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Inorganic Flora: Macoto Murayama’s Intricate Blueprints of Flowers

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 1 week ago: The worlds of architecture and scientific illustration collided when Macoto Murayama was studying at … more →

Tags: Architectonic, Bio, Design, Paint/Illust./Mix-Media, Science, Inorganic Flora, Macoto murayama, Scientific Illustrations

After Catastrophe

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 1 week ago: For a lesson in the compounding effects of surprising events, go back to a March afternoon in 2011: … more →

Tags: Human-ities, Japan, Radiation, Resilience, Tsunami, quake, catastrophe, World Economy

78,000 apply to leave Earth forever to live on Mars1 comment

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 1 week ago: Huge numbers of people on Earth are keen to leave the planet forever and seek a new life homesteadin … more →

Tags: Science, technology, Astronauts, Colonization, leave earth, Mars, Red Planet, Space

Inner Space and Outer Space: Carl Sagan’s Letters to Timothy Leary (1974)

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 2 weeks ago: Carl Sagan, advocate of space travel and extra-terrestrial communication, visited Timothy Leary in t … more →

Tags: Human-ities, performativity, Science, Book-Text-Read-Zines, Letters, Prison, Outer Space, Carl Sagan, diane ackerman

Synthetic biologists and conservationists open talks

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 3 weeks ago: Female Rheobatrachus silus giving birth through the mouth. Australian scientists made headlines last … more →

Tags: Animalia, Bio, Eco/Adaptable, Science, technology, conservationists, Rheobatrachus silus, synthetic biologists

A Geological Survey of Venus

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 3 weeks ago: Topographic Map of Venus Radar Image Map Altimetric and Shaded Relief Map Geomorphic/Geologic Map of … more →

Tags: Digital Media, photographics, Science, technology, NASA, Venus, Geology, Satellite, topography

Is life on Earth older than the Earth itself?

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 3 weeks ago: As life has evolved, its complexity has increased exponentially, just like Moore’s law. Now genetici … more →

Tags: Bio, Science, technology, Complexity, Exponential, Genetics, Isaac Newton, Moore's Law, Origin of life

The Empire Pudding: A geo-economics lesson1 comment

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 1 month ago: From the BBC programme Hairy Bikers’ Best of British, food historian Ivan Day recreates the fa … more →

Tags: Human-ities, Social&Politics, Vital-Edible-Health, History, UK, GeoPolitics, Gastronomy, empire pudding, geoeconomics

Spaces On Earth Where No One Can Hear You Scream

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 1 month ago: A few days ago, the European Space Agency issued a series of photographs taken in one of the agency … more →

Tags: Architectonic, photographics, Sonic/Musical, Aerospace Industry, anechoic chamber, European Space Agency, Silence, Simulation

Listen to the Surface of the Earth Transposed on Vinyl Record - by Art of Failure

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 1 month ago: FLAT EARTH SOCIETY proposes a transposition of the earth elevation at the scale of a microgroove rec … more →

Tags: Sonic/Musical, performativity, Sculpt/Install, GPS, Minimal, Radical, Global, earth elevation, landform

The Great Stalacpipe Organ1 comment

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 1 month ago: Located in the Cathedral is the Great Stalacpipe Organ, the world’s largest musical instrument … more →

Tags: Sonic/Musical, Architectonic, Great Stalacpipe Organ, Virginia, Klann Organ Supply Company of Waynesboro, rubber-tipped mallets, Organ

The Space History SALE

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 1 month ago: Space History auctions focus on space exploration from the early days of Project Mercury and Vostok … more →

Tags: Design, Fashion, flags, Space, apollo, Gemini Missions, Soyuz, SkyLab, ASTP

New Lizard Species Found in Peru Look Like Evil Dinosaur Hybrids

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 2 months ago: If these lizards were larger, they’d look like featherless dinosaurs: With spiky spines and gleaming … more →

Tags: Animalia, Bio, Science, dinosaur, Hybrids, lizards, Perú, ZooKeys

Mars Rover Finds Evidence of Ancient Habitability

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 2 months ago: NASA’s Curiosity rover has found what it went to Mars to look for: evidence of an environment that c … more →

Tags: Science, technology, Mars, NASA, Curiosity, Chemical Analyses, Salty, California Institute of Technology, Rover

Drinking the Ocean Coming Soon: Lockheed Martin finds way to slash the amount of energy needed to remove salt from seawater

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 2 months ago: A defense contractor better known for building jet fighters and lethal missiles says it has found a … more →

Tags: Science, Social&Politics, water, Salt, Reverse Osmosis, graphene, Pure Carbon, Lockheed Martin, Ocean

50 Years of Spectacular Astrogeology

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 2 months ago: The most that scientists knew about Mercury, Venus, or Jupiter was their size, surface temperature, … more →

Tags: Science, technology, Moon, Spectacle, Solar System, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Exploration

Like Never Before: That spike everyone has talked about

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 2 months ago: A new study looking at 11,000 years of climate temperatures shows the world in the middle of a drama … more →

Tags: Science, technology, Animalia, carbon dioxide, climate temperatures, Global Warming, heat spike, ice, marine organisms

STORMPROOF: Open International Design Competition for Building Resilient Cities

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 2 months ago: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS ONE Prize Award aims to explore the social, economic, and ecological possibilit … more →

Tags: performativity, technology, Architectonic, projects, Responses, Artists, Flood, Students, Engineers

Eyes on Darfur: Mapping Political Destruction

Sebastian Alvarez wrote 2 months ago: Ishma, Darfur, before and after attacks in 2004-2005. ‘It’s been forty years since the first images … more →

Tags: Human-ities, technology, Social&Politics, Vital-Edible-Health, Amnesty International, Darfur, Destruction, Mapping, Satellite


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