Inventions
Questions
1. What is the greatest invention ever?
2. What is the best invention of the last 10 years?
3. What would you like to invent?
4. What is the world’s most dangerous invention?
5. Do new inventions always create new problems?
6. What is the world’s most useless invention?
7. How was the world different before the wheel was invented?
8. How do people invent things?
9. What invention do you think an ant might like?
Videos
Since the 1980s, the Rubik’s Cube has captivated the minds of puzzle solvers around the globe. But how did one of the world’s most addictive and prolific puzzles come to be? It all began in the beautiful city of Budapest,
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in the beautiful mind of Ernő Rubik, a design and architecture lecturer looking for a tactile way to teach his students about three-dimensional space. But the story’s real “twist” came when the creator had to engineer a solution to his self-made conundrum. Think you have what it takes to crack the code? Take it up with the master himself.
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Category: Sports
Keywords: Inventions | Playing
Did you know that gold is extraterrestrial? Instead of arising from our planet’s rocky crust, it was actually cooked up in space and is present on Earth because of cataclysmic stellar explosions called supernovae. CERN Scientist
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David Lunney outlines the incredible journey of gold from space to Earth.
Lesson by David Lunney, animation by Andrew Foerster.
Lesson by David Lunney, animation by Andrew Foerster.
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Category: Nature & Environment
Keywords: Inventions | Wealth