March 2017

This little monster is the key to how our brain sees our body… Although the idea of homunculus has been around for centuries, in science it is used as a diagram to express how our brains get information from the...

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Run, jump and recoil like your best bud is a bear in the forest Keeping kids’ feet bare helps that sensory feedback whizz from feet to brains, growing brainy feet. But it also helps grow footy brains: and by this...

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"Fire is nothing more than the sun unwinding itself from the wood." - Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller The taming of fire was a defining moment for the human species. We know our distant ancestors; Homo erectus and the Neanderthals...

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“Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.” - Horace Kephart. What was the sound that heralded the arrival of mankind? Perhaps, about two and a half million years...

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“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Finding water in the desert is perhaps one of the most challenging of the core survival skills of this environment, perhaps even more difficult...

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When we began work on the Ababa, our initial goal was to design a shoe that needed as little shoe making as possible. Normal shoes have more than 50 components and rely on multiple processes which need different machines...

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Surfer Photo Credit: Alison Teal Modern life can sometimes leave us feeling at odds with nature and our natural selves. At Vivobarefoot one of our major eco inspirations is a book called Sustain-Ability by John Ehrenfeld. In the book he...

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A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate to have been invited as a Guest speaker to the London TriShow. I say fortunate because if you had asked me three years ago if I would be invited as a...

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