The Establishment by Owen Jones. No matter what your political views, The Establishment makes for highly interesting reading. A controversial title, it puts forward a clear and passionate argument making the case for re-examining the British political system. The book, which Armando Iannucci described as “Fantastic, timely, eye-opening', in the New Statesman, puts across the argument that currently, a small group of individuals not only wield the greatest power in Britain, but that they use this power to serve needs that are far from universal. Jones is not suggesting this is "an organised conspiracy", more a deliberate ploy to shape government for the needs of the few. Essentially, as the empowered in society help one another, these mutually beneficial relationships make it very difficult for others to assert themselves or their interests. It is, he argues, an unfair system in need of greater scrutiny and accountability. Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9780141974996.
Janey Tracey Tuesday, 26 January - 5:39PM Astronomers studying planet 2MASS J2126-8140 thought it was a lonely orphan planet, wandering around to different solar systems without a star to create a regular orbit. Now, a new study shows that it is actually part of the largest solar system ever discovered, at a trillion kilometers (approx. 621,000,000,000 miles) away from its host star. To put that into perspective, this means that the planet orbits its star at 140 times the distance that Pluto circles our Sun. The previous widest pair of objects, by comparison, were 370,000,000,000 kilometers away from each other.
The distance between the planet and its host star is approximately 6,900 times the distance between Earth and the Sun, and one year on that planet would last for almost one million Earth years. "We can speculate they formed 10 million to 45 million years ago from a filament of gas that pushed them together in the same direction," Dr Murphy said.
時髦大叔 Nick Wooster X UNITED ARROWS 聯名系列 | Polysh. 講到日本品牌 UNITED ARROWS 最厲害的就是西服了，25 週年居然找來頂港有名聲，下港上出名的 Nick Wooster 大叔來做聯名系列，這…這是要逼死誰的荷包啊！ 這個系列我懷疑大叔是以自己私心來做設計，因為根本就是他平常會穿的衣服啊！ 有沒有有沒有～系列中都是他愛的拼接、迷彩，以及百搭的黑白色系，一般的衣服如果設計成這樣的話應該會讓人以為你是黑白郎君，大多數人很難接受吧，可是大叔設計出來的完全不會。 大叔也很賊，把他喜歡的迷彩元素作為西上裝的內裏細節，小壞壞！ 另外還有個很妙的地方，你們有沒有覺得大叔設計的單品一起穿在身上也不會很突兀？ 反而變成 Nick Wooster Style？ 阿你是不是不相信我說的話？ Nick Wooster 最厲害的就是善於運用西裝作穿搭來混搭與他外型相稱的粗獷美式運動元素，大叔平常就喜歡穿有軍事風格的迷彩造型或是三件式西裝，怎麼這麼剛好跟 UNITED ARROWS 這麼 Match 啊，根本天作之合！ 其實從平時的穿著就知道大叔喜歡的魔鬼細節在哪裡了～你又不相信我了？ 迷彩、拼色、甩不掉的帥勁，今年的夏天可有得忙碌了啊～ 紳士們！ Via: keeda,tumblr. Men's wardrobe. Plain-linen-fabrics-upholstery-58478-1501129.jpg (JPEG Image, 1024 × 768 pixels)
Green Choices - Sustainable fashion & fabrics. While there are serious environmental impacts associated with many fabrics there are some whose impact is much less. Organic cotton: Wear Organic is a project s a campaign run by the Pesticide Action Network UK (PAN UK). It aims to reduce the problems caused by pesticides used particularly in cotton and promotes organic and fair trade alternatives. It provides information for consumers on the environmental impacts of fabric production.
Organic cotton garments are likely to be free from chlorine bleaches and synthetic dyes. Hemp is a thoroughly ecological crop: highly productive, easy to cultivate and pest tolerant, so needing few or no agrochemicals whilst at the same time binding and enriching the soil with its deep roots. Hemp clothing specialists include The Hemp Store, and The Hemp Trading Company, which offers ‘skatewear, boardwear, streetwear, clubwear’. Bamboo is the latest plant material to hit the eco-friendly fabrics market.
Sustainability. Green Choices - Sustainable fashion & fabrics. Shopping guide to High Street Clothes Shops, from Ethical Consumer. How we rated the companies Cotton sourcing All clothing companies using cotton (almost all do) have been asked for a cotton sourcing policy.Pesticides: Companies receive negative marks under the Pollution & Toxics category if they use conventionally-grown cotton with no plan to reduce pesticide and herbicide use in the near future.GM cotton: Due to its prevalence, companies which have not made a commitment that they will avoid Genetically Modified (GM) cotton receive a mark under the Genetic Engineering column.
The exception is organically grown cotton which is GM-free.Uzbek cotton: Companies receive a negative mark under the Human Rights category if they have not banned the use of cotton from Uzbekistan in their supply chains. Companies which scored a score of 50 or over in the Cotton Sourcing Snapshot (by Responsible Sourcing Network) receive a positive mark in the Company Ethos category for making solid efforts to keep Uzbek cotton out of their supply chain.
Animal rights Silk. Sustainable Goals – Camira Fabrics | Little One's Blog. Camira Fabrics Training Last week I went on some product training at the Camira fabrics factory in Meltham, Huddersfield. The journey was interesting to say the least and I’m glad I didn’t have to learn how to drive in that neck of the woods. The roads take hill starts to a whole new level – I had to drive up one in 1st gear for what felt like a mile. I also went down a road called ‘Doddle Lane’ – this narrow cobble road on a hill, with brick walls either side and I’m telling you now it was not a doddle at all to get down!! I got there in one piece thankfully, on time and with no accidents. Phew! Vision, mission & values in Sustainable design Camira design and manufacture the most innovative, adventurous, environmentally sensitive fabrics in the world and it was great learning about their vision, mission and values in sustainable design.
Products made from sustainable Natural Materials – wool, hemp and nettles Blazer Quilt – 100% Virgin Wool Blazer Check 100% Virgin Wool Create Restaurant. British Airways Creates a 'Happiness Blanket' to Help Fliers Sleep. Photograph by Brent MurrayThe blanket's creator, Lorenzo Spadoni British Airways (BAY:LN), the airline that pioneered the flat-bed seats in the 1990s, has taken the business of in-flight sleep to its next (logical?
Absurd?) Level: The airline has developed a blanket to analyze the “meditative state” of premium cabin fliers. The wool “happiness blanket” is embedded with tiny fiber-optic LEDs that change color based on brainwaves transmitted via Bluetooth from a band worn on a passenger’s head. Blue signifies calm, peace, and relaxation and is seen most often when the person is sleeping deeply. The high-tech blanket isn’t for direct customer use at this point, but dozens of volunteers will try the blanket on trans-Atlantic flights. The airline’s ultimate goal is to further distinguish its cabin service and amenities in an era when everyone else has added flat beds and posh linens. In service of rest, British Airways has proven it’s willing to experiment. Digital Revolution: Universal Everything. This week we’ve been featuring some of the artists involved in the Barbican’s latest groundbreaking exhibition, ‘Digital Revolution’ which charts the influence of technology on the arts.
As well as the exhibited pieces there are a number of commissioned works, one of which is by Universal Everything; a digtal art design studio headed up by Matt Pyke. They have created ‘Together’ a collaborative animation project which enlists the help of the public in its creation. Universal Everything has designed a tool which allows the public to create animations – visitors can draw on tablet computers to contribute to a giant crowd-sourced animation, which is relayed across a cluster of 24 screens. We talked to Matt Pyke to find out more about the project and Universal Everything’s practice. I studied botanical and technical illustration followed by graphic design. Then started my career designing for the music industry, record sleeves, interactive and animated music videos.
BBC Democracy Live - 'Empowering young people to engage in politics' Little Girls In Nigeria Have Replaced Barbie With "Queens of Africa" Dolls. The concept for the dolls first began in 2007, when Nigerian entrepreneur Taofick Okoya's daughter told him she wished she was white. To aid his daughter in loving herself and recognizing the beauty of her own skin, he set out to create dolls that reflected her own appearance. Surprisingly, even in Nigeria (home to the world's largest black population), Okoya had trouble getting toy stores to sell the dolls because "black dolls don't sell. " Children across the world have been conditioned to value the European standards of beauty. As a way to play into this, Okoya's dolls do not have full figures, particularly African facial features, or coarser hair textures.
You can find more info and purchase the dolls on the Queens of Africa website. H/t: GOOD. About Us / Meet the Dolls - Queens Of Africa Dolls. Joshua Light Show + Inherent Vice at the Ace, Shoreditch. A kaleidoscope of swirling, colorful shapes move up, down and around the windows of The 100 Room at Shoreditch’s Ace Hotel. The shapes come together and float apart, creating bubbles and cascading color explosions that look like fungi and haemoglobin, fireworks and underwater flowers. All the while, a suggestive, dreamlike soundtrack sets the mood for the ever-changing color display designed by the Joshua Light Show, the CH favorites who we’ve previously visited in their studio.
For the next five days, the public can expect to have their mind blown by the installation at the seventh floor of the Ace Hotel, which is usually only open for private events. The Joshua Light Show, who have been creating psychedelic, analog light shows since 1967, bring their years of expertise to London for the artwork based on the Inherent Vice soundtrack by Radiohead musician and renowned composer Jonny Greenwood. Images courtesy of Sting Media.
Studio XO suits the future. TECHCITYINSIDER100: Benjamin Males, co-founder and chief technology officer of wearable tech business Studio XO, is fusing the grey area between science and art with a raft of innovative garments. He tells Andrew Dickens why his company is more than just about designing garments for Lady Gaga. There’s a lot of buzz around the wearable technology industry these days and it’s easy to see why. By 2016, according to a very optimistic Benjamin Males, the booming sector is said to be worth anything up to US$60bn. At Studio XO, the company he co-founded in 2011, Males is the chief technology officer at one of the companies spearheading the growth of wearable tech. Studio XO has cloaked some of the world’s most illustrious performing artists with an array of dazzling products, including flashing LED trainers for boy band JLS and a flying dress called ‘Volantis’ for the always extravagantly dressed Lady Gaga.
“It will most likely be seed and when it does happen it will move quickly. Education. Lettuce See the Future: Japanese Farmer Builds... Humans have spent the last 10,000 years mastering agriculture. But a freak summer storm or bad drought can still mar many a well-planted harvest. Not anymore, says Japanese plant physiologist Shigeharu Shimamura, who has moved industrial-scale farming under the roof. Working in Miyagi Prefecture in eastern Japan, which was badly hit by powerful earthquake and tsunamis in 2011, Shimamura turned a former Sony Corporation semiconductor factory into the world’s largest indoor farm illuminated by LEDs.
The special LED fixtures were developed by GE and emit light at wavelengths optimal for plant growth. The farm is nearly half the size of a football field (25,000 square feet). It opened on July and it is already producing 10,000 heads of lettuce per day. The farm uses 17,500 LED lights spread over 18 cultivation racks reaching 15 levels high. The LED lights are a key part of the farm’s magic. The farm is producing 10,000 heads of lettuce per day. Shigeharu Shimamura shows his produce. Studio Roosegaarde — Smart Highway. Smart Highway – The intelligent and interactive roads of tomorrow. Space-Inspired 3D Printed Wearables Designed for Biological Functions. NEUROTiQ | SENSOREE. NEUROTiQ is brain animating fashion – a knitted, 3d printed, EEG brain sensor – that maps thoughts and exhibits brain states with color. Within the knit fabric structure, 3d printed neuron globules are embedded with SENSOREE therapeutic bio.media.
Elena Kulikova Photography NEUROTiQ from SENSOREE on Vimeo. NEUROTiQ process video from SENSOREE on Vimeo. NEUROTiQ premiered NYFW 2014 Olivia Christina Photography Photo by Chris Carlone We worked with the Emotiv Epoc EEG brain sensor. Color display: Delta or deep sleep is red, Theta state or meditation is orange, Alpha is teal green, Beta or consciousness is blue, and Gamma is multi sensory brain state, so it is blue, purple, and red. 3d Globules are embedded with electronics within nylon knit.
NYFW 2014 3dprintshow SENSOREE Kristin Neidlinger – concept design lead Grant Patterson – software hardware Nathan Tucker – knit magicMACHINIC – 3d modeling & print thank you to our materials sponsors: Emotiv Epoc. The Happiness Blanket. Futuristic Office Concept in Amsterdam Doesn't Have Chairs or Desks | HYPEBEAST. 1 / 7 2 / 7 3 / 7 4 / 7 5 / 7 6 / 7 Upon first glance, the new conceptual office by Dutch design firm RAAAF resembles an obstacle course made of concrete blocks; however, the number of professionals sprawled across or leaning against these blocks tapping away on their laptops suggests the real function of the space as an avant-garde reinterpretation of the modern working environment.
Aiming to tackle the myriad health problems — including heart disease and diabetes — associated with sitting in the same position for eight or more hours every day at the typical desk job, the forward-thinkers at RAAAF partnered with the University of Groningen to design the installation that encourages workers to change position several times throughout the day, each time making you put more pressure on your legs. While the installation remains a thought-provoking experiment, furniture makers have already started calling. Check it out for yourself at Amsterdam’s Looiersgracht 60 art gallery. Movie: swap streetlights with luminous trees - Daan Roosegaarde. Glowing trees could be used "instead of street lighting" says Daan Roosegaarde Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde is exploring ways of using the bio-luminescent qualities of jellyfish and mushrooms to create glow-in-the-dark trees that could replace street lights.
In this movie filmed at SXSW in Austin, Roosegaarde explains how: "In the last year I really became fond of biomimicry. " "What can we learn from nature and apply to the built environment, to roads, to public spaces, to our urban landscape? " asks Roosegaarde. Biomimicry is the method of imitating models and systems found in nature to solve complex design issues. "When a jellyfish is deep, deep underwater it creates its own light," he says. Roosegaarde's interest in biomimicry led him to collaborate with the State University of New York and Alexander Krichevsky, whose technology firm Bioglow unveiled genetically modified glow-in-the-dark plants earlier this year.
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Norway's new passport design is a work of art. Apple Hits $700 Billion Market Cap—A New Record. Facebook's Abbreviated Privacy Update, Even More Abbreviated. The Oral History Of The Poop Emoji (Or, How Google Brought Poop To America) 'Vape' Is Oxford Dictionaries' Word Of The Year. Oliver & Co. Candles. British Design Awards 2014 | ELLE Decoration UK. The case for a global recession in 2015. Emmanuelle Alt: 'I don't want to be an image' Bestselling fashion giant signs fur free agreement. Daft Punk Leads Grammys as Industry Supports Gay Marriage. Inside The FORBES Under 30 Summit. Apple iTunes Sees Big Drop in Music Sales.
Do Movember and other charity campaigns really help raise awareness? Dorian Paskowitz: Physician who gave up medicine, launched surfing in Israel and tried to bring peace to the Middle East - People - News. Audi says it has 'mastered' hydrogen fuel cells and is ready to launch them. Toyota to begin selling hydrogen fuel cell car Mirai for first time | Technology. Thousands hit London for tuition fees march. CO2 emissions must be zero by 2070 to prevent climate disaster, UN says | Environment.
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