The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps.

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Japan’s Shinkansen doesn’t look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150-200 miles per hour.
It didn’t always look like this. Earlier models were rounder and louder, often suffering from the phenomenon of "tunnel boom," where deafening compressed air would rush out of a tunnel after a train rushed in. But a moment of inspiration from engineer and birdwatcher Eiji Nakatsu led the system to be redesigned based on the aerodynamics of three species of birds.
Nakatsu’s case is a fascinating example of biomimicry, the design movement pioneered by biologist and writer Janine Benyus. She's a co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit encouraging creators to discover how big challenges in design, engineering, and sustainability have often already been solved through 3.8 billion years of evolution on earth. We just have to go out and find them.
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[@pedroivog.s.6870]

Fortunately nature doesn't have copyrights (patents)

[@katherinejones9591]

This is underrated

[@pranavrk9752]

And then we exist to take those ideas and copyright it lol!!!

[@ligmaballs2022]

So true.

[@anannoyingtoaster3888]

September 2020: nature has evolved and just copystriked humanity

[@gracelim359]

we should mimic that too... discovery is not creation, so the IP is not theirs either. Its Free -for the survival and enhancement of life (including humans) and not something to be made a profit from. The last concept (of profit) is Never found in nature.

[@hauntedhatatefumo8699]

Human: Hey can I copy your homework. Animals that aren’t humans: okay just make it a little different so it won’t look suspicious.

[@TheComicLP]

Chlorofoam & 1 lira: Hey can we copy your plot? Inception: Okey but make it a little different so it won't look suspicious.

[@pratiklomte]

To whom should it not look suspicious? God?

[@pratiklomte]

@5dope you seriously need to explain what you said..

[@pratiklomte]

@5dope I am 18 probably younger than you😂😂

[@NedInYaHead]

@D4RK AuraZz get Reddit. This kind of thing is commonplace there

[@bitchdrinkyourwater4401]

I remember watching this and i was so amazed that i read a book about biomimicry, and now my invention is being examined to be approved and it was based on biomimicry! Im so happy.

[@aziara369]

Ong congrats! I love that you incorporated biomimicry!!! All the best ✨

[@marcjacobs6613]

ID like to know more! Do u have a page like Instagram perhaps?

[@WHYISEVERYHANDLEALREADYTAKEN9]

Omg your username is pure gold

[@newspaperbin6763]

What's ur invention

[@hamnashaikh9992]

Congratulations that's so great!

[@elferson]

Nature: i helped you with literally everything Humans: so you have chosen death

[@isoinic4575]

only if the greedy will win. It is not mankind that is destroying this planet, it are some specific people that are just doing there jobs.

[@wattsnottaken1]

ImELFY then death....by exile

[@Alan_is_here]

This is actually sad.

[@BeautifulEarthJa]

😥

[@ishdx9374]

@@isoinic4575 mankind does, just look at how trash we throw out every day, if 1 person on average dumps 1kg daily, then with 7 billion people is 7 billion kg daily

[@imhappymae]

as an architecture student, this is a whole new level of design process. thanks so much for sharing!!

[@umairyaseen28]

Biomimicry is actually the origin of architecture. Simple things like geometric tesselations and fractal geometries are derived from nature

[@elveszettszikla]

Happy Mae whole new? Ever heard of Michelangelo? Salvador Dalí?

[@robinturnbull1731]

Umair Yaseen I’ve done a whole project’s on this, In GCSE art and DT also included this in A-level.

[@HKim0072]

Fractals is another nature driven concept.

[@linaakelaityte9825]

DeathGun Because it correlates to the topic and message of the video

[@kaylamitchell1982]

Dear Japan, please take over Britain's trains.

[@yuvrajshah1158]

Did you know that CHINA?! yes China has the best railway system in the world.

[@Tazmania98]

And New York's too

[@yuvrajshah1158]

Yeah, it’s pretty good, but not all of America has a good railway system.

[@sempakfiraun5375]

@@yuvrajshah1158 yes it has the best railway system thanks to japan, China bought the E2 shinkansen and rebranded it as the crh2 then starts developing its technology of off the e2 shinkansen. If it wasnt for japan china wouldnt have the railway system they have now

[@pauldekoning7679]

@@yuvrajshah1158 not really? For most people traveled maybe, cause it has the highest population of any country...

[@tatertotter808]

The lady is so impressive to me. To combine two totally different subjects, business and nature, is just so fascinating. And she coined the term and thought of it being a whole consultation business and educational tool.

[@Dinckelburg]

If you can't find your dream job, make one

[@hasanmuttaqin464]

in the end, economy and ecology only differ by two letters

[@joaopk6263]

ain’t so different when you think of it

[@CLOYO]

I find it really scary tbh.

[@sarahwood8943]

She took what was considered a common idea, even back in the 90’s, called it something new and waved it’s supposed newness around hoping the ignorant would bite and they did. Nature is the origin of all human design. What she’s saying is in no way revolutionary, nor is it new conceptually. She’s a clever business women to have found success in this topic.

[@HaXD1209]

Basiaclly, Nature is just a straight A kid everyone want to copy their homework

[@deadalpeca8099]

Yes, a 3.8 Billion year old straight A kid

[@Mr4Step4]

Very experienced kid that has been learning from his mistakes for 4 billion years

[@callistofluff]

Basically*

[@ProducingItOfficial]

The common core system is still horrible

[@drche]

No, nature has tried and failed different designs for billions of years, and what we have now is the best design it has tried.

[@vinnregi4882]

It's true. In Japan they also used a fungus to correct their train hubs. They made a "map" in scale, put food in places relative to the stops around Tokyo, and let the fungus (in the place of Tokyo) to do his work. The fungus made a network around the food/hubs and some of the routes it created were even more efficiently designed that the human ones! Sometimes its good to listen to millions of years of evolution.

[@VFAHSN]

Interesting story!

[@newstartdiscipleship]

Thanks for this...

[@MarioSanchez-wh1bp]

that sounds bogus listen to million years of evolution. who is evolution?

[@AikonikBoy]

feckin genius

[@emilianovega6041]

Not sometimes , always .

[@jaridkeen123]

I'm a Game Designer and when making AI for animals I watch a documentary on the animal while making the AI so it acts just like the animal in the wild

[@jimmyg8100]

That's not biomimicry, but I thank you for your work. I love video games.

[@5hau5]

Dude.. why mincraft dho..

[@colbyjackextracheese6249]

That would explain a bit

[@richardnixon6714]

You sound like an absolute G

[@hamza-trabelsi]

hello im your fellow game designer here, but that is called simulation not mimicking nature, because mimicking is to inspire from nature to solve other problems , but you are here recreating the nature digitally so it is a simulation.

[@juguitodeparcha]

really impressed with how the editing and the narrative ran the information flow.

[@aziara369]

Indeed. Thank you for emphasizing it!

[@machickenjoy3202]

“The only time where cheating is considered legal”

[@Sugam098]

*GOD wants to know your location*

[@pixel3303]

Never knew about biomimicry till now. Aaaaah, the things you learn from the internet that school doesn't teach you.

[@inesal5145]

I learnd it at school ahahah

[@jubileeYAVEL]

School doesn't teach it because it contradicts evolution.

[@nathanchew4446]

@@jubileeYAVEL how does biomimicry contradict evolution?

[@emp5352]

You learn this in any physics class when talking about engineering materials.

[@borko8325]

ever seen an airplane before

[@AnandBaburajan]

The Velcro (hook and loop), one of the great inventions of all time, was invented by Mr. de Mestral, a Swiss engineer, when he realized that the tiny hooks of the cockle-burs (Xanthium) were stuck on his pants and in his dog's fur and wondered how they attached themselves. Under the scrutiny of the microscope, he observed the hooks engaging the loops in the fabric of his pants.

[@cheesecakelasagna]

Oh yes! I knew this because of Rhett and Link.

[@da_cupcake1015]

I knew it from a test I took in 5th grade :/

[@joshuahuggett1967]

You're absurdly clever

[@utterlyviolet]

The Wright Brothers studied birds before they invented their plane.

[@bycunreamer2456]

Anand Baburajan learned that in first or second grade HAHAHAHA

[@jijobuje]

0:37 "The general manager of the technical development department was a birdwatcher." This is why hobbies are not just hobbies as long as you can relate things and look from different perspectives.

[@ELILevel3]

Thank you, thank you, thank you for investing in real (NOT autogenerated!) captions. I can't tell you what a difference it makes. This video is becoming a central piece of my lecture on nature inspired design for the deaf preservice teachers I am teaching. True access!!!

[@desertsane]

super cool!!!! i hope it has been going well

[@McHeisenburger]

When in doubt, copy nature.

[@jauxro]

Goes for creative/artistic pursuits too.

[@letsfindout1621]

Instructions unclear, ate my husband after sex while my egglings ate me when they hatched

[@VandaWii]

Pretty much the essence of the video

[@FatalFrostbyte29]

Flat Out*

[@nealnsandy]

This video is so peaceful and relaxing

[@harvey-6125]

You should listen to the podcast "99% invisible" . It's really interesting and soothing like this video. I listen to it often to relax or before I go to sleep and at the same time learn a lot

[@bengibbardofficial]

Roman Mars.

[@azureablaze8721]

Harvey - I've just subscribe to them at Podcast player, thank you for your comment!

[@lukeskyrunner8888]

You think that playing god is"peaceful and relaxing"

[@SkyscraperM]

Luke The Congressman just shut up already

[@reignhard4696]

As an aspiring architect, the end quote gave me chills. “...all you have to do is look.” Great video

[@Josh-nc9wh]

This is one of the most eye-opening videos I’ve ever seen. Essentially, this tells us that everything we have to know about design and processes are basically showcased by Nature. We just have to observe, record patterns then interpret and understand how we can incorporate these ideas into our man-made marvels and infrastructures.

[@evantindle1564]

No, not everything. The design of living things has optimized over millions of years of evolution, which is a natural process. It has incredible inefficiencies because of this. Looking for inspiration in biology doesn’t mean all the answers are in biology. AI is a great example. A neural network is a simulation of a human brain, but it does many things better, and many things worse.

[@therealhatman01]

“the world is poorly designed” God: surprised pikachu face

[@keving2115]

"The World is poorly designed" is from the perspective of Human inventions. Nature is the savior of those flaws.

[@tran3421]

@@keving2115 ok

[@kwamenaplays5899]

😂😂

[@therealhatman01]

Kevin G bruv it’s a joke

[@naturepro6895]

We created God

[@brownbearr6141]

I don't think the world is poorly designed, but it is poorly maintained.

[@novidsnosubs9758]

Drunken Sailor someone said it. We have a beautiful world if only we would look after it.

[@souvlaki._]

That's because they are not designed sustainably, so not designed well.

[@thanhvinhnguyento7069]

It's either this or Brave New World. Accept it

[@alstef09]

Take it or leave it or fall of a map

[@Chris-cf2kp]

And also creative designs are not implimented to their most efficient form all the time to cut costs or for lack thereof, leaving disarray behind.

[@adventure9119]

I'm an industrial Designer in college and for my next big project in university I'm wanting to do a sports related design while utilizing biomimicry. This video is just so amazing as an introductory lesson because before I've never heard of Janine Benyus or all those products I've seen or read about but never knew they were ingeniously inspired by nature. So inspirational!

[@aarynbastian4469]

even just as a concept artist for animation and games we take design inspiration and understand how things works from nature a lot, this was a super cool vid!

[@ElectrosongRightnow]

So human do not create, just take inspiration from nature... That's why we need to take care of that nature.

[@stigsindiancousin4165]

So true.....so true

[@RealElevenTimes]

You mean take care or "take care"?

@@RealElevenTimes u mean take care= get rid

[@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776]

Maybe preserve is a better adjective? Whenever humans take care of things, it's usually to our benefit. What of things we don't know the potential of?

[@penguinpenguinpenguin]

fix your grammar

[@levisatwik6184]

4:26 Imagine rainwater cleaning your car....! . I love the concept.!

[@Below-Zero.]

Yeah but aerodynamics would be compromised.

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

It does. You don't think we ever wash it.

[@markferreira8767]

@@Below-Zero. it wouldn't make much of a difference would it, since those pockets are on a miniscule scale and you would need much bigger pockets of air to actually produce a sufficient amount of air resistance for it to be noticable. At least that's what I think

[@deedumeday518]

@@markferreira8767 I agree. Some people will go to great lengths to find a fault in a good idea. In this case, biomimicry.

[@HyouMix]

It depends where the raining are coming from, such as in a city, I don't think it's a good idea to wash your car with rain that fall from city sky

[@LiYuanChea]

That's a really bad title, it contradicts itself: "The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps" The human environment is poorly designed, the nature within the world helps.

[@Vern01]

Bit long, no?

[@capitaopacoca8454]

@@Vern01 6 lines

[@elementalacior1603]

I think they are saying that humans have designed their world poorly, but copying from nature helps. As in the train, it was designed by humans poorly that it made noise, now copying nature helped.

[@vitsadelhole]

yeah but your title is just trash

[@ElectricGun100]

"Technology is poorly designed, but copying nature helps"?

[@celes.orchid]

I just saw this video today. I defined grasped this concept some time ago. I study biology with art and business. I don't see how I could ever just choose one. It's quite important. And there are so many fascinations in biology and understanding how live takes place around you helps you to keep note of what's happening inside too. Forming critical skills, problem solving and so much more. It's benefits are endless

[@mannymata3274]

@2:11 I Thought she was gonna start rapping to the beat

[@u13613to]

🤣🤣

[@luckysingh211296]

I want that music 😅

[@Hannahsthename123]

I WISH she would have oh man

[@CalvinSchmeichel]

She sounds like the mom in Incredibles

[@captainfalcon8615]

definitely

[@morosepapaya]

Makes me sad that Elastigirl is how Jodie Foster will be remembered

[@aniekanumoren6088]

The new movie is amazing

[@YourBeastRoy]

Hahahaha 100% does

[@MrMrannoying]

Andrew Sanford who

[@mrloop7945]

Basically, she invented her need in companies and hence her job.

[@chrono-glitchwaterlily8776]

You know you have a stable job when you're the only one who could do it

[@58847436]

It's a very smart plan. Many well paid people did that very same thing.

[@zappababe8577]

An animal man brought an owl to my daughter's party. I swear, as it flew across the room, it silenced the sound in the room. It was truly amazing and something I will never forget.

[@duhbiyung]

lol

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

*Biomimicry is a fun* subject to study. Ai is also designing objects that look more like from nature, than from a designer.

[@po91914]

Since nature is designed by a creator, so they studying nature is learning from the the creator himself.

[@atwcat9370]

psst, hey. Hey power! Guess what? Nobody is interested if god is real or not. Nobody cares.

[@Jessebowyer]

FriendlyNeighbourhoodCrusader TRUST ME YOU ARE.

[@Jessebowyer]

Valhalla or Bust thank you😁

[@Jessebowyer]

random terran personally i see the spiritual realm just like quantum physics realm where almost everything is possible...everyone who believe in a higher intelligence is not meaning believing in water transforming into wine or something like that you see...what i mean! once you go the very small details about nature or what you realise that its like in the spiritual realm

[@PhantomRides]

Of course the Airplanes look nothing like a Bird... Oh wait!

[@VAALLDDOO2]

Phantom Rides and those helicopters doesn't look like dragonflies

[@winjaywin]

And the wheels under them also look like a bird... oh wait!

[@Elmithian]

Jaywin Varghese It is believed that the idea for the wheel came when our ancestors observed a dung bug pushing it's circular ball of feces around. So the originator of the wheel, the sphere might very well be based on a design from the animal Kingdom.

[@alterego9791]

hoang cao what

[@somebodyiusedtoknow2012]

Inspecktor F I don’t know how you could translate the rapid vibration/flapping of a dragonfly’s wings into the spinning rotor of a helicopter, it just doesn’t make any sense.

[@aziara369]

Oh goooood thank you Vox for this! And for every video with such simplistic, spot on, creative video edits! ✨

[@waktak7093]

Vox: *talks about how they built a quieter train* Also Vox: *_they had a birdwatcher_*

[@dave5194]

Her voice reminds me so much of the voice actress for Elastigirl in The Incredibles!

[@latrellfrasier]

Came here to look for this

[@gigiblack2231]

AJSKJFMSKLF OMG your right.

[@coffeewentcold]

I thought she sounded a bit like Jodie Foster from the Silence of the Lambs

[@angelmakima]

WOWWW OMG MIND BLOWN!!!😰😰😂😂

[@TheTrippleTKA]

I read up to "her voice reminds me ..." and i scream Elastigirl!!

[@21MilesAhead]

*Snoop Dogg voice* "Damn nature, you scary!"

[@jorjicostava1839]

Hahah I can hear his voice damn iy

[@cameronkidde9423]

753 likes with now 2 comments

[@haxyquinn]

The funniest part is when he mixes up species and he is like "what are those rams or billy goats" neither XD "is that an albino tiger, stop making animals up" like if it was CGI XD "what is these animals? are those beavers or mongooses, are those mongooses " 8 otters on the river XD XD so funny

[@HyouMix]

Damn nature, you genius

[@spontaneouscreativity6858]

😏

[@Gameknight2169]

It makes sense. Nature has evolved to retain the most efficient and successful processes because anything less is weeded out of the gene pool by natural selection. Nature's trial and error is a slow process, but nature's millions of years is a lot of time.

[@thespontaneoustomato2676]

Billions*

[@anamujahideen4677]

​@@thespontaneoustomato2676trillion 😂

[@thespontaneoustomato2676]

@@anamujahideen4677 Quadrillion 😬

[@keyzsawake353]

The city we live in today functions just like a cell, in the mega-level.

[@mathru96]

Oh my god, this is definitely my favorite Vox video. I got chills. I definitely am gonna remember that lesson.

[@Steinchen43]

It's not only about aerodynamics but also about pressure wave reduction.

[@_ee75]

Furion L wtf

[@AJ-kj1go]

You gotta check out 99% invisible then, it's all basically this good.

[@rahulrbharadwaj123]

Yes, I really loved this video!

[@allenm935]

The one that shook me most was the one about duck and cover and nuclear war

[@simongreve]

That smooth voice of Roman Mars is such a treat :)

[@chickennoodle2669]

Just wondering what’s your gender?

[@simongreve]

#Chicken Noodle I'm male.

[@chickennoodle2669]

simongreve are you a strait male? (I have nothing against gays fyi)

[@david64357]

This is a really weird question to ask someone. Why do you care? Plus, why does it make any difference... to anything?

[@EricThePooh]

As a straight male, hell yeah Roman has a buttery smooth voice that I could listen to for hours. (99pi is litterally the podcast I listen to before falling asleep)

[@kylea4225]

I remember seeing this 5 years ago and being mind blown. I'm finally getting into a mechanics of materials course and this video has absolutely blown my mind again

[@mmm59mmm]

My thesis in Computer Science was built using biomimcry specifically employing Genetic Algorithms which mimic DNA and its replication/mutation to find a sub-optimal (edit: near-optimal) solution for a hard-to-solve problem in Wireless Networks

[@aliasrehbar9693]

Tell me how that goes. Please?

[@mmm59mmm]

Well it went really well, it continued to become a 25 page publication in the elite Journal: Wireless Networks and is currently referenced by more than a dozen other research journals, indicating its relevance. Makes me proud :) if you wanna know more let me know

[@davidb5205]

Can you describe the hard-to-solve problem? Also, does your genetic algorithm work anything like a neural network, using gradient descent, backpropagation, etc.? (Recently learned concepts thanks to 3B1B)

[@mmm59mmm]

Hi David, this might be long so enjoy, but you asked :) So Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are ad-hoc networks in which sensors, that are designed to relay data back to sink nodes and/or Base Stations, are deployed in an area and may be configured in real time. Sensors, however, have limited energy supplies and are often left untouched after deployment, thus making battery replacement very difficult or even impossible. Therefore, energy should be efficiently conserved to extend the WSNs lifetime. One of the existing solutions is to deploy multiple sinks, more capable nodes in comparison to sensors, in the network to increase the coverage area and shorten the communication distance between sensors and sinks. However, this raises the issue concerning which sensors should bind to which sinks in order to avoid overloading particular sinks. I devise a Genetic Algorithm (GA) to solve the problem of balancing the load of sensors amongst sinks in a multi-sink WSN, while ensuring that the best routes to sinks are found for the sensors that cannot directly reach a sink. The results are very promising. The problem is hard to solve in real-time because there can be millions of binding combinations so we use a GA basically to map random possible solutions into what would function like a DNA strand (an Array) and we run these strands in multiple generations of breading (crossover and mutation) to produce new possibly stronger offspring until we reach a child that is fit enough to be a solution (based on a fitness function). My GA itself is tailored for this problem in WSNs but some of its main concepts can be mapped ofcourse to neural networks, and im assuming it might be already used in places there. Hope that answers some of your question

[@davidb5205]

Matt, thanks for the thorough response and great explanation. Very cool work!

[@giovannirojas3506]

My whole life I've been wanting to do something like this, but I never knew what it was called, or if it even existed! Now I know, and perhaps maybe I was destined to watch this.

[@jdm2626]

Honestly most of us take these types of things for granted, but we wouldn't have much of what we have today if it weren't for people like you and others.

[@xuau208]

Combinating science, design, bio. I like that too.

[@TheLMMish]

Same here, Giovanni. I completely understand you. I've always been fascinated by the bioluminescennce of deep-sea creatures and always thinking on how to adapt this to a product. But like you, I haven't know it's called biomimicry...

[@deannemaree2704]

hell fucken yeah!!!

[@rock-uu7qr]

What do you have in mine that hasn't been done already

[@bug7316]

I’ve been looking for this cross section of nature and design that isn’t environments design or something. This video is tremendously helpful

[@torterrathegreat055]

This is really good especially for a junior engineer like me. Nature itself has stood forces for centuries. Looking at biological fundamentals can help in designing processes efficiently. This is a really inspiring thing to watch. Thanks!!

[@emmapedley5196]

Also when you think about it, structures based on nature are most like going to be very efficient. Yknow a river follows the path of least resistance and thats the same with everything. The creatures who could do the task to easiest were the ones who survived. People thing evolution is the survival of the fittest but its more like survival of the laziest. Ever heard the phrase get a lazy man to do a task and he will find the easiest solution?

[@markdelic1385]

easiest solution to waste is to dump it in the ocean. Doesn't sound like much of a good job if you ask me. Very silly thing to quote

[@markdelic1385]

and it most definitely is the survival of the fittest, not the laziest.

[@davidsawyer3945]

Mark Delic it’s the survival of the fittest laziest person

[@knightmare2461]

Nah.. What is the purpose of being fit? Why do we even exist? Why do we have to survive? For what? Yeah, for what did you survive for? Living for what? Work? Money? Family? Or just passing down your dna?

[@sincerecritic1881]

Was that Bill gates?

[@CrapFilms]

Nature is the best teacher.

[@kostasz7z]

Yeah its all a result of random accidents. Makes perfect sense.

[@the-house-of-flying-knives]

kostasz7z , right on the spot, man.

[@kostasz7z]

Well if you think about it you cant really be that dense or that much of a moron by yourself. It defies logic. By Occam's razor the most reaosnable explanation is that atheists are getting supernatural help to be so dense and morons. The Bible explains this by saying that God will send a powerful delusion so that they believe a lie. They are people who are in love with sin and the lie is the big bang and evolution. Atheists CANNOT see the truth. They cant. They are blinded by God. How dumb can you be to accpet that everything came from nothing 14 billion years ago ? How dumb can you be to not see the blatant engineering of DNA ? Ho dumb can you be to accept the idea that everything is subjective/relative when that claim is an objective/absolute claim that contradicts itself ? Honestly they re dumb beyond belief. The source of this stupidity MUST be supernatural.

[@the-house-of-flying-knives]

kostasz7z , may God guide us all to the straight path

[@doofarb9209]

kostasz7z yep, ok you believe what you want to.

[@skazka9400]

im an industrial design student and im definitely gonna read her books + as they said, look around more. thank you for that. this video was amazing. but let me add something, we do take biology classes to get into this education in the university (at least in turkey)

[@mohammadanadani7898]

felt like watching a full documentary. In a good way! and I keep coming back to it.

[@IamJay]

*_Biomimicry_*

[@julietjowett9678]

Any way are you "frantic" ?

[@edifon3926]

Biomemery

[@Prezzen77]

My eyes separate "Mimi" from the rest of the word at a glance and that really tempts me to shift the pronunciation

[@doubledeckerdusk]

Biomimicry is such a cool word I love it

[@lukec1471]

Why does this have 600+ likes?

[@KraveNPLUR]

Going thru trial and error to make a good train, just as all creatures went through their kind of trial and error (evolution) beautiful

[@eXtremeAzureProductions]

KraveNPLUR For our inventions to go through trial and error, a few things need to be in place: An initial idea A design Observation and research on that design to make gradual improvements With that said, why is it impossible to believe the universe was created? If everything in existence just 'happened' then what started it? What was there to dictate a good idea from a bad one? Why does Earth itself, the animals and even the universe have set roles and follow specific, observable patterns? We give humans credit for coming up with great inventions, so why is it a problem to believe there is a 'Great Inventor' of the whole universe?

[@KraveNPLUR]

eXtremeAzure I think that there’s still way more errors than successes in nature so that draws me away from believing there is a creator. BUT! Part of me still believes there’s something greater out there, if anything I believe “God” simply rolled the dice with creation and let everything unfold(evolution) our own species has more errors than successes, but maybe it’s cause the dice is still rolling 😉

[@eXtremeAzureProductions]

Mal Dibujante Call me whatever you want, but I don't see you offering a valid response to prove me wrong. 😉

[@eXtremeAzureProductions]

f89fiadsuofijoadsioj - And the evidence of this is to be found where, exactly?

[@kingtide69]

Evolution isn’t real

[@guru6831]

Since copying nature helps, the world is well designed!

[@rheiagreenland4714]

Nature: I've been doing this for hundreds of millions of years so ask me if you need any help.

[@stevenlewis7017]

Biomimicry was a section in my CAD class. It was pretty cool.

[@MrPoornakumar]

You're lucky, Steven Lewis ! I wish I was born 50 years later.

[@rock3tcatU233]

What software did you use?

[@snowindafunboots4369]

@@rock3tcatU233 ☺

[@kortess7900]

It works the other way, too. Lately some Japanese biologists carried out researched that has proven that bacteria colonies grow almost exactly like the metropolitan system of Tokyo, which had grown without any supervision or government planning, yet under a state of free market

[@user-yv2cz8oj1k]

True, but it still looks like a mess. But I bet it is more habitable than most cities.

[@alexysese1437]

*whispers* it’s free real estate

[@hariprasadhv.r.5308]

One of the best videos I have ever invested my time in.... Keep sharing

[@loganshane8342]

6:15 that was the best point to show that nature is a great resource for design ideas!

[@dannymiller504]

In the newly industrialised 19th century we believed that nature was something to be bent to our will to serve our purposes but now we've come to realise that only by copying and learning from it can we truly achieve what we are capable of.

[@Corbych]

She sounds like Elasta Girl. No? Just me?

[@danieladkin6019]

fink42 thank god someone else heard it 😂

[@Corbych]

@@danieladkin6019 Well I have sharp ears

[@neelparmar6690]

I hear it now 😂

[@JonDundas10]

I was thinking Jodie Foster

[@areva360]

@@JonDundas10 same, I hear Jodie

[@joelle4662]

Well that's my inspiration for my upcoming project in my environment, health and development class... A lesson in Humility and Learning from Nature.

[@10000richards]

It took billions of years for nature to figure these out, so that we can copy them in a few years.

[@berniehoe9960]

Vice is the cool edgy big brother. Vox is the quirky and intelligent middle child. Buzzfeed is the little sister with special needs.

[@VulpeculaJoy]

That sister needs a constant beating though, else it's gonna feel entitled to everything; SJW-Feminism-safespace-everything-is-rape-everything-is-hate-speech types of things.

[@jadethegingergoblin718]

Joseph Song - 宋金 I've never heard it put that way before, but it's true! 😂

[@xDevilAngle]

LOOOOOOOOLLLL

[@kidkangaroo5213]

That's too damn accurate.

[@useraccount333]

Buzzfeed doesn't have "special needs", she's just a brat with an overinflated ego! Entitlement out the wazoo!

[@cheesecakelasagna]

She makes me want to become a biologist!

[@genericusername4206]

CheesecakeLasagna just be careful. I lost 2 fingers holding a crocodile

[@user-fr6mn7il7v]

jesus man

[@kingsaldua4511]

I too

[@redolfos]

wow, same here!

[@humudu]

She makes me want to puke

[@zealandia5668]

Japan: Our high-speed train has a big problem. Ornithologist: My time has arrived.

[@loadeddiaper4216]

Well said lol

[@darthravo]

Wow this is fascinating but makes so much sense logically! Why not use the ultimate engineer to inspire our own engineering needs!

[@shraiwi]

I don't know, if I had millions of years to design something, I think I'd do a pretty good job.

[@quantumfrost9467]

poppet pala if you were only able to ruin the genes How well would you go? As that is the basics of the mechanism that I used for evolution

[@cortster12]

QuantumFrost If a gene was 'ruined', how do you expect the creature it belonged to to be more fit than another? And if that animal is less fit, it obviously won't be able to compete with animals with more fit genes. This is evolution.

[@quantumfrost9467]

Bose-Einstein some mutations can't be selected as their effect is so small My point still stands that there will never be a mutation supporting the idea that a microbe can or ever will turn into a human given any time

[@cortster12]

QuantumFrost Well, it's a good thing no one has ever said a microbe can turn into a human, huh? We're colonies composed of many dozens of seperate microbes, all with a specific role to play.

[@quantumfrost9467]

Bose-Einstein you clearly don't know how evolution is meant to work, do you? It claims that a single cell, a microbe, mutated (very unrealistic mechanism) into all the organisms today over millions of years

[@GJERocks]

People actually use and create things that involve biomimicry and don't even notice. The whole entire concept is really fascinating

[@sakuranovaryan9261]

Honestly I was under the impression that human civilization is more advanced then most natural systems...I was clearly in the wrong.

[@Dragoon710]

We are far from understanding all natural systems

[@jesusmywholehaschanged]

We always think we are superior to nature.

[@StevieCooper]

I’ve never heard Roman in my room, I only listen to him in my car. Love it!

[@raymondzhao6015]

Biomimicry can solve our current and even more pressing future problem concerning sustainability. We are facing a crisis- that being the fact that material is finite. Taking inspiration from naturally occurring cycles and applying it to items we use everyday can be so innovative.

[@DarkAngelEU]

We're already doing that but progress is always slow. We have biodegradable plastics, enzymatic plastics which consume themselves and feed organisms in the air, soil or plankton when it ends up in the ocean, instead of chemical air cleaners we use bacteria, etc. The major push only comes when corporations realize that these are actually cheaper than what they produce now! Like nature we need to start low. First we had the elements, now we're moving up to organisms. Worms are already being researched as natural alternatives to pesticides and stag beetles are being linked to controllers so they can be used as drones. We're moving incredibly fast when it comes to biotech because we already have so much biological knowledge and unlike technology it's readily available. In about 20 years it won't be an exception that people go to the woods when they need something instead of the supermarkets. I did this myself to get worms for a compost bin, which is not completely the same but you know.

[@TehKorwinMikke]

Isn't that what we already know about: recycling? Take the old material and put it into the new one. Problem is, that some of the materials we use have a really difficult way to recycle them. Not everything is as simple as throwing in the junk into a machine and getting ingots of usable material.

[@DarkAngelEU]

Exactly, which is why we're looking for biological alternatives. Artificial products simply aren't good for our planet because they are artificial, when they are biological there is always a solution to getting rid of them. I know not everything can be 100% biological but we can also engineer organisms to take care of the artificial objects for us, bacteria have been created that can actually digest plastics and their waste is water. The only problem is business aka money: generally no one is interested in these biological processes because trash in itself is a big business. It really boggles my mind.

[@TehKorwinMikke]

What would "biological" even be supposed to mean though? What are "artificial" things? When it comes back to it - literally every single thing is renewable. Yes: both plant matter, and uranium are renewable. Plant matter takes maybe a year to "remake", while uranium is closer to "lifetime of the universe" in terms of time to remake it. Plastics are commonly created from petroleum(the same thing that's made into the combustion fuel). Petroleum(along with other fuel sources like coal, peat etc.) is formed from organic matter that "ferments" without oxygen. Many common plastics are very easy to recycle. My teacher explained to me the process of how they recycle ABS(a kind of plastic), and he(along with another teacher from the Plastics Faculty) also told me that plastic bottles and plastic foil are similarly easy to recycle. You are correct that people care about money the most. In Germany in shops they have a deposit on(I think) all the packaging. I know for sure that fluid containers from plastic, glass, metal, all have a deposit. Then you just go to the store, give them the container, and get your money back(or deduction from your purchase). Plus there are all the machines that accept containers and give back money. You must remember though, that "money" isn't something magical. Money is primarily a legal way, in which we can more easily exchange various goods and services. It's easier to trade: A glass for a dollar, then trade a lot of dollars for cleaning the room, than it is to trade: A bunch of glasses for cleaning the room.

[@DarkAngelEU]

Germany is really for doing that because they know money is always on people's minds. As people care less about taking responsibility they need to be motivated in another way, money is somewhat the only way to do that nowadays since religion is basically bankrupt, moral values are stupendously low and frankly - most people care more about their screens than the real world. As for your question, artificial means "mand made". A spoon is artificial, so is paper, plastics too. Everything else is biological and therefor there is always a solution for it to be recycled one way or another by our planet. Some things are recycled more easily than others, I'm sure you know this too. maybe better than I do. But we also both know that lot of plastics ends up being burned because until now we weren't looking for any other solution. Then there's all the plastic that goes around the world, riding the waves of the oceans. If we actually had those bacteria, multiplied them vastly and introduced them to the waters, or created plankton that could eat microplastics without introducing toxics into the food chain, we would already have reached a certain milestone. The problem is not that plastic can be recycled, the problem is that most people don't care about taking the right precautions to recycle materials properly. Like we find pottery from ancient civilizations we will surely find back plastic bottles and whatnot in the future. With this idea in mind we have to find ways to actually terminate that being a possible outcome.

[@LeandroR99]

Vox takes video editing to another level.

[@kimichi13]

exactly!! gaudi takes inspiration from nature when designing his buildings as well, and as someone who’s personally visited most of them they are gorgeous.

[@saarah5816]

I watched this last year and this (albeit, indirectly) got me into a lot of new interests. happy day to this video! :)

[@wanderingsoul881]

I've always been so facinated by biomimicry, but I never knew there was actually a word for it. This is awesome

[@joshwillis1726]

Biomimicry is amazing in all it can do, but that lady is a little full of herself. From what I learned in engineering school, biomimicry is a great starting point, but the problems we solve are not identical to the ones nature solved, just similar. So you have to understand the process nature uses, and then mimic those mechanisms. Biomimicry is also often quite a bit more expensive in some situations, because it is extremely complex. Many of those mimicry examples she gives are only possible recently because of advances in CAD, CAM, FEA, and dozens of other simulation techniques.

[@RetroSnoop]

Josh Willis im pretty sure her point was just that. Designers should start looking at nature for inspiration. I never heard her saying that we MUST copy it to the T.

[@randimatsuzaki8461]

They briefly talked about how it was done in the past and then focused on all the interesting ways we can implement it in the coming years. When talking about the exciting future of a process, it makes sense to highlight ways that are only recently becoming possible--Makes for a more interesting video.

[@Engineeronaboard]

I agree, It's like a standard brainstorm technique you go though in industrial engineering..

[@ashfights5956]

Commenter: *slightly mentions god* Atheists: "Im gonna stop you right there"

[@sstingreii]

Buddhists too

[@jubileeYAVEL]

Yeah it's so weird it's like...nature was designed and created so complexity and perfectly that we the most highly evolved beings with the highest IQ can't even come close to the ... the what, the accident that is nature, the big "boom" that made a goldy locks planet, the primordial "soup" of proteins and RNA that came from who knows where and somehow built organisms instead of breaking down (I guess the second law of thermodynamics didn't apply back then) and what is this billions of years of research and development? Who was researching and developing? Is it the same one who "selects" which animals get to live, the same one who adds the extra DNA in the animals that decide they want to fly or turn blue? Is it mother nature? Is she the evolutionist god ?

[@alolanpikachu7330]

@@jubileeYAVEL yep

[@Watcher_Actual]

*Atheist has entered the chat*

[@mucsalto8377]

you do not need an atheist, an agnostic is suffizient.

[@daddy6757]

I have seen AI designing things. The design is optimised to the limits to fit like aerodynamic, weights distribution,..., . Most of these design looks more and more natural. Take a look at the leaves. They were design to efficiently collect sunlight. They found that if we use the same pattern on solar panel, it is more efficient. Fascinating

[@Oscaregarciaiii123]

That's why I'm majoring in Engineering with an Art Degree and taking a lot of science classes as electives

[@vaarelsauce]

he died 😔

[@blazinbratzy3592]

@@steev1290 No he's just meditating

[@JR-mk6ow]

There's an increasing number of people defending that Design should be taught in Engineering school or that engineers should have more design classes

[@kingskylord6099]

Humans: Hey Nature, can I see your homework and ideas? Nature: ok, but make it a bit different.

[@itToxic]

Nature has had literally billions of years to perfect everything it does, it just makes sense to learn from what nature has already optimized.

[@canadiankewldude]

More like "God's creation" he is a lot smarter than us after all.

[@themadakh3229]

Nature didn’t just randomly create itself. It called intelligent design. God has created it yet people think its random! Blows my mind

[@whoreforcaffeine]

You're right, everything is perfect by itself over time, even we have adapted to survive better and longer!

[@canadiankewldude]

@@whoreforcaffeine Please, help me understand these long ages of adapting to perfection, when they can all be found in the so called "ancient" fossil record.

[@SpicyT257]

how does this only have 6 million views? designers, entrepreneurs and other businessmen should seriously watch this!

[@dangerouslytalented]

The guy from 99% invisible

[@TheGerm24]

Roman Mars, voice is so good. Name is good too.

[@TheIndogamer]

Jean Cena

[@snilrach]

Beautiful Nerd

[@fickdichgoogle8618]

He only said 3 words and i was like.... 99pi?!

[@stellarguymk]

Ahhh, Roman Mars, knew I recognized his voice. Needed to come down here to remember who it was though

[@TG-ru4fd]

So cool. I found out that living in areas with ample amounts of trees has been proven to reduce stress in humans. Imagine cities covered in trees, the air would be great, there wouldn't even be melting pavements during hot summers as the trees would simply retain most of the heat, and people would be less stressed. Nature's awesome.

[@bluwulf]

I wanna live somewhere eith those trees

[@jvvlbeats]

cities do have trees, and parks and zoos. trees can reduce stress but you have to consider other variables as well. covering a city in trees does not seem worth it to me

[@RealTalkWithSSG]

KURU Exactly..You can literally feel cooler air when standing amongst trees as opposed to standing among buildings. Also, oxygen..And leaves retain dust particles. Trees are awesome.

[@sallyW.]

India does that alot.

[@robertct06]

The only problem is dead leaves

[@bradleysmith9431]

I realized this when I was 22-23 . I spent a lot of time camping and exploring nature! Its self evident nature was designed!

[@junaidfarooqui1993]

It really helps when people have inter disciplinary knowledge and "unpopular/unusual" hobbies!

[@peachylady]

Totally cool.

[@nothanks5570]

Let's keep the like count at 69.

[@ceruleax6155]

The Gotham Goliath Totally not cool.

[@koekje12]

Extremely Amazing

[@koekje12]

my name is Kapolino

[@koekje12]

and i'm pickle rick

[@joejia1410]

Japan: Bird Britain: alright mate make a box that moves on our 150 yr old railways, itll be like a b i r d. so thats why every british train is horrible and slow

[@misternikolas8611]

I just imagine them being frustrated on train designs so they just go "BOX" and just went with it

[@joejia1410]

@@misternikolas8611 Japan: *Builds a amazing train. Britain trying to catch up: Builds a box

[@joejia1410]

@Malik Narayanin its horrible and slow

[@KangarooFam]

Me a British: *Train is train*

[@joejia1410]

@@KangarooFam T R A I N I S A T R A I N

[@kaitlin2606]

This was one of the courses for ADST at my school. We had to solve a problem and fix it using biomimicry

[@JRodizAwesome]

Every design process comes with issues that need to be resolved. Sometimes, it is beneficial to look towards nature as a teacher, and listen to how nature has all ready solved this issue.

[@gulle8536]

wish the animals had copyright claims . xD

[@globin3477]

I most certainly do not. Copyright law is a bad enough rats nest as is.

[@bradirv]

Great idea! Every time a natural concept is used, a tree is planted or something

[@furiouskratos]

Nature does not mind sharing. Sharing is caring.

[@prstation1363]

Monkey and where would we be as a world today. keep everything except technology...u answer in your own head

[@arfn1973]

Well we will have to pay so much

[@riccardomeneghello1533]

This video was extremely inspirational! I really love things like this and it helped me change my way of creating and developing projects

[@SP-ny1fk]

"Nature is the great visible engine of creativity, against which all other creative efforts are measured.” - Terrence McKenna

[@Anthony.Verrelli]

Absolutely loved this. Thanks for sharing

[@MaxMiesen]

The way nature is so perfectly designed... I swear we are all just living in a computer program.

[@irrevenant3]

I suppose that's one way to look at it. In terms of practical results there's not a lot of difference between (a) running a massive simulation of many different possibilities and iteratively selecting the most effective ones, and (b) trying many different possibilities in reality and iteratively retaining the most effective ones. As an aside, a lot of modern software is based on evolutionary principles for that reason. Things like phone routing networks and traffic control systems tend to use evolutionary algorithms. They're just such an effective approach for finding effective solutions in massive possibility spaces.

[@series1054]

Error in the simulation.

[@antenerokent492]

Yeah and we are the virus

[@irrevenant3]

@@antenerokent492 We're more like a program with poor code that's using up more system resources than would be ideal, IMO.

[@stuckupcurlyguy]

Nature is not perfectly designed, it is selectively designed. Every creature has flaws which are hard built into it by nature. Richard Dawkins has some good videos on this. For example, there is an artery which stretches over the heart instead of going directly to its location because once upon a time, as fish, our ancestors had a different body structure and that artery stayed on its course over many millions of years of evolution.

[@LaGuerre19]

America: (Amtrak chugging along with 1960s tech) Japan: *_WE NEED A SOLUTION TO THE SONIC BOOMS OUR TRAINS MAKE. I MEAN, IT'S LIKE WE'RE GUILE FROM STREET FIGHTER_*

[@kenjamin6457]

@David Moore calm down

[@shortcook3362]

one of the most informative video i’ve seen in a long time 🤍

[@rajanrao]

Why is no one talking about my guy at 2:01 totally missed his fish?!

[@TheAnjelHarte]

This reminds me of the museum under La Sagrada Familia, which goes into the various natural structures and patterns that inspired Gaudi when he was designing it. That was mainly for aesthetics, but I think it’s a great example of creating something spectacular by looking to nature for ideas. Humans with access and exposure to a lot of technology tend to be so cut off from the natural elements of the world they live in, even though nature has been developing incredible methods of communication, waste management, travel, and everything else for billions of years. Great video!