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Party Camp’s Water Balloon Fight 22 Aug 2013 | 01:51 am
There were chaotic scenes at Seattle Center’s International Fountain over the weekend when over 4,000 people gathered for an attempt to break the world record for the world’s biggest water balloon fig...
Institute for Disease Modeling 13 Aug 2013 | 03:01 am
We are pleased to announce that the Epidemiological Modeling (EMOD) group at Intellectual Ventures Laboratory has been renamed the Institute for Disease Modeling. Over the last six years, the EMOD gro...
Milk Safety 5 Aug 2013 | 08:40 pm
Photo: Matt Rosen Food safety and agriculture are issues that can limit the quality of life in the developing world. In Kenya, where much of the milk is not pasteurized and refrigeration is not commo...
Brainstorm: World’s Biggest Waterfight 31 Jul 2013 | 10:01 pm
Party Camp, the people who brought Seattle the world’s biggest snowball fight, have turned their focus this summer to water balloons. “The World’s Biggest Waterfight” is scheduled for August 17th as p...
Scientist in History: Nicolaus Copernicus 22 Jul 2013 | 07:51 pm
Mid 16th century portriat of Nicolas Copernicus; unknown painter (Wikimedia Commons) Nicolaus Copernicus is largely believed to be the founder of modern astronomy and an initiator of the Scientific R...
Example of Angular Coefficient Method for Vacuum System Design 17 Jul 2013 | 01:21 am
One aspect of modeling the inner workings of the Passive Vaccine Storage Device (PVSD) being undertaken by the Lab’s Thermo-Fluidics group involves measuring the “gettering” rate of a specialized mixt...
A Story of Invention: the Passive Vaccine Storage Device 9 Jul 2013 | 11:46 pm
During the infancy of IV Lab, we were asked to investigate a challenging problem of great importance—to develop a method to radically change the ability of medical personnel in developing nations to d...
From TED to China: Invention is a Journey 9 Jul 2013 | 05:38 pm
It’s often said that necessity is the mother of invention, so it makes sense then that great inventions are often born from challenging problems of significant importance. In 2008, Bill Gates came to ...
Vector Encounter at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 1 Jul 2013 | 07:52 pm
Vector Encounter Participants Recently, Sarah Walters, PhD traveled to Baltimore and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to attend an intimate meeting with other scientists in vector and ...
Seattle Power Tool Drag Races 24 Jun 2013 | 06:45 pm
For the past 8 years, HAZARDFACTORY has orchestrated the Seattle Power Tool Drag Races in Georgetown as part of the Georgetown Carnival. The philosophy behind the Seattle Power Tool Drag Races is to ...
