BabyWasher, the automatic dirty-diaper-changing invention, honored by the 2019 Ig Nobel Prize for engineering, now has a name, and is now undergoing intense development. You can follow the progress by visiting the inventor’s new web site, BabyWashers.com. The BabyWashers site explains: What Does BabyWasher Do? After placing the baby in the BabyWasher’s chair and pressing […]
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The Virtue of Vagueness in Vision Statements
Those tasked with running large organisations sometimes have to make major changes to achieve organisational goals. What can be done to help ensure that these changes are effective? One strategy – proposed by professor Dennis A. Gioia and colleagues at the Department of Management and Organization of Penn State University, is to deliberately introduce a […]
Cereals with that patented chameleon quality
When parents warn children not to play with their food, there’s now reason to add a menacing “even if”: “even if the food begins playing with you”. Recently, food was given a new ability to play, a little, the moment it encounters milk. Researchers have patented a way to make breakfast cereal change colour as […]
Change your eye color: 2 methods
Say you want to change the color of your eyes. You might imagine two basic ways of doing it, ways we might call either “scrape” or “paint”. In the first method, you’d remove some of the current color. In the second method you’d apply a new layer of paint, or something akin to it. Here […]