Innovation / Design
The Evolution of Evolution
Visualization / by / September 10, 2009
Ben Fry has created a tool that allows you to watch the theory of evolution evolve. Here, he introduces us to his amazing exploration of scientific thought.
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The Salon Conversation
Biodiversity expert Thomas E. Lovejoy talks with architect and urban planner Mitchell Joachim about victory gardens, vertical farms, senators in the jungle, and more.
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Salon: Lovejoy + Joachim
Biodiversity expert Thomas E. Lovejoy and urban planner Mitchell Joachim contrast the US interstate system with the Amazon River.
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An Icon of Sustainability
Since opening last September in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences has fast become an icon of architecture for the eco era.
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The Dymaxion Tomorrow
A city-wide vehicle sharing program, a latrine block that treats sewage on-site, and bicycles that double as ambulances take top honors in the Buckminster Fuller Design Challenge.
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Tissue-Engineered Art
MoMA design and architecture curator Paola Antonelli guides us through experimental designs that are both manufactured and living, and which test both our aesthetic and ethical sensibilities.
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Design and Being Just
At some point during the show, VL started growing too fast. It was time to stop it. But did that mean killing it?
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Designing the Human Mind
[Video] Is it possible to create a complete model of the human brain? Henry Markram explains that it will to take a computer 20,000 times more powerful than any that exists today.
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Neri Oxman: Materialecology
The artist looks to biology for inspiration when producing works that mimic forms found in nature.
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Core Principles
Both science and design—forward motors, providers of perspective, guardians of beauty and truth—are essential to progress.
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Greg Lynn: New City
Is a sphere the optimal shape for our world? If physical laws were no longer a concern, how would we mold the Earth to better suit our global economy?
Slideshow
Our Adapting Future
Current developments in autonomous, biological, and evolutionary robotics will have a profound impact on the future of interactive and dynamic architectural space.
Workbench
Designing Responsible Behavior
We visit the somewhat chaotic desk of an industrial designer who is leveraging the power of design to convince people to live greener lives.
Artifacts
Building Without Walls
A new breed of architectural objects, inspired by theoretical science, is changing how we think about building and what counts as art.
Design
A New Map for Design
As the focus of design shifts from the production of finite goods to a practice of experimentation, ideas take precedence over products.
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Innovation
Let There Be Light
Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be decades away. That is, unless NASA decides to build a starshade.
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Ideas
Into the Uncanny Valley
New findings shed light on a century’s worth of bizarre explanations for the eerie feeling we get around lifelike robots.
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World
Signs from Above
The release of an apocalyptic movie prompts NASA to debunk planetary rumors, fowl play shuts down the LHC, and the Catholic Church discusses alien life.
