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I was just thinking, literally 2 minutes ago.. (well, by the time you read this, it could have been hours, days, months, years, lightyears.. you get it) about the voices of generations. First, let's define the generations, but starting after baby boomers because the majority of them are unable to cause much change in the world anymore ..old age, amirite? Generation X, which ranges from the beginning of the '60s to the start of the '80s. Basically, this is last generation of "The American Dream", mostly because this generation kind of messed that up. What they also did was fail to look forward enough to see the problems their predecessors were causing. And I don't really blame them, since the world was way different back then. Think about the '70s and '80s, or at least what you know of from movies and stories. These were the ones who basically had it easy since the world had just finished killing each other. Also, there were actually jobs available af...

Education is something I feel strongly about. And I think most people should. We spend 16 of the first 20 years (give or take) of our lives in schools and sure, we learn things, but extremely slowly. Should we consider a change? My cousin once mentioned that a toddler first discovering the world absorbs so much information at a rate that they will never achieve again throughout the remainder of their life. I find that outstanding. We grow up in a new world, with unlimited communication possibilities and access to almost anything you'll ever need to know. And that access is increasing at incredible rates! We went from libraries, to computers to internet on a wrist watch in 50 years. So why are we still educating our youth the same way as we did 50 years ago? This is such a huge concern and yes, I see it slowly changing. Now I'm not talking about asking us to use a computer to type essays, or even research essays. For example, I'm finally in classes where we use Excel a...

I don't really have a topic for this post. So I'm just going to write a little about whatever pops into my head. I've been faced with a disputative situation here living in an on-campus apartment. And I have to say, the staff I am communicating with is handling this extremely poorly, which is only furthering my cause. Here's my story. About 4 months ago, my apartment was given a noise complaint. First of all, the situation in giving the citation was handled terribly by the residence department representatives, thus leading to us formally appealing the complaint, which is allowed in the rules. After meeting with some staff and discussing my concerns, we appealed the infraction following their procedures. By the time the appeal was sent, exam time was around the corner and after a follow-up by yours truly, we were notified that all appeals would be dealt with after the holiday break. No problem. Shortly after, the first red flag then popped up. Money for the i...

Answer: Not yet. Thanks for reading! Oh... you want more of an explanation? I figured as much. So you're in the market for a new car, or maybe you just want to be part of the change for a better environment? You find yourself at a local car dealer and the salesman is trying to sell you a brand new... Nissan Leaf. You think to yourself, "Why would I want a go-kart like that? It's tiny and barley has any power. I want a car I can have some fun in, drive around longer than 170 km!" (I actually looked that up, you're welcome). Well, hold your horse..power.. get it? I know, horrible joke, why do I even try. Why do people think electric cars aren't great? Is it the range? Tell me when you drive further than 170 km unless you're travelling out of town? Is it power? Tell me when you need a car that has over 150 horse power (answer is never in case you were wondering). Even brand new cars like corollas and civics don't have 150 hp. The ...

In the last post, I talked about what the Sun was. A giant nuclear fusion reactor. And since it is so good at being the Sun, it not only provides heat to our Earth, but also light. Lots of light. Hopefully, this isn't news to you (yikes!). Light is an interesting thing we very much take for granted. Look around, there is light in the room you're in, light coming from the screen you're reading this on (unless you're psycho and still print things..) and light from outside. Even at night! The light from the moon, isn't really light from the moon, but a reflection of light from the Sun. Did I just blow your mind? Probably not.. I guess I'm failing as a writer. There is a lot of light available, and all that light also carries energy, rather, it is energy. In reality, the light from your phone screen doesn't really have the potential to power anything, neither does a light bulb. But think about how many light bulbs it would take to equal the amount of light t...

It's been far too long and that is unfortunate. It's been pretty busy hear at school, learning and such. Oh! You're here now to learn as well? I actually knew that, and you're in luck, because as promised, today's topic is NUCLEAR FUSION. YESSSSSSSSSS. So, you may have been under the influence that nuclear fission (discussed last post) and fusion were one in the same, and well, you'd be, completely wrong. But don't fret, you're here to learn the difference, the benefits, and small complication, that is holding us as humans back from unlimited and clean energy. Nuclear Fusion. You may have inferred that I am pretty hyped to talk about this, and it's great timing because a German team of scientists have just taken one big step to achieving fusion. So first of all, what is it? What's the difference to fission? Well fusion as you may have assumed from the word, gets its massive energy by fusing, or combining to elements (like hydrogen) togethe...

It's a bird, it's a plane, NO, it's a NUKE.......lear power plant? As you may have read, my last mini-series of posts were based on climate change. If you didn't see them, go check them out now! I'll wait... *Waiting...* Great! They were pretty awesome, I know. In this next series of posts, I want to focus on energy. We need to reduce carbon emissions but still need more energy than ever before due to a rapid growing population. So what are our options? A lot of you probably have heard of or already understand how renewable energy works. Great! But I want to go through some of the common technologies for renewable energy, how they work (for the unaware) and discuss their importance on our future, from my point of view. Let's get started! As you may have guessed from the opener, which I may have somewhat borrowed from a famous comic book, the first post of the series is nuclear power. OHH MY GOODNESS NOT NUKES! THOSE ARE DANGEROUS! Well, let's see ...