Abelardo Gil-Fournier - Research notes

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The Plow that Broke the Plains

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloidal_crystal#/media/File:ColloidCrystal_40xBrightField_GlassInWater_Connectivity.png

La meseta, el "nodo" plano y natural-aislado, con el que la colonización s.XVI arrasó América, llega ahora a Marte. sci-techuniverse.blogspot.com.es/2017/03/nasa-h…

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/heres-our-first-view-of-trappist-1-the-alien-solar-system-with-earth-sized-planets

Timelapse video of a potato plant sprouting in Mars-like conditions. Research on food security and climate change. An article about it here: https://phys.org/news/2017-03-indicators-potatoes-mars.html

Solar farms in water dams. Imgs. from the websites of Kyocera and Hydrelio

Floating islands, “islas biorremediantes”, humedales artificiales. Imgs. from the websites of companies offering this type of water restoration devices, Paimed, Projar, Hydrolisis

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The killing in an accident with a SUV of walker and poet Mark Baumer recalls a long relation of punishment of the human-soil relation. To burn the feet of natives to retrieve information on gold traesures was a torture method used extensively during the Spanish invasion of America.

Seen here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/world/australia/climate-change-floating-islands.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

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http://www.museum-digital.de/owl/index.php?t=objekt&oges=1912

Studio day. Conveyor belts circling the world. Working on a forthcoming project on cartography.

The Nitrogen Cycle, and Organic Nitrogen Circulation, figures from Alfred Lotka’s Elements of Physical Biology.

Top: Lt. Macready (right) and McCook Field engineer E. Dormoy (left) in front of the 1st crop duster airplane (August 3, 1921) Source: wikipedia. Down: Popular Mechanics, September 1940