A positive outlook on life has a significant impact not only on your happiness but also on things such as creativity and effectiveness at your work. This Ted talk by psychologist Shawn Achor shares how you can create lasting positive change by every day: – Record 3 new things you are grateful for, for 21 … READ MORE…

It is surprising that I have been doing something simple in a wrong way for so long, and that everyone I know does it wrong as well. I was already surprised in the past that my shoe laces got untied so quickly, so I had adopted the workaround of tying a double knot. As you … READ MORE…

At the World Expo in Shanghai the English pavillion was one of the most creative ones. In this ted.com presentation the architect Thomas Heatherwick shares the ideas behind this as well as other projects he has or is working on.

The website www.wordle.net allows you to create “word clouds” from text that you provide. Text can be submitted by pasting in a text or by pointing to a blog. The word cloud generated gives greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, … READ MORE…

A self-replicating machine is an “artificial construct that is theoretically capable of autonomously manufacturing a copy of itself using raw materials taken from its environment”. This is an interestic topic and it is surprising that there are several “open source” initiatives allowing you to build your own self replicating machine. An example is the RepRap … READ MORE…