Useful UBC links

• Vancouver: 2007/2008 #84 BUS SCHEDULE (pdf)
• www.aquatics.ubc.ca
• BirdCoop Fitness Center
• Enterprise Systems Portal
• International Student Handbook for 2004/05
• UBC VNP set up documents
• Student Recreation Center
• Student Service Centre

Academic Writing

• Conjunctions
• Guide to grammar and writing
• Sentence Combining Skills
• The academic ladder
• The academic writing club
• The science of scientific writing (american scientist 78:550-8) | Gopen&Swann.pdf
• Transition between ideas

Airlines

• Aircanada
• American Airlines
• Continental Airlines
• Delta Airlines
• Gol
• KLM
• Northwest
• Southwest
• Tam
• Varig Airlines
• Westjet

Airports

• Berlin Airports
• Boston Logan International Airport
• Greater Rochester International Airport
• List of Airports
• Seattle-Tacoma International Airport
• Toronto Pearson International Airport
• Vancouver International Airport

Banks

• Banco do Brasil
• Bank of America
• Bank of Montreal
• Caixa
• Chase
• CIBC

Bookstores

• www.amazon.ca
• www.amazon.com
• Barnes & Noble.com
• www.chapters.ca

Canada

• Immigration and citizenship
• Get a permanent resident card
• Apply for, renew or replace a PR card — About the process
• Correct a mistake on your PR card

Cell Phone Messages

• FIDO
• VIVO

Currency exchange rates

• Investing.com - CAD/EUR chart
• Investing.com - EUR/CAD chart
• Investing.com - CAD/USD chart
• Investing.com - USD/CAD chart
• Investing.com - BRL/CAD chart
• Investing.com - CAD/BRL chart
• Investing.com - BRL/USD chart
• Investing.com - USD/BRL chart
• Investing.com - EUR/USD chart
• Investing.com - USD/EUR chart
• PACIFIC EXCHANGE RATE SERVICE

Dictionaries

• English dictionaries:

  • Cambridge Dictionaries Online
  • Collins English Dictionary
  • Dictionary.com
  • English to Portuguese Dictionary
  • Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary
  • Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  • Reverso dictionary
  • The Century Dictionary
  • Thesaurus.com

• German dictionaries:

  • Collins English-German Dictionary
  • LEO online German dictionary

• Portuguese dictionaries:

  • Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa On-Line
  • Dicio Dicionário Online de Português

• Web translation tools:

  • Babel Fish Translation - Altavista
  • Google Translate

Ebooks (online)

• The Assayer
• Project Gutemberg
• The Universal Digital Library
• www.literaturepage.com
• www.quotationspage.com

Education

• A star is made
• MIT's OpenCourseWare
• TED - Ideas worth spreading
• www.academicearth.org
• www.fqxi.org
• Khan Academy

Enciclopedias

• Wikipedia
• www.wolfram.com

English schools in Vancouver

• TAMWOOD International College

Entertainment

• Piled Higher and Deeper - phd comics
• Rotten Tomatoes

Friend finders

• www.facebook.com
• www.gazzag.com
• www.hi5.com
• msn - hotmail
• www.okcupid.com
• www.orkut.com
• www.tagged.com
• www.411.ca

Health

• Computer Vision Syndrome
• Eyestrain solutions

  Corona virus (COVID-19)

  • World Health Organization (WHO)
  • Worldometers.info - Corona Virus
  • Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases Map by the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University (JHU)
  • Canada Public Health Services - COVID-19

  Psychology

  • www.verywellmind.com
  • The Dunning-Kruger Effect by Kendra Cherry on verywellmind.com

Institutions of interest

• Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy - UTB

Interview questions

• For Openers: Five Traditional Interview Questions and Their Interpretations
• Hard interview questions
• Motivation - Interview Questions
• techInterview
• Questions with Excellent Sample Responses
• The Tough Interview Questions

Learning

• Do you wanna learn?
• Study Guides and Strategies
• Study Skills Self-help Information
• Three Conditions for Learning
• TLC Teaching Tips
• UT learning center - handouts
• Farnam Street - Mental Models

Linux

• The Linux Documentation Project
• YoLinux: Linux tutorials and information portal
• About debian Linux
• About debian Linux: network

Maps

• Google maps
• www.mapquest.com

Math

• William Lowell Putnam Mathematics Competition Directory
• desmos calculator and web graph utility

Message Passing Interface (MPI)

• MPI Exercise
• mpitutorial.com
• John Burkardt's MPI examples
• HPC Colorado School of Mines - MPI examples
• Using MPI and Using Advanced MPI

News

• BBC
• CNN
• Correioweb
• Folha de S. Paulo
• noticias.terra.com.br
• poplink.com.br
• refdesk.com
• slashdot.org
• technologyreview.com
• Vancouversun
• Reuters

Rental posters

• amsrentsline
• http://vancouver.craigslist.org

Science

• Don't Become a Scientist! by Jonathan I. Katz

Swimming

• FINA - World Records

Time and date affairs

• timeanddate.com
• timeanddate.com/calendar
• epochconverter.com: Epoch & Unix Timestamp Conversion Tools
• Weltzeit.de

Weather

• Anapolis
• Berlin
• Brasilia
• Brownsville
• Houston
• Frankfurt
• Montreal
• New York City, New York
• Ottawa
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rochester, New York
• Sao Paulo
• Toronto
• Vancouver
• Victoria
• Whistler

Weather wunderground

• Berlin
• Brasília
• Frankfurt
• London, UK
• Montreal
• New York City
• Potsdam
• Philadelphia, PA
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rochester, NY
• Rome
• São Paulo
• Toronto
• Vancouver
• Washington, DC

Weblogs

• physics blog
• Juliana's blog
• rebecca's pocket
• www.schneier.com - security weblog

Photos

Old homepage (for phys410 course)

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