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- Enviro-veillance: Augmented Oceans
[Global drifter velocity data ... or smart buoys gathering data as they wander aimlessly. In any given month since 1993, there has been an array of more than 600 drifters in the global ocean. Image via EOS.]
A week ago the New York Times expressed that we might be ailing from data exhaustion with the constantly [...]
- Vert.Farms
08_07_15_vert_farms
Vertical Farms get coverage in the New York Times science section, curiously enough. Not in the Architecture section, nor in the Food section. Apparently when architecture meets food (agriculture) it becomes science. Dickson Despommier, a professor of public health at Columbia University arguably claims authorship of farms in the sky, though that could be attributed [...]
- Big Sort
08_07_07_suburbs
Political partisan-ship in the US no longer simply defines ideas and voting patterns.
Americans are increasingly choosing to live among politically and socially like-minded neighbours, further entrenching the growing political and intellectual divides in the nation. This ability to self-isolate is, of course, best exercised in suburbia. Cities, by nature diverse, encourage constructive confrontation with vast [...]
