Month: October 2009

fiatluxemburg:

Toyota, who’s Prius is easy on the environment to drive but horrible on it to make, has engineered a new type of flower to help shoulder some of the damage their factories are spitting out.

The sage derivative’s leaves have unique characteristics that absorb harmful gases, while the gardenia’s leaves create water vapour in the air, reducing the surface temperature of the factory surrounds and, therefore, reducing the energy needed for cooling, in turn producing less carbon dioxide (CO2).

[via Giz]

Umm, if that works at all, that’s pretty fucking awesome. Also, in more prosaic news, this is the 100th post I have liked.

Fuck you, Tumblr.

Tumblarity clearly still operates on the pleasure principle like a two year old, instead of the reality principle like a four year old.

Or, Tumblr is an attention whore. And by “or,” I mean “and.”

While virtually all parts of the human body—skeleton, muscles, joints, guts—bear the stamp of our behavioral variety, our nervous system is especially immature at birth, our brain disproportionately small in relation to its adult size and disproportionately susceptible to cultural sculpting.

The Encultured Brain | Neuroanthropology (see also: premature birth)