Ia o Tó por aí sozinho quando uma lesma o atropelou – “Eia que temos festa!”. Tó havia sido guerreiro das poeiras de Pistaxu, que era a cabeça mais próxima de Tigifito, o Pinhorti do Telfibre. Brincava aos pasteleiros e gincanava com as minholess. A lesma fingia que não seRead More →
Neil Harbisson was born colorblind. He manages to overcome this “impairment” through an antenna implanted in his skull that allows him to “hear colors” (via bone conduction). Neil says that this has changed the way he perceives. He describes the process in an interesting way: he had to start byRead More →
A Patirafa was born, created using Spore. The beautiful Patirafa left the volcano environment and went to Blender. Now we were ready to export the Patirafa as STL file and give the Tricolour printing a try. The result is not awesome, but we got some pretty nice statues 🙂Read More →
A story about science told by Zach Mainen @ TEDx O’Porto 2013 http://zacharymainen.blogspot.pt/ Featured Image: http://zacharymainen.blogspot.pt/Read More →
Last year was another discovery year 🙂 Now from the garden. My backyard was an authentic zoo. We let the wild plants grow and all the little bugs and whatever animals loved it. And I loved that they love it!! There is also a cat coming once and a while.Read More →
This is a continuation of the spider tale Going back to those days when I kept myself observing and rushing to my bedroom window to check for Madame Diadematus… Me and my spider…. By observing ‘her’ I end up thinking of how solitary she was and … thinkingRead More →
One of the many phenomena that made me travel in some completely nonlinear route to be doing what I am doing today are spider webs or how spiders construct their webs. I remember reading years ago about a study on the effects of drugs on spiders behavior while building theirRead More →
ABWÄRTS (Downwards) Play a vibration in the rhythm of your limbs Play a vibration in the rhythm of your cells Play a vibration in the rhythm of your molecules Play a vibration in the rhythm of your atoms Play a vibration in the rhythm of your smallest particles which yourRead More →
http://lisboncisa.fc.ul.pt/ ________________________ Featured image: Coupe de l’encéphale sur le plan médian Author: N. H. Jacob Date: 1834 ca. Description: Coupe de l’encéphale sur le plan médian. Le crâne a été scié verticalement dans toutes sa hauteure sur le plan median, de manière à montrer laRead More →
Merci Gerard! …when i hear traffic i think sound is acting i love the activity of sound …i love sound just as they are i don’t want them to be psychological i just want it to be a sound …silence is traffic …traffic is always different John Cage 4’33’Read More →