It is wise to bring some water when one goes looking for glasses!

Josh Silver, a British inventor and humanifestoterian, has created some specs that will certainly supply improved sight to inhabitants of the sub Saharan. These water filled optics have now guided people to the ability and resource to improve their vision when there is no optometrist in sight.

And does it hurt that they are incredibly stylish?!

LOVE,

TV

Gonna Fly Now Jonny!

Wu-POW! Now just TRY & have a bad Monday! I dare you~





LOVE LOVE LOVE,

TV

Random Acts of Lightness

Fireflies are brilliant! Those brilliant little butane butts!



However, there is a special species of Asian Firefly, discovered by John Bonner Buck and his lovely wife Elisabeth, that begins its nocturnal nadir with random flashes but progresses into an optical opus as a synchronicity emerges. Beautiful rhythmic order out of random sparkly chaos. Fireflies know how and why this happens

I wonder if humans ever will...

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TV

Thresholds

Have a Whirly Day!



It's called High-G Training. Jet pilots and Astronauts, among others, train in a small cockpit at the end of a large spinning centrifuge. Apparently, the breathing technique for the High G-Force Training is to forcefully say the word "hook". You take a big breath and say HOO- hold your breath for three seconds, contract every muscle in your body and finish with the K! and let the rest of the air out. And Repeat. Most lose consciousness around 12Gs. A 200 pound Man at this G Force weighs about 2500 pounds! Can you imagine having to be so conscious and in control of every muscle contraction and breath every minute of every day!?
THAT'S CRAZY TALK!

Oh the beauty of the human body and its efficient and effective systems!

Love,

TV

Edward Osborne Wilson

THREE CHEERS for Edward Osborne Wislon.

Biologist, naturalist, environmentalist, conservationist, avid critter chaser, and creator of one of the most ambitious biology projects to date,

The Encyclopedia of Life.

What a job! To search for every ounce of life of the planet!

Love,

TV

"Where there is much light (&trash) the shadow is deep"

Tim Noble & Sue Webster, two lovely, London based artists in LOVE create magnificent shadow art from trash. A pile of seemingly ugly rubbish is meticulously arranged by the duo and back lit to create glorious scenes of simple lovely human existence.

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TV

SuperForester Taylor Presents: Two Great Images! (Updated!)

T,

These are great! Where did you find them?

Love,

J

-UPDATE:

Thanks to SuperForester Janet, who informed us that the top image is via Kevin Kelly's incredible blog.

From kk.org:

"These wooden bicycles are ridden in the Banaue region of the Philippines. During an annual festival celebrating the culture of the regional tribes, wooden bikes are raced by participants in native costume. Notice the cool foot-activated brakes. These photos are from the Flickr pool of Harry Palangchao."

Awesome! Cheers Janet.

Ding ding ka-CHING!

Effective January 1st, 2009 a new tax benefit was added to the IRS Code section 132(f), employees who commute to work by bicycle can now be reimbursed for certain bicycle expenses on a tax-free basis for reasonable expenses incurred by the employee during the calendar year for the purchase of a bicycle, bicycle improvements, repair and storage, provided the bicycle is used regularly to travel between the employee's residence and the place of employment.

You Go America! You are the DUDEST!

Find out if you qualify HERE~

On another note, Please wear your helmets!

Love,

Taylor

Seeds of Interchange

What happens when

Steven Strogatz a mathematician, & Carlo Ratti an engineer/architect, get together and interview each other about large city/human systems planning, designing and monitoring?




BRAIN JAZZ!

slibby dip dop do dippy dip tee dee doooo! OOoooooooo Yeeeeeaaaah!



Love to ALL,

Taylor

Search the Web Make Some Waves

Ripple.

A simple and effective search engine uses the fundamental portal to the information super-dooper-high-sky-way as its tool against poverty. Every time YOU use the RIPPLE search engine or click on selected buttons to Give Access to Clean Water, Feed a Village, Educate, or Microfinance the money generated by the ads you see go towards these causes. They are harnessing the power of OUR wonderful intraweb-internet-organic-community-robot-animal to end poverty. One Search at a time. So get your search and learn on and makes some big kahuna waves.



Love,
TV

Pumping An Iron.

Working out at the gym is great!

Wouldn't it be better though if the gym were outdoors, had an extremely low footprint and used all reused materials!!!!!!!!

Well, pump those eyes muscles onto this...



I say no more working "out" because with gyms like this, it's more like working "with"!

Love,

TV