Renee on Reality Sandwich
Bread and CircusesMy father insists that my dissatisfaction with consumerist and materialist lifestyles renders me an inescapably unhappy person, doomed to a life of politically-correct misery. I, however, take great pleasure from abstaining from the litany of excess and violence of mainstream American culture.
Don't Fight Forces, Use Them! : The Integrity of Tension in Science and ArchitectureWhat do Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes and the human body have in common? Both speak to the ingenuity of self-assembling structures and their methods of maintaining stability; when you use forces, you don't need to fight them.
Campus SingularityA Google and NASA sponsored Singularity University prepares academia for the convergence of humanity and technology.
Animal Architecture: Buckminster Fuller's TensegrityBuckminster Fuller coined the term "tensegrity" to describe the decentralized tension that enabled him to build his famous geodesic domes. But tensegrity structures are not just archtectural forms, they are found in carbon atoms, water molecules, proteins, viruses, cells, tissues, and animals.
