Abelardo Gil-Fournier - Research notes

Shared notes. My work here: abelardogfournier.org

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The Plow that Broke the Plains

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Colloidal crystal. A computer simulation: “The connectivity of the crystals in the colloidal crystals above. Connections in white indicate that particle has six equally spaced neighbours and therefore forms part of a crystalline domain.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloidal_crystal#/media/File:ColloidCrystal_40xBrightField_GlassInWater_Connectivity.png

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San Jorge, a settlement town of the spanish inner colonisation. Notice the almost perfect isometric perspective produced by the aerial image. Sim City 1960

Source of the image: José María Alagón Laste (2013), El Pueblo de San Jorge (Huesca): un núcleo de colonización del Alto Aragón. TVRIASO XXI pp. 269-298

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La meseta, el "nodo" plano y natural-aislado, con el que la colonización s.XVI arrasó América, llega ahora a Marte. sci-techuniverse.blogspot.com.es/2017/03/nasa-h…

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An 8-bit like vision of an earth-sized planet in TRAPPIST-1, the alien solar system with planets in the habitable zone.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/heres-our-first-view-of-trappist-1-the-alien-solar-system-with-earth-sized-planets

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Timelapse video of a potato plant sprouting in Mars-like conditions. Research on food security and climate change. An article about it here: https://phys.org/news/2017-03-indicators-potatoes-mars.html

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Solar farms in water dams. Imgs. from the websites of Kyocera and Hydrelio

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Floating islands, “islas biorremediantes”, humedales artificiales. Imgs. from the websites of companies offering this type of water restoration devices, Paimed, Projar, Hydrolisis

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Japanese technology giant Toshiba has unveiled a huge factory farm where it is growing various types of lettuce leaves without sunlight or soil for sale in its new healthcare business.

Located in disused 21,000-square foot electronics factory in Yokosuka, Toshiba claims to have created a perfect 'germ free' environment where it will grow three million bags of lettuce a year.

Read more here

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The killing in an accident with a SUV of walker and poet Mark Baumer recalls a long relation of punishment of the human-soil relation. To burn the feet of natives to retrieve information on gold traesures was a torture method used extensively during the Spanish invasion of America.

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Seen here: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/world/australia/climate-change-floating-islands.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

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Dieses ist der erste Rechner, den Heinz Nixdorf ab Juli 1952 in 15-monatiger Arbeit entwickelt hat. Es handelt sich um einen Elektronenrechner auf Röhrenbasis.

http://www.museum-digital.de/owl/index.php?t=objekt&oges=1912

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Studio day. Conveyor belts circling the world. Working on a forthcoming project on cartography.

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Mapping Territories, Diagramming Environments (or: The Map Is the Territory and The Diagram Is the Environment)

The Nitrogen Cycle, and Organic Nitrogen Circulation, figures from Alfred Lotka’s Elements of Physical Biology.

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Top: Lt. Macready (right) and McCook Field engineer E. Dormoy (left) in front of the 1st crop duster airplane (August 3, 1921) Source: wikipedia. Down: Popular Mechanics, September 1940