Emily Davidow

Smarty Plants: Inside the World’s Only Plant-Intelligence Lab Perhaps soon describing someone as a complete vegetable will indicate a high level of intelligence and sensitivity. “If you define intelligence as the capacity to solve problems, plants have a lot to teach us,” says Mancuso, dressed in harmonizing shades (tags: science plants research intelligence biology consciousness [...]

Photo by Robyn Lee, ‘the girl who ate everything,’ some rights reserved. Reporting from New York Criminal Court, 100 Centre St, Jury Duty, Day 2. Wow, the wheels of justice move slowly. At least you can now enjoy wifi while you’re waiting to be called, so bring your laptop (Twitter, Facebook and Meebo blocked). But [...]

Mocha cream cake from Maira Kalman’s mother’s bakery on Johnson Avenue in Riverdale, NY (see p.246-247), served at a celebration for the release of The Principles of Uncertainty at the NYPL. Do you engage with pleasure, curiosity, fun and celebration (with time for naps) in the face of the tragedy of the day? Do you [...]

On almost every street I walked down in Buenos Aires, I fell in love with the handpainted signs and lettering.Alejandro Paul, through Veer, Umbrella type, teaches design captures the best of the Porteno energy.

TasteBook.com: Create cookbooks, search recipes, share recipes online/print mashup — create custom printed hardcover cookbooks created from your favorite recipes and any recipes on epicurious.com (includes archives of Gourmet and Bon Appetit) and share with friends. (tags: recipes cooking mashup publishing books masscustomization) bunnie’s blog Talk about anti-stealth and open-source: follow along with the adventures [...]

Archived video of Dalai Lama visit to Emory, October 20-22, 2007 Video archives of events: “Intro to Buddhism”, “Summit on Religion, Conflict and Peacebuilding”, “Reality as Interdependence,” and public talk in Centennial Olympic Park (tags: HHDL DalaiLama Buddhism Video peace interdependence) Peg Bracken,’I Hate to Cook’ Author, Dies at 89 Start cooking those noodles, first [...]

Adrian Bowyer demonstrating RepRap version 1.0 “Darwin” at Pop!Tech 2007. Photo by Medea Material, some rights reserved. Adrian Bowyer presented RepRap, an erector set that will change the world, as part of the “Innovation from the Bottom Up” panel at Pop!Tech 2007. This open source, self-replicating rapid-prototyping machine uses a biodegradable material, polylactic acid, made [...]

Recommended musical accompaniment: Joga (iTunes | Amazon) by Björk Stockport Emotion Map by Christian Nold, from presentation on “The Human Impact” at Pop!Tech 2007 conference. Christian Nold looks at cities… differently. Most people go around cities with their head down. 50% of people live in them, yet they are more a concept than anything else. [...]

Recommended musical accompaniment: Deep Water (iTunes) by Seal Claire Nouvian sailing in Penobscot Bay for a session on “Oceans in Balance” at Pop!Tech, off the coast of Maine. (More photos from Pop!Tech 2007) Claire Nouvian, a documentary filmmaker, thinks really deep thoughts about the ocean and its inhabitants. She’s especially concerned about how we relate [...]

Bloom Association Claire Nouvian’s new organization linking people with the deep sea (tags: ClaireNouvian Sea Ocean conservation environment sealife deepsea fish sustainability) Penobscot East Resource Center Penobscot East Resource Center Ted Ames, a long-term, Maine lobster and ground fisherman, combines fishery science and fishermen’s knowledge in the interest of protecting essential fish habitats. (tags: maine [...]

Chris Jordan’s concerned that we can’t feel statistics. Our brains aren’t hardwired to deal with high numbers. If we’re going to make radical changes, we have to fall in love, or feel angry enough to do something. His art translates raw data and numbers to the visual language of feeling to help people shift from [...]

Robert Freling of Solar Electric Light Fund (SELF) showing the front and back of Sheila Kennedy’s Portable Light, that integrates ancient Meso-american weaving traditions developed by the Huichol people with flexible CIGs based thin-film photo-voltaics and solid state lighting. Freling launched the PopTech Carbon Initiative on eBay with SELF’s solar irrigation project in Benin. The [...]

Enric Sala, Claire Nouvian and Marcia McNutt in Penobscot Bay, off the coast of Maine. (More photos from Pop!Tech 2007) On a Wednesday session preceding the Pop!Tech conference last week, a group of participants sailed from Camden, Maine through Penobscot Bay on the Appledore schooner with Marcia McNutt, Claire Nouvian, Enric Sala and Ted Ames. [...]