Voyager already 20 years outside solar system
Monday, February 15th, 2010 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »The two Voyager spacecraft were launched in 1977. 20(!) years ago Voyager 1 turned its camera back on, pointed it into the direction of the sun, and took these photographs of the planets it could see: Neptune, Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Earth ...
MSF: Inflatable hospitals for Haiti
Friday, January 22nd, 2010 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Boing Boing has two articles about the inflatable hospitable tents Doctors without Borders is setting up in Haiti. A lot of smart thinking and experience has gone this...
Kiva.org
Sunday, November 29th, 2009 Posted in Smart thinking, Taking a stand | No Comments »Micro-finance organisation Kiva recently passed the $100.000.000 mark: 100 million dollars loaned by people all over the world to people all over the world. I love it that I can lend 50 bucks to some guy in Togo who starts a ...
Reinventing the syringe
Saturday, November 14th, 2009 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Over a million people a year are killed by reusing syringes. Marc Koska tells the story and comes up with a very smart way of preventing this: (The consequence is of course that we will now have to distribute/buy more ...
Tinkering with molecules
Friday, July 10th, 2009 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »This is so smart! You are dealing with molecules that make heart valve transplants a problem, because the body's immune system fiercely attacks those molecules. So what do you do? You make these same molecules attach to unwanted bacteria so the ...
Hans Rosling presentation on Aids
Monday, May 18th, 2009 Posted in Smart thinking, Taking a stand | No Comments »At the last TED conference in 2009, Hans Rosling presented new information about risk factors in the distribution of AIDS, using his spectacular graphs that he also shares at Gapminder.org. Or maybe I should write questions about risk factors, because he ...
I found your camera
Wednesday, May 6th, 2009 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »This is one great website that everybody should know about: If you have lost or found a camera go to I found your camera.
Origami (revisited)
Saturday, November 15th, 2008 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »In my 31. July post I refered to the Oddee page about Origami sculptures. It turns out that origami has merged with mathematics, resulting in beautiful art as well as scientific development of solar arrays, fresnel lenses, solar sails, airbags and even ...
Robotics
Sunday, April 27th, 2008 Posted in Smart thinking | 1 Comment »A couple of weeks ago I read an article about how loading an airplane is prepared. It stated that a Boeing 747 can take off with a total weight of almost 400000 kg (steel, cargo, kerosine and people). Can you imagine? ...
TED: Ideas worth spreading
Sunday, March 9th, 2008 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking | No Comments »That is the slogan of this site. Highly recommended! As they say on the site: "Inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers". TED began in 1984 as a conference devoted to the converging fields of Technology, Entertainment and Design. People ...
