The environmentalism movement is currently experiencing an injection of perhaps well-needed popularity. Celebrities who own multiple homes that could each comfortably house the inhabitants of small villages, and who regularly circumnavigate the globe in private jets that have a maximum capacity of seven, routinely remind us to do such environmentally responsible things as turn the lights off when leaving a room lest we become wasteful. Manufacturers of products ranging from toilet cleaners to sport utility vehicles advertise their wares as being earth- friendly by arbitrarily adding prefixes like “eco”, “bio”, or “green” to product names in hopes of capitalizing on…
in which, with respect to our name, we are as confused as you are
By Kaston Leung
Kaston Leung is a graduate student in the Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the University of British Columbia currently doing his best to masquerade as a biologist. He dreams of one day formulating a satisfactory scientific explanation that will elucidate the mechanism by which Megatron is able to become so much bigger when transforming from a gun into a robot. When not busy trying to build microfluidic systems to solve biological problems, he enjoys eating bacon, drumming in Latin rock cover bands, and wishes that UBC was located in Whistler.