Category Archives: Technology

Interview with inventor of Kevlar, Stephanie Kwolek

robinna/ June 23, 2014/ Technology, History of Technology, STEM, Innovation, Creativity, Blog posts/ 0 comments

I love this story. RIP, Stephanie Kwolek. “I love learning and I’m love learning new things, making discoveries… while her mother encourage creativity and even a future in fashion design,  her father was a naturalist and inspired stephanie’s curiosity about the outdoors. I had a father who was very much interested and plants and trees. I spent a lot of

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Mexico’s statement to support OA

robinna/ June 17, 2014/ Technology, Blog posts, Site achives/ 0 comments

Just last week, Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto announced via his official webpage the enactment of reforms to several federal law frameworks concerning science, technology and education that will allegedly “insert Mexico into the Information and Knowledge Society”. The legislation changes, he claimed, would: • Give access to Mexicans open access to the scientific and academic production that is financed

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World Cup opening ceremony will be made by a paraplegic wearing an Iron Man-like robotic bodysuit controlled by signals from the brain

robinna/ June 9, 2014/ Technology, Blog posts/ 0 comments

 A little world cup news, an interesting story in technology.  The first kick at the World Cup opening ceremony will be made by a paraplegic wearing an Iron Man-like robotic bodysuit controlled by signals from the brain. Brazilian doctor Miguel Nicolelis led a team of 156 scientists from around the world to create the futuristic exoskeleton, which was designed to

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