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The Art of All Possibilities / Biosphere 2 November 17, 2012 – February 28, 2013

The University of Arizona Biosphere 2, The University of Arizona College of Science and Rillito River Project’s Art Lab present the exhibition The Art of All Possibilities at Biosphere 2, November 17, 2012 – February 28, 2013. The opening reception is Saturday, November 17th at 2:00 p.m.

The Art of All Possibilities is an interdisciplinary exhibition in conceptual and visual conversation with the scientific research, architecture and culture of Biosphere 2. The exhibition will open on November 17, 2012 and will feature works by internationally acclaimed artists Fritz Buehner (Boston, MA and Lubec, MN), Melo Dominguez (Tucson, AZ), Morgan Schwartz (Providence, RI), Ellen Skotheim (Tucson, AZ), Bently Spang (Billings, MT) and Mary Ellen Strom, (Boston, MA and Basin, MT). The artists’ projects will be installed at numerous sites in Biosphere 2 from the desert to the lung and will include video projections, sound works, sculpture and performance. The exhibition’s title borrows from the name of the theater group that inhabited Biosphere 2’s first mission in 1991, “The Theater of All Possibilities”.

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Chris Corrigan on Group Size in Innovation and Open Design (by Nancy White)

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The Make Work Series: Aaron's Music by my friend Amy Sharp

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(via Man, stranded in the desert, makes a motorcycle from his broken car - Hack a Day)

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Sweet - Star Wars-esque hover bike in early stages of development!

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Nostalgia for the über rich: Bezos is trying to recover Apollo 11 rocket engines from bottom of ocean. Totally cool.

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Largest paper airplane flies in Arizona:

The plane was designed and built in Lancaster by Art Thompson, who helped design the B-2 stealth bomber, but the design was based on a paper airplane folded by 12-year-old Tucson resident Arturo Valdenegro—winner of a paper airplane fly-off sponsored by the Pima Air & Space Museum in January.

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Paper Chair, by Peter Plantan and Nusa Zupanc, winner of the AWR Award for Eco Design. I want one.

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Slända (Swedish for dragonfly) is a pen that at a first glance might not seem to have the ability to stand...

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Bistro-nauts - drinking from a cup in microgravity (with a little help from capillary action)

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Kevlar socks - what will the Swiss think up next?

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Funniest Kickstarter pledge amount via ZeFrank

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This is one bad ass baby stroller.

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Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless antenna, the Transparency Grenade captures network traffic and audio at the site and securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where it is mined for information. Email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice extracted from this data are then presented on an online, public map, shown at the location of the detonation.

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Pure Loyalty Electronic Device Storage provides mobile storage units for cell phones and serves NYC-area students at schools with metal detectors...

$1 per phone per day, 180 school days per year ... cha-ching

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The Harvard Monolithic Bee is a millimeter-scale flapping wing robotic insect produced using Printed Circuit MEMS (PC-MEMS) techniques. This video describes the manufacturing process, including pop-up book inspired assembly.

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I have memories that I made a den somewhere in my house as a child- Under the table, in the wardrobe, and in the attic- I created my own base and felt relieved as if I avoided enemies that were actually non-existent. My own secret space at the moment which was comfortable and protected, better than a huge mansion, the coziness of the space like a bird's nest isn't what we dream basically?

Object-O by Seung Yong Song