The Science of Surprise
At the Rendez-vous de Septembre each year, representatives of the world’s insurance and reinsurance companies gather for one week to assess global market conditions and the catastrophes that might…
Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures
Gamers beat algorithms at finding protein structures
Protuberant Cloud by SPAN
The workshop Protuberant Cloud dealt with the creation of continuous differentiation by the application of a multiplicity of repetitive components. The basis of the components is a space filling…
The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music,…
“The task of art is to transform what is continuously happening to us, to transform all these things into symbols, into music, into something which can last in man’s memory. That is our duty. If we don’t fulfill it, we feel unhappy. A writer or any artist has the sometimes joyful duty to transform all that into symbols. These symbols could be colors, forms or sounds. For a poet, the symbols are sounds and also words, fables, stories, poetry. The work of a poet never ends. It has nothing to do with working hours. Your are continuously receiving things from the external world. These must be transformed, and eventually will be transformed. This revelation can appear anytime. A poet never rests. He’s always working, even when he dreams. Besides, the life of a writer, is a lonely one. You think you are alone, and as the years go by, if the stars are on your side, you may discover that you are at the center of a vast circle of invisible friends whom you will never get to know but who love you. And that is an immense reward.”
–Jorge Luis Borges
Tommy Støckel’s Art of Tomorrow
Experiment: Can You Mine Gold From Old Motherboards?
Principally used in jewelry, gold (chemical symbol Au) is also used generally in manufacturing (and by the electronics and computer industries in particular) due to its excellent thermal and…
Battleship "Murmansk", Sverdlov class
TheSkyIsBlack
USS Oriskany
Жуков на ступенях Рейхстага. - sergey larenkov
HELMO
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
Darkroom Demo
Design Blog Green Burials: Recycling our Loved Ones Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Design Blog Green Burials: Recycling our Loved Ones Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
He Took a Polaroid Every Day, Until the Day He Died
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…
Green Burials: Recycling our Loved Ones
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…
Small Is Profitable
207 Benefits of Distributed Resources
Brittle Power - Wikipedia
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…
Severe Panflu Response Strategies
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
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
Singapore Debuts First Social Robots At Robocup 2010
artmarcovici: RATTRADERS
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…
rattraders
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…
Metacurrency Project - P2P Foundation
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…
Peter Norvig’s library
Peter Norvig’s library
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Jovair 4A
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Modern and Contemporary Political Ideologies
“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…
Designaside
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Simone Decker – Chewing in Venice
Voronoi Square Magnets / sevensixfive
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DSC05073 / ske765book
Boost Creativity: 7 Unusual Psychological Techniques
Arcimboldo Riding a Composite Camel
“…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…
PixCell via PRISMOID
mann_big
The Standardized Recipe Language Sampler
The Standardized Recipe Language Sampler
Writing RecipeBook XML Recipes
This document gives a short introduction to writing recipes in the RecipeBook XML markup language. Several examples are given to illustrate key points.
Computerized Cooking
A Prolegomenon to Recipology
Top Secret America: Who is TSA?
Interview with Stephen Schneider on climate science expert credibility study
“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.
Opening of Hikaru no Go: Heian Gensou Ibunroku, a Playstation game with the HnG characters all in the Heian period.
higem:
..:: 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.
mikkel vang - donna hay, seasons
Obsessions Make My Life Worse and My Life Better
Objectify Alphabet
mikkel vang - donna hay, pasta
Cover of Grafik Tasarim Magazine
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading… - but does it float
The leading edge in evidence presentation is in science; the leading… - but does it float
There is also the Desert Rose (adenium obesium) which looks like nothing so much as a blooming elephant leg:
There is also the Desert Rose (adenium obesium) which looks like nothing so much as a blooming elephant leg
Europe Without Hotels - NYTimes.com
Humanitarian Design vs. Design Imperialism: Debate Summary: Change Observer: Design Observer
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
Synthetic Aesthetics
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…
junto :: connect - collaborate - grow ::
What are narrative fractals?
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…
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple
Rachel Sussman - The Oldest Living Things in the World
the oldest living things in the world (in progress)
Three Hundred Eighty Ten
Google Pregel Graph Processing
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…
siren elise wilhelmsen: 365
The Body Politic - SEED MAGAZINE
the deep symbiosis between bacteria and their human hosts is forcing scientists to ask: are we organisms or living ecosystems?
International Laboratory of Plant Neurobiology
Laboratorio Internazionale di Neurobiologia Vegetale
Can We Use Biomimicry To Design Cities? Janine Benyus
graffiti artist Conor Harrington
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
kill your tv / inoneear
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
Three reasons for hope: energy, fuel and food » The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Tweet.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by brevity, over-connectedness, emotionally starving for attention
OSHW - Definition of Free Cultural Works
Conversation With a Univac, courtesy of Scott Lloyd
“Interpol intercepted covert catastrophic incident kit”, 2008 by Nathan Carter.
“Interpol intercepted covert catastrophic incident kit”, 2008 by Nathan Carter.
shogun - A Large Scale Machine Learning Toolbox
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…
Ivan Illich: Silence is a Commons
Students, Meet Your New Teacher, Mr. Robot
How facts backfire
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…
Admiral Ackbar, It’s a trap! - How over-simplification creates a distorted vision of Humanitarian Design. | The Department of Small Works
China Study II
China Study II: Switch to Western diet may bring Western-type diseases
The China Study: Fact or Fallacy?
Reykjavík / Stebbi
7 40 - Janto Lenherr
Advertising is devastating to my well-being
Fuco Ueda’s Demons
Computing Kaizen Studio Toys
Fuego
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…
Building Dwelling Thinking - Heidegger
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…
Resilience Assessment Workbook
Assessing Resilience in Social-ecological systems: A practitioner’s workbook
Turbulence study / flight404
rammellzee :: elegy for a gothic futurist
rammellzee :: elegy for a gothic futurist
Paolo Patrizi: European Starlings
The most interesting trend in the development of the Internet is not… - but does it float
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Guidelines for Group Collaboration and Emergence « emergent by design
Guidelines for Group Collaboration and Emergence « emergent by design