Category: Inspiration

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Brainbow

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7166/full/nature06293.html

WHAT DOES SCIENCE MEAN FROM AFRICA? A VIEW FROM DZIMBAHWE

  A talk by CLAPPERTON CHAKANETSA MAVHUNGA Clapperton Chakanetsa Mavhunga is associate professor of science, technology, and society at MIT and visiting associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Professor Mavhunga’s work engages the meanings of science, technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship from Africa in the long historical context, and their implications on how …

Generative Art, a 5 min PBS video

Off Book: Generative Art – Computers, Data and Humanity from PBS Digital Studios on Vimeo.

The Motion Microscope

Unlike traditional microscopes that use optics to make small objects bigger, this new microscope uses a video camera and image processing to analyze and visualize the changes. It can magnify a variety of interesting and useful phenomena, from blood pulsing under our skin, to vibrations in pipes, engines, and throats, revealing a whole new world …

Algorithms and Architecture

Michael Hansmeyer: Computational architecture (Worked with L-systems too) http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/#4   The living lab, David Benjamin http://www.arch.columbia.edu/labs/living-architecture-lab

Synthetic leaf

“The synthetic leaf uses photosynthesis to produce oxygen, by absorbing light, water and carbon dioxide.” “The artificial leaves feature chloroplasts extracted from actual plant cells that are suspended in a material made from silk protein. So when given access to light and water they still produce oxygen, but they’re better suited to surviving off our …

civilisation >> 'irreversible collapse' ?

Can complex, advanced civilizations really collapse? Excerpts from S. Motesharrei and E. Kalnay, “A Minimal Model for Human and Nature Interaction,” 2012. modern civilization, armed with its greater technological capacity, scientific knowledge, and energy resources, will be able to survive and endure whatever crises historical societies succumbed to. In this paper we attempt to model …

Bacteria Art Gallery

from ESHEL BEN-JACOB’s BACTERIA ART GALLERY http://tamar.tau.ac.il/~eshel/html/Bacteria_art_gallery.html

Math+Meteorology+Biodefense=Awesomeness

Math + Meteorology = Ecole Nationale de la Météorologie ENM (http://www.enm.meteo.fr/) –the school I considered along with ENSIMAG + Biodefense –the stuffs I research = fascinating! (http://globalbiodefense.com/2014/03/04/cbrne-external-meteorological-modeling-system/) because yeah… (illustrations from Dr. Zilinskas’ CBW course)

BioArt

Let’s start with the basic review: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioArt   Browse Eduardo Kac’s thought–provoking projects at http://www.ekac.org/transgenicindex.html With the famous Alba, the fluorescent bunny. http://www.ekac.org/gfpbunny.html And Natural History of the Enigma, transgenic flower with artist’s own DNA expressed in the red veins, 2003/2008. Collection Weisman Art Museum. http://www.ekac.org/nat.hist.enig.html   Making people think about synthetic biology, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg …