31 March 2014

Edible Planets ~ Spherical Concentric Layer Cake!

›
LOL, Spherical Concentric Layer Cakes ... "This tutorial will show you the most basic and least equipment-heavy way of baking the co...

Slow Life ~ Stoupin's Micro Timelapse of Sealife!

›
io9's George Dvorsky spots Slow Life timelapse by Daniel Stoupin ... "Corals and sponges are surprisingly mobile creatures, bu...

Guinea Pig Club ~ Dr McIndoe's WWII Patients...

›
WWII airmen with terrible injuries were cared for by remarkable plastic surgeon, the New Zealander Sir Archibald McIndoe , who pioneered m...

Future of Play ~ Sand Garden Born in Boston!

›
Ruth Graham writes in the Globe about the future of play, How the American playground was born in Boston ... "As children’s play s...
30 March 2014

Maysoon Zayid ~ 99 Problems... Palsy's Just One

›
Maysoon Zayid 's Palestinian, Muslim, disabled, and lives in Jersey!-)

Tearing Europe Apart ~ Atlas of Prejudice...

›
Yanko Tsvetkov's Atlas of Prejudice has 20 ways to slice Europe ...

Star Wars ~ Making of an Imperial Legacy...

›
29 March 2014

Changing Faces ~ Beat Prejudice, Value Equality

›
The DailyMail shares Adam Pearson 's OpEd TV's Beauty and the Beast star hopes to beat prejudice after big-screen debut ... ...

Creative Routines ~ Visualizing Daily Rituals...

›
Thanks to HuffPo's Kevin Short for spotting the Creative Routines infographic by MIT alum RJ Andrews at Info We Trust -- building o...

Blowfly Flight Motor ~ In Vivo Microtomo Imaging!

›
Thanks to io9's George Dvorsky for spotting new PLOS Biology research article In Vivo Time-Resolved Microtomography Reveals the Me...

R.I.P. Kevin Brooks ~ Storyteller & Adventurer...

›
Tragic to hear that Kevin Brooks has passed away after fighting a fast, cruel cancer. Media Lab alumnus, storyteller , adventurer, frie...
1 comment:
28 March 2014

BeetleCopter ~ Burrard-Lucas Shoots Serengeti

›
Thanks to The Kid Should See This for spotting nature photographer (and crafter of Camptraptions including the original BeetleCam) Will B...

New Skull ~ 3DPrinted Replacement Braincase!

›
Wired's Nicholas Tufnell notes that Neurosurgeons successfully implant 3D printed skull at the UMC Utrecht hospital... "A 22-y...
27 March 2014

Upsee ~ Harness Enables Kids to Walk & Play!

›
Thanks to John Farrier at Neatorama for spotting the Upsee ... "Debby Elnatan's young son, Rotem, has cerebral palsy. He has ve...

CycloCable ~ Reengineered Bike Escalator!

›
Steph at WebUrbanist spots that Norway's Trampe has been reengineered and rebranded as the CycloCable ... "Trampe is the world...
26 March 2014

Cyborg Drummer ~ Barnes w/ Power Prosthetic!

›
UD spots "one arm" Jason Barnes playing drums with his prosthetic! Maybe it's obvious after you see it, but it gets you w...
25 March 2014

Beneath Cities ~ Decaying Infrastructure & Death

›
In NYTimes , Patrick McGeehan, Russ Buettner, and David Chen share scandal: Beneath Cities, a Decaying Tangle of Gas Pipes ... "It is...
24 March 2014

Colliding Galaxies ~ NASA APOD spots Antennae!

›
NASA APOD spots Coverta's Antennae Galaxies in Collision ...
23 March 2014

California Soul ~ Lovely Video for Kevin Brooks!

›
Lovely video from Birago for MIT's one-and-only Kevin Brooks who can surely use a little Soul right now, certainly from California, plu...
22 March 2014

India Beats Polio ~ CNN on Public Health Victory!

›
CNN's Moni Basu reports India beats the odds, beats polio ... "When a global effort to end polio was launched in 1988, the disease...