Pretzel Mania 2022 🥨
We had so much fun at Simon’s first official cubing competition in Pennsylvania over the weekend! It was a treat in itself to finally attend an event where children are … Continue reading Pretzel Mania 2022 🥨
Category: Geography
Inside and Outside
It has been a month since we moved into our more permanent home here in greater Boston. It’s a compromise between city life and suburban quiet, something in between. The … Continue reading Inside and Outside
I want a Rubik’s Cube Cake for my birthday!
It was Simon’s birthday yesterday and as this year is all about cubing, yesterday was no exception. It has sort of become a tradition to celebrate his birthday at our … Continue reading I want a Rubik’s Cube Cake for my birthday!
Het Zwin
This weekend we went on a bird expedition to a nature park at the Belgian coast. Many birds come there for the winter, other bird species will come back in … Continue reading Het Zwin
World Cleanup Day 2020
10 times the volume of an olympic swimming pool of plastic waste ends up in the world ocean every hour. E v e r y h o u r. Today … Continue reading World Cleanup Day 2020
Math at the beach
We also visited another old favorite, the beach in Noordwijk. By the way, that’s where ESA is located, toon (they’ve got an awesome space museum we used to frequent when … Continue reading Math at the beach
Discovering a different kind of architecture in Amsterdam
Possibly influenced by our newly found love for the Antwerp harbor, we have developed more appreciation for the eclectic atmosphere around Amsterdam’s Silodam and Westerdokseiland.
How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation?
This is Simon’s contribution to #blacklivesmatter How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation? This video and coding project is based on Segregation Solitaire by Thomas Schelling, an American mathematician and … Continue reading How Can Math Help Resolve Racial Segregation?
Watching Bob and Doug start a new era of space exploration
We watched both on Wednesday, May 27 and Saturday, May 30 when it actually happened: the historic launch of Crew Dragon Demo-2, a commercial state-of-the-art aircraft, marking the start of … Continue reading Watching Bob and Doug start a new era of space exploration
World Science Scholars Feature Simon’s visit to CERN in a newsletter. The current course is about neurons. Reading Stephen Wolfram.
Simon’s September visit to CERN has been featured in a World Science Scholars newsletter: Here’s our update on the World Science Scholars program. Simon has finished the first bootcamp course … Continue reading World Science Scholars Feature Simon’s visit to CERN in a newsletter. The current course is about neurons. Reading Stephen Wolfram.
CERN Open Days September 14 – 15, 2019
The most important experience was actually simply to see how huge the Large Hadron Collider is. We totally didn’t expect the site of every experiment on the 27km ring to … Continue reading CERN Open Days September 14 – 15, 2019
Surrounded by the equations that changed the world
At the main entrance to CERN there is an impressive smooth curve of a memorial to the world’s most important equations and scientific discoveries:
Geeks out of the box 