Welcome back to K Exchange’s Monday Link Review, your weekly dose of fun, interesting and informative links intended to get you ready to face your work week. With the autumnal equinox set to hit at exactly 5:18pm EDT, this serves as the last summer edition of 2009, so break out the sandals and the sun tan lotion one more time as we take a look around the internet.
The Curious Cat Engineering Blog checked in last week to deliver info on the brand new 3D Printer from Stratasys Inc. The printer actually creates 3D models to save time for Engineers (a quest near and dear to the hearts of those of us at K Exchange and Knovel)
If you don’t have $15,000 around to buy a 3D Printer, you might want to try checking out Lehigh University’s “Engineering Day 2009 Competition” I have to admit I’m a sucker for these kinds of competitions, takes me back to the days of building giant Lego buildings.
WebUrbanist has a very cool feature this week, 7 More Amazing Engineering Wonders of Today and Tomorrow detailing projects like the Large Hadron Collider and the Dubai World Islands. This is just the latest in their 7 Wonders Entries, a series that is more than worth your time to check out.
Finally, MSNBC looks at scientists answering a question that has long plagued mankind.We know that yawning is contagious is human beings… but what about chimps?
October 26, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Hm, I’m happy with this but nevertheless not absolutely positive, thus i am gonna research a little bit more.