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Happy Birthday, Life!
Life’s birthday is today, February 25. No, we’re not saying that we know life started on this particular date. We mean that if you were to compress the age of the Earth (4.5 billion years) into one calendar year, February 25 would be when life first showed...Genius of Place: Learning in the Wind
A week after Hurricane Sandy hit the east coast of the United States, I stood on a beach in Massachusetts feeling the brunt of a strong Nor’easter. The wind was so strong that if you jumped in the air, it would blow you inland a foot or two. Joining me were equally...Slime Mold Feats
DNews (Discovery News) has an informative and thought-provoking video about slime molds. The narrator, Anthony Carboni, points out that the slime mold, Physarum polycephalum, is a single-celled organism with no nervous system, yet appears to do...Simple Solutions
High tech biomimicry case studies generate a lot of buzz (who doesn’t love the idea of octopus technology in your e-reader?). But simple solutions can be just as transformative. For example, a local paper in Provincetown, Massachusetts, recently reported on a...Oysters in a Storm
With the damage from storm Sandy in the eastern U.S. still fresh, now is as good a time as any to look to nature for lessons in resiliency, especially at the ecosystem level. Historically, healthy coastal ecosystems in the U.S. and elsewhere relied on oyster reefs to...Support nature-inspired problem-solvers
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