By now, most grade 12 students have already received decisions from the universities that they have applied to. The long wait extending from the moment when you first clicked that submit button until now is finally over, and yet, a new problem arises: which of the schools that has offered you admission should you register at? To…
Unlike most modern television interviews where the interviewer presents questions that coincide with points that the interviewee wishes to address, this interview demonstrates anything but cooperative questioning. Although slightly long, as soon as the video starts running and you’re absorbed into the heated debate between renowned physicist Brian Greene and Mathematics Professor Amir Aczel. I guarantee you will…
As I approach the middle of my last semester in High School, the reality of leaving high school has finally began to hit me. For many of us High School Seniors, the end of Grade 12 marks the end of our times living at home, the separation of friends whom you’ve known since as far…
It’s almost the middle of March, and student’s are finding themselves buried in the mountain of tests and assignments that never fails to show up just before Spring Break. It is therefore perfectly understandable that as high school students, there is probably nothing that you would want more that than to throw away your pens and…
Travelling closer to the earth than numerous satellites and any other asteroids of the same size, Asteroid 2012 DA14 safely passed by the earth on February 15 without any point of contact. Despite, the early and accurate prediction of NASA scientists regarding the lack of threat that 2012 DA14 posted, the event still served…
Iran’s first successful attempt at sending an animal 75 miles into space and safely returning to earth. Interestingly, if you look closely enough, you will notice that the photos of the pre-launch monkey does not entirely match the photos of the post-flight monkey (the pre-launch monkey had a mole over its right eye, while the post-flight monkey did not). Iran…
It’s 7 pm and you’re enjoying you dinner when the phone rings. You read “California” on your phone’s caller ID and decide that it must be yet another telemarketer but you pick up the phone anyways. With your thumb ready on the “hang-up” dial, you mumble a quick greeting to the other end in expectancy for the usual…
This past summer I had the phenomenal opportunity of attending the Heritage Youth Researcher Summer Program offered by Alberta Innovates – Health Solutions. Working under Dr. Careem in the department of Ecosystem and Public Health at the University f Calgary, I experienced first-handedly both the physical and mental aspects of health research. As opposed to the…
It would appear that nowadays, modern science has taken on a much more greater significance in the minds of the public, mainly due to the recent surge in media exposures of the bizarre discoveries that physcists have made over the past century. Unfortunately, media sources vary greatly in their abilities to explain underlying scientific discoveries and far too often…
For the first few weeks of July, I had the amazing opportunity to experience the Between Friends Summer Camp! project through Youth Central’s Youth Volunteer Corps.
Looking for an event to show-off your artistic talents? A Place Called WordsWorth Writing Collective (APCWW) is here to satisfy your desires with the presentation of APCWW Open Mic Night! The event gathers both youths and adults together for an exquiste evening of music, spoken word and visual art under the soothing housing of The House…
Found this while scrolling through FB the other day. As an IB student, I found this to be extremely amusing. For all of you who can’t remember the definition for ionic bonds, just remember this awesome picture for your next chemistry test!
Looking for a productive and fun way to spend summer this year? The University of Alberta offers its W.I.S.E.S.T. (Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science, and Technology) Summer Research program. This program exposes Grade 11 students to first-hand research experience at the University of Alberta as paid research assistants, and although the title of the program fails to mention…
Despite all the prospects of having another habitable planet like the Earth in sci-fi movies, little support for the prospect from the scientific community has arisen in the past few decades. That is, until Dec 5, 2011 when NASA announced the presence of an Earth-like planet located 600 lightyears away that orbits a sun-like star…
For all of us piano players out there, we are all aware of the grueling Bach Prelude & Fugues, or the ever repetitive Czerny exercises. These, of course, are not bad pieces as they are absolutely crucial for your development in the fundamental skills of piano, but every once in a while, we all need…