Tuesday 31 December 2013

Smartphone controlled paper air plane

http://mashable.com/2013/11/30/paper-airplane-smartphone/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

Algae

http://www.algalturfscrubber.com/

Tiny house, US

http://www.viralnova.com/tiny-house/

Light pollution in the US

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/let-there-be-night/278070/

20 dollars air conditioner

http://www.thestar.com/news/2013/07/16/the_20_air_conditioner.html

City plot - city gardens in NY

http://cityplot.org/apply-now-for-funded-cityplot-workshops-and-trainings/

Poem on immigration maths in the UK

http://www.upworthy.com/next-time-someone-tells-you-that-immigrants-are-destroying-our-country-show-them-this?g=2

Suburbia by CASS student

http://www.thecass.com/news-events/2013/december/riba-presidents-medals-cass

Monday 30 December 2013

Jostein Gaarder: Sophie's World

a novel covering history of philosophy from Socrates to Sartre on a background of a story of a 14 year old girl.
Philosophy for general public kind of book.

Vunka said I must read.


COOPERATIVES promoted by USDA


http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/SupportDocuments/rdRuralCoop_Sept_Oct13Vr_Web.pdf

newsletter of US Department of Agriculture summarising progress of agricultural cooperatives in 2013 in rural America.

Cooperatives might just be the way to go forward in rural colonias.

Thursday 12 December 2013

alternative energy

http://mashable.com/2013/12/10/alternative-energy-products/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link#gallery/gadgets-powered-by-unusual-means/52a6e715b589e42bf5002074

Tuesday 3 December 2013

Peter Lang in Barbican

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/whats-on.asp?t=future

PC from scratch

http://mashable.com/2013/11/24/kano-computer-kit/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link

Shermeen's blog

http://yousifshermeen.blogspot.com/

Wei Yan's class:
http://faculty.arch.tamu.edu/wyan/ARCH689/students.html

Richard Feynman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9tanx_0pqQ