The Most Extreme Life-Forms in the Universe

Publicado el febrero 11, 2012 por Create and Share

While scientists find ever more planets around other stars and contemplate missions to probe the far reaches of our own solar system, researchers are looking to the extremes of the Earth for clues about what kind of organisms could exist in the brutal conditions elsewhere.

There’s hardly a niche on Earth that hasn’t been colonised. Life can be found in scalding, acidic hot pools, in the driest deserts, and in the dark, crushing depths of the ocean. The very existence of these hardy organisms hints that life might be able to eke out an existence in the cold, dry climate of Mars, the icy, acidic conditions of Jupiter’s moon Europa, or in countless other spots beyond our solar system. Sigue leyendo →

Self-Healing Electronics – Reducing Our e-Waste

Publicado el febrero 4, 2012 por Create and Share

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As electronics get smaller, the circuits that run the world have become more fragile. Those are the circuits that control jet airplanes, nuclear power plants, and pretty much everything upon which we depend in modern life. Although redundant systems prevent catastrophe, when one circuit fails in the ubiquitous electronic devices we use, it most often means waste. In the best case, a wasted chip that needs replacing, but more often a trash can full of e-waste as the cost to find and repair the break outweighs the replacement cost. Sigue leyendo →

Orgonite – What is it and how can we make it?

Publicado el febrero 2, 2012 por Create and Share

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Orgonite is a simple compound that anyone can create in their backyard with fairly inexpensive, widely-available materials which balances ambient energy by turning the negative energy into positive energy, with many easily-confirmed effects. Orgonite does this continuously, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, without electricity. Sigue leyendo →

Travelling Among Nebulae (images)

Publicado el enero 25, 2012 por Create and Share

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Orion Nebula

Let’s embark on a journey around the stars. On the way, we can witness the lights and colours of the nebulae. Let the imagination fly freely; beauty and mystery become one in this distant galaxies. Sigue leyendo →

MAKEDO: Creating Things From the Stuff Around You

Publicado el enero 20, 2012 por Create and Share

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The possibilities of what you can make with makedo are limited only by the materials you find and your imagination.

Wouldn’t you love to make play objects, kid’s costumes, furniture, decorations for the home and well, just about anything you can think of from the materials around you? makedo makes it possible and impossibly fun, as it is a connector system that enables materials including cardboard, plastic and fabric to easily join together to form new objects or structures. When you’re done playing, simply pull it apart to reuse over and over again. Sigue leyendo →

An Introduction to the Quantum World

Publicado el enero 2, 2012 por Create and Share

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If successful scientific theories can be thought of as cures for stubborn problems, quantum physics was the wonder drug of the 20^th century. It successfully explained phenomena such as radioactivity and antimatter, and no other theory can match its description of how light and particles behave on small scales.

But it can also be mind-bending. Quantum objects can exist in multiple statesand places at the same time, requiring a mastery of statistics to describe them. Rife with uncertainty and riddled with paradoxes, the theory has been criticised for casting doubt on the notion of an objective reality – a concept many physicists, including Albert Einstein, have found hard to swallow. Sigue leyendo →

The Top 40 Paradigm-Shifting News Stories of 2011

Publicado el diciembre 31, 2011 por Create and Share

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2011 has been a novelty-filled year with an enormous amount of incredible and fantastic discoveries in all areas of the human experiences. Most people already know about the global revolutions that have significantly shaken up the order of things but how about the other news stories that didn’t necessarily gain front page coverage but may be just as significant? We’re going to give you the top 40 most paradigm-shifting stories of 2011 that will hopefully show you just how much incredible progress at understanding ourselves and our reality. If you wish to read up more, click on the titles to go to their source articles.

General Paradigm Shifts

Amazonian tribe has no calendar and no concept of time

The Amondawa people who live deep in the Amazonian rainforests of Brazil have no watches or calendars and live their lives to the patterns of day and night and the rainy and dry seasons. They also have no age – and mark the transition from childhood to adulthood to old age by changing their name. The team of researchers, led by University of Portsmouth, said that it is the first time they have been able to prove time is not a deeply entrenched universal human concept, as previously thought. They also have their own language which have a number system but it only goes up to four. They also found nobody in the community had an age. Instead, they change their names to reflect their life-stage and position within their society. Sigue leyendo →

The Creators Project – Joining Creativity & Technology

Publicado el diciembre 27, 2011 por Create and Share

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Vice and Intel launched last year The Creators Project, a global initiative bringing together the worlds leading and most relevant innovators in music, art, film, design and architecture through a common passion for creativity and technology.

In just 1 year, The Creators Project has become a cultural phenomenon. Tens of thousands of guests have attended the events, and the content was viewed over 55 million times online.

The project unites a vast collection of artists, designers, musicians and filmmakers who are using technology to push the bounds of creative expression. To date, there are more than 100 Creators involved, hailing mostly from seven countries (United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Brazil, South Korea and China) along with other artists from around the world.

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Curbing the E-Waste Problem

Publicado el diciembre 14, 2011 por Create and Share

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It’s easy to get excited about getting new gadgets, but we rarely give an afterthought to what happens to our old laptops or cell phones after we put them out on the curb. Some of us might be more responsible and bring them to the nearest recycling facility for proper disposal, but the fact of the matter is e-waste – which includes any discarded or end-of-life appliances that used electricity or has electrically-powered parts — contain both valuable and hazardous materials such as lead or mercury. And like other toxin-containing goods, e-waste requires special recycling methods in order to properly dispose of its materials. Sigue leyendo →

Collective Scientific Project to Decipher the Beautiful Whalesong

Publicado el diciembre 3, 2011 por Create and Share

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One could say that the misterious whalesong has occupied in our time the place left by the mermaids and their mythical and confounding voices. In the case of these cetaceans, however, the fascination has been less lethal and maybe even benefitial: although in some areas of the world its indiscriminate hunt continues, in other places measures hav been taken to protect them. This has been due to the profound respect that these impressive animals inspire.

And this may be the case of the Whale Song Project, also known as Whale FM, a joint initiative of the magazine Scientific American magazine, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, the Oxford University and other natural research institutions. This project invites us all to decipher the language of the whales. Scientific American describes the procedure to be followed: Sigue leyendo →