Trichrome Blue
Lois van Baarle is a recent graduate of Utrecht School of the Arts, and the following is her thesis project. Her animation and drawing skills have been a part of her for most of her life, and this...
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Special Door Serves as Earthquake Shelter
Younghwa Lee, a graduate student in design at Kingston University, designed this door. In the event of an earthquake, it folds in half to create a crude shelter from falling objects. The doorframe...
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Prosthetic Tentacle
Kaylene Kau is a recent graduate of the industrial design program at the University of Washington. She built a prosthetic arm. But instead of trying to replicate the functions of a human hand, she...
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Smart Elephant is a Lazy Cheater
We know that elephants are smart animals, but this particular one is a bit too smart. Graduate student Joshua Plotnik of Emory University recently recorded the result of an elephant intelligence test...
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Philosophical Debate Referee Signals
This handy chart was created by Landon Schurtz, a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Oklahoma. I’m curious about what would constitute a personal foul in debate. via Marginal Revolution
View ArticleResearchers develop paint-on batteries
The lithium-ion batteries can be applied to any surface as a series of spray-painted layers. Graduate student Neelam Singh and her team at Rice Univer…
View ArticleCould paintball one day save the planet ?
A graduate student from Massachusetts has developed a method to deflect an asteroid using paintballs. Sung Wook Paek’s proposal to save the world from…
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The Nerdiest Practical Joke Ever
The Nobel Prize winning chemist Melvin Calvin (1911-1997) was not known as a man of great humor. This only encouraged one of his assistants to play a great prank on him while Calvin was preparing a...
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