This is a new one for me, but I have had a lot of requests over the years to keep an eye out for this or that on sale from the products and services we use. If this is something you’ve been wanting, here you go. Here’s a list of classes, products, and services we’ve …
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Health Innovation and Regulations
We all come up with good ideas, only to come up against a wall of red tape. Thus, we decided to start compiling lists to help people see what obstacles they have to consider before striking out on that big adventure. Here is a start to a list on health regulations.What Please keep in mind …
How the Robot Masters will Identify You After the Machine Uprising
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Soon, You’ll Be Able to View Daily Photographs of Earth
Sometimes, we forget that we’re all just teeny, tiny fragments of life floating through outer space. No, let’s be honest: we forget that a lot. There’s nothing more effective at bringing us back to reality than images of space and the blue planet we call Earth. Now, everyone will have access to images of the …
Problems with Time
Editor’s note: This post has been updated and broken links removed. Please see our policy on broken hyperlinks for more. From its slow crawl in distant space to its subjective and fleeting nature here on Earth, time is one of those mysterious forces that we can all vouch for because we directly experience it. But how exactly …
Afraid of math? You’re not alone.
Racing pulse and sweaty palms ─ math tests can cause symptoms that are similar to a heart attack, but are in fact the signs of math anxiety. This form of angst is unlike other forms of anxiety; it has nothing to do with intelligence or working memory yet it has been defined as a negative …
Raytheon’s MathAlive! Gets Kids Excited About Math
This summer, kids in the Boston area are learning just how important math is in their everyday lives, thanks to Raytheon’s 2theXtreme: MathAlive! exhibition at the Museum of Science, Boston. Presented nationally by Raytheon Company, the highly interactive traveling exhibit is designed to inspire, to spark the imagination and to reveal not only math at …
Thermodynamics of Love by Andrés Flórez
This post has been cross posted with permission from Science and Salsa: The Salsa of Life by Andrés Flórez This was one of my first notes and I would like to share it with you. The basic idea was to show how love can be interpreted in terms of energy consumption and how these can affect …
Starting a business on a shoe-string working poor budget {Financial Friday$)
We know it’s possible because Insanitek is proof. Grace, our CEO and founder, wrote a wonderful post on what she’s gone through to get this far. However, she’s not the only one making that leap of faith with no money. Forbes shows that it’s also a trend that’s on the upswing with a demonstration of 20 …
What’s the difference between peeling and soaking a luffa anyway?
If you are familiar with my personal blog, you’ll recall that this past summer I took a stab at growing luffas for the first time ever. This picks up where that posts left off at: the harvest and how to process luffa. There are lots of places and advice you can go to on the …