In Canada, there are around 70,000 children who are home-schooled. But why do some parents choose to teach their children at home, rather than expose them to the public school system? After all, home-schooling can be exhausting for the parents, and activities easily at hand in school like music programs and sports are much less…
Have you ever tried to bike in downtown Calgary? Let me tell you, it’s not a fun experience. Narrow streets, parked cars in one lane, impatient drivers in the other; and those are the least of your worries with the various construction projects that seem to be a rather permanent fixture in the core. No…
Last month I had the opportunity to attend the Shad Valley program at the University of Waterloo. I learned a lot of exciting things, and what’s called Technology Art or Interactive Art was one of them. I met Professor Rob Gorbet, who teaches at the University of Waterloo and also has a practice in interactive…
In case you didn’t know, the “Big Apple” refers to NYC. Over the last few days I was fortunate to be vacationing at New York and I thought I’d share some of the photos I took. A view of the city. Can you spot the Empire State building? The Brooklyn Bridge connects Manhattan…
Today’s video of the day features a dancing man in a lion suit, a dancing man in a safari suit, and a dancing woman in a nurse outfit. Yeah… just watch Thanks to Ben for showing this to us!