Connection between fighting and NHL player deaths

Derek Boogaard was recruited to the NHL mainly to be an enforcer. After having a record of fighting over 180 times in the Junior Hockey League, he continued this trend as he entered into the big leagues where in his 277 NHL career games he scored a total of three goals and accumulated 589 penalty minutes.…

Website of the Day: CollegeHumor

Today, I will show you some of my favorite videos of a website that many of you probably already know. CollegeHumor is a website that focuses on originally created and humorous content. It was first started as an advertising company by two high school buddies, Josh Abramson and Ricky Van Veen. What I really like…

Give your time this Christmas!

‘Tis the season of giving. As a member of my school’s Interact Club (affiliated with Rotary International and Youth Central‘s Youth Volunteer Corps), I was able to give my time at an Inn from the Cold event on a Friday night. During Calgary’s notorious snowstorms is when I feel most fortunate to have the life…

What NOT to do on an exam

We’ve all had moments when we were stuck on a question on a quiz or exam. Hoping the answer will hit you like lightning, you continue to stare intensely and longingly at the question that if the teacher were to see you, they would think you were trying to burn a hole through the page.…

Flickr – Fairytale

Today, I just wanted to feature Flickr member rosiehardy’s Flickr Stream called “Behind the Scenes – Fairytales (What REALLY went on with those characters behind closed doors!)”. She has found an amazing way photograph her own recreation of scenes from popular fairy-tales and link each picture to an important statistic or fact about a real crisis in our world.  For…