Solving the Power Problem and the Climate Problem in one go
A massive project funded by Google exposes the vast untapped geothermal reserves available to the United States’ power infrastructure. How much energy? you ask. Well, the researchers based their...
View ArticleCreating the Mobee (the Monolithic Bee)
This is a fascinating video about the creation of a dime-sized robot flying machine. I have to say, every step in the process is at once innovative and scary. How long til the future of miniature spy...
View ArticleHow to get more women in STEM? Stop telling them they don’t belong
Sometimes it takes someone saying something so gobsmackingly obvious that it makes people ashamed they didn’t realize it before, to clue people in that there might actually be a problem, and how to...
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Some pinkification I can live with… for now
A while back, someone on Twitter pointed me to this GoldieBlox Kickstarter project, excited that finally, someone was doing something to get young girls interested in engineering. In amongst the glut...
View ArticleGoldieBlox commercial wins the internet over
This commercial’s taking the internet by storm, because who doesn’t love Beastie Boys, girl engineers, and Rube Goldberg devices. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFpe3Up9T_g Some time ago, I wrote about...
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