Watch the Strange Intelligence of Slime Mold in This 'Slime Lapse' Video:
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?"
"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:
Time lapse showing how mold takes over entire slice of bread in 16 days:
DARPA Launches Program to Transform Plants into Silent Sentinels : www.tandemnsi.com/2017/11/darpa-launches-program-transform-plants-silent-sentinels/ #Regenerative #Biology #FFHCI
"Strange Forest 'Superorganism' Is Keeping This Vampire Tree Alive": https://www.livescience.com/66025-kauri-tree-superorganism-root-grafting.html research paper: https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(19)30146-4
Yellow Rain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_rain #Military #Biology
UW team stores digital images in DNA — and retrieves them perfectly:
http://www.washington.edu/news/2016/04/07/uw-team-stores-digital-images-in-dna-and-retrieves-them-perfectly/ DNA storage backs up ancient shamanic knowledge: https://sociable.co/science/uw-research-into-dna-storage-backs-up-ancient-shamanic-knowledge/ #Technology #Biology #Magic
"Ant farmers boost plant nutrition with their feces, offering clues for future food security": https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190624204755.htm
Humans began cultivating crops about 12,000 years ago. Ants have been at it rather longer. Leafcutter ants, the best-known insect farmers, belong to a lineage of insects that have been running fungus farms based on chopped-up vegetable matter for over 50 million years. The ant farming of flowering plants, however, started more recently, about 3 million years ago in the Fiji Islands.
"Dozens of Creatures Thought to Be Extinct Found Alive in ‘Lost City’ in the Jungle": https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/creatures-thought-to-be-extinct-found-in-honduras-lost-city/ #Regenerative #Biology
Scientists discovered a mushroom that eats plastic, and believe it could clean our landfills: https://www.upworthy.com/scientists-discovered-a-mushroom-that-eats-plastic-and-believe-it-could-clean-our-landfills
"The Effect of Music on Plant Growth": https://dengarden.com/gardening/the-effect-of-music-on-plant-growth #Music #Biology #FFHCI
"First fully automated DNA data storage": http://www.washington.edu/news/2019/03/21/first-fully-automated-dna-data-storage/
"@Ynsect Secures €20m Grant from EU to Make France an Industrial Bug Hub": https://agfundernews.com/breaking-ynsect-secures-e20m-grant-from-eu-to-make-france-an-industrial-bug-hub.html #Regenerative #Biology
Making music with Mycelium: https://toscateran.com/portfolio/grow-op-19-energy/