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Award-winning architect builds 'half houses', says slums should inspire
2016-05-27 07:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Award-winning Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena wants city governments worldwide to stop fighting urban migration and look to Latin America's sprawling slums as inspiration for new housing. The winner of the 2016 Pritzker, regarded as the Nobel Prize of architecture, Aravena says the vast 'favelas' in cities such as Rio de Janeiro highlight human resilience and the instinctive capacity for home-building. He said if cities are going to successfully absorb the projected 1.5 billion new arrivals...
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Ford builds a portable wind tunnel just not small enough for DIYers (yet)
2016-05-09 21:15:24| Extremetech
The fully mobile aeroacoustic wind tunnel lets Ford verify production quality. The 500-hp, twin-fan unit comes in two 53-foot shipping containers plus an office module.
UC Berkeley team builds semantic atlas of the human brain
2016-04-29 16:03:18| Extremetech
Voxel-based mapping reveals the brain regions that we use to think about relationships, self-identity and even abstract things like math and time. Can this finally dispel the notion that we only use 10% of our brains?
Savers Builds a Clothing Spill Installation for Earth Day
2016-04-27 18:53:00| Waste Age
On Earth Day, global thrift retailer Savers created a clothing spill installation on Alki Beach in Seattle in an effort to get people to rethink their clothing footprint. read more
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Team Builds First Quantum Cascade Laser On Silicon
2016-04-21 07:18:09| chemicalonline Home Page
A team of researchers from across the country, led by Alexander Spott,University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, have built the first quantum cascade laser on silicon.
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