According to the Oxford Canadian Dictionary, a meteor is "a small body of matter from outer space that becomes incandescent as a result of friction with the earth's atmosphere and is visible as a streak of light," and a Leonid is "any meteor that seems to radiate from the direction of the constellation." The Leonid meteor shower that took place this week typically originated from the clouds of dust and other material left behind from a comet known as Tempel-Tuttle. It is best known for its 33-year peaks, during which hundreds of meteors per hour can be observed. The last of these peaks were seen in 2001. Read more... (0 comments)

There are times when being a perfectionist is damaging. It's most of the time, actually. Very few things actually need to be perfect. But most of the time, “perfect” is inferior to “good enough.” Read more... (0 comments)

Personally, I'm more of a loner than I appear. On a bad week, it takes conscious effort to follow a conversation instead of huddling in a corner with a book, and if someone calls my phone when I'm in the middle of a page, they can forget about reaching me. But if my boyfriend comes into the room, I drop the book to the floor and charge at him with a bear hug, babbling about my day — my usual introversive persona tucked away, all because he is my personal drug dealer. For three years he has been fuelling my dopamine addiction, and he never fails to deliver butterflies to my stomach when he walks into the room. Read more... (2 comments)

The success of the NASA's Lunar Crater Observing and Sensing Satellite mission, conducted on October 9, was announced by the U.S. space agency on Friday, November 13, through the confirmation of presence of water on lunar surface. One rocket slammed into the Cabeus crater near the moon's southern pole shepherded by a second spacecraft equipped with cameras to record the following data. After analyzing the data from the debris plume with both infrared and ultraviolet spectrographic measurements, the existence of significant amount of water was substantiated. Based on the calculations from the measurements, scientists estimated the amount of recovered water at 100 kilograms which is roughly equivalent to 22 gallons. Even though this discovery of water doesn't refer to moon being as wet as earth, it opens up potential opportunities for the future space missions. Read more... (2 comments)

Have you ever wondered how great it would be to take a spring break right in the middle of the term? Well I just did! It all started with my sister deciding to get married on Halloween, no she isn't one of those crazy devil worshipper people, from where I come from, Halloween does not exist. Read more... (2 comments)