Month: July 2011

  • The first volume of the History of Cartography was published in 1987 and the three books that constitute Volume Two appeared over the following eleven years. In 1987 the worldwide web did not exist, and since 1998 book publishing has gone through a revolution in the production and dissemination of work. Although the large format…

  • Electro Active Polymers

    ericschneider: http://hackaday.com/2011/07/01/electro-active-polymers/ The potential of EAP’s in experimental media is huge.  

  • A number of organizations are leading the way to producing the next generation of civics instruction. iCivics, founded by Justice O’Connor, offers web-based education projects and an array of interactive games and activities that students can use in class or at home. Students can assume the role of a Supreme Court justice and help decide…

  • O’Connor’s unlikely venture into the video game world may not have produced a Resident Evil-level blockbuster, but so far it has hooked kids in 12,000 classrooms across the U.S. on a selection of civics-themed games—now played more than 2 million times. The goal: Revive the teaching of civics in American schools to help prepare the…

  • In the 1940s, the Anaconda Mining Co. produced most of the copper for our nation’s war efforts. And in 1955, Anaconda started digging the Berkeley Pit, demolishing entire neighborhoods as it went. If you watched “I Love Lucy” or “Leave it to Beaver,” you started digging the Berkeley Pit, too, since the wires powering your…

  • The Gaylord Texan until recently had drawn primarily corporate business. But the property recently added a water park and is aggressively marketing to the family-vacation crowd, which could affect other Dallas-area hotels that had targeted that group. Gaylord earlier this year signed a deal with DreamWorks Animation that will allow it to feature popular characters…

  • Kinect Workshop – FutureTheater Wiki

    Kinect Workshop – FutureTheater Wiki A Wiki walking you thru getting up and running with Open Frameworks and the Kinect

  • gingerhaze: Sometimes people think I am a grown-up. They would be wrong.

  • crookedindifference: Space station astronauts forced to take refuge in “lifeboats” as space junk creates 29,000-mph close call visualizing size, location, velocity, direction, density of orbiting garbage.