By Megan Wang What do you think are some of the most popular drinks in the world? After water, the top two most popular beverages are coffee and tea. As an avid coffee and tea drinker, I find that these two drinks vary wildly in terms of taste. However, the one thing they do have […]
How To Improve Memory
What is memory? Studying for school would be much easier if we had photographic or even exceptionally reliable memory. Sometimes I can study for hours and when the test day arrives, I can barely remember anything. The good news is it’s possible to improve your memory significantly. It just requires a couple of extra steps. Firstly, where are memories stored? They reside in the hippocampus, which is in the brain’s temporal lobe. The different categories of memory are semantic, episodic, or procedural. For instance, some memories, such […]
The Blue Whale’s Cancer Secret
Cancer is a disease that arises when your body makes mistakes during cell division. Several mutations in strategic genes of your DNA can cause cells to go berserk, dividing uncontrollably and forming a tumor. Our bodies have defense systems in place to track and eliminate cancer cells, but the odds are really stacked up against […]
The puzzling world of ciphers
By Megan Wang As someone who loves brainteasers, logic puzzles have always appealed to me. At our most recent FSL session, we had the pleasure to learn about ciphers and try to crack some of our own! We looked at Caesar ciphers (more on that later), but there is still a wide variety of ciphers […]
Daylight Savings – You Lose More Than Time
by Lauren Tam About a week ago, I wrote an essay and found an example that talked about the negative side of daylight savings. I made sure to write it down for this specific blog post. While I was researching, I found out that it was just in time for daylight savings! This year, daylight […]
How Space Effects the Human Body
By: Davan Mulligan Travelling beyond our planet has been a dream for many people for generations. We may be ready for this fantasy to become a reality, but are our bodies ready? For 50 years, NASA’s Human Research Program has studied the effect space travel has on the human body… and the findings may be […]
The Immortal Creature Among Us
Angels, vampires, and fairies are just a few things we think of whenever the word “immortal” comes up. These creatures live forever, yet they are also always labeled under the ‘fiction’ category. At this point, our idea of immortality, or living forever, also correlates to ‘make-believe’ and fabricated animals. However, an accidental discovery in the […]
Teleportation: Fiction or Our Future?
By: Anthony Dinglasan During the 1960’s, Star Trek made history by simulating teleportation on the small screen. As a result, several TV shows and movies have copied the iconic ‘transporter’ into their own mediums. Fortunately, inspiration did not limit itself to fiction. For instance, in 1993, IBM scientist Charles H. Bennett proposed that teleportation is […]
The Apple of my Pi
If I could name my favourite number, it would be pi or π. It is irrational. I mean, not irrational like my sister, but because it is a decimal that goes on forever and cannot be expressed as a fraction. It is also transcendental. That is not some yogi term. A transcendental number is a […]
Are Impossible Burgers Safe?
Traditionally, meat alternatives taste and feel like vegetables but in recent years, companies have turned their attention to making meat out of vegetables that taste exactly like meat. Namely two companies have been leading the charge: Beyond Meat and Impossible Foods. These two companies have both achieved widespread retail success as many supermarkets and restaurants […]