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Heineken Presents Worlds Apart | #OpenYourWorld

by Sam Cain - April 30, 2017May 1, 2017 0

Heineken presents ‘Worlds Apart’ An Experiment. Can two strangers with opposing views prove that there’s more that unites than divides us? #OpenYourWorld Find out more about the campaign, and sign up to one of our new Human Library events where you can share a beer with someone unexpected at Heineken.com/openyourworld If you don't

Will Work for Views: A Documentary about Weird Paul

Movies

by Jo Luijten - April 30, 2017April 30, 2017 0

Will Work for Views is a documentary about Weird Paul Petroskey, directed by Eric Michael Schrader. If you don't know Weird Paul Petroskey, we recommend you to do three things: 1) Be very ashamed of yourself. 2) Subscribe to his Youtube-channel and watch his videos. Step 3 will follow automatically. 3) Back the Kickstarter Project. Will Work

Pokitto, a DIY 32-bit game console

Tech and Gadgets

by Jo Luijten - April 29, 2017April 29, 2017 0

Are your children addicted to games? Sorry, there is nothing you can do about it! But you can convert them into programmers with the Pokitto! The Pokitto is an ARM-chip based gaming gadget for children, teenagers and adults. It's a small device and the capabilities of the Pokitto are comparable

Snapmaker: The All-Metal 3D Printer

by Sam Cain - April 27, 2017May 1, 2017 0

I'm continually amazed how fast technology is progressing. I can still remember the days of the rotary home phone, the pager, the heavy blocky 8 bit computers, Atari console's and the big bag cell phone with a twisty cord attached. The good old days. Personally I can't wrap my head

April 26, 1954 Polio Vaccine Trials Begin

Today

by Sam Cain - April 26, 2017April 26, 2017 0

On this day in 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials began at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Poliomyelitis or Polio is an infectious disease caused by a virus. The disease became more widespread throughout the first half of the 20th century. Children in the United States,

Bad Joke of the Day

by Sam Cain - April 26, 2017 0

Sir Francis Bacon enjoyed humor but he especially appreciated bad jokes. In homage to Francis Bacon, we've added a bad jokes section. I went to the zoo the other day. It was empty, except for a single dog... "It was a Shih Tzu"

EARTH

by Sam Cain - April 26, 2017May 1, 2017 0

Time lapse sequences of photographs taken by the crew of expeditions 28 & 29 onboard the International Space Station from August to October, 2011, who to my knowledge shot these pictures at an altitude of around 350 km. All credit goes to them. Full HD, refurbished, smoothed, retimed, denoised, deflickered, cut, etc. All in all

Happy National Telephone Day!

by Sam Cain - April 26, 2017 0

Could you ever imagine a world without telephones? For most of us the answer is no. How would you get in touch with someone? Send a messenger, a dove or in homage to Game Of Thrones, a "Raven?" Believe it or not, that is how people would communicate with each

Who was the first American to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Facts

by Sam Cain - April 25, 2017April 26, 2017 0

Roosevelt was Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On December 10, 1906, Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to win a Nobel Prize. Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his work surrounding the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War. Learn more here: Theodore Roosevelt Nobel Peace Prize

Chriet Titulaer is no more

by Jo Luijten - April 24, 2017May 1, 2017 0

Chriet Titulaer, the most famous Lincoln-bearded astronomer and futurologist of the Netherlands, is no more. Dutch and Flemish people of my generation grew up with his TV show Wondere Wereld, in which he predicted the arrival of smart TVs, picture phones, digital photography, 3D printers and speech recognition in the