This weekend marked the glorious entry into December. A part from marking the beginning of your Michael Buble Christmas album rampage, December can also mean a time for giving. As Technology Editor for YAA, I will be doing four editions of the top five presents for the lovely technology geeks in your life. The four…
By random chance, I happened to come across this video called “Top Ten Single Digit Numbers.” At first, I was a little confused, but the video is about exactly what the title says. Two fun little puppets discuss which numbers are the best from 0-9. Possibly the worst top 10 list ever? Maybe. But it’s…
Illusions trick us into perceiving something differently than it actually exists, so what we see does not correspond to physical reality. Hence, the word illusion comes from the Latin verb illudere meaning, “to mock.” Some illusions show us one thing in a picture, while someone else sees something entirely different in the same picture. Overall illusions…
When I get bored, I often find myself Googling random things to pass time or to temporarily entertain myself. A little while ago, I looked up “things to do when you’re bored.” After scrolling through a few sites and not finding anything even relatively interesting, I stumbled upon “474 Things to Do When You’re Bored.”…
If you like science, teamwork, web designing, or even just an experience to change your life, you should join FIRST. FIRST stands for For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology. In their words, their “mission is to show students of every age that science, technology, and problem-solving are not only fun and rewarding, but…
Sometimes it can feel good to remind oneself how good we have it, and it can’t be humorous! When I got the book “My Grandma follows me on Twitter”, I wanted to share my favorite First World Problems (slightly altered so they make sense for our generation!)! Since Marc and Craig Kielburger are brothers dedicated to…
Introducing a fairly new and innovative technology: the virtual keyboard. From the photographs, it looks very interesting. A small, compact device projects a keyboard on a flat surface that is touch-sensitive. This keyboard is a helpful tool in typing and can reduce the agony in typing on a tiny phony screen or an uncomfortable tablet…
There is the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad. Now, there’s the iKnife. No, it doesn’t have apps and games and music on it, but it does so much more than that. It identifies cancer cells. When removing cancer, surgeons try to cut as precisely as possible: not too much should be out, but there…
Do you like caputuring the moment with panorama shots? Well now you can capture the moment completely. By completely, I mean 360 degrees. Photo fanatics or the like may have a fan girl moment when they hear about Panono. Panono is a “throwable panoramic ball camera, which captures everything in every direction for amazing 72…
For those who have pre-ordered a PS4 or Xbox One, good for you! If you’re the impatient type of gamer who wants to get on the ball for everything, then I can’t really stop you. If you are the type of person who likes to get new things, but doesn’t really play a game enough…
I’m slowly becoming a die-hard Adventure Time fan and am loving the show more and more with each episode. If You haven’t seen the show yet, here’s a brief synopsis: Adventure Time follows the lives of two best friends, Finn the human and Jake the dog, as they travel through the Land of Ooo, a…
Life might be smooth sailing, or in the rough waters right now, but there is always time to stop and take a second to realize the wonderful and quirky things that go on in our world. YouTube is a well-known and favourite mechanism used for procrastinating, and today I have decided to share one of…
“To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson The power of photography is limitless. It is worth more than a thousand words; more than an anecdote. It can convince you…
Here are a list of things I love about people. Random acts of kindness. I love when people are nice for no reason. Because sometimes a smile or a hug can change somebody’s day and even their life. Especially when you’re having a bad day, someone doing something nice for you can just make your…
Imagine yourself sitting in front of your computer, lamenting about the lab that’s about to be due tomorrow, or possibly about that 10 page essay you’ve been dreading to even look at for most of the week. As you feel your resolve slowly crumbling, you also find that your cursor is making its way to…