I’m totally over the moon about this: I’m featured in a TV spot airing on SyFy as part of their Let’s Imagine Greater campaign! You can catch it “live” on the SyFy channel this weekend: Saturday @ 6:13pm EST & Sunday @ 5:33pm EST. Or just check it out above!
SyFy’s tagline is “Let’s Imagine Greater” and this is part of a campaign to get everyone to imagine amazing things – and hopefully create them! This is very much in line with my work: Spacehack.org is about anyone being able to explore space and make scientific discoveries, and Science Hack Day is all about getting excited and making things with science. You can hear more about my story and some of my miscellaneous thoughts at my page on the Let’s Imagine Greater site.
The shoot was so much fun – I was acting out a lot of things on green screen, so it’s great to see how it all comes together in the end. I really loved filming on a set – I hope it’ll be the first of many.
photo by David Chun
photo by David Chun
Me & creative director Chris Dooley, photo by David Chun
More photos from the shoot are at http://flic.kr/s/aHsjz5pTM4.
Want to chat with me about imagining amazing-awesome-weird science-y things or how you can get involved as a spacehacker? Save the date: March 28, 4-5pm EST. I’ll be hosting a live TweetChat – follow @letsimaginegrtr and join the discussion at http://tweetchat.com/room/letsimaginegreater or by watching #letsimaginegreater.
Design by Jonathan Haggard. An inspiration for my upcoming talk at Interaction12 on hacking space exploration and science. - Ariel Waldman
Summing up Science Hack Day SF 2011
150 science hackers over 24 consecutive hours resulting in 26 unexpectedly awesome hacks. Take a browse!
Hacking science: the intersection of web geeks and science geeks | Scientific American
“Science should be something that is disruptively accessible – empowering people from a variety of different backgrounds to explore, participate in, and build new ways of interacting with and contributing to science. Unfortunately, the relationship most adults have with scientific exploration is one of observation: usually watching government agencies and scientists explore on behalf of us, but not actually exploring it ourselves.”
THIS AWESOME URN WILL TURN YOU INTO A TREE AFTER YOU DIE
You don’t find many designers working in the funeral business thinking about more creative ways for you to leave this world (and maybe they should be). However, Spanish designer Martin Azua has combined the romantic notion of life after death with an eco solution to the dirty business of the actual, you know, transition.
His Bios Urn is a biodegradable urn made from coconut shell, compacted peat and cellulose and inside it contains the seed of a tree. Once your remains have been placed into the urn, it can be planted and then the seed germinates and begins to grow. You even have the choice to pick the type of plant you would like to become, depending on what kind of planting space you prefer.
(via This Awesome Urn Will Turn You into a Tree After You Die | Design for Good | Big Think)
(via mothernaturenetwork)
The WorldWideWeb project was started to allow high energy physicists to share data, news, and documentation.
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Tim Berners-Lee, 20 years ago
Pretty cool. Natural history museums don’t include specimens that have been genetically modified by humans. The Center for PostNatural History aims to document and have a center dedicated to animals and plants that have emerged out of human tampering.
The Center for PostNatural History: An Introduction (by Rich Pell)
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
