Mini-Me: End Hunger, 3D Printed Food — GMO on Steroids, Toxins Free

Huh? NASA-funded research The audacious plan to end hunger with 3-D printed food Christopher Mims Quartz, 21 May 2013 Anjan Contractor’s 3D food printer might evoke visions of the “replicator” popularized in Star Trek, from which Captain Picard was constantly interrupting himself to order tea. And indeed Contractor’s company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, just got a six …

Jean Lievens: 3D Printing Migrating Away from Plastic Toward Sustainable Materials Such as Wood, Salt, and Clay

The Green 3D Printing Materials We’ve Been Waiting For by Beth Buczynski Eerth Techling There’s no denying that 3D printing has moved beyond the laboratory and into the mainstream. We’ve seen 3D printed body parts, electronics, and toys. Although the technology has quickly become quite sophisticated, the materials used in 3D printers have been slow to …

Sepp Hasslberger: The Revolution Will Be (3D) Printed

Letters at 3AM: The Revolution Will Be Printed Digital fabrication will change the course of the future Michael Ventura The Austin Chronicle, 8 February 2013 That headline has been digitally duplicated (plagiarized) from David Bjerklie’s essay in Time‘s special edition: “100 New Scientific Discoveries.” Bjerklie’s headline says it all. Three-dimensional manufacturing is the making of …

Robert Steele: Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership

Steele, Robert. Reinventing the US Army Part III – Strategy, Reality, Precepts, Structure, & Leadership, Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, Press, Projected Publication 2017. Part III in the Reinventing the US Army monograph series. Robert David Steele This is the author’s preliminary draft of the third of three monographs focused on …

Jean Lievens: Stacco Troncoso Shares Helene Finidori on FLOK Society and the Commons

Helene Finidori on FLOK Society and the Commons Here’s an excellent summary, written by our good friend Helene Finidori from the Commons Abundance Network, on FLOK Society’s historical significance for the Commons and P2P movements. The article was originally published in STIR magazine and Helene has kindly given us permission to republish it here. This column was …