Welcome to this week’s edition of the Monday Link Review. As we at Knovel gear up to release some big news tomorrow, we don’t want to forget our loyal readers.  While you wait to see what we have in store for you, check out this week’s links! Gizmodo looks at the brainchild of an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, who created a very handy Lens-Free Cell Phone Microscope….

Green technologies have been a hot button issue for both the media and the government lately, which means it’s time for engineers across the board to start stepping up. So what has the engineering community come up with? Solar panels? Eh. Electric cars? Ehhhhhh… Wind turbines? Whaaaatever… All of these have been talked about for at least 40 years. One of them has only been half way implemented, and even…

The founding of YouTube in February, 2005 stands as one of the greatest moments in internet history. The implications of easily available streaming videos were boundless. Our favorite result of YouTube? Wacky science and engineering related music videos! We’ve ranked our top 5 and presented them here for you, in one easy to swallow post. So grab some popcorn, sit back, relax and enjoy. Disagree with our selections? We’ve managed…

The following is an actual discussion my brain and I had the other night: Brain: What do you think you are doing? Me: It’s called Calculus, and I was hoping we could do it together… Brain: We had deal: I function normally; you don’t push me past 9pm. Me: That was college; we can’t get started on homework until much later now! Brain: Keep pushing me and I guarantee I…

Another Monday morning means it’s time for another Monday Link Review. From newfangled bridges to new climate fixes, this weeks links are not to be missed. From the world of transportation engineering, Popular Mechanics has a very cool list of The World’s 18 Strangest Bridges which spans from innovative construction to weird designs. MIT News takes an in depth look at geo-engineering in The Politics of Climate Fixes, a really…