Marius Watz: “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Is there really emptiness between the atoms? It is hard to imagine. Who can take comfort in the uncertain world of quantum mechanics? Better to consider strategies for filling vacuum, covering the blank surface with form and structure, and thus conquering it. It might seem extreme. Claustrophobic, even. But there is safety in numbers.”

Bacteria able to survive in radioactive environments are turning uranium waste from soluble form (that can contaminate water supplies) to solid form.

MIND EXPANDER
Vienna, 1967
The seat shell fixes two persons in a certain position. The lower seat allows one person to sit with their legs slightly open. The thigh of their right leg rests against a step forming the transition to a second seat area that is higher by the thickness of a thigh.

ENVIRONMENT - TRANSFORMER
1968
are appliances that change sensory impressions for a limited time in a visual and acoustic way. The processes of seeing and hearing are drawn out of their habitual apathy, separated into their individual functions and put together again as special experiences.

ENVIRONMENT - TRANSFORMER
1968

The world is full of resonances. It constitutes a cosmos of things exerting a spiritual action. The dead matter is a living spirit. (Wassily Kandinsky)

Fuller was asked to design the structure from the city of East St. Louis. Old Man's River City would have been a truly massive housing project for the city's 70,000 residents. The total capacity of the building, a circular multi-terraced dome, would be 125,000 occupants. Each family would have approximately 2500 square feet of living space.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting.
We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Bucky

Moreover, the very concept of the individual, as currently understood, depends on the difference in interconnectivity. Once this difference changes, i.e. internal states of the nervous system are becoming increasingly accessible, our very notion of privacy, privileged access, cognitive liberty and individuality should be reassessed.

...bottom line is that in the future the very definition of individuality will probably be derived not from the arbitrary conditions of one’s biological makeup, but rather how one is connected and to what. The degree of individuation will depend on difference in interconnectivity and this will become the subject matter of our ethical debate...

From Spaceweaver's My cranium is open source

AquaJelly is an artificial autonomous jellyfish with an electric drive and an intelligent, adaptive mechanical system. AquaJelly consists of a translucent hemisphere and eight tentacles used for propulsion. At the centre of the AquaJelly is a watertight, laser-sintered pressure vessel. This comprises a central, electric drive, two lithium-ion-polymer batteries, the charge control device and the servo motors for the swashplate.

... though not clear where I am being led. She, however, has no doubts... plays along... treads on...

Interventions in individual memory and cognitive functions enabled by technology, seem inevitable. However in the question of privacy and security, the same technologies that create the problem are also those that will offer solutions. Mental firewalls, external secure storage of experiential memories. Sensory and cognitive filters interfaced to the brain are already in the horizon.

Aldous Huxley via dmitridb:
"It is perfectly possible for a man to be out of prison, and yet not free — to be under no physical constraint and yet to be a psychological captive, compelled to think, feel and act as the representatives of the national state, or of some private interest within the nation, wants him to think, feel and act. The nature of psychological compulsion is such that those who act under constraint remain under the impression that they are acting on their own initiative. The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free. That he is not free is apparent only to other people. His servitude is strictly objective."

AnyMeta: anything is a thing

A group of bees went to work building a hive, layer by layer. The work takes from two to ten days, depending on the weather, the season, the size of the colony, and the colony’s need to expand. It took one week and approximately forty thousand bees to complete this particular honeycomb vase.

e-Fashion Day: learn & play with new electric designer materials (a 1-day workshop with Leah Buechley on the uses of new electric designer materials in e-Fashion and wearables.)

I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

—Aldous Huxley

"Early 1800's flap-illustration by Alexander Ramsay made for his lectures in New England, Southern USA and Canada a hundred years before Schwitters and Dada."