Roger Johnston is head the Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory. He and his colleagues recently launched security attacks on electronic voting machines to demonstrate how easy it is to steal votes. Conclusion: It’s really easy. And cheap.
Set your Thanksgiving table with beautiful hand-printed leaf napkins!
A slideshow of images from the two-day Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria.
For the Museum of Mathematics I have been remiss. I wrote an entire column on arrangements of great circles without once mentioning Buckminster Fuller. His original designs for domes involved bracing them solely with arcs of great circles. Since, on the surface of a sphere a great circle is the shortest path, or geodesic, between […]
By Maris Callahan For a lot of people, September means back to school. For me, September means apple picking, whether it’s driving to a “pick-your-own” farm or spending a morning rummaging through crates of apples at the local farmers market. In my house, apple season usually results in fresh applesauce, apple strudel, and obviously, apple […]
Are there LEGO geeks in your life? Make gift-giving extra special with LEGO gift boxes!
I have a bit of a thing for tea towels, and calendars, and, well, tea towel calendars! So Spoonflower’s 2013 Tea Towel Calendar contest is perfect eye candy. I love this blue and white one, but it was hard to choose a favorite. Buy a few fat quarters and you have an easy sewing project […]
