soumitri

Easy mill explanation. But also this is a good link to the Roland youtube channel.

Vehicle Creator tutorial

This is a discussion - but it raies all manner of issues. I am not sure I agree with the conclusion. It looks like there is a clear food safety issue in the US - and this program doesnt really go there properly.

Cardboard automata is tinkering activity developed by the PIE institute at the Exploratorium. In it, participants are asked to build a mechanism of their choosing, using simple materials, to animate a kinetic vignette. It is an exploration of mechanical movement and artistic expression at the same time.

Smile Train - the world's largest cleft charity visits Haiti to expand its free cleft surgery programs and help the more than 20,000 children in Haiti who are suffering with unrepaired clefts.

Reading stuffed and starved by Raj Patel (hear him out in this video)- and angry and dismayed-disheartened in equal measure. So I started writing (to deal with the state I was in) and this has now become - a paper on the 'occasional craftsperson' with a friend-collaborator.

This is a very cool competition ...The History Channel had designers in New York, Chicago and LA propose what our cities will look like in 2106. Through February 3 you can vote to pick the national winner (www.history.com/designchallenge/sweepst akes)

How we will live and move around in our urban environments in 100 years from now -- balancing high tech, nature, design, and urban constrains? " ECONIC DESIGN is a concept engineering and space shaping approach for urban planning and building architecture. It encompasses the latest ecological, iconic, economical and technological aspects, as well as the idea of adaptation to environmental changes. Matthias Hollwich and Marc Kushner from HWKN outline how cities and buildings will be build in the future. Find

Dr. Lovins talks about the reaction around the world to his seminal book ‘Natural Capitalism’, which he co-wrote with L. Hunter Lovins and Paul Hawken. Since it was first published in 2000, he has worked with a number of companies in helping them to develop “natural capitalist” strategies to do business as if nature and people were properly valued. His hope, he explains, is that successful case studies from within different industry sectors will encourage other companies to follow similar strategies

Architect Sim Van de Ryn describes what he believes to be the leading edge of contemporary design. He talks about biomimicry, which uses the way nature works as a basis for design. He gives examples of breakthrough that has recently occurred in propeller design. He then discusses the future of the built environment, taking into account the fact that oil is becoming increasingly scarce and expensive.

Sky News Feb 08, 2009

Thanks Raph for the Video link.

James Fallows on China-US issues.