If the masses were not already aware, the environment needs substantial help, lest the consequences be dire. Even though few people agree on the details of the best way to sort society’s environmental problems, plenty of organizations across the world are...

In October 2018, French photographer Mathieu Stern created a camera lens made of ice from an iceberg in Iceland that had been purified over the last 10,000 years, claiming no other photographer had done this before. Stern modified his Sony camera to hold...

Throughout most of 2018, French “special metals” distributor STAINLESS and French watchmakers UTINAM Besançon collaborated to make France’s first automatic, mechanical 3D-printed watch. UTINAM Besançon was established by clock maker Phillippe Lebru in...

Ballet dancers demonstrating their abilities to be the lords and/or ladies of the dance is truly far from effortless, and the extent to which they inure their feet for their efforts at athleticism is borderline masochistic. In August 2018, Bezalel Academy...

Coral reefs are important to the millions of species that live in them as well as humans, protecting coastlines from storm surges and offering income from tourism and fishing. Half of the world’s coral reefs have died in the last 30 years, and 90 percent...

In February 2017, the World Advance Saving Project (WASP) of Massa Lombarda, Italy started exploring the concept of gluten-free 3D printed food, taking inspiration from Food Ink of London, England, the world’s first 3D printing pop-up restaurant. WASP...

In October 2015, the so-called “The Performance Project” of Vienna, Austria developed a system to experiment with 3D printed food for elderly patients with dysphagia. Dysphagia is the symptom of difficulty in deglutition, although it is sometimes referred...

In April 2017, start-up chocolate company La Miam Factory of Belgium (“miam” being French for representing the concept of “yum”) was spun off from Smart Gastronomy Lab (SGL) at the University of Liège. The SGL researches technology for use in the food and...

As a way to make food stuffs into customized shapes, 3D printed food is arguably still something of a novelty. A more serious application of the 3D printed food is creating foodstuffs that are easier to eat for people with difficulty swallowing, as well as...

In 1934, Russian sculptor Ivan Shadr created a sculpture of a naked woman posing with an oar unsurprisingly named “Girl with an Oar”. The eight-foot-tall statue was originally installed in Gorky Park of Moscow, meant to represent displays of...