The lamp above, designed by Booo, blows a never-ending stream of bubbles.
I’m in love.
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Source: 35mm film negative scans
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By creating a series of green roofs, maximizing daylighting and water catchment, and optimizing the positions of light tubes and building-integrated photovoltaic panels, the roof is a canny mix of passive solar design and state-of-the-art technology.
E+ Green Home - Perhaps the most sustainable house in South Korea.
Meet Design Legends Jacob Jensen and Dieter Rams.
If you don’t know Jensen and Rams, you don’t know design. If you do know them, you also know how great they are. Either way, watch these:
- Crane.tv profiles Jacob Jensen, who discusses his 60+ year design history, best know for his work at Bang & Olufsen.
- VernissageTV profiles Dieter Rams and discusses his work with Prof. Klaus Klemp, Head of Exhibitions at the Design Museum in Frankfurt.
When it comes to science, atheists and Baptists have remarkably similar worldviews: both have arrived at the conclusion that accepting the science behind evolutionary theory will inevitably render Christianity extinct.
I do not believe that God “put the moon there”. That kind of specificity, when science can easily explain how all this occurred, is not orthodox Christianity. If O'Reilly meant that there is a profound mystery about our existence and consciousness in the universe(s) that we inhabit, and that that mystery cannot be explained by science alone, I’m with him. It’s just so depressing to see Christianity represented by someone who sounds like your uncle after too many drinks at Christmas.
Our popular culture often falsely concludes that truth is the foundation of science. Throughout modern history, however, the greatest scientists have tried to tell us over and over again what is really the foundation, well-spring, and unending constant of science: mystery. Queer ecology is a reminder that what we don’t know about the living world will always be far greater than what we do know – and it is an entreaty to act according to that most basic of truths.
The ever-growing expectations of design can no longer be met. We are in a design bubble; it’s a matter of time before it will burst.
“An employee was stationed by these big letters on the floor to instruct people to exit to the left, rather than stepping over them.”
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
Americans should not feel guilty about eating domestically produced seafood, as long as we keep strict regulations in place that reflect the best available science and that continue working toward the rebuilding goal achieved in 2011 by six different fish stocks.
The Magnuson-Stevens Act—the law that regulates our nation’s fisheries—will be up for reauthorization again in 2013, and some commercial and recreational fishing groups have already begun their call to arms, insisting legislators roll back the stringent requirement that all catch limits be based on the best available science. While there is no question that our understanding of fish populations must improve, lawmakers should think long and hard about weakening safeguards against overfishing just as they are starting to pay positive dividends.
See also: Seafood Watch for iOS and Android
