The Eco-Polymath

Bees in space: https://archive.org/stream/nasa_techdoc_19830025642/19830025642#page/n0/mode/2up

Angered by what he considers Japan’s efforts to sweep away the inconvenient truths of a nuclear disaster, a rancher returns to the no-man’s land near the devastated plant.

Cut out the anxiety, and never till again.

John Britt melt test

http://www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/APPRTECH/G15SEE/EN/B961_5.HTM

An exhibition at Peters Valley School of Craft showcases work created over the last three decades in the school’s anagama kiln, which is valued for the unpredictability of its results.

LOCATED IN Houston’s predominantly African-American Third Ward, the Project Row Houses stand today as one of the most-lauded examples of a burgeoning genre of contemporary art: “social practice.” In...

In Tuesday's terrifying incident in which a man carrying a rifle and other weapons entered an Atlanta elementary school, Antoinette Tuff helped convince the gunman to surrender.

If a century of reform has left us with monsters like Monsanto in command, we need to declare that in face of the existing system, we need to trans-form, not re-form, capitalism. For no reform is justifiable insofar as it contributes to the endless expansion of the economic product. We need to build, therefore, a new mode of production, that transforms nature without directing the product toward the goal of accumulation.

Optimal Network Structures. From "New directions in sustainable design" by Adrian Parr and Michael Zaretsky

Réaummur's Pyramidal HIve.

Making a Beebox for "Beelining".