The Environmental Society

The future, a place of unlimited possibilities. Typically in film and television the future is portrayed as one of either two things, a technological behemoth, or an apocalyptic wasteland, there really is nothing else, but what's to say that there was a third alternative? The environmental alternative?

What if in the future, mankind manages to use the sophisticated technology of the future to manipulate the elements. No more fossil fuels, no more crude technology that damages the environment, but rather a society that lives in harmony with nature.

This society's energy will draw from many areas. Abundant wind turbines on the coasts and in the valleys of the world, countless solar panels in the deserts and other hotspots, ensuring energy to those in that area. None of this is new, but in this future it will be far more plentiful than it is now. But perhaps the most intriguing aspect of this future, is where do people live?

In this future, in order to save the trees of the environment, we no longer build our homes out of wood. Then what do we live in? It all starts with lightning.

In this future lightning will be harvested. There will be farmers whose sole job will be to harvest lightning from thunder storms, capture it into big power rods and course it through generators to manipulate it however is seen fit. Needless to say, lightning farming is a dangerous profession.

The harvested lightning will then be coursed through pools of water, dug in the ground. The electric currents will be so great that it will cause the water to take a solid shape, hence houses. The water will be laced with a non-toxic chemical cocktail made in the future that will allow it to maintain this solid shape without dripping and absorb any of the electric currents that could reach the humans inside.

People will live in these water cocoons. The water will be a pure, renewable way to live. New water will be coursed through continuously, and the polluted water in which they had been living in will be drained and repurified for future use. Of course, if our structures are made of water, what do we do for electricity?

In this future, everything is battery-powered. Solar batteries with tiny solar panels will be all the rage. Rechargeable batteries that will never run out. And forget about television sets, in the future everything will be hologram based. No need to plug a set into the wall, simply let the solar-powered hologram machine a float in mid-air and watch your favorite programming.

This is a future unlike any other, one that will be peaceful, full of passion and love. Whether or not a place like this will ever exist, I don't know, but one can dream.

Eating in RAW?

Every now and then you run into someone with an exceptionally different diet from yourself. I always have apprehension when I know I will be accommodating say a vegan. Mainly I worry they will have miserable time staying at my house and have a difficult time enjoy the same local cuisine I enjoy. I have however failed to meet someone who eats exclusively raw food. I first heard of the raw food diet around two years ago on WebMD. I find the concept terribly interesting and potentially beneficial. However, I find it completely impossible. I love cooked food and I like cooking food. Sucks for me right? I will not be receiving the health benefits from raw food, or are there more benefits to cooked food? Did cooking give humans an evolutionary edge over our fellow primate brethren? That is exactly the question posed by Dr. Richard Wrangham during an interview on NPR's Science Friday. During the interview, the Primatologist, discusses primates general preference to cooked food, the ability to extract more protein form cooked food, and our ability to digest it better. In the end this may have given our species the right ingredients to evolve into what we are to day. The interview in no way discourages the raw food diet, but does mention that it may not be for everybody. You can listen to the interview here, or catch the highlights at thesaladgirl.com.

I can't believe it's butter!

I am not one to criticize when it comes to keeping food well past the expiration date. In fact, I probably have some left overs from at least two or three months ago, just waiting to be stirred and release their putrid smell. While I have kept things for a long time, nothing compares to what a group of Archeologist found in an Ireland bog. Archeologist, John Fitzharris and Martin Lane, were pleasantly surprised to find a barrel of butter over 3,000 years old. Now that is one for the record books. You can read the ful article at dicoveryon.info. I wander if you can still spread it on a roll?

The Unicellular Review!

The unicellular blog has decided to extend its reach with the creation of the unicellular review, a blog devoted entirely to the worlds of film and television. Here many of our same contributors will be giving their thoughts on the latest bits of news from the film and television industries, while also giving us their thoughts on the latest film releases or episodes of our favorite television series. So be sure to check it out, you might even find a few surprises in store.

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Hacking your brain with the Pentatonic Scale

I'm sure everyone's already seen this, but here it is anyways. "Hacking" the audiences brains using the pentatonic scale.

just try and guess where this is

the mother country

It's time to talk about your social networking...

Yeah, so, I use facebook to keep tabs with production people that I come in contact with on different jobs.  Not really fan of keep up with people from high school, but I gotta say it's great for job stuff.  Especially when your job requires lots of communication skills and people finding.  

I feel like gloating now because I took a shot on facebook to contact someone I know in LA to help this production I'm working for find a unit production manager.  A day or two later she texted me back telling me she was unavailable but knew some people who were and would recommend them.  As it turns out, one of the people she recommended got the job and is now my boss!  I'm really pumped now and will use facebook a lot more for actual "social networking" and not just the, "hey... um... do you remember me from high school?"  Technology is awesome.  From now on I'll keep most of my social networking site bashing to myspace and leave facebook alone.  Perhaps JS you should reactivate your account now...