Just found this today. There’s a science get together in Vancouver that sounds like it’s modeled on the Philosopher’s Cafe events they run through Simon Fraser University. It’s 7:30 pm tonight at Steamworks (brewpub), 375 Water St., Harbourview Room and it features three scientists giving  a somewhat eclectic mix of presentations ranging from Pathogenomics, to climate changes, to DNA Nanotechnology. The last one sounds a little bogus to me. It smacks of someone in the biotech field deciding to rebrand their work as nanotechnology in the wake of the anti-GM (‘frankenfood’) movement.  I will go see for myself and report on it tomorrow. The Vancouver Cafe Scientific folks have a site here but there are more details for this event here.

Yesterday, I mentioned my wiki project, which is called The Nanotech Mysteries: an initiation into the science and the technology. It’s my dissertation project (MA at De Montfort University, UK) and I’ve been gathering information for about 1/1/2 years now and writing papers and even presenting them all in preparation for my wiki. I put up a prototype for workshop review a few months ago and Sunday I created the project wik at PBWiki.com but I’m running into some problems. I sure they hope resolve them soon or I’m going somewhere else. (I created the wiki in their 1.0 version and then, under the impression that it would be easy to accomplish,  asked to move it to their 2.0 version. I’m still waiting for a reply. Fingers crossed that they can do this in a timely fashion. So I can have something happening there soon.

Couple things regarding Bratsa Bonifacho and his street banners. I got a few things wrong. The banners are going to be all over Vancouver and not just on Cambie St. and it was the 24 Hours newspaper and not Metro News which claimed the banners on Cambie St. were in support of anti-homophobic rally. For anyone interested in a better image (than the jpeg I have here) of the work appearing on the banners you can go to Bratsa’s website here. Just click on a Habitat Pixel (the collection he used as the basis for  the banners)  image for a closer view. Although, you should see one of the paintings…if you get a chance. A digital image just doesn’t convey the texture of the work, how he builds layers, cuts into them, and the more subtle use of colour. (He’s represented by the Bau-Xi Gallery on south Granville St., Vancouver.)