Tuesday March 10th, 2015 – 1pm – Tech Spotlight
Posted Mar 10, 2015 12:37:01 PM.
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1:00 PM – LetterKenny
CraveTV has commissioned its first original Canadian series. The six-part, half-hour comedy “Letterkenny” was created by “19-2” star Jared Keeso, who will also star. It’s based on Keeso’s Internet venture “Letterkenny Problems,” a five-part series of shorts that has garnered millions of views. Like the online version, the show will centre on a country boy named Wayne and his life on the farm in Letterkenny, Ont. Keeso, from Listowel and will also executive produce and write, while Nathan Dales plays Wayne’s sidekick, Daryl. Production begins in northern Ontario this summer.
1:15 PM – Build a Butt
Cheryl Shoemaker, Regional Colorectal Screening Coordinator, Integrated Cancer Screening Team, Waterloo Wellington Regional Cancer Program
The Build a Butt Contest is Back – and it’s all for Colorectal Cancer Screening Awareness. We spoke to actor/comedian Neil Crone yesterday about the importance of screening – and now there’s a fun way to raise awareness. Waterloo Wellington residents are invited to use their imagination and creativity, they can “build a butt” out of any material – for example snow, clay, cake etc. – take a photo, and add a compelling story related to the impact of cancer or the importance of screening. Three $500 gift cards will be awarded for the following categories:
1) Most Facebook ‘likes’ on the Build a Butt Contest Page
2) Most compelling story (describing the impact of cancer, or cancer screening)
3) Most creative butt
The contest deadline for submissions is March 19, 2015, and can be sent to screeningcontest@wrh.on.ca
1:30 PM – TECH SPOTLIGHT
Gord Pennycook, co-lead author of the study, and a PhD candidate in the Department of Psychology, University of Waterloo.
Our smartphones help us find a phone number quickly, provide us with instant directions and recommend restaurants, but new research indicates that this convenience at our fingertips is making it easy for us to avoid thinking for ourselves. The study, from researchers at the University of Waterloo and published in the journal Computers in Human Behavior, suggests that smartphone users who are intuitive thinkers – more prone to relying on gut feelings and instincts when making decisions – frequently use their device’s search engine rather than their own brainpower. Smartphones allow them to be even lazier than they would otherwise be. In contrast, analytical thinkers second-guess themselves and analyze a problem in a more logical sort of way. Highly intelligent people are more analytical and less intuitive when solving problems.
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