architecture
the consequences of specialization, summer walk wallpaper, paleo-modernism and newton’s centoaph
What the World Needs is More Curious Amateurs In 1712, nobody would have looked at you funny if your business card read: “Surgeon, Apothecary, Investigator of the Unknown. Also, Shoemaker.” There are many reasons why, in 2012, that’s no longer the case. Among them, the increasing specialization driven by the rise of the great universities [...]
math and architecture meets the intricate designs of botany, dr grordbort presents: the deadliest game
An architecture graduate constructs intricate botanical illustrations using the computer graphics programs intended to design buildings What’s the difference between a 100-story skyscraper towering over a bustling metropolis and a 2-inch flower blooming in the countryside? To architecture-student-turned-artist Macoto Murayama, not a whole lot. “[The flower] is organic and is rather different from architecture [in [...]
brain boosting may shift the way we think of intelligence, happy birthday FDR, sustainable architecture
The ethics of brain boosting The idea of a simple, cheap and widely available device that could boost brain function sounds too good to be true. Yet promising results in the lab with emerging ‘brain stimulation’ techniques, though still very preliminary, have prompted Oxford neuroscientists to team up with leading ethicists at the University to [...]
hedy lamar’s brain and spread spectrum radio, in wingnuttia its still race baiting time, using nature’s genius in architecture
Hedy Kiestler (November 9, 1913 – January 19, 2000), better known as actress Hedy Lamar helped win WW II in her spare time, How the “Most Beautiful Woman in the World” Invented a System for Remote-Controlling Torpedoes When Antheil met Hedy, now bona fide movie star, in the summer of 1940 at a dinner held [...]
ralph waldo emerson early advocate of the 99%, slow down you think too fast
Did you know the great American essayist, lecturer, poet and transcendentalist philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson started the 99% movement? It cannot be wondered at that this general inquest into abuses should arise in the bosom of society, when one considers the practical impediments that stand in the way of virtuous young men. The young man, [...]
quasicrystal from early solar system, screwing over urban america, indefinite detention and the promises of men
Bizarre Crystal Hitched Ride on Meteorite and it as mysterious physical characteristics. A rock fragment containing a previously unidentified natural quasicrystal may be the remnant of a meteorite that originated in the early solar system more than 4.5 billion years ago before Earth even existed. Until now, researchers had assumed such quasicrystals, whose atoms are [...]
american masters of design, ray and charles eames
Charles & Ray Eames were a husband and wife team of artists. Despite the names and the confusion they have caused for some media reviewers, theywere not brothers. PBS did a documentary on them as part of the American Masters series. A short biographic essay is on-line, Charles & Ray Eames: The Architect and the Painter [...]
