Next Nature is the nature caused by people.
We aim to research our changing relation with nature and the implications on our everyday lives.
We aim to research our changing relation with nature and the implications on our everyday lives.
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- 2006
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Hong Kong Heritage Discovery Centre
Sunday, November 15 at 11:00am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4DT3tQqgRM&rel=0These two co-workers found out the face tracking feature of the utterly advanced HP webcam will not recognize or track black faces.Hewlett Packard says it’s because the program doesn’t respond to “insufficient foreground lighti...
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Next Nature Who saw Raoul Heertje interviewing Ray Kurzweil at VPRO's 'Wintergasten'?
For his Made of Myth series, Marc Da Cunha Lopes goes back to the places where the elements of great game classics were made. You really didn’t think it was all virtual, right? Above: the gold rings from Sonic. (more…) Boomeranged Metaphors, Fake for Real, Toys are Us
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Things that make us feel and look good. Branded nature? Created by Russian design agency Firma. Biomimicmarketing, Fake nature, Hypernature, Image Consumption
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Some beautiful “visual thoughts” by NL Architects. On the left: Minimum Speed 200 kh/h. On the right: United Airlines. (more…) Design for debate, Dynamic architecture
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As we bid farewell to 2009, it’s a good time to look back at our explorations of the year. Here are some of our most popular and peculiar posts, in case you missed them the first time around.1. The Comeback of the ‘ugly’ fruitsAs of July 2009, the European Commission abolished more th...
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Coca-Cola© succeeds in what most NGO’s try to achieve: getting the goods to the poor in the 3rd world Africa. For most people there, a Coke is easier to get and cheaper than a bottle of drinking water. One might say that we shouldn’t encourage them to drink that much Coke, but we ca...
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The shrinking size of electronics allows for the implantation of increasingly sophisticated electronic devices in the human body, paving the way for new prosthetics and brain-machine interfaces – think of the speculative phone tooth, conductive body paint or the brain-twitter interface. But so fa...
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Quite a multi-layeredness of the artificially strengthened immune systems they have in place at the Thai border. Microbes and terrorist: hand in your passport. Peculiar image of the week. Bionics, biopolitics, Technorhetoric
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A candid conversation with the high priest of popcult and metaphysician of mediaFrom “The Playboy Interview: Marshall McLuhan”, Playboy Magazine, March 1969. © Playboy In 1961, the name of Marshall McLuhan was unknown to everyone but his English students at the University of Toronto ...
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http://www.vimeo.com/clip:7395079“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers”, a remark made by Thomas J. Watson of IBM in 1943. But what if the number of computing devices connected to each other would reach the number of one trillion? A short animation.Calm technology,...
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How SecondLife ends up to be a virtual chicken farm? Watch Patrick Davison explain about the rise of Next Nature on the social platform.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p5d4e5e-7o&rel=0Image by Kaie Magic | Related: Confetti Chicken | SecondLife Prostitute | SecondLife is Not Sustainablebiomim...
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http://www.vimeo.com/clip:5837597“We live in a time where everything or everyone can be upgraded or ‘pimped’. After the worldwide acceptance of plastic surgery, it was time to subject our worldly possessions (Pimp my Ride) and digital identities (Facebook) to an esthetical and/or func...
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Peculiar image of the week. Created by Merijn Bolink. Hypernature, Made to debate, manipulating growth, Technorhetoric
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This snowman (shouldn’t there be a broom?) was created by Niall Hamilton, published at microbialart.com. Science becomes art in this experimental collaboration of man, fungi and bacteria. (more…) Boomeranged Metaphors, Hypermaterials, manipulating growth, Wetware
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We are living in the future and we find it boring. The best place to gather evidence for this claim is the supermarket. To begin with, try and have a fresh look at the word: Supermarket, it is such an utterly futuristic word, yet we use it mindlessly. If only the supermarket wasn’t such a mundan...
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This snowman is 10 µm across, 1/5th the width of a human hair.The snowman was made from two tin beads used to calibrate electron microscope astigmatism. The eyes and smile were milled using a focused ion beam, and the nose, which is under 1 µm wide (or 0.001 mm), is ion beam deposited platinum.A ...
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In the classic Milgram Experiment conducted in the 1960s, volunteers were told by an authority figure to deliver electric shocks to another person as punishment for incorrect answers to a test. The other person wasn’t really receiving the shocks, but the volunteers were tricked into thinkin...
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Until now, most people have likely regarded bird-feeders as merely a pleasant addition to their gardens. But scientists have now discovered that bird-feeders in the UK are actually having a serious long term impact on bird life – they’ve found that the feeders have brought about the first e...
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Unsure how this melting polar bear ice sculpture created by artist Mark Coreth fits in Next Nature mythology. The art piece was presented last week in Copenhagen and is sponsored by WWF to create an awareness on the human impact on the climate.Once the ice sculpture has melted – which should take...
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Whereas 40.000 years ago we used to roam the Savanna, today many people live the live of highway nomads. As an investigation of this lifestyle, artist Melle Smets and philosopher Bram Esser spent four continuous weeks on the highway.Their journey brought them to tank stations, motels, gay-meeting...
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Cursor Kite brings the desktop of your computer outdoors. Nerdy? Yep, but the youtube video of the mouse pointer exploring the beach is fun to watch.Related: Boomeranged Metaphors, Digital trashcan brought to physical office, When Facebook gets physical.Boomeranged Metaphors, Calm technology, Off...
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It is a well known secret that plastic hardly breaks down and almost all of the plastic ever made still floats around somewhere. With the great pacific garbage patch now twice the size of Texas and over 500 billion plastic bags produced a year – which take about a 1000 years to decompose – plasti...
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December 8, 2009 at 4:36am
On a misty day in Aberdeen, Hong Kong, it is easy to mistake buildings for mountains. Nonetheless a captivating blend of old & next nature. Peculiar image of the week. Related: Eruption, Behavioral Urbanism, Architecture of density, Exploding City. manufactured landscapes
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The US Food and Drug Administration is holding up the delivery of an iMac because they seem to think it is an apple, not an Apple.I don’t want to believe that either UPS or the U.S. Government are so stupid as to think that my Apple computer is actually an apple, but I can’t come up with any othe...
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Subway stations are usually designed in a clean and modernistic style in order to make people forget they are traveling deep underground. How different in the Stockholm subway, in which several of the deep underground stations are cut into solid rock which were left with cave-like ceilings. Old...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ZVpZqistk&rel=0All right I am the first to admit this thunderstorm imitation by the a Capella choir Perpetuum Jazzile isn’t exactly what we had in mind when we started our discussion on ‘the nature caused by people’.Nonetheless you might appr...
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Next Nature
Pssst.. we are developing an iPhone app that allows you 'spot' next nature phenomena in your neighborhood.
Go ahead and test it. Tips for improvements are welcome!
Philomena
Creating the perfect laboratory mouse: Mice with flurocent brain neurons for easy observation! (that beats fMRI! ;p )
PS: see 10th paragraph of article
www.sciencedaily.com
ScienceDaily (Nov. 30, 2009) New connections begin to form between brain cells almost immediately as animals learn a new task, according to a study published recently in Nature. Led by researchers ...
Orestis Tsinalis Rejuvenation studies miss completely the point. What needs rejuvenation (what a ridiculous scientific term) is our experiences and not our cells. People seem to think that anti-age technology will change their way of living, but the only option I see is a prolonged misery. Living forever has become a popular obsession ...(kudos to Ray) and the the refusal of death dominated our psychotic lifestyles. Let's celebrate our cryogenic society!
www.physorg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- If people were given a pill to make them live longer what would they do with that extra time? According to a new study by University of Queensland researchers, they would spend it with their family.
