Looking for a way to make your social class a little more entertaining? I present to you: Historical Tweets. With the ability to browse by time period, there’s an image to spice up every project. But if you’re looking for an escape from all things school-related, there are plenty of pop-culture mockeries as well. My…
Everyone likes to have fun, right? If we make something fun, will we change what we do for the better? Volkswagen took this little theory and decided to test it out. They installed piano stairs at the exit of a subway station at Odenplan in Stockholm, Sweden, and after observing for one day, 66% more people…
These days, it’s more common for schools to teach their students how to analyze or interpret literature than it is for them to teach students proper grammar and punctuation. While my thoughts on that could fill a whole other post, take a look at this “website” to see rogue quotation marks and nonsensical quotes. Maybe our grammar is…
Good news everyone for those who are with Telus and Bell as their cellphones carriers! Your time to have an iPhone has come! That’s right, iPhones are not just for Rogers customers anymore. Take that Rogers/Fido! It has been confirmed that both Telus and Bell will be rolling out the new iPhone 3GS on November…
There is a lot going on in the world these days. From economic depression, to terrorist attacks, war, Sarah Palin and more, our news channels are plagued with so many examples of human horror and insanity that we often avoid those dreaded stations – opting, instead, for some memories of childhood on YTV, learning about…
From Spiderman to Superman we have all dreamt of having our own mind blowing superpowers. Sadly we cannot all be like Clark Kent, so for now we can only continue to dream and watch X-Men DVD’s. But for one man, he has gotten pretty close to this reality. Say hello to ‘The Invisible Man’. Who…
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…
For those of us looking at post-secondary education, there are a great many things to be considered about each campus: the size, the architecture, residence, the cafeteria, and of course, proximity to mom. But what many of us may not have been thinking about previously is the sustainability of a campus. The College Sustainability Report…
Missed the new episode of House, or just looking for some time to kill with quality entertainment? Well you may have not of known, but you can now watch your favourite television programs right here on the internet – legally of course! Some good places to start are with the television networks themselves, such as…
News stories these days have been getting crazier and crazier. First a man jumping into the lion cage, now a runaway boy making an escape in a balloon? Falcon Heene was reported to the police by his parents, because they thought he had been on-board a homemade helium balloon that was left untethered and blew away.…
Ever wanted to make a poster without the paper? Or make something completely your own to share with others? Or maybe just a visual aid for a presentation? Try making a Glog! Glogster is a revolutionary way of expressing your mood, feelings and ideas, and it goes miles beyond text or video! Creating a Glog lets you express…
Remember six-word memoirs? Well, I have something that’s the complete opposite of it: NaNoWriMo! Now, I have no idea how you would pronounce that in its shortened form, but it stands for National Novel Writing Month. The point of it? To write a novel that’s 50 000 words long…in just one month! (Crazy? Maybe. Fun?…
Sleeping can cause a lot of stress for teens these days. Sometimes you go to bed, but you’re so stressed about getting your ever important “8-10 hours of sleep every day” that you can’t even get to sleep. Sometimes you get the right amount of slumber time, but you’re groggy and tired feeling in the…
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…