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!
Using a mixture of titanium dioxide, drywall plaster, aluminium powder and ground fluorite, Theo Grey of PopSci.com was able to smelt his own titanium, via a thermite reaction. The results are not pretty, and you probably don’t want to try this at home, but hey, DIY titanium! Yet I was able to make titanium using […]
This radiator chair doesn’t look particularly light or comfortable, but it is beautiful: (Via boingboing)
The “first quantitative, scientific evaluation of the proposed, major, energy-related solutions” came out this month. Via Worldchanging: Here is how Jacobson ranks the renewables, from best to worst: 1. Wind power 2. concentrated solar power (CSP) 3. geothermal power 4. tidal power 5. solar photovoltaics (PV) 6. wave power 7. hydroelectric power 8. a tie […]
If true, this could prove incredibly awesome – Researchers from Japan’s ATR Computational Neuroscience Laboratories have developed new brain analysis technology that can reconstruct the images inside a person’s mind and display them on a computer monitor, it was announced on December 11. According to the researchers, further development of the technology may soon make […]
Windell has created a new free snowflake drawing program. He writes: A new application to draw your own snowflakes and save them in PDF format. Clean, cross-platform, open-source, and able to generate closed-polygon vector shape output. Oh yeah. …while there are some nice snowflake program out there, we didn’t actually come across any that were […]
This worm farm is a wonderful reuse of an old bathtub. I especially like how the drain was plumbed for serving up that rich, fertilizing “worm tea”. My wife and I did some worm composting a few years ago in a much less attractive plastic bin. Next time we’ll build a stylish, bathtub-based worm mansion. […]
Via Mother Earth News, here are plans for 6 different toys for tots (32 months and less) along with developmental reasons for them. Some are incredibly simple, like this ‘tracking toy:’ All include explanations linking your creation to the baby’s development. For the toy above: 1 1/2 to 3 months The first three month’s of […]
