The fruits of IIE's labors: teacher Karen Cruse giving a lesson on the Galapagos. Photo by Pete Oxford Though I delved into Toyota's reasons for annually executing their singular teaching program in the Galapagos, I amazingly failed to touch on the unsung heroes of the operation: the International Institute of Education. IIE works closely with Toyota's philanthropy division to orchestrate......
Think you know your fruits from your veggies? Slashfood doesn’t think so. Take their quick quiz - just scribble your answers down on a scrap piece of paper or remember them in your head. I have to admit, I did worse than I thought I would. Photo via Wikipedia user Gpics. Link...
Filed under: Vegetables, FruitA cucumber. A pickle. They're the same thing, but are they fruits or vegetables?Think you know your stuff? Take my little quiz here on a piece of paper and see the answers after the jump.QUESTIONS - FRUIT OR VEGETABLE? Cucumber Potato Bell Pepper Corn Tomato Radish Peanut Acorn Squash Artichoke Snow Peas Continue reading Is it a Fruit or a Vegetable?Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments...
Filed under: O2, AccessoriesEarth-friendly initiatives are picking up steam in the mobile world just as they are with virtually every other industry, and the redesign of the wall warts we all use to recharge our phones seems to be one of the lowest-hanging fruits. The problem stems from the fact that the chargers continue to draw prodigious power even after the phones to which they're attached are fully charged, leading to millions of wasted watt-hours year in and year out. The problem's so fricking big that the top five handset manufacturers put aside their differences long enough to agree on...
One of the people I encountered in Barcelona during this past week, where I chaired the New Media in Marketing and Communications Strategy conference (about which a post soon), was Guillaume du Gardier, pictured in a photo I took on Wednesday evening. I’ve known Guillaume since 2004, one of my earliest connections from mutual interests founded largely on blogging. We worked together during most of 2005, along with Elizabeth Albrycht, in Blogging Planet. So seeing Guillaume again in Barcelona was terrific. And catching up with him about his role with Ferrero as their New Media Manager was just great....
Harvesting potatoes near Bonby, North Lincolnshire. Potatoes are among the top 12 most heavily pest- and weed killer-washed produce. Photo by D. H. Wright. While the Canadian Cancer Society has been vocal about banning cosmetic pesticides in homes, they've been relatively mum on commercial use of pesticides...until now. The Cancer Society hosted a conference—"Exploring the Connection: A State of the Science on Pesticides and Cancer"—Nov. 12 and 13 in Toronto t......
The teaser trailer for upcoming movie Jathia's Wager has been released, offering viewers their first chance to see the fruits of their collaborative labors on one of the world's first "open source" science fiction movies. Is letting fans write, cast and edit your movie a sign of laziness, or the way of the future? Wager is, at least in part, the work of Solomon Rothman, an aspiring filmmaker apparently tailor-made for Hollywood: Ambitious, a good self-publicist, and unafraid to give up creative ownership of his work. After the success of his first "open source" movie, Boy Who Never Slept, he...
We posted some rather complicated instructions over the weekend for users of the AppleTV augmentation app Boxee to manually upgrade. Of course, the official version would come out after only a day or two. Now those of you not terminal-inclined can enjoy the fruits of the box. Did that sound dirty just then?...
If you have a serious love for almost pointless gadgets, you’ll enjoy this one. Yes, you could say that you peel so many potatoes that you can’t handle peeling them by hand. However, everyone knows that you’re just a gadget addict who enjoys having a machine to do even the most ridiculous tasks for you. This for most would be one of those gadgets you get as a gift and although you think it’s interesting, it will just end up in the far corner of your kitchen cabinet. Then eventually it will become so surrounded by other items that...
Potato Express is a delicate-looking kitchen gadget that, given a vegetable to embrace, strips it of its skin. Rotato Express automatically peels potatoes, fruits and other vegetables in seconds. Puts an end to thick peels and waste. Simply skewer potato on bottom spike and lower the top spike. Then, push the button to start peeling - automatically stops when complete. Skin peels off in one continuous piece. Ultra safe design with no need to hold or touch while peeling It's cheap, too, at $30. But it's also sold out. Boing Boing Gadgets is solicitiing suggestions for unusual things to...
Open-source? Freeware? Which is it? Some people frequently interchange the terms as a generic way to say that a piece of software costs nothing to download or use. I mean, it's all free, right?Wrong!Open-source software has as much to do with freeware as an apple has to do with an orange. Both are fruits, but each offers a different enough of a texture and flavor to render it completely unique from the other. You cannot, and should not, confuse open-source software with freeware, as there can be grave consequences for such a fatal misstep. Ok, so maybe not grave. But...
Aren’t you momentarily stunned when your cab driver or your shuttle driver at Hertz or your local car dealership says something that really makes you think? Don’t you wonder how someone so smart ended up driving you around? Please, therefore, consider what it must be like to be Douglas Prasher. Prasher, or as he should be known, Dr. Prasher, makes around $8 an hour as a courtesy shuttle driver for an Alabama car dealer. And he’s been stunned to hear that the fruits of his work have led to a Nobel Prize for chemistry–which just happened to be awarded to...
Risking a spacetime paradox that could destroy the entire Universe, a Japanese guy has devised a way to naturally grow Fuji apples with the Apple logo on them. His technique is very simple: Apply an Apple sticker (or iPod or Appleish Heart) a month before harvesting. I knew girls who apply stickers while tanning to get temporal sun tattoos, but I never heard of this technique to do the same thing with fruits. As much as I like Apple and apples, though, I prefer them on suntanning girls. [Nobon via Cult of Mac]...
A Japanese super-fan has grown Apple-branded Fuji apples by adhering stickers to the still-ripening fruits a month before picking. Apple has yet to comment about the unofficially-logo’d Fuji’s, but we doubt they will. That is, unless they don’t taste good. (Or constantly crash.) Nobon via Gizmodo © Joel Horowitz for PSFK, 2008. | Permalink | Comments | Add to del.icio.us...
