Things categorized as 'invention'
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Rolling Links
- Signal vs. Noise
- Web Science Research Initiative
- The Media Laboratory, MIT
- Science Blogs
- Postgenomic Postgenomic collects posts from hundreds of science blogs and then does useful and interesting things with that data.
Ask a Collaborative Expert
IdeaConectionhelps companies develop new concepts and engage in research without the necessity of maintaining permanent research and development staff. Customers present a problem and set a payment amount, researchers who have ...
Science and the “Protected Commons”
Australian non-profit CAMBIA promotes research and technological collaboration in the life sciences as a means of nurturing innovation and making current research more widely available to developing communities. The group's
Red Light, Green Light
Cambridge, Massachusetts, based Ambient Devices relies on a 900 MHz network to provide a constant stream of weather, sports, and financial information to its customers. A product offered by the company uses ...
Filth
Dust, grit, and grime provide foundations for two very different examinations of progress. Beginning with the mundane and unpleasant, Joseph Amato uses dust as a symbol for our understanding of scale and ...
Where do ideas come from?
I was reading for The Rise of Modern Science and it references Einstein and his theory of relativity. It raised an interesting question about how Einstein could have come up with ...