A few months ago, UbiK concieved and developed the Spin UOC for the Open University of Catalonia (UOC, OSRT): an event devoted to foster collaborative action and knowledge transfer by promoting the most innovative projects from UOC. Spin UOC took place last 13th of June with 12 innovative...
We quickly plunge into Wikipedia to remember or confirm some data or fact; we are always watching for our social media; we save images, videos and documents in the cloud; we check online maps to know how to reach a concrete place; we search for...
The academic world doesn't have to be boring. That's what we think, after several years of listening to researchers from different scientific and technological areas explaining to us a lot of interesting stuff that they believe it is boring for the non specialized audiences. The...
Chemistry looks like a tough nut to crack. It is, indeed. But it can also be very interesting, once you understand what is it all about. That is why it was such a challenge for us to make a promotional video for the Resolve Project, an european...
Regarding to european project Resolve we created, among other videos that you can watch in our Vimeo channel, this one in which we explain, in the simplest way, what chirality is (a property of quite many molecules). Chirality is something really common in our lives...
There is an increasing concern about what we eat, not only regarding the amount of fats, sugars and proteins we consume but also concerning the additives in food. We also know more about some polluting agents that can reach the table, and thus, our body....
We have always complained about doctors having inintelligible writing and being almost impossible their prescriptions to be understood. Well, this complaint will become soon a souvenir from the past. Something we will tell our grandchildren, maybe. The reason is that lots of doctors are changing their...
Sometimes, new information technologies can be overwhelming. We are fed up with finding out what did our cousin eat for breakfast. :D But we can discover as well technological tools which are really significant and useful to society and then we reconcile with this strange times...
What happens from the moment a scientist discovers something important until we benefit from it in our daily lives? In contrast to what many people believes, science isn't something that is achieved by an isolated man with messy hair and in a lab coat, unconnected...
Ubik designed and thought of Hi havia una piulada as an initiative for the UOC's Research and Knowledge Transfer Support Office and the UOC. What is this about? This initiative entails the writing of a collaborative story by adding sentences of 140 characters –either via...
