Ideas Stolen Right From Nature
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Nature is pretty good at solving engineering problems, so designers are increasingly turning to biomimetics to improve their products and ideas. By Rowan Hooper.
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Live Earth had an especially precarious balance between eco-consciousness and ego-consciousness.
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Imitation can be the sincerest form of confusion.
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Fast company It&#146;s a familiar tension in business. Business people think designers are mere stylists; designers think business people are Neanderthals who forfeit quality for profit. That&#146;s because traditional business runs on logic that is inductive (using observation to prove something works) and deductive (using principles to prove that something must be). But designers rely on abductive reasoning. Huh? It&#146;s ...
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Some homeowners learn from their mistakes. Others don't.
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Science & environment: The big high-street chains are falling over  themselves to 'go green'. But will any of it make  any difference? Mark Lynas is far from convinced.
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Sometimes, the two concepts can blur.
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Disdaining environmentalism in the battle against global warming.
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Science & environment: The world's best thinkers admit that from time to time even they are forced to change their minds
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Science & environment: It now seems that just about anything can be sold as being 'green'. Ravi Somaiya goes in search of some of the more weird and wonderful examples.
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Scientists trying to create life are more like engineers than biologists. They want to make stuff rather than learn about life.
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As this exhibition argues, the notion of an American landscape brimming with sacred sites is as much a cultural invention as an accident of nature.
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Constantly wearing a portable music player, such as an iPod, may be the next stage in evolution for some members of our species. But Mother Nature apparently does not approve.
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By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop  Development is not always a one-way process of environmental destruction.
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The author and two associates are accused of violating copyright laws.
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Environmentalists think ahead to the effect of tourists and investors on a landscape of crucial habitats.