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Friday, March 4, 2011Volume 2, Issue 4

Editor: Connor TurlandDesign Aid: Ryley Kornel

IT’S HERE.

The first ever Knowledge Integration eXhibition, KI-X! Your favourite third-year cohort has been sweating away the last seven months to create this object-based learning experience to share with the entire Waterloo community. Touring the exhibits, you will learn why robots may make you feel uncomfortable. Explore forms of peaceful protest and how you might get involved. Learn how limitations in math-ematical tools led to the development of new ones. Understand the impact of a concussion, and learn about other neurological phenome-na like dreams, or why some people see letters and numbers in colour. Discover how archaeologists determine the purpose of an unknown object, and have a chance to try it out yourself.

East Campus Hall @ University of Waterloo Art Gallery (uwag)

March 14 12-4pmMarch 15 12-7pmMarch 16 12-6pm

Learn In 3

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“Like” us on Facebook: KI-X 2011Website: kix.uwaterloo.ca ||Follow us on twitter: @KIX2011 ||

End of ESS Nominations

TuesdayMarch 8th

5:00pm

@Coffeeshop

ESS Exec 2011-2012 elections

Pancake Breakfast

Wednesday March 9th10:30-1:00

@Coffeeshop

Shrove 2sday: Fundraising

KI eXhibition

March 14: 12-4pm15: 12-7pm16: 12-6pm

@ECH UW Art Gallery

ESS Elections

March 21-22

@Coffeeshop

How To [ ]

Saturday March 19

1-5 pm

KISS Event

This Week: * Knowledge Integration eXhibition * Requests from Erudito * Go Green Challenge * Announcing: KISS Connections Committee *

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. They’re artifacts specific to a transitional

shift in the cultural paradigm. I see this shift as both necessary and

desirable, and it’s gaining traction every second. With the flourishing

of open-source technology, with the groundswell for change in Egypt,

with online and offl

ine peer-to-peer technologies, it’s gaining traction. And w

ith every utterance of localization and resilience, it’s gaining traction.

Ponder this if you will:

Looking back through humanity’s existence w

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ans would

undergo a drastic change in consciousness and behaviour. The deci-

sion (or necessity) to settle down and grow

food changed every-thing. Th

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anufacturing in the 1800’s changed everything again.

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hen the internet was first invented,

and its also possible that they’ve taken it for granted now. Mean-

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invention of the internet as the spark for the largest scale paradig-m

atic revolution in the history of humanity (so far)?

It would seem

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ay be key to our survival through these challenging tim

es that we’re in, and that face us.

This is w

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Hello Fellow

Integrators of Know

ledge!

I recently had the fantastical opportunity to participate of in a real life interdisciplinary team

project. My team

consisted of Melissa G

errard, a studier of Environm

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Rahem

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D FEF G

o Green

Challenge. Th

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ability at your school and make a video describing your innovative w

ay of tackling it. M

y group decided to bring the issues back a step or two

to get to the real root of the problem: people. W

e realized we had to

make sustainability a hum

an centered issue; you can give people all the recycling bins in the w

orld but to truly spark change we have to change

the way people think about the environm

ent. To do this we m

ust start by getting people back in touch w

ith nature; that is our solution. We w

ould increase green spaces on cam

pus giving people more opportunity to get

outside and enjoy nature.W

e submitted our video but now

we need your help. Th

e “People’s C

hoice” portion of the competition just opened and w

ill continue until M

arch 11, so we need you to go online, w

atch our video, then, if you like the idea, vote for it and tell all your friends about it!!! Th

e voting is one vote per em

ail, and after you vote check your email for the confirm

ation em

ail, click on the link and CO

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Here is the w

eb address for our video:http://w

ww.tdgogreenchallenge.com

/video/id/67/playid/67 And the Facebook event w

e created:V

OT

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Go G

reen Challenge!

Feel free pass this link along to anyone else who m

ay be interested in sup-porting our youth initiative!

Thanks so m

uch for your support!

Go Green Cha

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CROSSWORD

1. Small country in its first-ever national emergency (2 words)

2. Best song by the Mamas and the Papas (2 words)

4. 100 years of _____ (Marquez)

5. Gaga actually took a sample of her own for her new perfume

6. This band released a new album over reading week with a week’s notice

12. _______ Mr Fox

13. Justin Bieber movie Never Say ______

14. Platform on which KISS Intel’s webpage is hosted

16. This space shuttle is taking its final flight

20. iTunes plugin that posts your listening stats online

22. Head couturier of this luxury brand suspended for a catfight

24. Nickname for the award show that happened on the 27th

3. Upcoming theme party inspired by this holiday (3 words)

7. This music festival is branching out to Chile in April

8. Useless character who just returned to the Shore house (on the 24th)

9. I love it when you call me big ____ (BIG song)

10. Twitter account where you can follow the 3rd year exhibits

11. Canned foods can be high in this

15. It’s getting hot in ______

17. Terminator movies are confusing because of too much ___ ____

18. Building where KIX 2011 will be held

19. University of Iowa is getting blasted for selling a painting by this artist

21. Lucy in the Sky with Gadhafi

23. The guy who discovered Justin Bieber has a weird name

HELP? IM TRYING TO BUILD A NEW INTERNET THATS NOT SUBJECTIVE TO THE PROBLEMS WITH THIS ONE. AT OPTIMAL SPEED IT WILL BE GOING FASTER THAN LIGHT AND PRBLY DIREECTLLY BRAIN TO BRAIN! THIS IS (VERY IMPORTANT) NOT IDENTICALITY TO TELEPATHY?!?! JUST THINK OF THE BENEFITS TO THIS INTERWEBS AND THINK OF HOW MANY LOLCATS DANCING ON DOUBLE RAINBOWS YOU CAN LOLROFL AT IN ONE MINUTE! I WILL BE HOLDING A CONFERENCE IN THE E5 OVERPASS FOR ALL PEOPLES AND LOLCATS INTERESTED IN CREATING A NEW STANDARD SET OF PHYSICS LAWS AS WE WILL HAVE TO OBSOLETE THE OLD ONES FIRST. IF THERES NO DAY THAT YOU’RE FREE WE CAN FORM AN EIGHTTH ONE TOO WHILE WE’RE AT IT. --- STUART

ACROSS

DOWN

by: Clone Triona

KI…the new frontier. These are the voyages of the Connections Committee. Its ongoing mission: to explore new opportunities, to seek out new students, and new partnerships. To boldly grow, where no program has grown before!

As a new program, we face many challenges. We are small but mighty, we are quality and not quantity. KISS will be forming a cool new subcommittee called Connections Committee that will focus specifically on these new-program challenges, and bring in cool solutions like the problem-solvers that we are.

First meeting: Tuesday, March 22, 2011. @ENV Coffeeshop. 4pm.

Connections COmmitteeby: Ryley Kornelson