HobbitHome

Hobbit Home.

Awesome!

Extraordinary Off-Grid Hobbit Home only cost £3,000 to build.

Simon Dale's Hobbit House

Simon Dale proves that you don't have to be an architect to design and build a beautiful, cozy, low-energy home. With a few simple tools you can construct an extraordinary hobbit home that has virtually no visual or environmental impact on the surrounding landscape. Using locally-sourced and natural materials taken from the nearby woodlands, a common practice among designers in Wales, alternative energy sources, and a lot of imagination, the self-styled builder has created a gentle, naturally-lit family home that exists in total harmony with nature.

http://inhabitat.com/extraordinary-off-grid-hobbit-home-in-wales-only-cost-3000-to-build/

NobelPrizeChemistry

Nobel Prize Chemistry 2011.

Crystals of golden proportions:
Daniel Shechtman received the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of quasicrystals, perfectly ordered materials that never repeat themselves. 

The X-ray diffraction pattern reflects the atom positions in a crystal.
"It's all about symmetry".

The Discovery of Quasicrystals:
The atoms in the crystal in front of Shechtman yielded a forbidden symmetry. It was just as impossible as a football – a sphere – made of only sixcornered polygons. Since then, mosaics with intriguing patterns and the golden ratio in mathematics and art have helped scientists to explain Shechtman’s bewildering observation. 

i) http://news.discovery.com/earth/nobel-prize-chemistry-111005.html
ii) http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2011/sciback_2011.pdf
iii) http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2011/info_publ_eng_2011.pdf

iv) CalculArt at the Dennos