Dr. Rob Phillips

MIT's New 3D Printer Can Print a Working Motor, Complete With Moving Parts MIT researchers have devised new tech that can 3D print entire complex machines with moving parts in a matter of hours.

"This is a great feat, but it is just the beginning."

Hannah Spencer: the Green MP speaking to everyday people’s frustrations Winner of Gorton and Denton byelection was driven into politics by growing gap between super-rich and the ‘rest of us’

The small, brave band of MPs who represent the trampled, not the tramplers, has a very welcome new member.

We should all ask ourselves why, in a supposed democracy, such representatives are so rare.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Land of Muhu

Seals, shipwrecks and a screaming swallower: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026 – in pictures The annual competition draws thousands of entries from across the world and brings together images from below the water’s surface that show the diversity and challenges of subaquatic life

Seals, shipwrecks and a screaming swallower: Underwater Photographer of the Year 2026 – in pictures

It's publication day!

Let’s celebrate the European Day of Parks 2026!
This year’s theme, "Connected by Nature", aligns perfectly with our mission to strengthen ecological connectivity and highlight the vital links between landscapes, biodiversity, and society.
Join the celebration of #EuropeanDayOfParks: buff.ly/SJoG2z2

🌳✨ Urban Tree Festival
9–17 May 2026

OPEN CALL FOR EVENTS IS LIVE ✨🌳

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Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan gets final official approval City Hall hopes to stop traffic from using the street by September.

Delighted to announce that following the consultation, I'm giving the green light to make Oxford Street traffic-free.

When the sun sets at 5:36 this evening, we will have gained 2 hours and 43 minutes of daylight since 1 January.

We're here for the longer days! 😊

📸: Sam Moore

Dirty Business Shocking real-life drama about the muck in our water and a corporate scandal

Seen Dirty Business?

Watch it now on Channel 4:

www.channel4.com/programmes/d...

It will make you cry.
It will make you angry.
It will make you act.

Don't miss it!

📍Cissbury Ring

This Site of Special Scientific Interest, just north of Worthing, is the largest hill fort in Sussex and has a history dating back over 5,000 years.

📸: Jamie Fielding Photography

How to Listen: An Ancient Guide to Learning from Others by Plutarch, edited and translated by Jeffrey Beneker

A lively new translation of Plutarch’s charming and timeless essay on how to be a good listener—and why listening is essential to learning and living well.

How to Listen is out now!

Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

#Philosophy #AncientWisdom #Plutarch #Listening

Winter Beech Trees in woodland with a carpet of fallen leaves around them.

Beech wood 🌳 #trees #woodland #treeclub

Brilliant day visiting a #project #birminghamuniversity we are funding through #ukri #ecologicalcitizens @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social @sei.org & @wrexhamuni.bsky.social network +

TV tonight: a furious drama about water companies dumping raw sewage David Thewlis and Jason Watkins star in Channel 4’s alarming Dirty Business. Plus: Prof Hannah Fry gets to grips with AI. Here’s what to watch this evening

TV tonight: a furious drama about water companies dumping raw sewage

Winning the 'Dark Skyscapes' category in the 2026/26 Astrophotography Competition was Lorcan Taylor-Hood!

“A Window to our Galaxy” captures The Milky Way filling up the window and stretching up and over an old ruin near Eastbourne.

Congratulations, Lorcan! 💫

Trump’s rollback of this key EPA finding will hit poor and minority Americans the hardest The Trump administration says the "endangerment finding" hurts industry, but experts say the revocation will harm minorities.

"Most adults in the area are attending two to three funerals per month." f-st.co/PVnF083

A black and white photograph of an incoming wave, side view, travelling from right to left, white spume and spindrift and dark water.

A Cornish wave.

Sunset on a mountain with lots of peaks, reflected in a wet flat black sand beach. The right hand section of the mountain is bathed in pink sunset light. Heavy vignetting.

Also on this day in 2020, a lovely sunset at one of the coolest ever beaches.

#Iceland

a collaboration with #fernandongaldon @royalcollegeofart.bsky.social entitled "Craft 3.0; Positioning Craft and Design Practice(s) Within ‘Reduction’ and Nature-Based Design" is part of this book... What's Around Design? Strategic and Speculative Biodesign for a Sustainable Future: #sustainability

Good news for Europe’s water 💧

The EU General Court upheld Extended Producer Responsibility in the Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive. Pharma & cosmetics producers will help pay to remove micropollutants from our rivers.

Polluter pays - now let’s implement.

#ProtectOurWater #MakePollutersPay

This week's #recommendedreading 📚

Resilient City: Landscape Architecture for Climate Change by Elke Mertens

#designbooks #design #resilientcity #resiliency #climatechange

Experience: I’m the last traditional clog maker in England I cut small trees around Offa’s Dyke, then shape the wood by hand

Experience: I’m the last traditional clog maker in England

Last chance! Join @rupertread.bsky.social, Karen Jaques & Ed Jarvis TONIGHT for Strategic Adaptation for Emergency Resilience. Learn how communities can prepare for floods, heat & energy crises BEFORE disaster hits.

🗓 18 Feb | ⏰ 7–8pm GMT | Online
🔗 Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Winning the “Life at Night” category in our 2025/26 Astrophotography Competition was Richard Murray’s shot, “Snail Trail to the Stars”, capturing a snail beneath The Plough asterism.

Congratulations, Richard - you really snailed it! 🐌

Congratulations to Ian Brierley, who has been awarded Runner Up in the ‘Life at Night’ category of our 2025/26 Astrophotography Competition!

“Four Horses of the Apocalypse” captures a golden moment at Cissbury Ring with four horses in silhouette by a full moon.

Well done, Ian!🌕

What If We Get It Right? by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: 9780593229361 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With a thoughtfully curated series of essays, poetry, and conversations, the brilliant scientist and climate expert Ayana Elizabeth Johnson has assembled a group...

The updated & expanded paperback edition is now available for preorder: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645855...

#blend coffee in #lewes ... #craft in the everyday.... let's keep celebrating people's amazing #skills of #making in the #everyday

this book is fantastic! can confirm

Futurekind: Design by and for the People by Robert Phillips Review by Liz Dexter Robert Phillips is a senior tutor on the Design Products course at the Royal College of Art, as well as being an award-winning product designer in his own right.  He

Thank you shinynewbooks.co.uk #shinynewbooks

Nice review to randomly find on a #friday :-)

"A powerful and positive read, technical but also readable, with great illustrations and a clear concept".

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