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 …
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
“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 …
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 …
Here is the Forbes article: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jenniferhicks/2014/03/15/move-over-hackers-biohackers-are-here/ about….Communities, ‘true’ hackers, cyborgs: review, but I did not know this ref they pointed out to: ‘Biosensor Tattoo Monitors Sweat For Health Indicators’ http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=1353 Although it is a biosensor, it uses nanotech (based on electrochemistry). A lot more sensors by Dr. Joe Wang: His website: http://joewang.ucsd.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=28 ‘Micromotors detox chemical …
I was introduced to them this weekend… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanesco_broccoli (fr) From: buy at http://www.poleditions.com/catalogue.php?collection=8
from ESHEL BEN-JACOB’s BACTERIA ART GALLERY http://tamar.tau.ac.il/~eshel/html/Bacteria_art_gallery.html
“One describes how proteins are made, and the other instructs the cell on how genes are controlled. One language is written on top of the other, which is why the second language remained hidden for so long.” “The genetic code uses a 64-letter alphabet called codons. The UW team discovered that some codons, which they …
“First, some background. The problem with all simulations is that the laws of physics, which appear continuous, have to be superimposed onto a discrete three dimensional lattice which advances in steps of time. The question that Beane and co ask is whether the lattice spacing imposes any kind of limitation on the physical processes we …
…you’d have to travel a bit, and collect those animals. #ohtheirony Rabbit (Turkey — http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/glow-in-the-dark-bunnies-rabbits-istanbul-transgenics_n_3749486.html) Pig (China — (fr) http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2013/12/26/cochons-transgeniques-phosphorescents-chine_n_4503574.html?utm_hp_ref=fr-science) Sheep (Uruguay — (fr)http://www.huffingtonpost.fr/2013/04/25/des-moutons-transgeniques-phosphorescents-uruguay_n_3152303.html)