kids and adults around the world participated in the biomimicry institute's great tv rebellion of 2010 by turning off their televisions and other entertainment devices for all or part of earth week (april 19-25). we encouraged our tv rebels to keep journals of their outdoor experiences and share their stories with us. we even had a drawing with awesome prizes donated from our friends at pacific outdoor equipment.

(reuters) - scientists working to make a synthetic life form reported a major step forward thursday, saying they had created an artificial genome and used it to bring a hollowed-out bacterium back to life.

they hope to use their stripped-down version of a bacterium to learn how to engineer custom-made microbes.

Two kind of "koi-no-bori" no hi pictures.

One is Koi bito no bori no painting and the other is a eatable koi no bori no flag.

during the past five years, gunter pauli focused on identifying the innovations that could shift the present management model based on core business and core competence to one that introduces multiple innovations generating multiple cash flows, responding to all basic needs with what is locally available, generating jobs and building up social capital

In the light of changing global awareness and a strive toward one world system hereby a proposal to change the anthem to a modern and a more global oriented version. The text has also be modified to replace the historical events with current ones. the idea came when I realized i was suppose to sing the dutch anthem at queens-day but I felt I can not do that because the text is for me a very limited point of view how we can and should relate to the place we are born. I prefer the way that Ryokichi Hirono ( see yr-design.biz for a short video about him) refers to his birth place.

Just by accident I came across this picture. made me think about our relations towards robots, virtual lives, the sesitivity of us thinking we are special in our feelings. we could program new machines to be more like us or even better (Irobot movie comes in my mind). Special considering the discovery of the memristor and the 3d memristor

In 1995 I made a Computer Graphics a criticize of the values and norms around me. Hereby I have to revise them. although at the time it seems right to me to make those statements i now consider them limited. the values then where based on a "surface" model of the norms. not about the personal experience behind them. those norms fade if I consider love, affection and passion.