BioInspired! So What? Now What!

It has been a busy month.  You may have seen media reports of two vulnerabilities affecting the Drupal platform, on which this website is built.  The good news is that the Drupal developers informed website maintainers in advance so that we could apply the necessary patches as soon as they were available on March 29 and April 25.  Filters are in place to detect, report, and block attempts to exploit the first vulnerability.  Details on how the second vulnerability can be exploited have not yet been released.  

The Mollom package that I used to block spam was retired on April 2nd.  I have switched to Google reCAPTCHA which replaces the hard-to-read images of text with the "I'm not a robot" checkbox.  During testing, I periodically was asked to do an image matching puzzle like the one on the right.  According to Google, doing these puzzles not only keep spammers at bay but also support Google's image recognition/tagging projects.

Upcoming Events

• Exhibition: Inspiring NATURE, inspired TECHNO : biomimicry & transport  Opens Thu, 2018/04/26
• LF18: The Battle of the Bios: Leading to Regenerative Design  Thu, 2018/05/03
• Living Future 18: Using A Nature-Inspired Model to Design Organizations: Lessons Learned  Thu, 2018/05/03
• 2018 Green Schools Conference and Expo: Janine Benyus Keynote  Thu, 2018/05/03
• LF18: Designing With Life’s Principles: Applying Nature’s Deep Patterns To The Living Building Challenge  Fri, 2018/05/04

Recent Updates

• Patterns, Growth and Energy - Lessons from Biology for Architectural Design (Event)
• Architecture 2018: Genius of Biome: Biomimicry Workshop (Event)
• Sustainable Brands 2018: Factory as Forest: The Methodology, Measurement and Implementation behind a Move from Zero Footprint to Positive Impact (Event)
• PhD fellowship Biomimicry in Architectural Design at The University of Akron (Opportunity)
• Biomimicry UK: Urban Futures Workshop Scotland  (Event)
• Biomimicry UK: Urban Futures Workshop North  (Event)
• Biomimicry UK: Urban Futures Workshop London  (Event)
• MCAD: 4-Week Online Biomimicry Course  (Course started April 23rd but it looks like you can still enroll)
• Introduction to Mixed (Hierarchical) models for biologists using R (IMBR01)  (Event)
• Biomimicry SA: Biomimicry101 Workshop GAUTENG  (Event)
• International Biomimicry Conference in Israel  (Event)
• CEEBOIS: 3rd Annual Biomimexpo 2018  (Event)
• Veracruz Biomimicry and Design Expedition  (Event)