Sarah Bergbreiter: Why I make robots the size of a grain of rice
Originally posted on melt your mind:
By studying the movement and bodies of insects such as ants, Sarah Bergbreiter and her team build incredibly robust, super teeny, mechanical versions of creepy crawlies…
CURVED/labs design a facelift for the first Apple Macintosh
Originally posted on melt your mind:
If you are old enough to remember Apple’s first Macintosh computer — the “doorstop” with the 9-inch screen — you’re going to love what German design company CURVED…
A mother’s plea: ‘He’s not scary, he’s a little boy’
Originally posted on I Think Differently:
By AliceAnn Meyer Jameson has a very rare disorder, his family believe he has Pfeiffer Syndrome. Fed up with cruel comments directed at her little boy,…
Student’s achievement changes peers’ attitudes
Originally posted on I Think Differently:
Source: Otago Daily Times Shaun Markham, who has cerebral palsy. Photo by Christine O’Connor. It took a long time for his peers to realise Shaun Markham…
Happy New Year 2015
Be it all you wish.
Stephen Hawking’s big ideas…made simple
Originally posted on melt your mind:
No time to read Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time? In just two and a half minutes, Alok Jha explains why black holes are doomed…
It’s THAT time again
The truth of it is I find I can’t do woohoo on command. “It’s C-word Day (or days or weeks before or after), so we have to celebrate!”
A new conservative era?
The beginnings of centuries are conservative. They become more and more liberal until they end with a couple of decades of slightly chaotic, anarchic radicalism.
I’m no historian, so I don’t have reliable data to back up my hypothesis. But here’s what I can argue with my very average competence in general knowledge.
I’m a bit unravelled — is that ok?
I feel like shit warmed up right now. That said, I’m ok. I thought I should say that because, these days, it’s hard to talk about things like alcohol, anxiety and insomnia […]
The Loss of Diversification as a Result of Self-Segregation
Originally posted on dpsn:
Blake Leitch is a writer from Auckland’s North Shore who recently graduated from Massey University with a degree in journalism. He also recently graduated the Be. Leadership programme. In…
