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Posted on May 3, 2013 at 9:22 am. Harvard’s new RoboBee. A new step towards more sophisticated bio-mimicry and the likelihood of military applications on an analog insect body. The Militarisation of Nature: cyborgs, biomimicry and the best of DARPA. Posted on October 30, 2012 at 3:06 pm. Here are a collection of examples that I use in my Human Geography lecture on the militarisation of nature. If you want to find out more about DARPA then you can do so here. The videos below are examples of biomimicry.
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Radio Belbury Programme 11 | Modern Lives Modern Landscapes | Fraser MacDonald
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Radio Belbury Programme 11. Posted on November 16, 2013 at 6:44 pm. This is just magic. Narrating Archives: new historical geographies in Scotland. What does Red Road mean? Time and Space in Glen Tilt. Follow me on Twitter. London Review of Books blog. The Fife Psychogeographical Collective. 2016 Modern Lives Modern Landscapes Fraser MacDonald.
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New archives: Erskine Beveridge and North Uist. Posted on June 12, 2013 at 12:40 am. I came across a small haul of gold yesterday. One of my hawk-eyed PhD students, Ben Garlick. Spotted some material in the archives of the Scottish Ornithologists Club. Belonging to Frederick S. Beveridge a son of the Fife archaeologist and industrialist Erskine Beveridge. I am slowly trying to piece together the life and work of this family from various archival fragments and from the ruins of their Hebridean residence.
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Unwilding Scotland: a response to critics | Modern Lives Modern Landscapes | Fraser MacDonald
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Unwilding Scotland: a response to critics. Posted on November 15, 2013 at 11:24 am. A short essay of mine over at Bella Caledonia. Attracted many intelligent responses. It’s taken me too long to reply but I thought I’d try and clarify a few things. Since I first wrote on this topic. A few months ago (again at Bella) the debate seems to have acquired a renewed energy. I find this reassuring. What follows is mostly in response to Paul Webster’s comments. Paul runs the wonderful Walk Highlands. My key point...
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Architecture behind the Facade. September 29, 2013. Mdash; Leave a comment. Chiaturas’ extreme geography made the use of a cable car system. Widespread. Since the 50′s this soviet era system hasn’t had much work done on it. In central Turkey, an ancient people dug, over 200 underground cities. The deepest of these, under the present day town of Derinkuyu. Goes over 250 feet below the Earth’s surface. That is Preston Bus Station has gotten a reprieve from being knocked down. June 22, 2013. But they haven&...
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Cockenzie Power Station | Modern Lives Modern Landscapes | Fraser MacDonald
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That which once was great is passed away. Posted on April 25, 2013 at 7:54 pm. And what if she had seen those glories fade,. Those titles vanish, and that strength decay;. Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid. When her long life hath reached its final day:. Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade. Of that which once was great is passed away. On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic. I have previously extolled the architectural virtues of Cockenzie in other writing. On this site and in.
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Time and Space in Glen Tilt | Modern Lives Modern Landscapes | Fraser MacDonald
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Time and Space in Glen Tilt. Posted on March 18, 2014 at 11:03 pm. One might think of Glen Tilt as the drove road less travelled. Bisecting the Grampian massif, it divides the mighty Beinn a’ Ghlò to the east from the wild treeless Forest of Atholl to the west. I’ve been there a few times over the years, most recently working with the artist Victoria Bernie and landscape architect Lisa Mackenzie on The Valentine Project. And Berger’s two successive novels are for this reason known as the. If Berger can a...
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Posted on February 18, 2015 at 2:07 pm. Narrating Archives: new historical geographies in Scotland. What does Red Road mean? Time and Space in Glen Tilt. Follow me on Twitter. London Review of Books blog. The Fife Psychogeographical Collective. 2016 Modern Lives Modern Landscapes Fraser MacDonald.
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On looking for a stag and finding something else | Modern Lives Modern Landscapes | Fraser MacDonald
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On looking for a stag and finding something else. Posted on September 20, 2013 at 10:00 am. Seventy five years ago today, a stalker was looking for a wounded stag on the upper slopes of Ben Avon, the sprawling massif on the eastern edge of the Cairngorms. Allt an Eas Mhoir. Scanning the ground in the remote burn of. Allt an Eas Mhoir. The contents of the case were as follows:. One pair of pyjama trousers. One pair of scissors. One box of safety matches. One receipt from Simpson’s two day coach tours.
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coal | Modern Lives Modern Landscapes | Fraser MacDonald
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That which once was great is passed away. Posted on April 25, 2013 at 7:54 pm. And what if she had seen those glories fade,. Those titles vanish, and that strength decay;. Yet shall some tribute of regret be paid. When her long life hath reached its final day:. Men are we, and must grieve when even the Shade. Of that which once was great is passed away. On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic. I have previously extolled the architectural virtues of Cockenzie in other writing. On this site and in.
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