Schools from rubbish
Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Bottle Schools have been building much needed schools out of rubbish and plastic bottles in Guatemala since 2009 with the Hug It Forward project, building 6 schools in total so far with more on the way: For more information, go to ...
Wrapping paper for all occasions
Thursday, March 31st, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking | No Comments »Fabio Milito and Francesca Guidotti designed this universal wrapping paper which contains a word puzzle: simply circle the message you want to use.
Illustrating nuclear fission with mouse traps and pingpong balls
Sunday, March 27th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Chemistry students at Horizon Science Academy in Cleveland had to illustrate a nuclear chain reaction and came up with this video.They used 300 mousetraps and 600 ping pong balls:
The placebo effect
Monday, March 14th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »A lot of studies have been done over time about the working of placebo's (for a starting point, follow the links below the Wikipedia article on placebos). This video nicely sums up some of the effects placebo's have: Created by: Daniel ...
Forget styrofoam
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking, Taking a stand | No Comments »Making styrofoam (expanded polystyrene) costs a *lot* of oil, then we use it for one-time packaging, and then it's non-degradable waste (washing into the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP)?) If ever there was a substance we should get rid of its ...
Communicating with vegetative patients
Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »'We' know now for some time that if you watch people playing tennis, the parts of your brain activate that you would use when actually playing tennis - leading some people to hope that they could become a great tennis ...
Mutation in action: trace this line
Friday, February 25th, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking | No Comments »A Sequence of Lines Consecutively Traced by Five Hundred Individuals shows how a line mutates if you ask 500 people to trace an initially straight line. Each subsequent user only got to see the previous 'trace': Clement Valla did more of ...
Carbon Nation
Friday, February 18th, 2011 Posted in Creativity, Smart thinking, Taking a stand | No Comments »Carbon Nation is due to come out this week. Is this the climate change movie for people that don’t believe in climate change? I like the way the trailer makes its point: you don't have to believe in human-induced climate change to ...
Evaporating water in -30C
Wednesday, January 19th, 2011 Posted in Smart thinking | No Comments »Now why didn't I think of this? Probably because it's a lot colder in Canada than in the Netherlands.
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 ...
