Tagged: Biomimicry
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Software or Agriculture the Ways to Fight Epidemics Are the Same
This article discusses how security experts are learning to deal with software epidemics from the ways used to fight the more traditional epidemics of agriculture (thanks Toti) – Seeds of destruction News.com
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Design with Nature as Role Model
This entry is adapted from a presentation I did at the University of Iceland today, hence all the decorations. Using nature as a role model in design is one of my biggest interests. By this notion I’m talking about how we can study nature and use its solutions, designs and methods when making our...
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Everybody Looking to Nature for Solutions
When I say I’m interested biology because I believe that looking to nature for fresh ideas in software and other technology design, most people look at me like I’m crazy – or even tell me bluntly that I am. But I’m not easily offended nor easily convinced that it’s me and not them that are […]
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Shark Illustrated: Swimsuit Edition
At the Sydney Olympics in 2000, 28 of 33 Olympic Gold Medals were earned in Speedo Fastskin, a swimsuit overall that reduces water’s drag on the swimmer by 3%. The overalls lowered swimming times of professional swimmers by some 7.5%. The suit’s fluid dynamics are based on sharks’ skin, a design ...