Her name is Danling Xiao aka Mundane Matters. Mundane Matters creates emotional sculptures and sensory experiences using natural ingredients to nurture the mind and inspire sustainable creative living.
Since 2015, her commitment is to make one fruit and vegetable sculpture a day! She is loved by many on Instagram, and featured in more than 30 major publications and TV channels. She has also been bringing the joy of creativity to her local community in Sydney through inspirational talks, exhibitions and zero-waste creative workshops.
An ingestible origami robot designed to patch wounds, deliver medicine or remove foreign objects from a person’s stomach has been developed by researchers from MIT, the University of Sheffield and the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
The robot is swallowed in a capsule and unfolds once in the stomach as its container dissolves. Unlike its creators’ previous ingestible robots, the new device is made largely of meat in the form of a type of dried pig intestine used in sausage casings.
In a video demonstration of the robot’s capabilities, the team uses a mock-up of a stomach, moulded from that of a pig and made of silicone rubber, with a mixture of water and lemon juice to simulate stomach acid. The robot is sent down the oesophagus in a capsule made of ice and tasked with removing a button battery that’s become embedded in the stomach wall.
British photographer Nick Brandt has been making intimate portraits of East African animals for close to two decades.
In that time, many of the places he works have been transformed by rapid development, and the environmental devastation that often comes with it.
Now, in a new book and series of international exhibitions is called Inherit the Dust, Brandt attempts to show what habitat destruction looks like by placing giant portraits of animals in landscapes where they used to roam.
