…and a pretty sweet Minority Report-esque dynamic infographic (“infomotion?”), to boot. The point? The world today has more than its share of problems, but we can all be thankful it isn’t the world of 200 years ago.

The charming Swede is Hans …

via http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/page/3/

Bioplastics would seem to be a positive development in many ways. Rather than needing to have petroleum extracted and processed to supply the feedstock for making plastic, plant-based materials are used instead. However, a study by University of Pit…

Oh, great. I get to be the wet blanket.

There’s a lot of news going around right now about this NASA press release and paper in Science — before anyone had read the paper, there was some real crazy-eyed speculation out there. I was even sent some …

Researchers at the University of Newcastle in the UK have created a new kind of concrete glue that can patch up the cracks in concrete structures, restoring buildings that have been damaged by seismic events or deteriorated over time. But the glue i…

The Bat Hook: Harvesting Energy from Power Lines – via @DrenBoy.
Power lines crisscross the skies, delivering electricity with the flip of a switch. But what happens when a soldier is outside, away from an electrical outlet, and unable to access ele…

This would be his birthday, if he hadn’t died in 1996. We’re just going to have to celebrate his life without him.

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Today, November 9th, would have been the 76th birthday of Carl Sagan. We lost him in 1996 at the age of 62 – way too early. But by that time he had already established himself as an influential science popularizer. Many of the current generation of s…

By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics

If you love geometry, you can let everyone know by wearing dodecahedra with elegance and style!

These dresses with sewn-on paper polyhedra embellishments were designed by Amila Hrustic.

I’m not sure…

Architect and textile designer Marin Sawa’s beautiful work explores ways that we can incorporate the production of biofuels within our built environments. With her Algaerium, she has created a series of living surfaces and textiles that cultivate an…