Stories from Edith Coates at The Ubyssey

The Dingbat: UBC researchers create 25-hour day just in time for midterm season

Edith Coates — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 19:22:00 +0000

File Iyanu Owolab

“Of course, assigning the students less work is simply out of the question,” the group continued, “which means our only recourse is to extend the solar day by one hour.”

Here's how to send your nudes securely

Edith Coates — Fri, 12 Feb 2021 19:48:12 +0000

Joshua Mattson

Unfortunately, communication over the internet is insecure. If you’re going to send nudes to someone, how can you do it securely?

Twelve Days of Completely Secular Yuletide: Pottersville is a bizarre mess that wants you to think it’s a quirky holiday movie

Edith Coates — Wed, 16 Dec 2020 20:32:37 +0000

Echo Bridge

The plot, of course, has no possible analysis other than seeing it as the product of a twisted mind — screenwriter Daniel Meyer’s, to be exact.

Excuses for when you don’t want to go to a virtual group project meeting

Edith Coates — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 18:17:44 +0000

File Joshua Medicoff

It’s not like they can prove that their email/text/etc. didn’t go to your spam folder.

Noisy, nosey and nurturing: An analysis of Vancouver's non-emergency line during COVID-19

Edith Coates and Myla White — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 04:38:38 +0000

Arrthy Thayaparan

The Ubyssey analyzed the content data on the city’s non-emergency phone line to catch a glimpse of how things on a municipal level have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Strings attached: A study on the effect gender has on writing conventions… if there is any

Edith Coates — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 03:01:55 +0000

This whole issue being on the topic of gender and performance made me curious about peoples’ writing. Do we ‘perform’ our genders every time we sit down at the keyboard? In other words, could there be any signs in a person’s writing of what gender they are?

The best tasting snow on campus

Edith Coates — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 23:46:22 +0000

File The Ubyssey

*The Ubyssey wishes to remind everyone that snow with any sign of discolouration is unfit for human consumption.

Decade in review: A TRIUMF-ant decade

Edith Coates — Thu, 12 Dec 2019 01:29:52 +0000

File James Vogl

When Pierre Trudeau commissioned a type of particle accelerator called a cyclotron for the centre in 1976, the then-prime minister quipped: “I don’t really know what a cyclotron is, but I am certainly very happy Canada has one.”

There. I said it. Racket isn’t a real programming language

Edith Coates — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 22:32:07 +0000

File The Ubyssey

You may be asking yourself what Racket is. I see you haven’t taken CPSC 110, as this so-called ‘language’ is found almost nowhere else.

Grieving as a community: Trans and gender-diverse UBC students on Trans Day of Remembrance

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 22:54:35 +0000

Elizabeth Wang

Death is a heavy topic that all of us would rather not think about. So how do we celebrate a day dedicated to remembering violence and death in our community? For many, Trans Day of Remembrance is solemn day. A day to think on the friends and family they have lost, the ways the system has let us down.