Misadventures in Laser Cutting

...l wood box. Laser cutters can also cut entirely through thin materials so that opens up more possibilities to do things that would be difficult to do by hand. I’m intrigued, for instance, with the possibilities for making three dimensional folding paper cards. You could also use the laser cutter for screen printing, making stencils, wood inlay or marquetry. Many thanks to the knowledgeable staff of the Octavia Lab!...

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Saturday Tweets: Bees, Fireflies and Food Waste

...ttps://t.co/vxw4HwbP6d — Alissa Walker (@awalkerinLA) June 13, 2018 Reduce food waste to combat world hunger & slow global #climatechange. @UCANR teaches the compost solution. https://t.co/k1S3tUTgmw pic.twitter.com/keYBmIGzUB — Jeannette Warnert (@jwarnert) June 13, 2018 Love is always at the service of others. Because love is seen in actions, not words. — Pope Francis (@Pontifex) June 15, 2018 When you can’t sleep [Louis Wain, c. 1890] pic.twitt...

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Romanesco broccoli cameo lights up Star Wars film

...ed as a food, as it should be–as opposed to ivy vines being presented as a food crop in Maze Runner– it is an Earth food, so it’s interesting that the film makers decided to include it as part of the scenery. The only other edible in the movie is special effect-based alien food–I won’t be spoilery and say any more about that. The Star Wars world isn’t posited as our future world, as the Star Trek world is–it’s a mythic world, somewhere long ago an...

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An ancient food forest

...tgWcD-1Nw An intriguing short video by permaculturist Geoff Lawton about a food forest in Morocco. It does leave me with questions, though, such as: what sort of labor does it take to keep this system going? And also, what other kinds of inputs does it require? Is it irrigated, and if so, how? Still, it’s inspiring to see so much abundance in a dry space. Come to think of it, LA has lots of palm trees already. If we’d just give up our cars, we cou...

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