Quick and dirty: poster design

During the spring break, I was charged with the daunting task of creating a poster for the school play, Dorothy Meets Alice. I was stumped. How do you create something that is both aesthetically pleasing, and will get your message across? I spent a lot of time researching effective poster design and general art composition,…

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The Wonders of the Science Fair

                Truly, for the first few years of grade school, science was my worst, detested and most hated subject. Despite the primitive learning, with gigs of excitement like classroom demonstration, explosions and goo, I truly did not understand how science was interesting. That was before I met the…

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Video of the Day: A Heated Interview with Brian Greene

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…

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Summer Drinks!

It’s getting so hot lately! I’m going all out and making lemonade and slushies and if you hope to beat the heat, do the same… Okay, to make a slushie you will need Kool – Aid, I use Ice Blue Raspberry or Lemonade Flavor A tray of ice A blender Once all these have been collected,…

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Is Calgary a city worth living in?

In Moneysense’s Best Places to Live in Canada 2013, Canadians saw a surprising revelation – Calgary topped the list. For both the best large city and best overall city, Calgary was first. Moneysense arrived at this conclusion using numerous factors, including unemployment, crime, and weather. After seeing Ottawa take the top spot for the last…

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Is this the best blog post ever?

Looking at the title of this blog post, I may have lead some of you astray. If this post was really the “best” then I wouldn’t have titled it in a questioning manner. Rather, I would have come out confidently and titled this post “The Best Blog Post Ever”. The fact that I wasn’t too…

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Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

  I love baking, and there’s nothing greater than the feeling of perfecting a classic recipe. Okay, so maybe this recipe isn’t exactly perfected, but by experiment, it’s the closest I’ve gotten so far.   For this recipe, you’ll need: – 2 1/2 cups all purpose flour – 1 teaspoon baking soda – 1/2 teaspoon…

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