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Wikipedia Spandrel (biology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In evolutionary biology, a spandrel is a phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic, rather than a direct product of adaptive selection.

February 1 2016, 4:27am | Comments
Bookmark Why Martian Concrete Might Be The Best Building Material In The Solar…
To colonize Mars, researchers are developing a new kind of concrete that doesn't require water and is more than twice as strong. Concrete has been critical to the colonization of our…

January 24 2016, 2:32pm | Comments
Ask Metafilter What different types of visual and written 'instructions' are there? I am working on a project that relies on different ways to present instructions. I want to collect as many ways as possible. These can be visual, written, or otherwise, but each 'type' of instruction must have a design aesthetic or formulaic quality…

January 10 2016, 5:31am | Comments
Portfolio 2016 = The Year of #Additivism

January 9 2016, 8:26am | Comments
Bookmark The Critical Engineers - Al Jazeera English
Russian-born Danja Vasiliev and New Zealander Julian Oliver are part of a growing movement of coders and hackers who use their skills to create questioning and humorous digital art.

December 27 2015, 6:51am | Comments
Bookmark 'Prosthetic Tentacle' Invented As Alternative To Artificial Limbs (PICTURES)
Kaylene Kau from Taipei made the remarkable invention as part of a design school project. The limb would be able to grip many different objects by curling up with the help…

November 17 2015, 12:35pm | Comments
Bookmark Constructor theory solves the riddle of life – Chiara Marletto – Aeon
Living things have puzzled and challenged us since the dawn of our species. Even in the light of our modern scientific understanding, they seem remarkable.

July 24 2015, 8:51am | Comments
Bookmark Design and Violence
Most ads lie. But there are Big Lies and Little Lies. A Big Lie is a claim so subjective or inherently unprovable—like, for instance, “This beer will make you a babe-magnet”—that,…

May 26 2015, 5:08am | Comments
Bookmark V&A conservators race to preserve art and design classics in plastic |…
There is a widespread assumption that plastic is among the hardiest of materials, but that is far from true, as conservators in museums and galleries know only too well.

May 22 2015, 6:20am | Comments
Bookmark Plastic Fantastic - L'ArcoBaleno
The sheer magnitude of plastics on the market today, and their ubiquity in almost every aspect of life, makes it hard to imagine that less than a century ago plastic was…

May 14 2015, 5:43pm | Comments
Bookmark Outing A.I.: Beyond the Turing Test - NYTimes.com
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is having a moment, albeit one marked by crucial ambiguities. Cognoscenti including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, among others, have recently weighed in on its potential…

February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments
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October 22 2014, 2:04pm | Comments
Bookmark The Millions : Bad Metaphors, Bad Tech
Human flight began with laundry. In 1777, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier was watching clothes drying over a fire when he noticed a shirt swept up in a billow of air; six years later,…

March 16 2014, 11:10am | Comments
Bookmark Ruminations on worshipping the glitch | atractivoquenobello
Influential post-industrial sound alchemists Coil once implored us to Worship the Glitch, and it’s true that errors and flaws have long been perceived as having an essentially spiritual nature: they serve…

January 16 2014, 3:06pm | Comments
Bookmark Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report |…
A few weeks into the making of Her, Spike Jonze’s new flick about romance in the age of artificial intelligence, the director had something of a breakthrough.

January 16 2014, 3:06pm | Comments
Bookmark Software Is Reorganizing the World | Wired Opinion | Wired.com
For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents. This is the kind of grim reality that…

November 24 2013, 5:12am | Comments
Rhizome Contributions Datamoshing the Land of Ooo

April 25 2013, 4:00am | Comments
Rhizome Contributions Artist Profile: Alex Myers

April 3 2013, 9:28am | Comments
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Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken

September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments
Bookmark Synthetic Biology: Designing a “Metaphysical” Chicken
The ultimate design material is one that understands what it is to become. By way of an example, I’d like to think about how we might design a chicken. Think of…

September 5 2012, 1:20am | Comments
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August 29 2012, 3:44am | Comments
Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?
It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments
Bookmark A Thomasson is any kind of "useless and defunct object attached to…
...according to Akasegawa's definition. A publisher's blurb states that this includes the "doorknob in a wall without a door, that driveway leading into an unbroken fence, that strange concrete... thing sprouting…

May 23 2012, 12:36am | Comments
Ask Metafilter What is the Folk Web? I'm looking for 'Folk' Web Cultures. I am thinking of the recent take-down of Geocities, which seemed to refresh people's love of the naff, kitsch aesthetic it was famous for, as a prime example. What are some other folk cultures still lingering in…

April 4 2012, 6:41am | Comments
Bookmark A universe without purpose
The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis. Everywhere we look, it appears that the world…

April 2 2012, 2:38pm | Comments
Metafilter "As you can probably imagine, this took some effort to make." "The calculator itself is just over 250x200x100 blocks. It contains 2 6-digit BCD number selectors, 2 BCD-to-binary decoders, 3 binary-to-BCD decoders, 6 BCD adders and subtractors, a 20 bit (output) multiplier, 10 bit divider, a memory bank and additional circuitry for the graphing…

March 21 2012, 10:44am | Comments
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March 21 2012, 9:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Free Universal Construction Kit
Ever wanted to connect your Legos and Tinkertoys together? Now you can — and much more. Announcing the Free Universal Construction Kit: a set of adapters for complete interoperability between 10…

March 19 2012, 6:31am | Comments
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Makego iPhone app blurs boundaries between digital and physical play

March 16 2012, 11:14am | Comments
Tumblr That carpet

March 13 2012, 10:12am | Comments
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March 5 2012, 5:41am | Comments

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