Last February, I reported on MzTek, when they started their first workshop on introducing WordPress. Now, the London-based women’s media arts organization is upping the ante with their new workshop, Solarbots. For a mere £15, you can build your own solar-powered robot, which includes the costs of the electronics. Although you do need to bring extra ornamentation like fabric or feathers as the site suggests. The workshop is designed for novices, and both men and women can register.
Read More...If you like tattoos, but don’t want to go through the pain of getting a permanent piece of art added your decidedly risk-adverse frame, you can go the Ed Hardy route. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past several years, you know that the distinctive designs of Ed Hardy have become one of the mainstays of urban fashion gracing shirts, hoodies, and sneakers.
Depends. Turns out that this is another common sex stereotype–men always state conclusions firmly while women always hedge and dither–that does not truly reflect behavior.
What makes people dithery is perceived lack of expertise when the topic under discussion is associated more with one gender than the other, according to researchers. Some topics cause women to communicate tentatively when the topic is “masculine”–like changing a tire–and firmly when it is “feminine”–like cosmetics. And vice-versa. And with some gender-neutral topics, like picking a good restaurant, both women and men appear equally tentative.
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The US Federal Trade Commission says there will be no more of those infuriating prerecorded telemarketing solicitations, known not so fondly as robocalls, unless you’re so lonely you want them. Telemarketers, the government says, will now need written permission from the callee before setting the robots loose.
So, great, no more robocalls at dinnertime. Oh, wait. Except for the exceptions. Which include calls from charities, banks, politicians, insurers, phone companies, surveys–and, best of all, debt collection agencies.
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Back to school and back to work. SIgh. But don’t lose heart: find cheerful, stylish office supplies and organizing tools at See Jane Work.
The site has a fine array of handsome basics to get you through the day: binders, notebooks, agendas and calendars, pens and pencils, school supplies, and gorgeous Moonsus bags. Also a slew of organizing tips–and even a printable ToDo list.
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Will scientists have synthesized a living organism for the first time by the end of this year? That’s the breathtaking prediction by Craig Venter–a top-rank molecular biologist whose breathtaking predictions have a way of coming true.
Among the practical reasons for doing such a thing would be creating organisms that can make biofuels or clean up toxic wastes. Might there be other reasons, some of them scary? Stay tuned. Meantime, take a look at the 80Beats analysis.
Read More...If you’re a parent, you know that you can’t be with your children 24/7. So how do you safe guard them against the ever looming threat of stranger danger? Thanks to the geniuses over at Amber Alert GPS, parental units everywhere can breath a little easier with the release of the Amber Alert GPS 2G.
Quickly now, which causes more deaths in the US every year: avoidable medical errors or auto accidents?
I guessed auto accidents too, probably because car carnage is in the headlines every day. But a new study reports that it’s medical errors. They’re responsible for more than 200,000 deaths annually, the study says. And these are all preventable deaths.
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