- Outernet is bringing free internet to the world’s poor (Wired UK)
- “Outernet’s curated broadcasts include Wikipedia pages, ebooks and maps, along with regularly updated content such as news — on…
- Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words: Randall Munroe: 9780544668256: Amazon.com: Books
- Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, “ten hundred”) mo…
- Amazon.com: Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World (9780544483941): Mark Miodownik: Books
- materials scientist Mark Miodownik constantly asks himself. Miodownik studies objects as ordinary as an envelope and as unexpected as con…
- What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions: Randall Munroe: 8601401247913: Amazon.com: Books
- The book features new and never-before-answered questions, along with updated and expanded versions of the most popular answers from the…
- Cheap, waterless toilet that turns waste into clean water and power to be trialed in Africa
- A cheap, easy to maintain, “green” toilet that uses no water and turns human waste into electricity and clean water will be tri…
- Periodic table’s seventh row finally filled as four new elements are added | Science | The Guardian
- Four new elements have been added to the periodic table, finally completing the table’s seventh row and rendering science textbooks aro…
- Shapeways – 3D Printing Service and Marketplace
- Upload Your 3D Design to Order Instantly Learn How Shapeways 3D Printing WorksLearn how to turn your idea into reality with Shapeways
- STEM Activities for Kids: How strong is a piece of paper? | Creekside Learning
- test the strength of paper, folded in differently shaped columns, by piling books on top. This is very similar to how columns are used t…
- Bosch debuts new autonomous farming robot
- identify and categorize different plant species, the Bonirob can also function as an autonomous weeding robot, able to remove invasive pl…
- This Office Paper Recycling Machine Turns Useless Trash Into Fresh Sheets Of Paper
- PaperLab and is the first of its kind; an in-office paper recycling machine. As per the company, it is capable of producing 14 A4 sheets…
- STEM & Visual Learning: A Natural Partnership
- hands-on problem solving and communicating ideas in the most direct way.. a celebrated example of integrated literacy in Galileo’s note…
- Physics Special Topics — University of Leicester
- groups of students published 67 short papers covering a subjects from Hunting for monopoles, to Noah’s ark: the story continues….
- An industrial egg breaker – Interesting Engineering
- An industrial egg breaker – Industries are all about automation, and when it comes to breaking their eggs, there is no exception. This vi…
- How to make a homemade electric motor – Interesting Engineering
- build your own simple motor at home and see for yourself what Faraday saw when he discovered some of the interesting aspects of electroma…
- Teen Girls Will Create Games to Play on a Philadelphia Skyscraper – IEEE Spectrum
- “world’s largest video game” contest for teenage girls in Philadelphia. In partnership with local education group TechGirlz and cha…
- This serpent-shaped device generates energy from ocean waves – Interesting Engineering
- Using the motion of ocean surface waves to create electricity, which we can call wave power, is a renewable way of generating energy that…
- Classroom-Ready STEM Lessons: Olympic Engineering
- From big-air pirouettes to swifter, safer luge runs, engineering and science will be as much on display at the 2014 Winter Olympics as th…
- Elementary and Middle School Lesson Plans, The Engineering Place (K-20 Outreach), NC State University
- The Engineering Place Activities Fall 2014 – In addition to the lessons listed below, there are now almost 200 activities in PDF format a…
- This DIY sonar glove can ‘feel’ distant objects underwater
- a 3D-printed sonar glove specifically for the purpose of searching flood waters.The IrukaTact uses a combination of small water jets, a M…
- Doctors use Google Cardboard to explore a heart, save a life
- converted those 2D scans into stereoscopic images, loaded them onto an iPhone and stuck it inside Google Cardboard for his colleague, car…
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