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all the water in the world
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Modernistic Tree
Mondrian would have appreciated square trees. Furthermore, they would enable wood industry to lose less material, to cut easier with machines and to store more efficiently. Hence square trees would be more sustainable than round trees. (more…) biomimicmarketing, Design for debate, Fake nature, Hypernature, manipulating growth, Officegarden, Technorhetoric
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Shingle Silhouettes
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Photos of chicken forming in egg
Here’s one photo of a series of about 20 photos showing a chicken developing in an egg. Before I saw these photos I had always thought that the yolk turned into a chicken, but it looks like the chicken forms outside of the yolk and absorbs the yolk as it develops. Link
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Biopiracy, the new colonialism
Back in July, while i was visiting Documenta 12 in Kassel, i saw a 16-metre-long flower-bed raised above the ground, with 70 packets of seeds sprouting from the grass, each of them carrying worrying labels that documented the latest form of Colonialism: biopiracy. Photo documenta 12 Biopiracy describes a new form of “colonial pillaging” in […]
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In California, Eclecticism Rules – New York Times
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