Systems
Ana Crisan

Nov 12, 2010
Minecraft: Games Without Goals
Nathan Taylor

Nov 5, 2010
A Rough Guide to CBC Radio
Matt Brehmer

Oct 29, 2010
Impress Your Friends with Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic
Leigh-Anne Mathieson

Oct 22, 2010
A UDLS that words cannot describe
Jeff Hendy

Oct 15, 2010
Racing, the Legal Way
John Chia

Oct 8, 2010
Rock Climbing
Simona Radu

Oct 1, 2010
Social Media: Trends & How to make them work for you
Andrej Karpathy

Sep 24, 2010
Ultimate Frisbee
Ben Jones

Sep 17, 2010
Sour Beer: Brewing Beyond Brewer’s Yeast
Ryan O’Connor

Sep 10, 2010
Masterpieces in 4096 bytes: the Demoscene
Nathan Taylor

Aug 27, 2010
0x5f3759df the magic of FastInvSqrt()
Ben Jones

Aug 20, 2010
A Culture of Bricks (A UDLS about Lego)
Matt Brehmer

Aug 13, 2010
TAZE ME BRO!
John Chia

Aug 6, 2010
The Undersea Internet Backbone
Ron Maharik

Jul 30, 2010
Starcraft craze: the funny, the interesting, and the disturbing
Andrej Karpathy

Jul 23, 2010
What happened in Toronto and why it matters?
Masrour Zoghi

Jul 9, 2010
Memes
Ben Jones

Jun 25, 2010
FIFA
Nick Wiebe

Jun 11, 2010
An Early History of Rails and Things That Run On Rails
Matthew Dockrey

Jun 4, 2010
The Constitutional Context and Ramifications of the Afghan Detainee Scandal
Masrour Zoghi

May 28, 2010
Canadian Forces
Sancho McCann

May 21, 2010
Unironically Terrible Artists
Nathan Taylor

May 14, 2010
Fractals
Andrej Karpathy

May 7, 2010
Napoleon
Mihir Nanavati

Apr 30, 2010
The Voyages of Captain Cook
Ron Maharik

Apr 23, 2010
Tool Assisted Speedruns
Ben Jones

Apr 9, 2010
How to Not Kill Fish: the Saltwater Aquarium Hobbyist
Cody Brown

Mar 26, 2010
Sailplanes
Sancho McCann

Mar 19, 2010
Coffee
Tom Hazelton

Mar 12, 2010
A Curious History of Medicinal Cannibalism
Matt Brehmer

Mar 5, 2010
Snow Monkeys, Onsen, and Other Fun Things
Valerie Ishida

Feb 5, 2010
The History of Westerns
Nathan Taylor

Jan 29, 2010
Synthesizers
Landon Boyd

Jan 22, 2010
Aussie Rules Football
Patrick Colp

Jan 15, 2010
The Cricket
Srujan Kumar

Jan 8, 2010
Baseball
Ben Jones

Dec 4, 2009
The Longboarding
Nimalan Mahendran

Nov 27, 2009
An introduction to Vancouver Craft Beer
Ryan O’Connor

Nov 20, 2009
The Fangirl Obsession with Girly Men
Ana Crisan

Nov 13, 2009
Language Isolates
Evan Morien

Nov 6, 2009
Evolutionary Psychology
Elan Dubrofsky

Oct 23, 2009
Genealogy
Mary Muir

Oct 16, 2009
Lindy Hop
Oana Sandu

Oct 9, 2009
Dubstep
Sancho McCann

Oct 2, 2009
Limited Speed Motorcycles
Tom Hazelton

Sep 25, 2009
Haiti
Michael Welsman-Dinelle

Sep 18, 2009
Sailing Part Deux
Doug Bateman

Sep 11, 2009
A Random History of Mining (and thus the industrial revolution)
Matthew Dockrey

Sep 4, 2009
Tea
Valerie Ishida

Aug 21, 2009
Nothing!
Allan Rempel

Aug 7, 2009
Weightlifting
Ian South-Dickinson

Jul 24, 2009
Those crazy Dictators
Kevin Swersky

Jul 17, 2009
Fundamentalism
Nick Wiebe

Jul 10, 2009
How to Appreciate Modern Architecture
Michael Welsman-Dinelle

Jul 3, 2009
Heuristics for Cognition
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Conspiracy Theories
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Spring Framework for Java
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Jun 12, 2009
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Mixed Martial Arts
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May 8, 2009
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Alternative Medicine
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Apr 3, 2009
Japanese Dating Sim Games
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Mar 27, 2009
Road Cycling
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Mar 20, 2009
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Mar 6, 2009
Finding a Supervisor Help Session
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Mayan Glyphs
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Mass Transit
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Psycho-Accoustics
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Jan 23, 2009
Things Every Human Who Lives on Earth Should Know
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Jan 16, 2009
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Nov 21, 2008
Pareidolia: One way our Brains Eff with Us
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Canadian Politics
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Oct 24, 2008
Lessons from the Life of Richard Nixon
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Oct 17, 2008
Brasília
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Oct 10, 2008
US Election Update
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Oct 3, 2008
Popular French Culture 101
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Go’in Sailing
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The Art of Shaving
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Sep 12, 2008
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The History of Clockmaking
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Jul 25, 2008
Bollywood
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Jul 18, 2008
Arizona
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Logic Puzzle & Games
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Jun 27, 2008
Discourses Upon “Discourses Upon Livy” (and also Livy)
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Jun 20, 2008
The Global Food Supply
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Jun 13, 2008
Thoughts on the use of Analogies in Understanding and Solving Complex Problems, Muthafuckaz
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Jun 6, 2008
Cognitive Dissonance
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May 30, 2008
Fermi’s Paradox
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May 23, 2008
Baby Seals
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May 16, 2008
Psychological Disorders
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May 9, 2008
Electro-acoustic Music and other WTFs
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Apr 25, 2008
A cross-country tour of Canadian music
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Apr 11, 2008
Vimy Ridge
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Apr 4, 2008
What everyone should know about teaching others
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Mar 29, 2008
Chinese Philosophy
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Mar 14, 2008
Wikipedia (rerun)
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Mar 7, 2008
The Stock Market
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Feb 29, 2008
Navigation Techniques That Don’t Rely on General Relativity: How We Got Around Before GPS
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Feb 15, 2008
The World Bank
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Feb 8, 2008
(Not necessarily) Great Philosophers
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Feb 1, 2008
Mario Made Me Do It: Violence and Video-games
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Jan 25, 2008
The U.S. Supreme Court
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Nov 23, 2007
Ancient History of Russia (IX-XV centuries)
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Nov 16, 2007
.NET Orientation For Academics
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Nov 9, 2007
Processed Foods and Food Processing
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Nov 2, 2007
Beer 101
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Oct 26, 2007
2008 US Presidential Election
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Oct 19, 2007
Logical Fallacies 101
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Oct 12, 2007
Archaeolmetallurgy
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Oct 5, 2007
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Sep 28, 2007
A Review of Linear Algebra
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Sep 21, 2007
Our Victorian Now
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Sep 14, 2007
A History of Vancouver
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Jul 27, 2007
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Jul 20, 2007
Wikipedia
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Jul 6, 2007
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Jun 22, 2007
The Pacific Theatre of WW2
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Jun 8, 2007
Brain-Computer Interfaces
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Jun 1, 2007
The ABCs of the Bible
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May 25, 2007
Clouds
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May 18, 2007
Signal Compression and JPEG
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May 11, 2007
Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence
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Apr 20, 2007
Slipping the Surly Bonds
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Apr 13, 2007
Human Nature and its Consequences
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Apr 5, 2007
Top Super-models of Computer Graphics
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Mar 30, 2007
Proportional-Derivative-Integral (PID) Control
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Mar 23, 2007
A Brief History of Cryptography
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Mar 16, 2007
Eigenvalues in a Nutshell
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Mar 9, 2007
SMART Goals and Feedback (Project Management)
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Feb 16, 2007
Peer-to-peer Systems
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Feb 9, 2007
OS Mélange
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Feb 2, 2007
C Code and the Art of Obfuscation
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Jan 26, 2007
Probability Theory
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Jan 19, 2007
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