Month: August 2012

How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust

How Tracking Down My Stolen Computer Triggered a Drug Bust

My computer was stolen out of the trunk of a rental car in Detroit. This is my story about how I was able to locate the computer and help the Detroit Police Department bring down a drug dealer.

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How-To: Amigurumi Marshmallow Pattern

How-To: Amigurumi Marshmallow Pattern

Need a little cheering up? This teeny tiny amigurumi marshmallow pattern from Olivia at These Are A Few of My Favorite Things should do the trick!

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Baghdad Community Hackerspace Workshops

Baghdad Community Hackerspace Workshops

Bilal Ghalib is kickstarting an effort to hold hackerspace-style workshops in Baghdad, Iraq. Hackerspaces build hope by giving people access to tools and a local/global community through which people are enabled to invent their own future. We need your support to extend our reach into Baghdad. Without your support we cannot run these events in […]

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Public Olfactory Art

Public Olfactory Art

If you’d like to see a real live purfumer purfuming in real life, then be sure to check out the open studios at The Museum of Arts and Design during the next few months, where perfumer Ralf Schwieger will be an artist in residence. More: MAKE | HOW TO – Make Solid Perfume MAKE | […]

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Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 09, NASA, Education

Makey Awards 2012 Nominee 09, NASA, Education

Among NASA’s nine legislative “prime directives” is “[t]he preservation of the role of the United States as a leader in aeronautical and space science and technology and in the application thereof to the conduct of peaceful activities within and outside the atmosphere.” This mandate has informed the agency’s fundamental role in public STEM education from the very beginning.

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