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Did you know?
The "@" mark has a real meaning in a lot of languages. Hungary: wormy. Italy: snake. Czech Rep.: salted herring rolls. Denmark: pigtail. Finnland: cattail. French: snail. Greece: little frog. China: little mouse (mandarin). Russia: doggy. Germany: spider monkey (lit.: hanging monkey). Sweden: (elephant's) trunk or cinnamon roll. Turkey: rose
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After taking exams on Thursday and Friday, I went to the Night of the Museums on saturday <3
We also went to the Castle of Buda, where looot of foreigners went, but that was not as memorable as the visit in our own library 8D
Ya know~ Sometimes I'm really proud of the people teaching in our school.
Not that I'm not proud of the other scientists. Like there is that guy, who discovered a way to double the number of the stem-cells in the body, or the guy who built a home-made 3D scanner, or the scientists group who were already successful in creating chimeras long before the dolly-experiments started. They didn't get much attention though, because people tend to forget about our little country.
But this time... I think it can change.
And I feel really lucky to be able to see one of the creators with my own eyes.
He is a teacher at our school. He doesn't teach me though, because he is a teacher of the architects.
OMG he has AWSOME sense of humor xD
I thought I'll die laughing at some parts of his presentation.
And he is really humble @_@... I mean... I totally think of him as a genious. Someone who you'd really want to be. And still... he's SO humble, like if he had done nothing @_@;
Oh right... The homepage of the project: http://gomboc.eu/
(Please check out if he's going to your country, and if he does, please watch out for the event ^_^)
This whole thing is about a body that has only one stable balance point AND made of homogeneous material the same time. For example a sphere made out of such materials has infinite stable balance points. The cool thing is that mathematically this stuff is just as sphere-like as a real sphere would be.
A lot of people said that there is no such thing as this. Well, since noone could see it, of course they didn't belive in it.
Why couldn't they see it?
The shape can not be maintained in the un-animated nature, because if it gets disturbed by something that changes the shape only a bit, it ruins everything. And.... Think about the power of wind and water has on those huge rocks in the sea. @_@
So they figured out that evoultion is the key is for this, because the genes (or DNA if you wish) mainain a shape like that. And this is how they begin to examine turtles who could roll back to their stomach without doing anything.
No wonder a lot of companies are interested in it. Just think of it... The key to perfect stabilization of bodies and processes \@_@/
After that we went to the Living Library, where the books were people. You could lend a book for a half an hour and talk with it. It's like talking to somebody from whom you know something for sure, but you don't know a lot of other things ^_^
We "read" a Psychologist and a Handicapped. I really wanted to read the Priest, Accoustic and the Gay guy too, but the other two people wanted to go to an other location (there were more than 1500 programs @_@)
I also took part in a game . I had to pair up life stories and citations to photos of people like Ghandi or Martin Luther King. I won a bracelet and stickers. "All different, all equal"
Na~ I'm so happy that I chose our own library in the end <3
The "@" mark has a real meaning in a lot of languages. Hungary: wormy. Italy: snake. Czech Rep.: salted herring rolls. Denmark: pigtail. Finnland: cattail. French: snail. Greece: little frog. China: little mouse (mandarin). Russia: doggy. Germany: spider monkey (lit.: hanging monkey). Sweden: (elephant's) trunk or cinnamon roll. Turkey: rose
---
After taking exams on Thursday and Friday, I went to the Night of the Museums on saturday <3
We also went to the Castle of Buda, where looot of foreigners went, but that was not as memorable as the visit in our own library 8D
Ya know~ Sometimes I'm really proud of the people teaching in our school.
Not that I'm not proud of the other scientists. Like there is that guy, who discovered a way to double the number of the stem-cells in the body, or the guy who built a home-made 3D scanner, or the scientists group who were already successful in creating chimeras long before the dolly-experiments started. They didn't get much attention though, because people tend to forget about our little country.
But this time... I think it can change.
And I feel really lucky to be able to see one of the creators with my own eyes.
He is a teacher at our school. He doesn't teach me though, because he is a teacher of the architects.
OMG he has AWSOME sense of humor xD
I thought I'll die laughing at some parts of his presentation.
And he is really humble @_@... I mean... I totally think of him as a genious. Someone who you'd really want to be. And still... he's SO humble, like if he had done nothing @_@;
Oh right... The homepage of the project: http://gomboc.eu/
(Please check out if he's going to your country, and if he does, please watch out for the event ^_^)
This whole thing is about a body that has only one stable balance point AND made of homogeneous material the same time. For example a sphere made out of such materials has infinite stable balance points. The cool thing is that mathematically this stuff is just as sphere-like as a real sphere would be.
A lot of people said that there is no such thing as this. Well, since noone could see it, of course they didn't belive in it.
Why couldn't they see it?
The shape can not be maintained in the un-animated nature, because if it gets disturbed by something that changes the shape only a bit, it ruins everything. And.... Think about the power of wind and water has on those huge rocks in the sea. @_@
So they figured out that evoultion is the key is for this, because the genes (or DNA if you wish) mainain a shape like that. And this is how they begin to examine turtles who could roll back to their stomach without doing anything.
No wonder a lot of companies are interested in it. Just think of it... The key to perfect stabilization of bodies and processes \@_@/
After that we went to the Living Library, where the books were people. You could lend a book for a half an hour and talk with it. It's like talking to somebody from whom you know something for sure, but you don't know a lot of other things ^_^
We "read" a Psychologist and a Handicapped. I really wanted to read the Priest, Accoustic and the Gay guy too, but the other two people wanted to go to an other location (there were more than 1500 programs @_@)
I also took part in a game . I had to pair up life stories and citations to photos of people like Ghandi or Martin Luther King. I won a bracelet and stickers. "All different, all equal"
Na~ I'm so happy that I chose our own library in the end <3