9 Basic Principles of Biomimicry
- Nature runs on sunlight.
- Nature uses only the energy it needs.
- Nature fits form to function.
- Nature recycles everything.
- Nature rewards cooperation.
- Nature banks on diversity.
- Nature demands local expertise.
- Nature curbs excesses from within.
- Nature taps the power of limits.
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wnyc:
With cicadas set to emerge from the ground this year after a 17-year sleep, WNBC TV here in New York City did something neat: they followed up on a couple they had interviewed during the last great cicada invasion in 1996. Then they went a step further and dug up a news piece from 1979 on the same issue. From the ridiculous Star Trek-inspired set to the sit-down stand-up by the correspondent, this segment is a real blast from the TV news past.
Awesome.
Manfred Mohr’s Youtube Channel
A collection of videos featuring works by pioneering computer artist Manfred Mohr, many dating back to the early 70’s. Also includes interviews and lectures:
Manfred Mohr is considered a pioneer of digital art. After discovering Prof. Max Bense’s information aesthetics in the early 1960’s, Mohr’s artistic thinking was radically changed. Within a few years, his art transformed from abstract expressionism to computer generated algorithmic geometry. Encouraged by the computer music composer Pierre Barbaud whom he met in 1967, Mohr programmed his first computer drawings in 1969.
You can go to the Youtube channel here
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A universal guilt enshrouded America; and it attached to all who participated in those times.
It attached to the fatuous, empty-headed liberals who had made it so easy for the enemy by yielding them so much; it attached to the embittered conservatives who had closed the door on human love and frozen out the possibility of communication between peoples.
It rested on the military, who had been too jealous of one another and too slow, and on the scientists who had been too self righteous and irresponsible and smug about shifting the implications of what they did onto someone else, and on the press, which had been too lazy and compliant in the face of evils foreign and domestic, and on the politicians, who had been too self-interested and not true enough to the destiny of the land they had in keeping, and not least upon the ordinary citizen, who somehow didn’t give quite enough of a damn about their country in spite of all their self-congratulatory airs about how patriotic they were.
Nobody could stand forth now in America and say, “I am guiltless. I had no part in this,” though they all did.
— Alan Drury, Advise and Consent, 1959Angelina Jolie had a double mastectomy, in case you hadn’t heard. How dare she remove those ticking time bombs from her chest, amiright? Like, hasn’t she learned by now that her body is public domain and we all get to vote on what she does with it? Sheesh, how selfish can ya get.
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ABC - Arduino Basic Connections - Card 30
