Metabolic's Eva Gladek: Circular cities in practice: From the Netherlands to North Carolina
Metabolic's Eva Gladek: Circular cities in practice: From the Netherlands to North Carolina
"These insects are helping Singapore save the planet": https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/economics/article/3021212/these-insects-are-helping-singapore-save-planet "black soldier fly larvae bred at a urban insect farm are a new line of defence in Singapore’s war on food waste. Monthly, they convert about 6.5t of food waste into 2,700 litres of organic fertiliser" #Regenerative #Biology #Garden
"China’s CRISPR push in animals promises better meat, novel therapies, and pig organs for people": https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/china-s-crispr-push-animals-promises-better-meat-novel-therapies-and-pig-organs-people #Biology #ALife
"A paper in Nature demonstrates a 10-gram insect-inspired robot capable of crawling, walking, jumping, somersaulting and performing collective tasks that is built from low-cost, assembly-free components": https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1388-8.epdf?shared_access_token=UtFJe-JelGb0gTinzKDSaNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NF4yBunNJWoz8yJqO9lXQeboDqYQij3NdSgRSYZ88M46Sk0WaypinyattrDJ7z9TUdrmYQZOnzNDSyUQFhWqWf4F1NUva_Cm1ZUqTNJAIL2w%3D%3D #Biology #Robot #ALife
The complete connectome of the worm C. elegans nervous system was mapped: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1352-7 #Biology #FFHCI
Watch the Strange Intelligence of Slime Mold in This 'Slime Lapse' Video:
A primary question to ask when designing automation technology is: "Can this task be accomplished by collaborating with nature (Animals, Insects, Plants, Bacteria, etc.) instead of machines?"
"Calling Bullshit" is a comprehensive online video course (10h+) on the science of Bullshit: What it is, How to detect it, Fake News, Refuting Bullshit and more: https://www.callingbullshit.org/videos.html #Education
"Cashing in on the waste sorting revolution": https://www.eco-business.com/opinion/cashing-in-on-the-waste-sorting-revolution/ "Waste separation rules have changed the lives of Shanghai residents and created opportunities to make money" #Regenerative
"Cultivating a city: How inventive urban production is gaining ground in Vienna": https://www.freundevonfreunden.com/features/coffee-grown-mushrooms-and-other-feats-of-urban-production-in-vienna/
"What Can Nature Teach Architects about Resilience" - by Victor Delaqua: https://www.archdaily.com/921428/what-can-nature-teach-architects-about-resilience
#Architecture #Regenerative #Biology #Complexity #Generative
The Bohemian Life: Worm FarmerJack Chambers:
It is extremely comedic that a large and well funded industry is trying to create "human level intelligence in silicon" (AGI), while we have not even remotely "understood" more "simple" life-forms like Worms, which are essential for life on earth.
"Seedbomb is a non-military bomb that protects earth from worsening desertification and sandstorms. When released from an airplane, Seedbomb is disassembled in the air and Seed capsules spread out widely and fall on the ground": https://www.designundersky.com/dus/2010/2/25/ludic-guerrilla-gardening-drone-warfare.html https://www.coroflot.com/Jinwook/seedbomb
"Light-seeking mobile houseplants raise big questions about the future of technology": https://www.pnas.org/content/116/31/15313
Patent-Bot: "Automating the patent troll... The program creates thousands of new patent summaries per second.": http://muse.jhu.edu/article/728406
Prediction: By mid 2020, all major Silicon Valley CEOs will highlight "Climate Change" as part of their keynotes. It will be framed as "a problem that can be solved with technological progress" (A.I etc.). And it will be predominately very expensive PR bullshit with no impact.