Wednesday, February 16. 2011
Russia Moves to Drill in Arctic, Oil Companies Follow Suit
Via TreeHugger
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Photo: No Fish Left The prospect of drilling for oil in Arctic waters has long made Americans and Canadians queasy (if not their oil companies), and for good reason: the frigid cold, dangerous waters, and difficult-to-navigate coastal terrain. An offshore spill in the Arctic would be devastating, and exceedingly tough to contain. But faced with dwindling onshore supplies, Russia has made a concerted push to begin drilling in the Arctic, and in a highly publicized move, tapped none other than BP to help lead the ...
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Personal comment:
Predictable, but bad & sad news nonetheless ...
Vertical greenhouse
Via GOOD
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(...) -- Taken out from a longer post about food and architecture by Nicola Twilley --
This vertical greenhouse from 1966 was apparently "a space-saving sensation," with a built-in automatic elevator to rotate crops. Eat your heart out, Dickson Despommier!
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Personal comment:
I just saw this picture in an article from Nicola Twilley that makes me think of a project we did back in 2008, Tower of Atmospheric Relations (and that in some other ways retro-confirm the project's hypothesis of a vertical greenhouse building / climate exhibition and clock).
Stendhal moments. Overwhelming beauty in scientific research – at Boijmans in Rotterdam
Via Eye blog
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An astonishing collection of images of great beauty from the natural sciences went on show at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam last Saturday. Prof. Dr Hans Galjaard, curator of the exhibition, sought out examples from the following fields: physics, chemistry, geology, microbiology, marine biology, botany, fungal diversity, cell biology of higher organisms, human reproduction and astronomy.
He asked practitioners in more than 30 institutions if they had experienced what he calls a ‘Stendhal moment’, an instance of overwhelming beauty, during their research.
There are no physical artworks; scientific films and images will be projected on the walls and ceilings.
Top: Marble, Verde D’Arno, polished surface 7×9 cm. Photograph: Dirk Wiersma, Utrecht.
Above: Crystalline mixture including dextrin and potassium bicarbonate. Photograph: Loes Modderman.
Below: Crystalline mixture of paracetamol and dextrin. Photograph: Loes Modderman.
Above: Diatoms. Photograph: Wim van Egmond / Micropolitan Museum.
Below: A carbon nanotube (green) over two electrodes. Photograph: Cees Dekker, Nanotechnology Institute, Delft University of Technology.
Above: Star moss. Photograph: Ruth van Crevel from Plantenparade (2001).
Below: Pollen grain. Photograph: Jan Muller, National Herbarium of the Netherlands.
Below: Inside the Eagle Nebula. Photograph: T. A. Rector & B. A. Wolpa, National Optical Astronomy Observatory/Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy / National Science Foundation.
12 February > 5 June 2011
Beauty in Science
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Museumpark
18 3015 CX Rotterdam
Netherlands
www.boijmans.nl
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