Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: The Embedded Energy in Food Waste in the United States
Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: The Embedded Energy in Food Waste in the United States
Wasted Food, Wasted Energy: The Embedded Energy in Food Waste in the United States
Design Blog Green Burials: Recycling our Loved Ones Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
A collection of Polaroids, one per day, from March 31, 1979 through October 25, 1997. There’s no author listed, no contact info, and no other indication as to where these came from. In 1979 the…
The deceased, placed in a fetal position inside the biodegradable coffin made of cornstarch plastic, is buried like a seed into the soil and a tree is planted at the gravesite. Over time, the…
207 Benefits of Distributed Resources
Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security is a 1982 book by Amory B. Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins, prepared originally as a Pentagon study, and re-released in 2001 following the September…
Historical evidence shows that the 1918-1919 flu epidemic virus, H1N1, was extremely lethal (CFR > 60%) in isolated communities without prior exposure to similar viruses. This raises the extremely…
Crabgrass currently consists of a solid suite of group collaboration tools, such as private wikis, task lists, file repository, and decision making tools
Singapore Debuts First Social Robots At Robocup 2010
The following text and pictures illustrate an experiment I carried out that involved training laboratory standard rats in trading in the Foreign Exchange and Commodity Futures markets, with the…
Our program is a professional service to the financial industry; rats are being trained to become superior traders in the financial markets. Using our own methodology in accordance with…
Peter Norvig’s library
The meta-currency project is about defining an approach to creating a currency network: MetaCurrency is the name for the infrastructure and protocols necessary for an open source economy, and Free…
“list of the 50 most significant modern and contemporary political ideologies. Students and teachers may find it especially valuable (it worked well in a class I guest-taught in the Peace and…
“…the works which most closely resemble in idea and execution the composite heads of Arcimboldo are the Mughal miniature paintings of fantastic animals which are mosaics of intertwined animal and…
This document gives a short introduction to writing recipes in the RecipeBook XML markup language. Several examples are given to illustrate key points.
A Prolegomenon to Recipology
The Standardized Recipe Language Sampler
“Expert Credibility in Climate Change,” a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that 97-98% of climate researchers examined who are most actively publishing in the field…
Interview with Stephen Schneider on climate science expert credibility study
Opening of Hikaru no Go: Heian Gensou Ibunroku, a Playstation game with the HnG characters all in the Heian period.
..:: International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology ::..
not just another attempt to revive plant electrophysiology in a new cover - it is rather the very first time when all the plant sciences will meet together to study diverse aspects of signalling and communication at all levels of plant organization, starting from single molecules and ending at ecological communities. Twentieth-century biology was dominated by attempts to reduce extremely complex biological phenomena to the actions of single molecules. While this process will continue in future, we also need to integrate the avalanche of obtained data together using system-based approaches.
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading… - but does it float
Bruce Nussbaum started a firestorm with the question “Is humanitarian design the new imperialism?” — and the conversation has spread through the blogosphere. Here, a digest of essays and related…
Humanitarian Design vs. Design Imperialism: Debate Summary: Change Observer: Design Observer
Narrative fractals are the simple patterns found in any kind of story or sub-story. They can be sequenced in any number of ways. They can be found at any level of the story. Their expression and…
Synthetic Biology is a new approach to engineering biology, generally defined as the application of engineering principles to the complexity of biology. Biology has become a new material for…
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple
the oldest living things in the world (in progress)
A lot of real life problems can be expressed in terms of entities related to each other and best captured using graphical models. Well defined graph theory can be applied to processing the graph and…
Laboratorio Internazionale di Neurobiologia Vegetale
the deep symbiosis between bacteria and their human hosts is forcing scientists to ask: are we organisms or living ecosystems?
Bubble Series par Melvin Sokolsky pour Harper’s magazine 1963 Voyons Voir – J’aime le frivole
Bubble Series par Melvin Sokolsky pour Harper’s magazine 1963 Voyons Voir – J’aime le frivole
I was recently asked if I had hope for the world. I do. There are lots of reasons why, but the three biggest areas are breakthroughs in energy, fuel and food production. These are not all…
Three reasons for hope: energy, fuel and food » The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention
“Interpol intercepted covert catastrophic incident kit”, 2008 by Nathan Carter.
The machine learning toolbox’s focus is on large scale kernel methods and especially on Support Vector Machines (SVM) [1]. It provides a generic SVM object interfacing to several different SVM…
It’s this: Facts don’t necessarily have the power to change our minds. In fact, quite the opposite. In a series of studies in 2005 and 2006, researchers at the University of Michigan found that when…
China Study II: Switch to Western diet may bring Western-type diseases
Fuego is a collection of C++ libraries for developing software for the game of Go. It includes a Go player using Monte-Carlo tree search. The initial version of the code was released by the Computer…
Assessing Resilience in Social-ecological systems: A practitioner’s workbook
In what follows we shall try to think about dwelling and building. This thinking about building does not presume to discover architectural ideas, let alone to give rules for building. This venture in…
rammellzee :: elegy for a gothic futurist
A strange creature called a slime mould (belonging to the category ‘Protist’) falls halfway between a collection of single cells and an organism. Dictyostelium discoideum as it is called, is…
“Paolo Patizi decided to focus on the beauty of birds in this series of photographs entitled European Sterling, the photos illustrates thousands of birds in the city of Rome forming together in the…
Guidelines for Group Collaboration and Emergence « emergent by design
Biology Professor Emeritus John Bonner’s microscope films show the curiously collective nature of slime molds.
A strange creature called a slime mould (belonging to the category ‘Protist’) falls halfway between a collection of single cells and an organism. Dictyostelium discoideum as it is called, is interesting in that it is at times multicellular (with around 100,000 cells), while at others, as Winfree puts it: ‘Its cells wander independently, like the individual workers of an ant colony. Like the ant hive, Dictyostelium is a superorganism, a genetically homogenous being composed of autonomous individuals, nevertheless organised altruistically for the collective good.’ (Coveney & Highfield, 1991: 230-1).
Every once in a while, some armed platoon of “resilient nation-builder” militia types would come by on their rusty bicycles. Sometimes they brought shot-up victims on stretchers. The Liberated…
Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics: The Practice and Promise of the Real-Time City
Worldchanging: What if the Public Had Perfect Climate Information?