Fill your car up with… pcs
Illstrated by Priya Khatri
Every time I have to fuel my car I am so embarassed! Not only because fuel is very expensive, not only because the men working at the gas stations are always very excited since they don’t expect to see a girl coming out from the car.
I just cannot believe that in spite of all the technology available today we have not found yet a solution to fuel cars without using polluting materials.
Scientists in Romania and Turkey are seeking ways to remove toxic materials from electronics so these scrap materials can be safely recycled and… junk computers could fuel cars! Read more
Filed Under Environment, Modern Life, Research, Technology
In the beginning God created ET
Illustration by Priya Kathri
It’s always been a problem for me since I was a child.
At school I started to attend the religion class and the science one at the same time.
What a dilemma: “How did it all begin?!”
Since my teachers were all Sisters, every time I asked them to tell me why the two stories were so different, they just answered: “One day you will understand by yourself”.
Then I decided to study philosophy at the university and things got worse, as I realized that the two conceptions, the creationist and the scientific ones were irreconciliable.
Is it still true?
Filed Under Diversity, History & traditions, Modern Life, Research
Enjoy your meal!
Illustration by Lars Wannop
I remember when I was at school.
At 11 in the morning, as the bell rang, hundreds of pupils ran out of the classrooms to queue at the bakery.
Just one word to resume our thoughts: HUNGRY.
Sandwiches, pizzas, cakes, chocolate… those fifteen minutes were the most exciting moments of our young existence at school.
I cannot imagine what our reactions would have been at the bakery owner’s answer: “D’you prefer an apple or a banana”?
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Filed Under Food, Modern Life, Research, World Health
Public concern over the effects of climate change
The more polluting a nation is, the wealthier and the less worried its citizens are: this is the contrasting result of a recent study at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
Filed Under Environment, Research, World Health
The greenest countries are the poorest
The National Geographic Society and the polling firm GlobeScan wrote down a list of the most environmentally friendly nations. Read more
Filed Under Environment, Research, World Health
Street art of a different kind
The Belgian painter Luc Tuymans is one of the most important contemporary artists in the world. So Klara.be, an art radio station, hung up one of his paintings on a busy Antwerp street as part of an experiment to see how people react to art when it is outside galleries. The result? Read more
$1,000,000 for fake chicken
After years of covering celebrities in body paint, P.E.T.A have finally hit the big league. The animal rights organization is offering one million dollars to anyone who can invent a commercially-viable method to produce fake meat. They are specifically looking for ‘in vitro chicken’, which means chicken grown out of stem cells, without feathers or bones.
I’m sorry to cut this blog post short, but I really need to get back to my laboratory.