A friend just sent me this amazingly simple, fun tone matrix, and I can’t stop playing with it!  You start with a blank slate, and boxes light up as you click.  A “sound wave” travels across the box, and your lit boxes produce sounds, harmonic, dissonant, repetitive – whatever you want to arrange.  Just press…

Early spring is a great time to think about light.  Light is back after the long winter, it is finally warming to our bodies and the earth.  I caught this moment in my garden in the afternoon when the crocus blooms were positively luminous. Please share: Where do you most notice spring light?  And click…

Wow, just wow.  Have you seen the news about the “Kyoto Box,” a solar-powered oven made from nothing more than two cardboard boxes, black paint, aluminum foil, and the rays of the sun?  The box was just awarded first prize in a green invention contest sponsored by the Forum for the Future.  It’s sustainable, scalable,…

Who says the kids at MIT were only about quarks, electrons, and semiconductors?  Turns out that for the past 6 years, a popular club at the prestigious school has celebrated the science of chocolate! The Boston Globe has an article about The Laboratory for Chocolate Science here, and the kids have some cool scientific facts…

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