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Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers: https://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers.html
Built in 1936, this machine was “the world's first computer for solving differential equations,” which “for half a century has been the only means of calculations of a wide range of problems in mathematical physics.” Absolutely its most amazing aspect is that solving such complex equations meant playing around with a series of interconnected, water-filled glass tubes. You “calculated” with plumbing.
Garden historians usually characterize the technical control of water in stately gardens as part of a system of social control. As an alternative, or at least to offer another layer of meaning, this augmented timeline presents a crypto-historical narrative of gardens as gigantic water computers.
- Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers Redux:
https://pruned.blogspot.com/2013/02/gardens-as-crypto-water-computers-redux.html - La Machine de Marly:
https://pruned.blogspot.com/2005/08/la-machine-de-marly_24.html - Water Integrator: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_integrator
- MONIAC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC
Making Money Flow: The MONIAC:
- Gardens as Crypto-Water-Computers Redux:
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Open source - Europe's battle for basic water rights:
"Fortune magazine predicted in the year 2000, that water was about to become one of the world's great business opportunity. Fortune commented that water promises to be the 21st century, what oil was to the 20th. This means that we'll probably get all the bombing, shooting and invading which has characterised the global struggle for control of the oil
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Showerloop - an open source hot water recycling system
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"One billion year old fungi found are Earth's oldest":
https://phys.org/news/2019-05-billion-year-fungi-earth-oldest.html #Biology #Evolution -
Iran & Iraq are embracing GNU Health Project | Dr Axel Braun:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Health #Health #Technology #OpenSource -
Why is human time slower than mouse time? We studied using "in vitro segmentation clock" as a model: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/650648v1 #FFHCI #Biology #Science
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Wikifactory is a social platform for collaborative product development. Designed for open source communities, designers and product companies: https://wikifactory.com/ #OpenSource #P2P #Design #Infrastructure
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Chinese medicine to gain WHO acceptance but it has many critics:
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/24/health/traditional-chinese-medicine-who-controversy-intl/index.html #Health #PoliticsYet another sign, that the confrontation between US/China is about much more than trade, including a renegotiation of science, which was dominated by colonial powers for 200 years.
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Xi'an residents who refuse to sort their garbage will lose social credit points:
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1151212.shtml #Regenerative #Politics
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Six Paths to the Nonsurgical Future of Brain-Machine Interfaces:
https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2019-05-20 #BCI #Military #NeuroScienceTeams selected for DARPA’s Next-Generation Nonsurgical Neurotechnology program will pursue a mix of approaches to developing wearable interfaces for communicating with the brain
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"Atelier Luma is a think tank, a production workshop and a learning network. Atelier Luma wants to co-develop new ways of producing and caring for a city and a bioregion, using design as a tool for transition": https://atelier-luma.org/en/ #Regenerative #Design
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Space Is the Primary Reality - Professor Frank Wilczek
Frank Wilczek - Is Mathematics Eternal?
Time Crystals: new states of matter, by Frank Wilczek. #Science
Marcelo Gleiser: "The Island of Knowledge" | Talks at Google:
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Zero Point Energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy #Science
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Placemaking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placemaking
Participatory design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_design
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5G is a bullshit vision developed & pushed by giant bullshit corporations & the bullshit governments they fully control - all of which are about to go extinct anyhow. Plus, 5G is bad for the environment (kills insects) and bad for human health. It's Corruption, not Technology.
repeating @bruces "This race is imaginary bullshit... foisted on us by huge telecom companies that know internet access is fundamentally a commodity and want something new to sell at high prices instead of competing to improve service and lower prices on the networks they have."Wait, why the hell is the ‘race to 5G’ even a race?: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/23/18637213/5g-race-us-leadership-china-fcc-lte?utm_campaign=theverge&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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Are plants conscious? - talk by Stefano Mancuso, expert in plant neurobiology and curator of "The Nation of Plants" exhibition: https://www.triennale.org/en/events/the-nation-of-plants-is-a-non-technical-scientific/
Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence:
Beyond the Animal Model - talk by Stefano Mancuso:
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Chances are that the legacy energy companies (which substantially contributed to the climate change collapse we are facing) will become dominate leaders in the "clean energy" sector (driven by acquisitions which they fund with the dirty oil business) A backwards and dangerous development, as company culture never really change. (slides from this talk)
