Arthur Benjamin Does "Mathemagic"
In a lively show, mathemagician Arthur Benjamin races a team of calculators to figure out 3-digit squares, solves another massive mental equation and guesses a few birthdays. How does he do it?
He'll tell you.
Nick d'Aloisio, Summly Creator, Sells App to Yahoo at Age 17
One of Britian's youngest Internet entrepreneurs has hit the jackpot after selling his top-selling mobile application to search giant Yahoo.
Shining A Light on Schizophrenia
Lesley and David Skelly open up about losing their son to suicide, and the help they received with their son's schizophrenia diagnosis.
Academy in School Mental Health
The Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health will be hosting their 4th annual Academy in School Mental Health in Halifax, NS on July 8-9th. The Academy provides education's with the opportunity to learn a variety of tools and techniques focused on teen mental health. The goal is to provide educators with an arsenal of tools, information and techniques that they can use with their students, in the classroom and feel empowered to teach their students about mental health.
Something somewhere is waiting to be known...
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Incredible Advertisement Commercial
From India and sponsored by Lifebuoy. Social marketing at its best. Cool music.
TEDxManitiba - Micheal Champagne: Oppression to Opportunity
Micheal Redhead Champagne is a 24 year old Cree born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg. By night, Michael organizes AYO! (Aboriginal Youth Opportunities) - a youth-led anti-gang organization committed to breaking stereotypes and creating opportunities in the community and by day he is all about advocacy.
What Your Facebook Likes Reveal Could be a Privacy Nightmare
Clicking those friendly blue "like" buttons strewn across the Web may be doing more than marking you asa fan of Coca-Cola or Lady Gaga. It could out you as gay, reveal how you vote and even suggest that you're an unmarried introvert with a high IQ and a weakness for nicotine. That's the conclusion of a study published last week by the national Academy of Sciences that analyzed 58 000 American Facebook users.
Tavi Gevinson: A Teen Just Trying to Figure it Out!
Fifteen year old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models - so she built a space where they could find each other. At TedxTeen, she illustrates how the conversations on sites like Rookie, her wildly popular web magazine for and by teen girls, are putting a new, unapologetically uncertain and richly complex face on modern feminism.
Study: Children of Divorce More Likely to Become Smokers
Out of 19 000 adults, the odds of having smoked 100 or more cigarettes increased by 48 and 39% for sons and daughters, respectively, of separated or divorced parents. Read full article.
Why Twenty Somethings Aren't Doomed to be Poor (But thirty Somethings Might Be)
Find out why today's twenty and thirty somethings may never end up as rich and financially secure as their parents.
Watch Without Laughing!
Jeff Gordon and Pepsi MAX go to a car dealership where a disguised Jeff Gordon takes an unsuspecting car salesman on the test drive of his life.
From India and sponsored by Lifebuoy. Social marketing at its best. Cool music.
TEDxManitiba - Micheal Champagne: Oppression to Opportunity
Micheal Redhead Champagne is a 24 year old Cree born and raised in the North End of Winnipeg. By night, Michael organizes AYO! (Aboriginal Youth Opportunities) - a youth-led anti-gang organization committed to breaking stereotypes and creating opportunities in the community and by day he is all about advocacy.
What Your Facebook Likes Reveal Could be a Privacy Nightmare
Clicking those friendly blue "like" buttons strewn across the Web may be doing more than marking you asa fan of Coca-Cola or Lady Gaga. It could out you as gay, reveal how you vote and even suggest that you're an unmarried introvert with a high IQ and a weakness for nicotine. That's the conclusion of a study published last week by the national Academy of Sciences that analyzed 58 000 American Facebook users.
Tavi Gevinson: A Teen Just Trying to Figure it Out!
Fifteen year old Tavi Gevinson had a hard time finding strong female, teenage role models - so she built a space where they could find each other. At TedxTeen, she illustrates how the conversations on sites like Rookie, her wildly popular web magazine for and by teen girls, are putting a new, unapologetically uncertain and richly complex face on modern feminism.
Study: Children of Divorce More Likely to Become Smokers
Out of 19 000 adults, the odds of having smoked 100 or more cigarettes increased by 48 and 39% for sons and daughters, respectively, of separated or divorced parents. Read full article.
Why Twenty Somethings Aren't Doomed to be Poor (But thirty Somethings Might Be)
Find out why today's twenty and thirty somethings may never end up as rich and financially secure as their parents.
Watch Without Laughing!
Jeff Gordon and Pepsi MAX go to a car dealership where a disguised Jeff Gordon takes an unsuspecting car salesman on the test drive of his life.
Monday, March 11, 2013
To This Day
Canadian Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and ... different. "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video (created, crowd-source style, by 80 animators) and here he is at TED. It's a wonderful, haunting reprise.
Hacking Schooling Make Me Happy
When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal.
A Simple Matter of Balance
Zen like...for those planning a second career! Watch video.
New Research Finds at Least 3.000 confirmed Indian Residential School Deaths
At least 3,000 children, including four under the age of 10 found huddled together in frozen embrace, are now known to have died during attendance at Canada's Indian residential schools, according to new unpublished research.
Take The Youth Market Away From The Tobacco Industry
There are renewed calls for the provincial government to ban the sale of flavoured products to young people, after newly-released statistics show two-thirds of Alberta's youth tobaccol users are using flavoured products. For more:
Youth Entrepreneurship
Canada is investing in youth entrepreneurship after the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Employment identified that youth enter the marketplace at three times the rate of entrepreneurs over 45. Additionally, a third of Canada's youth-owned enterprises are located in Ontario. Full article.
9.2% of Children Have Experienced an Adverse Event in Paediatric Care
In the just released "Canadian Paediatric Adverse Events Study", researchers found that the overall rate of adverse events in children hospitalized in Canada is 9.2%. This research was carried out to identify the potential risks to children in hospitals and to inform efforts to make paediatric health care safer.
14 Year-old girl Shocks Judges
An amazing voice!
Canadian Shane Koyczan puts his finger on the pulse of what it's like to be young and ... different. "To This Day," his spoken-word poem about bullying, captivated millions as a viral video (created, crowd-source style, by 80 animators) and here he is at TED. It's a wonderful, haunting reprise.
Hacking Schooling Make Me Happy
When 13 year-old Logan LaPlante grows up, he wants to be happy and healthy. He discusses how hacking his education is helping him achieve this goal.
A Simple Matter of Balance
Zen like...for those planning a second career! Watch video.
New Research Finds at Least 3.000 confirmed Indian Residential School Deaths
At least 3,000 children, including four under the age of 10 found huddled together in frozen embrace, are now known to have died during attendance at Canada's Indian residential schools, according to new unpublished research.
Take The Youth Market Away From The Tobacco Industry
There are renewed calls for the provincial government to ban the sale of flavoured products to young people, after newly-released statistics show two-thirds of Alberta's youth tobaccol users are using flavoured products. For more:
Youth Entrepreneurship
Canada is investing in youth entrepreneurship after the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Employment identified that youth enter the marketplace at three times the rate of entrepreneurs over 45. Additionally, a third of Canada's youth-owned enterprises are located in Ontario. Full article.
9.2% of Children Have Experienced an Adverse Event in Paediatric Care
In the just released "Canadian Paediatric Adverse Events Study", researchers found that the overall rate of adverse events in children hospitalized in Canada is 9.2%. This research was carried out to identify the potential risks to children in hospitals and to inform efforts to make paediatric health care safer.
14 Year-old girl Shocks Judges
An amazing voice!
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Introducing "Generation Why,' must-reads for Canadian Youth
Generation Why is a new CBC sponsored weekly interactive magazine curated by young Canadians for young Canadians and it's very cool. Read the Inaugural Copy.
What We Lose When Kids Can't Play In Their Own Streets
This is the point we have come to in much of the developed world: The freedom for a child to walk out the door and skip rope or play catch is something that has to be scheduled, organized and officially permitted. This is an excellent article and video from The Atlantic.
A Boy, A Dog and A Puddle
You have to love this....
Coding: What Schools Don't Teach
Some of the biggest names in tech and Hollywood have joined forces in a new video for Code.org a non-profit focused on computer programming education, to encourage students to take coding classes.
Proof There Are Still good Kids Out There
Sometimes making someone's day is an easy and decent thing to do. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
Retirees Set To Outnumber Canada's Youth For the First Time
At some point this year, the number of 15 to 24 year olds will slip below the number of 55 - 64 year olds for the first time, according to Statscan demography division. That represents a major symbolic threshold for a society just beginning the slide from a demographic golden age.
TED Grand Prize: Building a School in the Cloud
Will there be a time when children don't have to go to school? Sugata Mitra talks about a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other - using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Fascinating!
Heartwarming
Man spots teen walking 10 miles for a job interview and offers him a job. Watch here:
Generation Why is a new CBC sponsored weekly interactive magazine curated by young Canadians for young Canadians and it's very cool. Read the Inaugural Copy.
What We Lose When Kids Can't Play In Their Own Streets
This is the point we have come to in much of the developed world: The freedom for a child to walk out the door and skip rope or play catch is something that has to be scheduled, organized and officially permitted. This is an excellent article and video from The Atlantic.
A Boy, A Dog and A Puddle
You have to love this....
Coding: What Schools Don't Teach
Some of the biggest names in tech and Hollywood have joined forces in a new video for Code.org a non-profit focused on computer programming education, to encourage students to take coding classes.
Proof There Are Still good Kids Out There
Sometimes making someone's day is an easy and decent thing to do. Guaranteed to put a smile on your face.
Retirees Set To Outnumber Canada's Youth For the First Time
At some point this year, the number of 15 to 24 year olds will slip below the number of 55 - 64 year olds for the first time, according to Statscan demography division. That represents a major symbolic threshold for a society just beginning the slide from a demographic golden age.
TED Grand Prize: Building a School in the Cloud
Will there be a time when children don't have to go to school? Sugata Mitra talks about a learning lab in India, where children can explore and learn from each other - using resources and mentoring from the cloud. Fascinating!
Heartwarming
Man spots teen walking 10 miles for a job interview and offers him a job. Watch here:
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