Depressing statistic

About 1% of the US population is now in prison. Something is wrong...

Vertical Farming

Interesting video about vertical farming. I've linked to vertical farming articles before and I'll continue to until we hear more about it. It sounds like a real pie in the sky kind of idea but I think it'll be really important because as things stand cities have somewhat unsustainable supply chains. That will only get worse as more and more people move to the cities.

CNN covers an interesting trend in the increase of human generated electrical power.

Facinating Story

This is an amazing long article about trolls and internet bullying. Some of the people interviewed really come off as villainous (i.e. I can see them as bad guys in a James Bond movie).

Pretty

This video is very well put together and very pretty.

I'm not sure what to think of this

This video is very....odd. Also I'm tired and in pain so I apologize for bad grammar in this and other posts from today.

Lots of Posts coming

So I've been sick over the last several days and haven't posted at all. Never fear though! I have a whole bunch of things I want to post about over the next couple of days.

Neat biomass energy tech development

So I've been following the development of algae based bio-energy for a while and this was a really clear and concise article that explains how it could be cool (watch the video that he links to, even if it is biased).

I feel like this could be important but I'm not sure why

I feel like there's some opportunity for biomimicry devices or new technology after reading this but I can't see it yet. Anyone else?

I like this way of looking at problems

So here's a neat summation of how to do a certain kind of innovation (engineering innovation as apposed to random? Not sure about the difference, I'll have to think about it) via KK.