Unpopular science
Illustrator Christoph Niemann made a not-quite-scientific series of illustrations titled Unpopular Science, which purport to explain how the laws of physics affect our daily life.
Month: October 2010
Kitchen 101: Roasting Pumpkin Seeds
By Katie Goodman After you’ve made homemade pumpkin puree or carved your pumpkins for Halloween, don’t throw the seeds away! They make a great snack when you roast them. Roasting pumpkin seeds is really simple, just watch and see.
Nokia ad targets maker-friendly consumers
This ad shows tech-savvy Nokia owners modding their phones, adding them to robots, and using them to control blinkenlights displays. Not sure if the N8 offers any concrete benefits for this sort of use, but it’s nice to see the maker culture reflected in a mainstream ad.
Quick and Easy Halloween Quesadilla
My latest small victory in the getting-my-second-son-to-eat war involves this quick and easy jack o’ lantern quesadilla. It’s a cheese quesadilla in the shape of a pumpkin, not pumpkin-flavored, just to be clear. I used cheese for the nose (a triangle-shaped tomato slice would also work), pear pieces for the eyes, carrot sticks for the […]
This weekend: Catapult a pumpkin at NYSCI
Our friends at the New York Hall of Science are going to be launching pumpkins this weekend with their in-house trebuchet “Chuck”: See NYSCI’s 20-foot-tall outdoor catapult in action! Learn about the history and science of catapults, and then watch it hurl pumpkins across the field. The demonstration will show how adjustments on the catapult […]
How-To: Toilet Paper Tube Little Monsters
If you’re scrambling to find an easy Halloween projects the kids can make this weekend, check out this quick and easy tutorial from Alisa Burke. These toilet paper tube monsters would be perfect, and it would be fun to have a whole collection of them out at your Halloween part. Inspired to craft something for […]
Burr puzzle cutlery
I like this concept design from German product designer Konstantin Slawinski that integrates the pieces of the classic three-piece “wooden knot” puzzle into a knife, a fork, and a spoon to make an interlocking set of cutlery. I don’t think there’s a deliberate nod to Bill Cutler (WOTD: “metagrobologist”) going on here, but I kinda wish there were. He calls it “Join.” [via Core77]