Frankenstein exhibition @ Rijksmuseum Boerhaave
Come and meet Frankie at the Frankenstein exhibition @ Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. Opening 16 March – 28 October 2018
Meet Frankie
Frankie is an artificial starfish, made by the SRMG. His five-legged body consists of 100% silicone rubber. He is a so-called soft robot and he will be starring in the …
Centre Pompidou
Last week, I gave a presentation at a conference in Paris. It allowed me to go and see the exhibition Imprimer le Monde in Paris’ famous Centre Pompidou. The exhibition is showcasing …
PINC.18
May 16, I will speak at PINC.18. Check out my talk on the PINC YouTube channel. It promises to be “a bubble bath for your brain. Storytellers from all over the world …
CineKid
This week I visited the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam for the CineKid festival, the biggest media festival in Europe just for kids. While normally open specifically for children, during Wednesday evening’s reception …
Touch-Me-Not: Mimosa Pudica
https://www.scienceabc.com/nature/how-mimosa-pudica-plant-leaves-work-sleep-touch-shake-turgor-pressure.html
Harry Kroto
On April 30th, English chemist Harry Kroto passed away. Kroto shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in chemistry with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley for their discovery of buckminsterfullerenes: carbon molecules that resemble the …
Mesmerizing Ceilings
In Iran, a local photographer captures a part of the country that we rarely see in the media: its ceilings. Through his Instagram account ‘M1rasoulifard’, the photographer showcases complex patterns to eye-catching mosaics …
#techstyle @ MFA Boston
The Art of Innovation in Fashion Showcased in #techstyle @ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Clothes that respond to the environment, dresses that you can tweet, fabrics patterned by lasers and …
Old Chamber “Oude Zaal” – House of Representatives
Originally built as a ballroom for Stadholder Willem V, the Old Chamber in The Hague served as chamber to the House of Representatives from 1815 to 1992, when MPs moved …