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I hope every one of you are keeping well š
Anyone else feel like September & October are months when weāre bombarded with reminders of how busy we should be? Back to school. Back to work. - ideas that seem a little out of touch with reality given the pure confusion that 2020 has been.
Forgive me for the very impromptu little hiatus, the past two weeks posts fell by the wayside despite starting on both, I just had to focus my time on other projects. I want to always give this my full attention and it can often be much more work than it might seem.
Anyway, Cāmere to meā¦
Mad
Lone Machu Picchu Visit ā°
Imagine being the only one thereā¦
The Peruvian government opened the closed ruins of Machu Picchu to a lone Japanese tourist, who was stranded back in March and wanted to see the site before returning home almost seven months later!
Image: BBC/Reuters
āMr Katayama planned to spend only a few days in Peru, but became stranded in the town of Aguas Calientes, near Machu Picchu, in mid-March because of coronavirus travel regulations.ā
āThe ancient Inca citadel - Peru's top tourist attraction - is expected to re-open at reduced capacity next month.ā
(read more - BBC News)
Interesting
Katherine Johnson, aka 'the computer'
This image, a tribute to Katherine Johnson, went viral a few weeks ago, she passed away back in February, aged 101.
She was an African-American mathematician, aka 'the computerā, who helped calculate the trajectory for the 1969 Apollo 11 flight to the Moon.
Back in 2015 aged 97, Obama awarded her with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Americaās highest civilian honour.
(Read more - NASA)
Interesting
Biomimicry
Using nature to better our own design
āThe world is poorly designed. But copying nature helpsā - this video by VOX does a great job to explain the concept of biomimicry and I highly recommend it.
In short is the idea of taking design and innovation ideas directly from nature, tried and tested processes in use for thousands of years that are the most efficient and also crucially sustainable.
Practical examples of Biomimicry, given in the video, include copying the beak shape of the Kingfisher for the nose of high speed trains, mimicking shark skin to create bacteria resistant plastic surfaces, and arranging wind turbines in the same drag resistant patterns that schools of fish swim in, but they go through many many more.
We should be mimicking entire ecosystems to make our economy more efficient and sustainable, where everything is repurposed and used for something else, the example given is that in manufacturing there should be no such thing as a bi-product that goes to landfill.
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Years would look weird if we put a comma in their number like we do with money. Like yeah 2,020 sucksā¦
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