💁🏻♀️ TIL: A barn #owl can catch a #mouse in a completely dark room using only its sense of #hearing.
The secret lies in its #feathers – reflective facial disc feathers focus #sound into asymmetrically placed #ears, while serrated wing feathers muffle noise mid-flight. Engineers at #Siemens are now mimicking owl feathers to make quieter #windturbines.
#barnowl #owls #predator #hunting #biomimicry #engineering #biology #evolution #ornithology
What can biology teach us about building better technology? By drawing parallels between microbial networks and the Reticulum protocol, I explore why the future of society looks less like a corporate pyramid and more like a mycelial web.
https://sein.com.au/articles/network-as-mycelial-web/
#SystemsThinking #Biomimicry #Decentralisation #Reticulum #Mycelium
No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
https://intothedialectic.com/wiring-the-organism/
#commons #protocol #livingsystems #collectiveintelligence #decentralisation #governance #biomimicry #regenerative #commonsprotocol
🦎🔴 Engineers at the University of #Würzburg designed a #Mars #rover with wheels that “swim” through sand using figure-eight motions, inspired by the African sandfish #lizard.
That lizard, a native to the #Sahara, burrows and propels itself through sand like a fish through water. Early prototypes sank, but a lighter, wider-wheeled version successfully navigated sandy test tracks, outperforming traditional wheels on loose terrain.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/technology/mars-rover-swim-through-sand/
#biomimicry #engineering #robotics #space #exploration #germany #science #technology #tech #nature
How can we bring the insights of Biomimicry to the field of human inter-being? How can we shift our sense of self and other, our communities of place, purpose and passion, our businesses, our governance structures…everything that we are and do onto a different trajectory using the web of life as our template?
“Piers had been in China for all of two days in 2009 when he was used as a #WhiteMonkey” for the first time. He had travelled to a village in Suzhou, Jiangsu province, to attend a friend’s wedding and had stopped in the village to try a special crab dish at a small restaurant.
Weeks later, a Chinese guest who had been at the wedding told him the restaurant had had an uptick in #business because the locals had heard that a laowai, a foreigner, had been seen dining there, so people had assumed this restaurant must be good.
Piers realised the boss had deliberately seated him in a way to attract attention: “I knew we were sitting outside in a premium spot, but I didn’t pick up on what was going on.”
When #foreigners in China are used this way, they are called a #baihouzi, a white monkey”
This isn’t just a “China-thing”. For decades now western businesses have employed “White Monkeys”. You know them better as suits with an #MBA.
#BioMimicry / #tofu / #corporations <https://theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/may/16/fake-lawyers-scientists-chefs-punters-white-monkeys-chinese-businesses-global>
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🪸🔈 Healthy #coral reefs produce a symphony of #sounds that #fish and other marine organisms use to navigate.
#Solar powered speakers now play these soundscapes for 14 hours a day to attract life to struggling #ecosystems. The Great Barrier Reef experiment helped double fish populations in 6 weeks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/how-can-underwater-speakers-help-revive-coral-reefs
#3dprinting #animals #art #babies #biology #biomimicry #blackandstem #climate #climatechange #conservation #ecology #ecosystem #island #jamaica #nature #ocean #research #restoration #science #sculpture #solutions #caribbean #underwater #womeninstem #tksst #video
🪸🔈 Healthy #coral reefs produce a symphony of #sounds that #fish and other marine organisms use to navigate.
#Solar powered speakers now play these soundscapes for 14 hours a day to attract life to struggling #ecosystems. The Great Barrier Reef experiment helped double fish populations in 6 weeks.
👉 Learn more: https://seethis.tv/post/how-can-underwater-speakers-help-revive-coral-reefs
#3dprinting #animals #art #babies #biology #biomimicry #blackandstem #climate #climatechange #conservation #ecology #ecosystem #island #jamaica #nature #ocean #research #restoration #science #sculpture #solutions #caribbean #underwater #womeninstem #tksst #video
🦅🐍 Researchers found that painting #wind turbine blades with patterns inspired by venomous #snakes significantly reduces #bird collisions.
While standard white blades are often difficult for #birds to perceive, the biomimetic designs trigger a natural avoidance response. The simple visual modification offers a promising way to protect migratory species while expanding sustainable #energy.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/birds-avoid-wind-turbine-snake-colors/
#environment #science #engineering #nature #biomimicry #research #conservation #technology #tech #wildlife #biology
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