Starchitects in Abu Dhabi, welcome Sir Norman Foster

If the desert doesn't go to Allah... it's because it's going to the new starchitects! Foster+Partners is designing a zero waste and carbon city, Masdar. Everything is really environmentally-friendly and ultra nice... even a building from the MIT for research!

Well, why don't they stop buying terribly big 4WDs in the other cities? Maybe they could spend a little money on the thousands of poor inmigrants who work for them without insurance? And on and ooon and oon! Like Celin Dion would say.

Picture from inhabitat.

ESOF meeting in Barcelona. Who said that geeks aren’t fun?

I just found this video for the ESOF (European Science Open Forum) meeting these days in Barcelona produced by the European Comunity. Wether you understand it or not it’s excruciatingly funny also a pretty instructive. I found the video in a blog from Pere Estupinyà, a Chemical journalist studying in the MIT and Harvard. He’s blog it’s worth reading… if you can read Spanish. You also have a similar video here.

Source: Apuntes científicos desde el MIT.