Another amazing project by Adafruit. This time, they integrate a circuit containing a color sensor and some LEDs into a scarf. Press the color sensor to any color to make the lights glow in that color. Stunning idea!!!

Chameleon Scarf by Adafruit

Knitting needles and crochet hooks are difficult to use in the dark...just when you want to knit during a nighttime car ride - you are foiled by the lack of light. No more - these are such a smart idea!!

Badass Knitting Needles

The water samples came from holes drilled by gold miners near the small town of Timmins, Ontario, about 350 miles north of Toronto."

Water Trapped For 1.5 Billion Years Could Hold Ancient Life

Disturbing shift in Canada's opinion of fundable science.

In a stunning announcement, the National Research Council—the Canadian scientific research and development agency—has now said that they will only perform research that has “social or economic gain”.

This is not a joke. I wish it were.

John MacDougal, President of the NRC, literally said, “Scientific discovery is not valuable unless it has commercial value”. Gary Goodyear, the Canadian Minister of State for Science and Technology, also stated “There is [sic] only two reasons why we do science and technology. First is to create knowledge ... second is to use that knowledge for social and economic benefit. Unfortunately, all too often the knowledge gained is opportunity lost.”

I had to read the article two or three times to make sure I wasn’t missing something, because I was thinking that no one could possibly utter such colossally ignorant statements. But no, I was reading it correctly. These two men—leaders in the Canadian scientific research community—were saying, out loud and clearly, that the only science worth doing is what lines the pocket of business.

Canada Scientific Future

I have been interested in wearable art incorporating LEDs for a long time. Bumped into this link today through Craftzine for an embroidered anglerfish with a working LED. What a great project!!

Anglerfish

I definitely agree that siblings can be heavily influential on each others actions. However, that being said, I don't know how this study can separate the fact that sibling pairs have shared life experiences, and thus, the fact that sibling pairs are more likely to undergo a particular behavior could simply be a result of those shared life experiences, and not necessarily a younger sibling emulating an older sibling...

"In the aftermath of the bombings in Boston many of us have been thinking a lot about siblings — particularly how older siblings can shape the lives of younger siblings. But until pretty recently, the role siblings play in determining the trajectory of each other's lives hasn't been a particularly hot topic in psychological research. Psychologists, very understandably, have focused on the influences they see as more important — such as parents and peers and genetics.

But in the past decade that's been changing a bit. Psychologists interested in how siblings affect one another are taking a new look at all kinds of behavior, particularly anti-social behavior."

Sibling Influence

I am hopeful that Atlanta will rise to this challenge. Many of the pieces are there - community support would seal this.

Gilbert F. Amelio, former CEO of Apple Computer and a director of AT&T, is a member of Galectin Therapeutics’ board of directors. Rod Martin is vice chairman of Galectin.

Atlanta can become Silicon Valley of biotechnology | www.myajc.com

Stunning!

The Orb:

What were the skies like when you were young?

They went on forever
and they,
when I,
we lived in Arizona
And the skies always had little fluffy clouds
And they moved down,
they were long and clear
And there were lots of stars at night

Julie Bosman:

What would New York or Shanghai look like with a full sky of brilliant stars? Thierry Cohen, a French photographer, thinks he can show us by blending city scenes -- shot and altered to eliminate lights and other distractions -- and the night skies from less populated locations that fall on the same latitudes. The result is what city dwellers might see in the absence of light pollution. So Paris gets the stars of northern Montana, New York those of the Nevada desert. As Cohen, whose work will be exhibited at the Danziger Gallery in New York in March, sees it, the loss of the starry skies, accelerated by worldwide population growth in cities, has created an urbanite who "forgets and no longer understands nature." He adds, "To show him stars is to help him dream again."

Michiru Hoshino:

Oh! I feel it. I feel the cosmos!

Starry, Starry, Starry Night

I definitely need to get some sewing labels for my homemade Dr. Nanochick sewing projects!

Sewing labels

Yes! Grumpy cat makes my day:)

Another awesome grumpy cat craft