My name is Bo wen Wen. I am in Grade 12 of Sir Winston Churchill High School. I hope you enjoy my blogs.

Practical Disasters – Ep. 2

Since the holidays are just around the corner, a lot of people are spending time participating in ice-related activities, like ice-skating and ice-fishing, etc.  It is important for you to know how to survive if you are unfortunate enough to fall into the water down below ice. There are plenty of ways you can fall into an icey lake…

Practical Disasters – Ep. 1

“Practical Disasters” are disasters that have happened in the past, and may happen in the future.  Obviously, I am not talking about a scenario like in the movie 2012.  These are the disasters that people can survive, or at least try to.  In this series of “Practical Disasters,” I will give you some tips of…

Uncyclopedia – The Encyclopedia that Humors You

Uncyclopedia is an encyclopedia full of misinformation and utter lies.  You might say it puts the “psych!” in “encyclopedia”.  It’s sort of like Congress or Parliament, but unlike Congress or Parliament, we do have a sense of humor. I ran into this encyclopedia kinda by mistake.  Fortunately enough, the subject I was reading off from…

WATCH OUT!

Industrial development has brought us many benefits such as cheaper products and new products, and has created a market that is filled with various types of products.  To prevent consumers from being hurt by products with harmful substances, food products are inspected by the Food and Drug Administration in the US, and the Canadian Food…

The Lost Cities

Living in a modern city everyday, it’s hard for us to imagine a city that is lost from human touch.  It’s time that we appreciate the past glory and history of the lost cities. There are legends and ruins of dozens of lost cities around the world.  The following 5 are the most historically significant…

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…

How you feel about Mind Manipulation?

Reading someone’s mind can be quite an intuitive task for people.  We are trained for all our lives to read the face of people around us to get to know how they feel. Back in September, at a TEDtalk conference, scientist Rebecca Saxe talked about the possibility of manipulating someone’s choices by sending electrical pulse to a…

Paintball Pop Art.

Do you think that paintball is just a game where everyone shoots each other with fake bullets that make your clothes dirty? Well, my friend, let me tell you, it is much more than just that. It is about teamwork, and what can teamwork brings you? ART! Don’t believe that people can make messy paintball…

BIG…Can you visualize it?

When an object gets way too big, we start to lose the meaning of its size.  It is easy to imagine how big a city is, maybe possible to comprehend the vastness of earth, or even for some, the giant-like sun.  Of course, these are the objects we see or interact with everyday; we have…

Stop Motion, A New Oxymoron

Well, “the silence whistles” kinda makes sense, but isn’t stop motion just plain ridiculous?  Things cannot stop and move at the same time. Well, in the world of stop motion films or movies, that can happen. What is Stop Motion? Simply put, it is an animation techniques also known as stop-action or frame-by-frame during which…

Just Like Us, Monkeys know Cooperation and Fairness…

Do you know that monkeys know how to cooperate and being fair? Don’t think so?, check out the video below: [youtube aAFQ5kUHPkY] A pair of capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) show very compelling signs of cooperation and a sense of fairness, by working together to solve a problem using tools, and then sharing the reward. They…

Earth is GROWING and EXPANDING!!!

Were you taught that the movement of land mass of lithosphere on earth is due to moving tectonic plates? Well, the tectonic plates theory propose that there are eight major plates and many minor plates and these plates move in three basic ways: Divergent, Convergent and Transforming. Divergent boundaries is the expansion between plates, convergent…

Top 10 Superfoods (for Kids)

Everyone knows a balanced diet is essential to one’s health. Do not let the title fool you, kids’ foods are the best tasting food, so the following list of nutritious yet delicious food is what you need for an active  and healthy life: Beef (made in Alberta): protein and B vitamins, niacin, zinc and iron,…