Posts Tagged ‘SmarterScience’
The message is clear…
Sunday, August 8th, 2010Birthday giveaways!!!
Wednesday, August 4th, 2010I have yet another birthday coming up.
Guess how old I am going to be at the end of September 2010!
Send me a message with your best guess and your postal address – which rhymes – and I will send you the same number of a little surprise as a reward for your effort, and the same number of euros off on your next SmarterScience project.*
Everyone who guesses my age right can claim free editing of one scientific manuscript of up to 6000 words.*
But what will you give me as a birthday present?
The science of sound!
Sunday, July 11th, 2010Sound science for cool jokers (and librarians):
For more, go to Holosonics.
What does science mean to people?
Saturday, July 10th, 2010Stereotypes… Just as the world wants movie stars to produce drama and glamour, it wants scientists to stick to their stereotypes too. Don’t think so? Let’s do a quick survey.
(By the way, did you notice some of the media’s comments on the recent cheering at CERN? Duh!)
Missed my newsletter?
Friday, July 9th, 2010
Missed my newsletter in June? Or did it look bad in your mail program?
No problem. You can read it online.
Opportunity!
Saturday, July 3rd, 2010I just found five discount vouchers printed in January this year, but I obviously haven’t handed them out yet. They were valid for six months and expire at the end of this month.
They are printed on special watermarked and textured paper so it would be a shame to let them go to waste. Who wants to grab one? They’ll give you a 15% discount on your project.
Printing instead of shopping
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010I first heard about it six to ten years ago. 3D-printing.
It just so happens that in the past few weeks, I had wondered what had become of that idea, for consumers. And it just so happens that Jaap Meijers wrote about it in Dutch daily Trouw in April.
Estimates are that the Netherlands has currently about 30 3D printers. You can build them, and partly print them, at home.
For more, see for example www.RepRap.org and this YouTube channel.
What Craig Venter is doing for the world
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010“Don’t leave. It’ll be worth the wait.” That’s what Craig Venter said when he briefly popped out of the Sheldonian Lecture Theatre in Oxford on October 25, 2007. It turned out he was right.
Chilean engineering: Building for earthquakes
Friday, May 21st, 2010Rodrigo Mujica is clearly proud of the work he and his colleagues do at VMB in Chile, and rightly so. VMB is an engineering company with a staff of 40 to 50 and it specializes in building for earthquakes. Quake-proof construction. Yesterday, Rodrigo gave a presentation at the University of Portsmouth. Foster and Partners had invited Rodrigo to give a presentation at its headquarters in London, and that is how Rodrigo happened to be in the neighborhood.
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You can either continue to read this blog post or go to the edited and updated version on the SmarterScience web site: http://www.smarterscience.com/vmb-seismic-engineering.html
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One of the first things Rodrigo Mujica showed us was a video taken by a surveillance camera on the 12th floor of a building that was at quite some distance from the epicenter. It was impressive.
YES YES YES Craig Venter has done it!
Thursday, May 20th, 2010I knew it, I knew it, I knew it.