Renee Verdier's blog

What do Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes and the human body have in common? Both speak to the ingenuity of self-assembling structures and their methods of maintaining stability; when you use forces, you don't need to fight them. (more)

A Google and NASA sponsored Singularity University prepares academia for the convergence of humanity and technology. (more)

Buckminster Fuller coined the term "tensegrity" to describe the decentralized tension that enabled him to build his famous geodesic domes. But tensegrity structures are not just archtectural forms, they are found in carbon atoms, water molecules, proteins, viruses, cells, tissues, and animals. (more)