Math Monday: Bagel Cutting Revisited
More exploring math through the slicing of your morning bagel.
Science
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!
Contest: The curiosity-driven life. Your foible could drive the next Citizen Science study!
Have you ever wanted to take a closer look at an aspect of life – such as how diet effects exercise, how exercise effects cognition, how sleep effects your work… Any field of study is free game. And, if you are reading this, you are qualified to submit an entry! Submit questions and entries to eri@genomera.com. For more details, see here. You have until December 15th.
Best Space Pictures of 2010
Nation Geographic’s Best Space Pictures of 2010 A colorful, craggy column of dust and gas dubbed the Mystic Mountain stars in a picture from the Hubble Space Telescope released April 23 as part of celebrations for Hubble’s 20th anniversary. The picture highlights the results of star birth in the Carina nebula.
Holiday Gift Guide 2010: Cooking for Geeks
Jeff Potter is the author of one of our favorite new books around here, O’Reilly’s best-selling Cooking for Geeks: Real Science, Great Hacks, and Good Food. We asked Jeff to put together a collection of some of his favorite cooking gear that he thought other geek cooks might appreciate. Bon appegeek! —Gareth I jokingly […]
Top 10: Robots doing stuff that scares the &$#! out of me
In truth, I regard the “robot uprising” meme with about the same level of seriousness as the “zombie apocalypse” meme. I suppose robots becoming sentient, independent, organized, and uncontrollably violent is at least plausible, but if I let all the plausible apocalypses keep me awake nights, I’d never sleep again. So, in the spirit of fun, here’s a collection of videos showing the mad, mad foolishness that roboticists have been up to equipping our future overlords with their tools of power. Or, in a more serious vein: Look at all the amazing stuff robots can do these days!
Maker Pioneers: Beth Ferguson, Sachi DeCou: Sol Design Lab
Here is the second installment of our series of Make: Shorts covering “Maker Pioneers,” inventors, entrepreneurs, makers who are dreaming up clever solutions to today’s energy and environmental problems. In this video, we meet Beth Ferguson, Sachi DeCou and Sol Design Lab. Among other things, they turn lovely vintage gas pumps into solar-powered electronic device […]
Beautiful lamps from scrap PVC pipe, soda bottles
I love projects, like this ugly duckling lamp series from Hong Kong-based designer kamric, that give the lie to so-called “modern” design: Here’s something that looks just as good, and works just as well, as your snooty “designer” products, but is made from a couple bucks’ worth of hardware store materials.