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things i’m thinking about…

recycling urine,  “ISS gets new recycling gear that transforms human waste to drinking water. Some of the water will be used to get Oxygene, too. This way it will soon be possible to host more crew members.”

air purifying concrete

fiscal game

Locative Lab at Picnic08

predicting national grid problems:
“The Visualizing Energy Resources Dynamically on Earth (VERDE) system, announced this week, mashes together images and stats of everything from real-time status of the electric grid and weather information to power grid behavior modeling and simulation.”

Nerds At Night

Sharkrunners 2.0

sharkrunners 2.0

Sharkrunners: new data! new map! Tiger and Gray Reef Sharks in the Great Barrier Reef!

Sharkrunners HQ: community site for challenging other shark researchers to duels, Ocean Reclamation Initiative!

ocean reclamation initiative

ocean reclamation initiative

Extenuating Circumstances
Elastic Space
Sascha Pohflepp
Nick Bilton
Kiwitobes
Robin Hunicke

lots of other great stuff and people…

Botanicalls Twitter is out!

Shout out to Botanicalls Research Crew!

Big shout out to Phil Torrone, Make Magazine and Limor Fried, Adafruit for her ethernet shield for arduino!

In a nutshell,

Botanicalls Twitter answers the question: What’s up with your plant? It offers a connection to your leafy pal via online Twitter status updates that reach you anywhere in the world. When your plant needs water, it will post to let you know, and send its thanks when you show it love.