Plunge into the deep Balinese jungle and you might suddenly find a bamboo building soaring above you. Made from a frankly unlikely building material, the ethereal structures are the brainchildren of designer Elora Hardy and her team. Take a look.
深入巴厘岛茂密的丛林，你可能会突然发现一座竹制建筑高耸于眼前。这些用看似不可思议的建筑材料打造而成的空灵结构，出自设计师艾洛拉·哈迪（Elora Hardy）及其Ibuku团队之手（TED演讲：用竹子建造的神奇房屋）。这些独一无二的房屋造型曲折蜿蜒，充满魔幻色彩，令人叹为观止。一起来欣赏吧。
Sharma Springs是位于巴厘岛斯邦格德（Sibang Gede）的一座私人住宅，拥有四间卧室，共延伸六层楼。这是巴厘岛最高的竹制建筑之一，其设计灵感源自莲花的花瓣造型。照片由里奥·赫尔米（Rio Helmi）提供。
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains his latest invention, the “versatile extra-sensory transducer,” a vest installed with tiny motors that can convert sound and noise into vibrations on the back, allowing deaf people to hear the world through vibrations.
Most founders still agonize over what to call their dream. Are they right to invest so much energy and time — or would any random string of letters be fine? Hackers/Founders creator Jonathan Nelson shares his take.
An advocate for educational video games realizes that our kids might actually learn more from Civilization, Minecraft, Call of Duty and World of Warcraft.
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Human beings have made enormous changes to Earth, reshaping it, developing it and generally altering it so much that in many cases its pre-human condition has become unrecognizable. In this far-ranging conversation, ecologist Erle Ellis and landscape architect Bradley Cantrell discuss what this means for ecology and architecture … and how we might think about protecting our planet.
海洋探索世家的第三代传人法比安·库斯托，在水下实验室”宝瓶座”号中生活了31天，打破了祖父雅克·库斯托保持的30天世界纪录。在这篇问答中，他分享了”31号任务”的目标、水下生活的点滴体验，以及对海洋探索与环境保护的深刻思考。
And if your boss is on the fence, here’s a compelling case study — from economics professor Nicholas Bloom — to show her.