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Predicting Future Technologies: Keeping in mind that prediction is more of an art than a science, CNN spoke to a host of design and technology experts -- from academics to magazine editors -- in search of what might well just be the shape of things to come.

"Partnering with Icelandic singer andartist Björk, and the New York Public Library, CMOM presents Biophilia, a suite of nine musical compositions with accompanying games, images and videos that encourages users to explore the connections between music, nature and technology. Using provided iPads, CMOM educators will conduct workshops, guiding families through the Biophilia apps to foster creativity and inspire children to tap into their own musical creativity. Children and families will explore the themes of Biophilia while enjoying hands-on science experiments, movement, dance and even music theory."

Cool! Was just talking about Bjork inspirations while playing with other Charlotte Intersections peeps at a music/sound exhibit at Discovery Place.

Today, Canadian Space Agency astronaut Chris Hadfield passed command of the International Space Station to cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov. Hadfield's command has been so much fun, because he not only plays guitar and tweets prolifically; he also gamely answers almost any kind of question in a series of space FYI videos.

Making a case for including art in science and technology work

Perhaps of interest to AZ team? "The IoT World Forum Young Women's Innovation Grand Challenge is a global innovation challenge open to young women between the ages of 13-18. The aim of the challenge is to recognize, promote, and reward young innovators as they come up with new uses for Internet of Things technologies."

This pod cast features Neal Stephenson (who will be a keynote at ASTC's fall conference) and Tim Wu discussing whether we are living in the future...

Can we grow a garden on Mars? would students like to research and write about this question? Maybe an idea or an idea stimulator for an intersections project?

Lots of collaborations might be thinking about how to 'reinvent' the field trip or exhibit visit. Here are some app-based ideas...but could also imagine youth building apps. 

first person by Naomi Shah, winner of Intel Science Talent Search. Discusses her research, her work getting young girls interested in science and her future plans.

A report on Expeditions curriculum in a Maine Middle School.  I love it

NYTimes story about Sylvia Todd, young maker with a following. "With her father, James Todd, filming her, Sylvia uses puppetry, theme music and her home as a laboratory to demonstrate how things work. She makes science fun, mostly by having fun herself."

description of engineering and tinkering fair for kids run by ifixit

This physics teacher gives a lecture from inside CERN's Hadron Collider wearing Google Glass. How cool is that? What would his students write about?!?

A Blueprint: Maker Programs for Youth is just what it sounds like, directions for starting a maker program. It may have ideas that will be helpful to teams as they design their science-literacy projects.

an article on de-extinction. what?!? its a brave (and exciting) new world

wondering if anyone on this list has played Citizen Science

This is a fun little video about predictions made by science fiction writers.

What is life? This is a lovely piece from the NYT about the biological question "what is alive?"

homepage of Public Lab a 5013c dedicated to putting tools for investigating scientific and environmental questions into the hands of citizens. Improving citizen science.

Saving TED talk here as well. Discusses science/engineering as an act of translation, discusses making connections between biological record and human anecdote, and involves fashion, too.