BioInspired! So What? Now What!

Welcome to the fortieth issue of Zygote Quarterly.  Articles in the current issue include:

• Portfolio: Nicole Ottawa and Oliver Meckes, eye of science
• Looking Back/Looking Forward: The Land Institute by Aubrey Streit Krug
• From hype to hyphae: Learning from mycelium on what will (and won’t) work by Ilse (C.A.) Rovers
• Interview: Outperforming in the natural world: Doug Fudge by Shoshanah Jacobs
• Who Controls Whom? Part II by Manuel Quirós and Oscar Aguado
• Looking Back/Looking Forward: Evolution of Robotics by Vytas SunSpiral
• Interview: From Inspiration to Outcome: Richard James MacCowan by Shoshanah Jacobs
• Building a BiosVerse™ Compatible Industry by Michael W. Wright
• Looking Back/Looking Forward: Repositioning Biomimicry by Pete Foley

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Welcome to the thirty-ninth issue of Zygote Quarterly.  Articles in the current issue include:

• Forward Motion: Robert J. Full’s Career of Discovery by Tom McKeag 
• Portfolio: Kate MccGwire
• Science of Seeing: Plant It and They Will Come by Adelheid Fischer
• Cutting Without Cutting: Lessons from the Sawfly by Martí Verdaguer Mallorquí
• Interview: Arindam Phani and Seonghwan (Sam) Kim by Shoshanah Jacobs
• Building with Biology by Emilie Snell-Rood
• Turning Bio-Inspired Ideas Into Patents by Brook Kennedy with Anna Bieri
• Review: Biomimicry in Architecture (Michael Pawlyn) by Hope Ameh, Thomas Boyster, Denise DeLuca, Cornel Schoombee, Janet Stewart, and Emma Winter

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Welcome to the thirty-eighth issue of Zygote Quarterly.  Articles in the current issue include:

• Diatoms: Building Glass Houses by Tom McKeag
• Unlocking innovation through fossils by Annabelle Aish and Tom Challands
• Who Controls Whom? by Manuel Quirós and Oscar Aguado
• In Memoriam: Claire Janisch by Jess Berliner
• The value of the sub-organism perspective in organizational design by Irene Nooren

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Welcome to the thirty-seventh issue of Zygote Quarterly.  Articles in the current issue include:

• Looking Closer: Cultivating Bio-Inspired Design (BID) with Macro Photography by Brook Kennedy
• The Science of Seeing: Spellbound by Adelheid Fischer
• The Pivot to FeatherEdge®: How to Launch a Biomimetic Start-up by Ryan Church
• Portfolio: Kristine Zingeler
• In Memoriam: Nikolay Bogatyrev
• Biomimetics: Ten Assumptions I Question by Nikolay Bogatyrev (reprinted from ZQ02)
• An interview: Floating Island International by Shoshanah Jacobs

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Welcome to the thirty-sixth issue of Zygote Quarterly.  Articles in the current issue include:

• On Growth and Form: Six Lessons for Designers by Tom McKeag
• An Interview with Kristina Wanieck
• Portfolio: Entomographies by Xavi Bou in collaboration with Adrian Smith
• In Memoriam: The Legacy of Thierry Chopin
• Biomimetics International’s First Annual Symposium by Thomas Fisher

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Welcome to the thirty-fifth issue of Zygote Quarterly.  Articles in the current issue include:

• The Collective Ant Brain by Margie Patlak
• Nature as a Blueprint for Resilient and Sustainable Engineering Systems by Hadear Hassan, Abheek Chatterjee, and Astrid Layton
• Can Manufactured Ecosystems fully replace ecosystem services? by Shoshanah Jacobs et al.
• portfolio: Art-thinking by Daniel Mira
• Robotany: a new way to move by Tom McKeag

We are launching a ZQ Letters section on the Zygote Quarterly website, starting with Pete Foley's Perspectives on “Water in the Southwest US” that provides an update on the Lucchesi/Ogden interview in ZQ34.  ZQ Letters will be published as they are received and delivered as inline PDFs directly from Zygote Quarterly.  Let t us know if you have any ideas you want to share with the community.

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Welcome to the thirty-fourth issue of Zygote Quarterly.  Articles in the current issue include:

• Autumn Meadowhawk Dragonfly by Margie Patlak
• How to Build a Dragonfly by Tom McKeag
• portfolio: Mallory Zondag
• The Science of Seeing: ’Tis a Gift to Be Simple by Adelheid Fischer
• article review: Mind the Gap: A Review of “Revisiting Nature’s 'Unifying Patterns': A Biological Appraisal" by Randall Anway
• Don't Blame Bats by Manuel Quirós
• portfolio: “Amiguitos de la Oscuridad” (Little Friends of the Darkness) by Juan Nicolás Elizalde
• an interview with Ray Lucchesi and Michael Ogden: Water in the Southwest USA
• article review: Language vs. knowledge in bio-inspired design: A Review of “Revisiting Nature’s 'Unifying Patterns': A Biological Appraisal” by Marc Weissburg

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Welcome to the thirty-third issue of Zygote Quarterly.  Articles in the current issue include:

• The Pinch of Salt: Mimicking the Mangrove to Slake the World’s Thirst by Tom McKeag
• Collaborating with Beavers by Rob Dunn
• an interview with Maya Ronchetti
• portfolio: Poiésis and ancestry as trajectories of water curated by Nous Ecossistema
• The Science of Seeing: An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles by Adelheid Fischer
• perspectives: The Biomimicry Revolution by Henry Dicks and Randall Anway
• portfolio: Somos Agua by Carlos Mora
• The Nature of Technology (W. Brian Arthur) reviewed by Norbert Hoeller and Richard James MacCowan

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Welcome to the thirty-second issue of Zygote Quarterly.  Articles in the current issue include:

• Flapping Flight: the human quest to fly like a bird by Tom McKeag
• a portfolio by Karen Atta
• The Science of Seeing: Night Flights by Adelheid Fischer
• Kreepingarten: Shoshanah Jacobs talks to Aaron Senitt
• But Where Is Everybody? by Jacquelyn Nagel and Noah Pentelovitch
• Where The Wild Things Are by Adelheid Fischer
• The Biomimicry Revolution (Henry Dicks) reviewed by Randall Anway

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