Learning from Nature

I've always loved nature, and in the last year or so I've become fascinated by biomimicry- learning how we can mimic nature in design. Ideally this design allows us to solve problems more efficiently, causing less environmental damage. For example, there is quite a bit of design happening that mimics gecko feet for adhesion purposes and lotus leaves for their ability to self-clean.

My classmate John and I were just chatting about jellyfish and squid and he mentioned a TED talk by David Gallo called, "Underwater Astonishments." I love the bioluminescence of some of the jellies in this video. And the Octopus Vulgaris's ability to change pattern, color, brightness and TEXTURE to blend into its surrounding algae is absolutely incredible (see above).

I'm perplexed by how much money we spend on space exploration, when we've only explored 3% of the deep sea and it is believed to house more diversity than the tropical rainforests. Time to go scuba...