Two Chalmers University of Technology students designed a nearly-all-steel chair with alternating seat positions that give users better leverage when navigating down unpaved roads and around other obstacles.
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University of Washington researchers hope to create a battery-free Internet of Things by developing communication devices that transmit data with the help of existing ambient electromagnetic energy.
One spritz of Sprayable Energy onto the skin delivers the caffeine equivalent of a quarter-cup’s worth of coffee. Developers Ben Yu and Deven Soni say they want to pitch it to people who are trying to regulate their intake.
Now a few years into Peter Thiel’s experiment, 60 fellows have received $100,000 grants to skip college for two years. We’re now starting to see some of the results come in.
Images from NOAA’s decommissioned GOES-12 satellite that provided “eye in the sky” monitoring of weather events since 2003 have been assembled in the video below.
Here are some of the my reflections, based on more than three decades of teaching, on how to think about the place of liberal education in America. That place, for […]
Creative Destruction. When you first hear this term, it seems somewhat counterintuitive or oxymoronic. On a second go round; you might wonder why we need to create destruction or why […]
One article talks about the declining rates of procreation. Another contemplates job mobility. When I pull the fragments together into one tableau I’m left with the question: How it attachment […]
First launched in 2009, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft has been asleep in polar orbit for two years. Next month, it’ll be turned back on to help locate potentially dangerous near-Earth objects.
Has the age of zero-sum competition come to an end? Can we learn to recognize collaborative learning as our primary task from cradle to grave? In this G+ hangout for […]
More of them are appearing on some Kentucky streets as residents look for gas-friendlier alternatives. Also, most states already have laws allowing them to share certain roads with regular traffic. Writer Eric Jaffe asks: Why golf carts and not electric cars?
Ultimately we’re never going to get people used to the rate of exponential change. Humans will always be somewhat resistant to it.
Sea anemones, which provide shelter for the clownfish and other fish species, are dealing with the same ecological threats as coral reefs as water temperatures continue to rise.
My research shows that for each additional job in a high-tech company in a local community, you create about five additional jobs outside high-tech in that community.
How are we supposed to communicate about science in an age when political partisanship and media hype dominate the 24/7 news cycle?
Always paddle back out, because it is the only way you’ll ever get that next wave.
What a surfer’s story can teach us about the promises we make to ourselves about the future.
Big Data is a phenomenon that’s impacting just about every business these days.
A new study suggests yes: Since the introduction of the tax in 2008, fuel consumption per person has dropped over 17 percent and the emissions rate has gone down by 10 percent.
At The Tyee this week, a terrific non-profit online magazine covering news, culture and solutions as they relate to British Columbia and beyond, Geoff Dembicki profiles Bill McKibben and his work as […]
Thanks to a mandate passed by Congress in 1996, the US government is about to get out of the business of producing helium. The resulting shortage could affect a range of sectors across the industrialized world.
Many on Twitter say Manning deserved worse. Others are suggesting that President Obama should pardon Manning at the end of his term.
It’s possible that over time that we can develop the equivalent of almost a one-click shopping across the internet.
Medical professionals are demonstrating how Google Glass could be used for tasks ranging from viewing CAT scans during surgery to recording an actual procedure for educational purposes.
It’s the collaboration between the DNA from all your ancestors that keeps you alive.
On macro and micro levels, longer life is not working out. Almost all nations are aging and will confront the disruptive demographics of an aging society, some sooner than later. […]
While the fest provides a forum for respected marijuana advocates to voice their position on drug policy reform, others view Hempfest as an all-out weed wonderland.
Visitors to the £90 million (US$141 million) building, located in London’s Brent borough, can select questions from a touchscreen and “Shanice” will answer them from her “seat” on a screen behind the reception desk.