February 29. A day that appears every four years – that 0.25 in the 365.25 day orbital period of the Earth. What’s so special about it? Admittedly, there isn’t much to the day aside from its relative rarity in occurrence.
This is one of the coolest advertising campaigns I’ve seen in a while. Watch the CCTV footage closely as our subject suspiciously traverses a TV store before a twist at the end forces him to make a break for it.
A physicist from Ottawa has recently used lasers to generate large sets of random numbers. According to the Montreal Gazette, Ben Sussman is a physicist who works on quantum technologies at the National Research Council.
Did you know that making a difference in our city doesn’t take a massive act of kindness but can be the smallest or simplest of things? I didn’t fully realize this either until I heard about Mayor Nenshi’s Three Things for Calgary initiative. Basically, you pick three things that you would like to do…
Justin Bieber is one of the most polarizing celebrities in the entertainment industry today. On one hand, you have the screaming fan girls for whom the Biebz can do no wrong. On the other hand, however, are the majority of teenagers that ostracize him, or the adults who don’t have a clue on who he…
It’s the back-to-school season once again! Want to impress your peers, teachers, and even family with your knowledge of the world? Here are some interesting and, well… rather unusual facts from National Geographic: “It takes 713 gallons (2,700 L) of water to make one cotton T-shirt.” It’s hard to imagine how much water that is,…
Here is a cool picture I found on StumbleUpon; have fun trying to find Wall-E, took me a while! 🙂
So lately you may have read other blogs on Facebook: the little things about Facebook (click here to read), and how to have the best Facebook picture (click here to read). Well, I’m willing to bet that quite a number of Facebook users are addicted to the social networking site. There are many ways you…
Contemporary Art. Being a lover of ancient Mediterranean art (mainly the ancient Egyptians and of the ancient Greeks), my visit to the Musee d’art contemporain in Montreal, Quebec can be boiled down to one word: bizarre.
[youtube NsEdOSYf9x8] I recently came across this video while browsing around on Yahoo! What’s happening is truly remarkable – a mirage of a city is being seen across the Xin’an river from the city of Huanshan, in China. So while we may be seeing reflections of the sky as puddles of water on the ground,…
When it comes to me ordering a drink from Starbucks, the menu might as well be written in Greek. Honestly, when people order, I always think to myself – “you want a tall, non-fat, no foam, whipped cream topped, caramel drizzled what?” – and the barista doesn’t even bat an eyelash. The other day, I…
How I love spontaneous and lively inspirations of imaginations =) Please enjoy the following clip of random stillness. [youtube jwMj3PJDxuo]
So I assume many of us know the story of the Little Engine that Could. “I think I can, I think I can!” It delivers the importance of optimism, perseverance and steadfastness. But how many of us would have known that such a story could be scientifically related? I certainly would not correlate science and…
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If you are right handed, you will tend to chew your food on your right side. If you are left handed, you will tend to chew your food on your left side. If you stop getting thirsty, you need to drink more water. When a human body is dehydrated, its thirst mechanism shuts off. Chewing…