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London for the endangered Asian elephant

3 weeks ago

“ Never compare your inside with somebody else’s outside.

1 month ago

Dieter Rams’ 10 principles for good design

• Good design is innovative.
• Good design makes a product useful.
• Good design is aesthetic.
• Good design helps us to understand a product.
• Good design is unobtrusive.
• Good design is honest.
• Good design is durable.
• Good design is consequent to the last detail.
• Good design is concerned with the environment.
• Good design is as little design as possible.

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1 month ago

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“ Mostly Convenient Truth:global warming is a technology crisis/solution, not a resource crisis. We failed to work on technology for decades.

Vinod Khosla (vkhosla) on Twitter 4 months ago

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Brain Array

Courtesy Kelly Johnson/University of Utah Department of Neurosurgery

Here, microwires emerging from the green and orange tubes connect to two arrays of 16 microelectrodes. Each array is embedded in a small mat of clear, rubbery silicone. The mats are barely visible in this image. These microelectrode arrays sit on the brain without penetrating it, a step toward longer-lived, less invasive versions of “neural interfaces” that in recent experiments elsewhere have allowed paralyzed people to control a computer cursor with their thoughts. The new microelectrode arrays were placed in two patients at the University of Utah who already were undergoing brain surgery for severe epilepsy. The larger, numbered, metallic electrodes are used to locate the source of epileptic seizures in the brain, so the patients allowed the microelectrodes to be placed on their brains at the same time. (via Gallery: The Year’s Most Amazing Scientific Images | Popular Science

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4 months ago

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“ Control might be the goal of a typical politician, but the future belongs to linchpins, individuals with leverage, people willing to make a difference and do work that matters.

Seth Godin 6 months ago

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Mountain Dwellings by BIG Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark 16mrt09 Mountain Dwellings, is a project consisting of apartments above a multi-storey car park designed by the Danish architects Bjarke Ingels Group or BIG. The building is located in Copenhagen, next to VM Houses, completed by BIG and Julien de Smedt Architects in 2006. The 80 apartments are arranged on a sloping “hillside” above the car park that has space for 480 cars. (via Mountain Dwellings by BIG Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark « archiDE)

Check out Bjarke Ingles TED talk and his firm’s site for more interesting ideas …

9 months ago

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