For your visual pleasure: silk protein crystals. 🐛❄️

The only textbook covering tensegrity systems for applications in both mechanics and biomechanics link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Examines the tensegrity concepts occuring in the microstructure of spider silk & in the arrangement of bones/tendons link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

1/ 🕸 Spiders are basically nature’s protein material R&D department. Everyone thinks of Spider-Man when they hear “spider silk,” but real spiders are way cooler. They don’t just make one silk—they make a toolkit of specialized silks, evolved for different jobs.🧵👇

The biotensegrity model really drives home the point that you aren't just e.g. lifting an arm. It's more that the whole myofascial web reconfigures into a human with a lifted arm. The skeleton is just kinda there, floating in soft tissue

最高のアイデアはワークショップ中に生まれることが多い。大切なのは参加者にシナジェティクスや共鳴テンセグリティ®︎を理解してもらうのではなく、理解する方法を届けることだ。

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tensegrity stilts

”視点の違いによる見え方の違い”

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7 Things even "experts" get wrong about biotensegrity ...but you don't have to! youtu.be/DtF6l2g09cQ?si… via YouTube

Ever wonder what the architecture of a neural network would look like, in a novel organism that had not been through selection for specific structure and function of an embodied nervous system? Here's our #preprint with morphological, behavioral, electrophysiological, and

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1/ Resilin is a disordered, elastomeric protein used by insects to store and release mechanical energy. Its resilience (~97%) makes it one of the most efficient biological springs known. Properties arise from sequence-level disorder + sparse crosslinking—not crystallinity. 🧵

8/ Open questions for material design: • How does hydration modulate modulus and fatigue resistance? • What crosslinking density optimizes recoil vs toughness? • Can we co-assemble resilin-like domains with structured regions for hybrid behavior?

9/ Resilin exemplifies a class of functional biopolymers whose properties emerge from disorder and reversible confinement. Its mechanics are instructive for designing sustainable, dynamic, and biocompatible materials. Systems-level lessons from insects—applied at molecular scale!

Massimo Demonstration of Newton's First Law

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