Treehouse Group Notebook

Learn more about the Green Button at: http://greenbuttondata.ca. 

I *heart* Fraggle Rock: but here joined by Anna Kendrick, Ben Folds Five and Rob Corddry. A great song and some great Fraggles.

Come join us at the first Treehouse Talks after a long, hot summer! 

Molecular Cuisine: The Politics of Taste // 19-21 Oct 2012 // New York, NY // Call for submissions closed // "Investigating the importance of taste from the perspectives of the culinary arts, sociology, art history and theory, anthropology, as well as the cognitive, material and biological sciences"

In front of his class, a teacher talks to himself on YouTube to explain the concept of complex numbers having a real part and an imaginary part. Inspired by Jeremiah McDonald talking to his 12-yr old self?

Egyptian graffiti artists arranged a No Walls protests on March 9, 2012, where they painted the walls away into stunning murals to commemorate the dead and protest the obstacles built by painting eye-deceiving, virtual continuations to the blocked streets.

Why Smart People Deny Climate Change

The Slime Mould Collective. The name is quirky and interesting, just like the site. Slime mould artists and scientists celebrate this amazingly intelligent microorganism through pictures and stories online. To see slime moulds in Toronto, visit the Physarum Experiments workshop at the Subtle Technologies festival. 

Food Studies: An Interdisciplinary Conference is recruiting submissions. The conference will explore almost any topic related to food, like diversion of food to biofuel production, food marketing to children, and gendered home cooking patterns. The only thing they're missing is a presentation about eating insects.

Avenger Origins: Iron Man. Iron Man's entire back story, just in time for the movie (as interpreted by three-yr-old girls). #Avengers

Every year, heritage architecture is destroyed in Shanghai to make way for the "new city". Paul French provides catalogue of what was lost in 2011 at China Rhyming.

News in cyborg technology: receive a cellphone signal through a tattoo. Nokia has just patented a technology that would allow a person to feel vibrations based on signals from a mobile phone.  

HUG your city! Join the Rust Belt Group Hug in Cleveland. Submit a photo of yourself hugging your favourite part of the city for a chance to win a prize.

The @GladstoneHotel has issued a Call for Submissions (deadline June 7) for Come Up To My Room, their annual alternative design event. For more info, click here.

Designers present their latest creations in Shanghai at Pecha Kucha #18