Feb 1 2019
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Scientists have characterized the quantum behavior of buckminsterfullerene molecules, also known as buckyballs, with…
Apr 27 2016
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Montreal’s Expo 67 was the most successful World’s Fair in history, a vision of the future laced with monorails and…
Dec 16 2015
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The internet is a big place. There’s so much to read and watch and listen to that it can be overwhelming. We all…
Nov 19 2015
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NASA’s bizarre Super Ball Bot is unlike any robot ever built–it uses a net of wires and rods to move, and could…
May 20 2015
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Buckminster Fuller was a world-renowned architect, math-obsessed designer, and affable weirdo. He died in 1983, but…
Apr 24 2015
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Buckminster Fuller was either a brilliant inventor or a nutcase charlatan, depending on who you ask. And perhaps no…
Mar 18 2015
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Between 1965 and 1970, radio broadcaster Studs Terkel held multiple interviews with designer and inventor…
Mar 17 2015
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There's something jarring about hearing old interviews of legendary futurist Buckminster Fuller. He speaks at a…
Sep 3 2014
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Buckminster Fuller was a designer, futurist, and humanitarian, from his famous dome to his perspective-changing…
Feb 14 2014
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Every year, 10,000 Danes come together for the Folkemødet, a celebrated "political festival" of spirited policy…
Jan 2 2014
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Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Deployment Unit—an emergency shelter developed during WWII—isn't his most well-known…
Aug 28 2013
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When Buckminster Fuller died, he was buried under a gravestone with a very peculiar inscription: CALL ME TRIMTAB.…
Jul 22 2013
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The world has changed in countless ways since Buckminster Fuller invented the Dymaxion map in 1943. Wars have come…
Apr 30 2013
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Dorion Sagan, son of Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis, weighs in on the dialectical relationship between science and…
Mar 28 2013
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Most people know that Earth's landmasses once formed single supercontinent, but how said continent peeled away from…
Dec 9 2011
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When you're waiting for Buckminster Fuller to come down your chimney, what else are you going to munch on besides a…
Nov 12 2011
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Buckminster Fuller only designed about a dozen of domed structures to begin with, and many have either been torn…
Aug 24 2011
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In 1936, artist Isamu Noguchi was working on his mural History Mexico when he forgot the equation for E=mc². Rather…
Nov 29 2010
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The key to nanotechnology may not be making tiny structures out of individual molecules. It may be forcing those…
Oct 20 2010
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Chances are you're too young to remember the days when traveling salesmen went door-knocking (unless you're still…