Continuing on from one of my last posts… You see the photo above? That is the trunk of the aptly named “scribbly gum”. It’s a fairly common Eucalyptus tree, found all over Australia, and this name refers several different species: Eucalyptus haemastoma, Eucalyptus sclerophylla, Eucalyptus haemastoma, Eucalyptus racemosa, Eucalyptus signata and Eucalyptus rossii. [keep in mind that I have turned the photo 90 degrees, from a portrait to a landscape view, so that it fits better in with the blog …
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Imagine if 7 billlion people had always lived on a dust-bowl Mars-like planet with no life outside of the base stations. Imagine if that’s the way it had always been. Imagine if that was humanities’ entire …
Scientists are time-travellers, who can glimpse ~100 years into the future. When I think of the “the future”, here is what I ‘see’: I don’t see ‘manmade’ things flying everywhere; I see ‘birds’ and ‘insects’… behaving …
Let me ask you something: do we actually ‘make’ our own food? Do we? The answer is “no we do not make our own food”. We just throw pre-existing seeds in the ground and make sure …
Today I’m going to talk about “sensitive dependence on initial conditions”, which is one of the foundations of chaos theory. Chaos theory. I find it a fascinating subject to talk about, so here goes. Some people …
One thing that I don’t think many people reaslise on a day-to-day basis is that changes happen at all scales and their effects can be felt across all scales. The macro scale affect the micro scale, …
I’d like to remind people of two things. Would Mars colonists be doing things the same way that we are here and now? For example, would they be mowing grass if and when they manage to …
“We’re very very disconnected from what we consume. So because of the widening degrees of separation between the consumer and the consumed we no longer have any real appreciation for the embodied energy, the embodied destruction, …
If you were to take a trip into outer space, you’d quickly find out that the most valuable things to us humans are the very simple resources we need to survive. I type “what is the …
It’s probably a good thing I didn’t get into product design at university. All I wanted to do was design things like kitchen appliances. Vacuum cleaners, toasters, kettles, and irons. Stuff like that. I thought that …