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Imagine nature's most elegant ideas organized by design and engineering function, so you can enter "filter salt from water" and see how mangroves, penguins, and shorebirds desalinate without fossil fuels. That's the idea behind
AskNature, the online inspiration source for the
biomimicry community. The
featured pages are a good starting point. Cross-pollinating biology with design.
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posted by netbros
on Jun 5, 2009 -
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Have you ever wondered what New York was like before it was a city? Find out at
The Mannahatta Project, by navigating through the map to discover Manhattan Island and its native wildlife in 1609.
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posted by netbros
on Jun 4, 2009 -
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Next Nature is the nature caused by human culture. The technological world has become so intricate and uncontrollable that it has become a nature of its own. Scientific research into nanotechnology, genetic manipulation, ambient intelligence, tissue engineering... all of these young research fields radically interfere with our sense of what is ‘natural’. Here's a
visual introduction into next nature.
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posted by netbros
on Apr 19, 2009 -
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