An Indian NGO has started a website directed at kids to educate them about the environment. OneWorld has a great description of the site with some good background too.
Indian NGO Center for Environment Education (CEE) is working to promote awareness and understanding of environmental issues in the country. It has recently introduced a website for children – www.kidsrgreen.org – that allows children to explore and discover environment-related issues.
The finalists are now online for the Eco Challenge, which is something that MTV and GE have conceived together.
“The mtvU GE ecomagination Challenge is asking college students from around the country to develop new, creative ways to green their campus. We’re looking for innovative and groundbreaking ideas that can have a positive impact at the local level or the global level — or both. The sky is (literally) the limit.”
To me this seems like an odd partnership for an environmental cause, but whatever their reasons I’m glad they are doing it.
Thanks, mkb!
My post yesterday on ugly creatures got a some people telling me that I spelt ‘the’ wrong. It was on purpose, to highlight the stupidity of the internet which in that context should be called “teh internets“.
Clearly, the people who were texting me and told me about the “typo” don’t know about geek humor. Well, here is the Urban Dictionary, a place to figure out what all those kids are saying. Some entries are NSFW and kinda tasteless, but hey, so is the internet.
This a fun thing for this Friday. Japan now has a robot museum.
“Finally, scholars have a place to conduct Astro Boy studies. Robothink, Japan’s first bot museum, opened its doors this fall. The 28,000-square-foot facility is housed in a former used-car dealership in Nagoya. From Robby to Aibo, the droid depository features dozens of actual automatons, plus replicas of real and fictional bots.”
A professor in the UK has come up with a new number (really it’s a non-number-number) that means we no longer have to divide by zero. Instead, zero is replaced with “nullity,” which is nothing times infinity.
“The theory of nullity is set to make all kinds of sums possible that, previously, scientists and computers couldn’t work around.
“We’ve just solved a problem that hasn’t been solved for twelve hundred years – and it’s that easy,” proclaims Dr Anderson having demonstrated his solution on a whiteboard at Highdown School, in Emmer Green.”