The Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) has designated the first week of May as Mental Health Week. The goal of this yearly event is “to encourage people from all walks of life to learn, talk, reflect and engage with others on all issues relating to mental health.” In support of this cause, I am dedicating…
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When Entertainment Meets Science
Last week I talked about a scientist who took his work and connected it with something fun. This week I’m going to turn it around and feature a Toronto high school student who took something fun and connected it with science. Mathew Ho and his friend Asad Muhammad caught the attention of media worldwide when…
When Science Meets Entertainment
The theme for this year’s TEDx Waterloo was DIS CONNECTED. The conference was split into three sessions, each based on a variation of this theme: CONNECTED DIS CIPLINES explored interdependence and entanglement between various branches of learning CONNECTED DIS COVERY encouraged us to see the world differently CONNECTED DIS COURSE focused on the many ways…
The Man Who Walked Around the World
Before I attended TEDx Waterloo, I was perusing the list of speakers hoping to find a familiar name or two. For a moment, I thought I was going to hear former hockey star Jean Béliveau, but it turned out to be someone else with the same name. Although also from la belle province, this Jean…
Who’s doing what with your information?
On March 1, 2012, Google introduced a new Privacy Policy to replace the policies they previously had in place for their many different products. If you’re a registered user, you probably received an email notifying you of the change. If you’re like me, you probably gave it a cursory read and then deleted it. My…
Overnight Success Story: Taylor Jones
As promised, today I’m beginning my series of posts featuring the highlights of last week’s successful TEDx Waterloo event. At 22 years of age, Taylor Jones was one of the youngest speakers there. He introduced himself as a recent college graduate with no noteworthy accomplishments or ambitions, sharing the fact that he’d applied to attend…
Do You Know TED?
A few people told me about TED, but being overwhelmed by the wealth of information that passes my radar on a daily basis, I’d never taken the time to check it out. I’ve since learned that TED is a non-profit organization established as a conference in 1984, and that thousands of independently organized TEDx events…
February 2012 in Review
The word of the month was: Although it’s been around since 2010, this virtual pinboarding site completely escaped my notice until late last year. Even then, I paid it little attention until earlier this year when it suddenly moved to the forefront. All at once it seemed that my Facebook news feed was filled with…
January 2012 in Review
Can you believe we’re already one-twelfth of the way through 2012? For me, the year started off quietly, then picked up very quickly about midway through the month. As planned, I’ve been devoting more time to finding great content and sharing it on Twitter. I’ve discovered the Buffer app which allows me to spread my…
A New Chapter for a New Year
It’s customary for many of us, as the year draws to a close, to examine our lives and identify the areas we would like to change. Sometimes we even decide to cut back on activities we enjoy in order to make time and energy for other things. I started writing From the Desk of Janet…
