There's an excellent post in TreeHugger about Biomimicry, the science (art?) that entails observing how nature's design solutions are often better than ours, and trying to learn from that.
Why can birds fly so easily, while we have to dump millions into developing fiendishly complicated helicopters? Why do spiderwebs trump any cable suspension system we've ever devised? How is it that geckos get up walls so easily, and we have to rig window washers up with these enormous contraptions?
Learn more about the course (May 23-29):
Janine Benyus, the author of Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature , and Dayna Baumeister, are running a six day intensive course to train biologists interested in applying biomimicry to design.
Click the topmost link for more info.
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