Archives for December 2017

STEM Mentor-Mentee Program #2

Posted on December 27, 2017 ·

We are planning to conduct our STEM Mentor-Mentee Program #2 at SK Intan Baiduri, Kepong, Kuala Lumpur. After our successful first program at SK Padang Tembak, we were invited by SK Intan Baiduri to increase STEM literacy at their school. SK Intan Baiduri is very committed to the STEM awareness program for their students. They have a Green Energy lab fully equipped with green energy kits and toys for learning all about green energy.

We are also super excited because we will have cooperation from Brainet, a fun learning education provider for kids. Today is our first meeting with the YDP PIBG, Guru Besar, teachers and General Manager of Brainet.

Also please go to this link for a report from SK Intan Baiduri.

Filed Under: STEM Tagged With: SK Intan Baiduri

A nanofabricator will change everything

Posted on December 26, 2017 ·

Needs and wants will be a thing of the past.

James Burke has a vision for the future. He believes that by the middle of this century, perhaps as early as 2042, our world will be defined by a new device: the nanofabricator.

These tiny factories will be large at first, like early computers, but soon enough you’ll be able to buy one that can fit on a desk. You’ll pour in some raw materials—perhaps water, air, dirt, and a few powders of rare elements if required—and the nanofabricator will go to work. Powered by flexible photovoltaic panels that coat your house, it will tear apart the molecules of the raw materials, manipulating them on the atomic level to create…anything you like. Food. A new laptop. A copy of Kate Bush’s debut album, The Kick Inside. Anything, providing you can give it both the raw materials and the blueprint for creation.

How a Machine That Can Make Anything Would Change Everything

Filed Under: Futurology Tagged With: nanotech

Daily Leafy Greens May Slow Brain Aging

Posted on December 25, 2017 ·

Eating green vegetables should be a habit.

https://www.rush.edu/news/press-releases/daily-leafy-greens-may-slow-cognitive-decline

While cognitive abilities naturally decline with age, eating one serving of leafy green vegetables a day may aid in preserving memory and thinking skills as a person grows older, according to a study by researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago. The study results were published in the Dec. 20, issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

Filed Under: Science news Tagged With: neuroscience