The Music of Chance
Roger Nelson’s Global Consciousness Project searches for meaning in random numbers.
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!
Proto — Turn On, Tune In, Bliss Out
Dr. James Hardt hopes his DIY neurofeedback tech will fire up the global brain.
Giant Explosions REPRODUCED IN MINIATURE by home chemists
This is great, a tiny grain silo explosion you can make yourself in your home lab, Popular Science 1933 – HARMLESS, miniature explosions make experimenting with combustibles a thrilling, yet safe, amusement for the amateur chemist. With inexpensive homemade apparatus, he can duplicate the explosions in a gasoline motor and amuse his friends by burning […]
Use car’s exhaust to vacuum your car…
From Popular Science 1932 – for when cars basically came in three models… Using the exhaust gas of the automobile to clean the upholstery is the accomplishment of a recently invented device. An aluminum attachment is fastened to the exhaust pipe and the engine is allowed to idle. As the exhaust gas passes through this […]
Be a Scientist: Bottle electricity
Kiteman shows you how to make a Leyden Jar -an early form of capacitor from at 35mm film cannister. Be a Scientist: Bottle Electricity – Link.
LEURRE – robots that fool roaches
These little bots make cockroaches believe that they’re one of them, at least that’s what the roaches want us to believe – LEURRE will propose a modeling protocol to be applied to the calculus of emergence in mixed-societies and study its properties. Its goal is similar to research in collective intelligence or self-organization, namely to […]
IndianaRog and the Temple of Steam
Crab Fu sent in one of the best steam powered sites yet, he also detailed why – #1 he’s got quite an amazing collection, make sure to look through all of the eye candy on his site, as well as a virtual walk-though display of his collection. The detailed info and history talks about every […]