Related to the shark blog and the question of flow ... Jay Harman re-designed the fan based on biomimicry - analysing flow forms in nature - to produce greater energy efficiencies. It's a huge market worth more than Hollywood, as exhaust fans are a feature in many bits of kit.
His company PAX Scientific " is an engineering research and design firm that uses streamlining geometries to design energy, efficient, quiet, and ecologically friendly technology." Definitely an organisation to watch. More on Jay in another blog and also related to that an exploration of the narrowness of our curriculum and increasingly our home lives too. A line in his bio says "Harman's love of nature began as a boy swimming in the ocean near his home". Experience and wonderment rooted in the natural world help us observe, learn and to ask the right questions, how do our home and school lives enable this experience?
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