A couple of months ago, I posted a blog post about using Snails to inspire ideas. Look and marvel at this team of high school students in Pakistan, using inspiration from the shells of desert snails and the Saharan silver ant. These animals have unique biological strategies that help them survive in hot climates. TheContinueContinue reading “Amazing Students’ Biomimicry Designs to Deal with Extreme Heat”
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Managing Heat – Inspiration from Nature
This summer might have been cold, wet and windy where I live, but the summer has been marked as another year with record-breaking heat across the globe, from China to North Africa and North America to parts of Europe. July was the hottest month on record since 1880; see NASA. Thus, the need for waysContinueContinue reading “Managing Heat – Inspiration from Nature”