DIY science is the perfect way to use your creative skills and learn something new. With the right supplies, some determination, and a curious mind, you can create amazing experiments that open up a whole world of possibilities. At home-made laboratories or tech workshops, makers from all backgrounds can explore new ideas by finding ways to study their environment in novel ways – allowing them to make breathtaking discoveries!
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 […]
Science Hack Day is underway in San Francisco. The weekend hackathon focuses on citizen science projects.
Just a reminder that for this week’s episode of Food Makers, a Google+ Hangout on Air I’ll be joined by an all-star panel who will be discussing food preservation and fermentation.
I’m crossing the bridge to San Francisco tomorrow to meet with artist Phillip Ross, but I’m hoping to connect with another maker or two. Anyone got any ideas?
In the first of a several posts on math-making using the lowly business card, we look at Jeanine Mosely’s Business Card Menger Sponge.
We’re taking a break this week from linkages to follow up on the Grocery Geometry column from a few months ago. More possibilities for mixing food and math crop up constantly, so it’s time to share a couple.
Check out this great NPR piece about engineering students at University of Maryland that are trying to win a three-decades-old contest for human powered flight.
