Soccer Ball Generator
Awesome!
Jessica Lin and three other female Harvard University students—Jessica Matthews, Julia Silverman, and Hemali Thakkar—created sOccket to produce a soccer ball that generates cheap, clean, off-grid electricity when rolled. The sOccket ball captures the energy from impact that is normally lost to the environment when the soccer ball is kicked, dribbled, or thrown and [...]
Grand Challenges for Engineering
With input from people around the world … an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century. Now their conclusions are revealed on this website.
From urban centers to remote corners of Earth, the depths of the oceans to space, humanity has always sought [...]
TCGs are for fun, not pain
I’m really enjoying the preview material for the upcoming Marvel Superstars TCG. They sound like my kind of guys.
…I’d like to lay down two rules everyone should try and follow:
#1: TCGs are for fun, not pain. Throw elbows at will and play to win, but remember this is a community. This is not the place [...]
On Science, Society, and Democracy
Science is best viewed the way we view democracy: Democracy is the best way for societies to organize themselves and make decisions in ways that respect and protect individual rights and freedoms. Science is the best way for society to understand the world around us and ourselves. Science and democracy serve each other and neither [...]
