What interests teenage boys? You’re smirking, but this is a question that occupies many of us in the field of young people’s literature. It’s well-documented that girls are reading more than boys, a statistic of increasing concern.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/29/opinion/sunday/want-teenage-boys-to-read-easy-give-them-books-about-sex.html?_r=0
Date archives "November 2018"
Sono Motors’s Sion Is a Crowdfunded, Solar- and Battery-Powered Electric Car
Electric car startups are nothing new, but Germany’s Sono Motors has found a way to stand out from the crowd. Sono just unveiled the Sion, an electric city car powered by a combination of batteries and solar cells. That’s not the only novel thing about this project, though; It’s also crowdfunded.
http://www.thedrive.com/tech/12963/sono-motorss-sion-is-a-crowdfunded-solar-and-battery-powered-electric-car
Pangaea With Current International Borders
The map above is one of my all time favourites. It shows Pangaea, a supercontinent that existed from 300 million to 175 million years ago, with modern international borders.
We have just learnt Siri can recite Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody and our minds are collectively blown
All you have to do is tell Apple’s AI assistant: “I see a little silhouette of a man.”
Slug mucus inspires possible surgical glue
“It’s a really elegant and creative design to make tough adhesives that work in wet environments,” says Mark W. Grinstaff of Boston University, who was not involved in the work.
https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i31/Slug-mucus-inspires-possible-surgical.html
We are all made of stars: half our bodies’ atoms ‘formed beyond the Milky Way’
Nearly half of the atoms that make up our bodies may have formed beyond the Milky Way and travelled to the solar system on intergalactic winds driven by giant exploding stars, astronomers claim.
Love Giant Insects? Meet The Tree Lobster, Back From The Brink
Tiny eggs have started hatching this week at the San Diego Zoo, and scientists there are celebrating the arrival of baby tree lobsters.
Astoria dry cleaner will launder unemployed job seekers’ suits for free
ASTORIA, Queens — A small dry cleaners in Astoria is garnering big attention after a simple offer to help unemployed members of the community.
Jaime Jinete, owner of Nicole’s Cleaners, posted a sign that reads “if you are unemployed and need an outfit clean for an interview we will clean it for free.”
https://pix11.com/2017/03/31/astoria-dry-cleaner-will-launder-unemployed-job-seekers-suits-for-free/
North Dakota’s Norway Experiment
Late one night in October 2015, North Dakota prisons chief Leann Bertsch met Karianne Jackson, one of her deputies, for a drink in a hotel bar in Oslo, Norway. They had just spent an exhausting day touring Halden, the maximum-security facility Time has dubbed “the world’s most humane prison,” yet neither of them could sleep.
https://www.motherjones.com/crime-justice/2017/07/north-dakota-norway-prisons-experiment/
Australian dig finds evidence of Aboriginal habitation up to 80,000 years ago
Artefacts in Kakadu national park have been dated between 65,000 and 80,000 years old, extending likely occupation of area by thousands of years.
3-D-printed water quality sensor tested
Researchers at UBC’s Okanagan campus have designed a tiny device — built using a 3D printer — that can monitor drinking water quality in real time and help protect against waterborne illness.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170719092142.htm