Wireless Power: Old Idea, New Technology

Wires are great, they served us for centuries, bringing useful electricity to us everyday; however, imagine that you have a printer, an external hard drive, a lamp, a set of speaker, a cell phone charger and a computer system in your bedroom, and they are all connected via wires.  You know when you need to…

Get Your Christmas List Out!

There was Make It on the first weekend of November, and Fairly Traded Market Day coming up on the last, well, how about something in-between?  Behold, The Art Market!  With over 200 professional artisans involved with this event, it’s no wonder why this is one of Calgary’s ‘premier art and craft sales’. So get a…

Man’s Best Friends

Pets may not be with us everywhere we go, but they are an important of our lives.  Whether it is a cat, a dog, a lizard, or a fish, pets keep us company and give us a friend we can always count on to be there in our times of need.  Okay, maybe a fish…

What goes around, comes around.

I am a junior facilitator with the Minds in Motion All Girls [science] Club and volunteer each Saturday at the U of C and help with their activities.  So far this fall, we have created aliens, Saturn-mobiles, discussed the science of zombies and eaten candy. 😀 This past weekend, we went to the TELUS World of Science along…