Water is essential to life on earth, yet humans populate many regions where there is a huge water shortage. If necessity is the mother of all invention it should come as no surprise that the number of innovative solutions to remedy this problem is huge. One of those solutions recently caught my attention; People have literally learned how to catch the water in the air!
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Malaria is a deadly disease that is caused by parasites that are transmitted when female mosquitoes feed on blood. The disease killed around one million children in Africa during 2008. Every 45 second an African child dies in Malaria. Read the rest of this entry »
Back in 1968 Spencer Silver, a chemist working for 3M, wanted to invent a strong adhesive. The adhesive he ended up with was however very weak. This was exactly the opposite quality that Spencer originally wanted in his adhesive, but he refused to think of it as a failure. The adhesive had other qualities too, such as not leaving any residue when it was removed. Spencer went on to market and even deliver seminars about the adhesive at 3M.
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The ancient Chinese philosopher Confucius stated that honorable men doesn’t allow any knives on their table. It affected the Chinese food culture a great deal. Read the rest of this entry »
Herbjörn Wilhelmsen