Biomimicry in Popular Mechanics

The biomimicry meme continues to spread through mainstream media: An airplane systems engineer, a shower designer and a biologist walk into a Costa Rican rain forest. “This is the neatest thing I’ve found this week,” says the airplane engineer, from Boeing, pointing to a cluster of daddy-longleg spiders gently oscillating on the trunk of a […]

Inspried by Trout

What does a water-purification system have to do with a trout? Find out via an interesting post at greentechmedia: When it comes to water technology, nature appears poised to become a major player. Similar to the Watreco and Parc situation, a group of startups – Novozymes and Aquaporin – are facing off against an industrial […]

Find Good Stuff

Sounds useful: Increasingly, you want to know about the impacts of the products you buy. On your health. On the environment. On society. But unless you’ve got a Ph.D, it is almost impossible to find out the impacts of the products you buy. Until now… GoodGuide provides the world’s largest and most reliable source of […]

Animal Minds

Fascinating program from one of my favorite radio shows/podcasts: In Baltimore, Maryland, there’s an octopus that likes to play with toys. In Vienna, Austria, there’s a border collie with a vocabulary of 340 words – more than many toddlers. Southeast Asia is home to dozens of elephants who like to paint. In this hour of […]