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 …

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 …