(Or rather, To Read Before Summer-Ends-And-My-Free-Time-Dies-of-IB) Now that you’ve made a Summer Bucket List, it’s time to ̶w̶i̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶m̶o̶n̶e̶y̶ ̶s̶o̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶c̶h̶e̶c̶k̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶m̶ ̶o̶f̶f̶!̶ make a summer reading list! Although, really, those are the same thing. Doesn’t matter if you’re not an avid reader – flipped through a magazine? Studying for the SAT? Reading this…
Glowing Water is an illuminating body with glass diffuser containing a mixture of water, soap and bleach. This mixture refracts the light allowing it a wider diffusion, even if you were to substitute the light bulb with a candle. The project was born after considering the lighting needs of developing countries, where electricity is often absent.…
Last Friday night (cue Katy Perry’s song), I had an awesome time exploring 12 Ave and 2 St; there were tons of food trucks lined up, and I decided to try the Holy Crepe food truck. Among 20-some other food trucks, this 4-month old truck has a sweet twist on the thin pancake. Tasting Chef…
Today, I set out to review one of the Montreal-inspired food trucks that have come out to feed hungry Calgarians. The Red Wagon Diner Food Truck, with it’s shiny red exterior and familiar “red wagon” image, was spotted outside the Shaw Building at 6 St and 3 Ave SW. The menu had been enticing me…
Studying for the SAT? Well here’s a comprehensive list of paramount vocabulary to proliferate your SAT erudition. Have fun! Loquacius (adj) – very talkative Acumen (noun) – shrewdness Disseminate (verb) – to scatter widely Perspicacious (adj) – shrewd; clear-sighted Abstruse (adj) – difficult to understand Callous (adj) – unfeeling Reticent (adj) – inclined to keep silent; reserved Castigate (verb) –…
Mad Men is a TV series that is set in the 1960s at an ad agency on Madison Avenue in New York city. If you don’t watch the show then I seriously recommend that you start (it’s on Netflix!) but you can still enjoy some of these amazing shots by photographer James Minchin III. You can…
Watch this kid wake up from being under anesthetic.
Alice in Wonderland has been definitely one of my favourite stories of all time. Now, I know Japan has some pretty amazing stuff – but this… this is beyond amazing! The designers Eiichi Maruyama and Katsunori Suzuki were able to recreate Lewis Carroll’s renowned work into a real world restaurant/cafe (unfortunately, it is in Japan!) Here is the pictorial evidence……
So how ’bout that: a crescent moon-shaped building designed for a library, restaurant, cafés, conference rooms, and an observational platform. Is it waste of space?
Hunger Games (Parody of Grenade)
In 1997, Cassini was launched into far ends of the universe to discover distant planets, like Saturn. No one knew if it will work the way it was intended. The fuel, signal control, interference from other celestial bodies… there are so many things that could have gone wrong. Cassini reached Saturn in 2002 and it has…
Harry Potter is just one of those characters that never get old. So when I ran into this video, I instantly fell in love with it and was absolutely speechless. Enjoy!
If you can muster up half an hour to watch Kony 2012, then surely you can give up 19 minutes of your life to watch this video. Dr. Seth Shostak is confident that we will be able to detect extraterrestrial life within the next two dozen years. There is a lot of mathematically data that…
From the excited faces and camaraderie at the St. Patty’s Fun Day, it’s hard to imagine that three years ago such an event wouldn’t have happened at Discovering Choices School.
