Bjorn Qorn: Popcorn Popped by the Sun
Bjorn Qorn is a new popcorn snack that is cooked not in a popcorn maker, but by a 5 meter basin structure that is built into the ground. The team behind the project is Jamie O’Shea, Ezer Lichtenstein and Bjorn Quenemoen who have been developing the cooking structure called the Caloris Basin, which can concentrate sunlight in an effective way [...]
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“Unconferences”
Ever been to an “unconference?” Camp Pixelache, which I attended a couple of weeks ago in Helsinki, Finand was organized in a unconference style. I had never been to an unconference, but I quickly learned at the opening session where an overview of an unconference was given. Unconferences came about because people felt that a formal conference that usually has [...]
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Utopian Reality – Art and Research @ Camp Pixelache
One of the opening activites at Camp Pixelache was led by two members of the Utopian Reality research project, a project based out of Helsinki, Finalnd. For the exercise – everyone was asked to stand up and head to the front of the room. We were then asked to look at other people and make eye contact and smile – [...]
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Historical, Useful, and Tasty Weeds – Weeds Walking Tour @ SPACES
Yesterday I went on part of the Walking Tour of Historical, Useful and Tasty Weeds which was led by Leslie Williams, Herbalist and Herbal Educator. The tour started at SPACES gallery, and we walked around the block for the tour. As we would walk, Williams would point out weeds, bushes, and trees that could be used as food, medicine, and [...]
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Transparency Camp: an Unconference about People, Government, and Technology
So I heard from a friend of a friend about TransparencyCamp, an “unconference” where journalists, developers, technologists, policy-makers, government officials, students, academics, and everyone in between meet to share and exchange knowledge about how to use new technologies and policies to make the government work better for the people — and to help people work smarter with the government. In [...]
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