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Japan’s Shinkansen doesn’t look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150–200 miles per hour.
It didn’t always look like this. Earlier models were rounder and louder, often suffering from the phenomenon of “tunnel boom,” where deafening compressed air would rush out of a tunnel after a train rushed in. But a moment of inspiration from engineer and birdwatcher Eiji Nakatsu led the system to be redesigned based on the aerodynamics of three species of birds.
Nakatsu’s case is a fascinating example of biomimicry, the design movement pioneered by biologist and writer Janine Benyus. She’s a co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit encouraging creators to discover how big challenges in design, engineering, and sustainability have often already been solved through 3.8 billion years of evolution on earth. We just have to go out and find them.
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Well, it makes sense because evolution exists because it works. What works survives. What doesnt work dies.
The one narrator sounds like Captain disillusion
Patent wars will destroy Biomimicry, afrerall we are human.
well if its 99% invisible, itd be hard to take a look.
Go blue
Not so long ago, I'd marvel at human interferences. Recently, my mindset shifted to appreciate human creations that enrich, without disruption.
This episode was great and added a layer to my new found understanding. ??
so much intel
so little time
This is plagiarism. Nature will CopyRight Strike you
I swear I can learn more from vox than school
I try and have sex like bunnies
hence proved. no god but Allah
Shut up Nature designed us you fools
I copy my cat sometimes. He does not like it.
Amazing concept
Stoicism…..
Actually ….. i use cuckoo bird behaviour for forecasting weather ?….
I was waiting for the part that says nauture is poorly designed…
who are you to decide that world Is poorly designed ?you bastard God design the world in the perfect order shame on you . You will copy the nature but you cannot admire that nature is wonderfully designed not poorly you nasty filth
Human is poorly design with useless appendix that cause appendicitis, nature cannot help this
I loved this video so much I just had to subscribe, please keep making more of this type !!
Vox always sounds so pedantic whenever they get pedagogical: “It’s called biomimicry”. We are such barbarians that any mixture of Greek and Latin sounds like a divinely-inspired text that only those who scored within the 90th percentile in their SAT verbal can understand. The smart people should just go ahead and call it “life-monkeying” so as to avoid using ancient languages that sound smart to us because we have historically had an inferiority complex.
Taking inspiration from GOD HIMSELF
And then people say GOD doesn't exist. How can we claim to copy nature and call it being intelligent and say there's no Intelligence behind Creation. Wow. How ignorant are people
asco los anuncios del ambiente
pesimo servicio
Yeah god knows his stuff right!
What is 167 miles per hour in metric?
birds op
Well the things you see in nature today are here for a reason, they have evolved and survived
God is the truly unevitable either the great creator
I'm all for looking to nature for solutions, but one problem with this concept that is currently causing issues are the people who put too much stock in natural solutions.
Loads of people now believe that "natural" = better. Anti vax nut jobs, ignorant anti GMO groups, or just every day people who will buy a "natural" product over something else even if the natural product is no better than the other.
I know this video is related to design and engineering and I just listed medical and food products, but the point is the same. Ideas inspired by nature are great if they truly are superior. Don't ignore solutions that work because you were too busy trying to mimic something found in nature.
Humans are natural and everything we create is part of natural evolution. Just because it isn't covered in tree bark or designed to look like a bee hive does not mean it's bad.
So it is not poorly desgined but effectively and creatively desgined, right?
Too bad the Trains can’t FLY STEALTHILY SWIM OR SLIDE EFFORTLESSLY AND MOST IMPORTANTLY FISH LIKE A KING FISHER…..
One of America’s top secret aeroplanes kept exploding during testing so they added 2 nostrils which they copied from a Falcon! It stopped exploding. The idea was falcons dive at around 200 miles an hour and still be cool after that, it was the way their nostrils were designed!
Vox =shithole
Yo Vox why can I comment here but not on that stupid transgender ID video you released? LMAOOOOOOO