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Death of an urban garden

or, some remarks on Byhaven 2200, Permaculture and Volunteer Projects In May 2018, Copenhagen Municipality bulldozered the urban garden called Byhaven 2200 which had existed for 6 years. Byhaven 2200 had not been able find a group of committed people who would form a stable core team, handle the contract, and carry on the project.…

Orkney dumplings and more: the edible seaweeds of Stromness

In July 2018 we spent 2 weeks in Stromness, Orkney, in a house close to the southern tip of the mainland, known as Ness Point. We used the opportunity to see what species of seaweeds we would be able to find on the coast there. Good advice by Mark Williams helped us choose the…

ID problems for danish nationalism

Yes, problems for, not with danish nationalism. There is an interesting new book* which looks at the way the Viking myth was constructed in the 19th century, at a time when danish nationalists urgently needed some kind of alleged history to bolster up danish self esteem – thus, what originally was little more than a…

The strange wild garlic at the Botanical Gardens Copenhagen

Der findes Allium planter i store dele af Botanisk Have i København. Det er Allium paradoxum, Spøjsløg, som er yderst invasivt og har spredt sig fra en enkelt krukke / jordstykke. Spøjsløg er spiseligt og dufter/lugter tydeligt af hvidløg. http://kratluskeren.blogspot.dk/2015/04/spjslg-et-spjst-lg.html In early April, on a visit to the…

The Wrong I / Comments on Artifical Intelligence. Part 1: Changing the Game

In our quest to make machines as intelligent as or more intelligent than humans, the first step is to change and reduce the definition of intelligence so that it fits machines rather than humans. A definition of intelligence is of course difficult if not impossible to agree on. Wikipedia offers this general consense:…

There is no Virtual Reality.

There is no such thing as Virtual Reality. There is only Real Reality. Your headset is real, the pixels you are looking at are real, real photons emitted by real LEDs. What you are seeing is controlled by real software written by real people or machines. The machines are built from real metals…

7th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew – Some Notes

How does a plant survive in a desert that has not see rain for years, maybe decades or even centuries? This was just one of the topics of the 7th International Conference on Fog, Fog Collection and Dew, July 25 – 29, in Wroclaw, Poland. This may seem a comparatively small and exotic field of…

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