Category: Building
-
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] An AI art exhibition, a structure that predates Stonehenge, raising awareness about unpaid labor in prisons and more Climate-Resistant Breadfruit Could Help Fight Food Insecurity Many of our most consumed crops (like corn and wheat) will continue to be negatively effected by the climate crisis, leading to food insecurity for many, but scientists believe […]
-
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Mysterious astrophysical activity, edible concrete, tables from fallen trees and more from around the web How Indigenous People are Reclaiming Water Rights Water is not only a basic necessity; for many Indigenous peoples, it holds spiritual and cultural significance. However, colonialism and extractive industries separated Indigenous people from their waterways, contaminating them while endangering […]
-
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Photographing the Milky Way, using lava as a building material, studying alien signals and more from around the web New Study Sheds Light on 45-Year-Old Alien Signal Mystery On 15 August 1977 at 10:16PM EST, Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope scanned the Sagittarius constellation and detected a signal that was 20 times […]
-
Link About It: This Week’s Picks
[ad_1] Eco-friendly innovations, AI-produced portraits, upcycled watches and more fascinating tidbits from around the web Industrial Designer Jexter Lim’s Adaptive Tableware for Visually Impaired People Singapore-based industrial designer Jexter Lim worked with visually impaired people on the development of Eatsy, his collection of adaptive tableware that streamlines eating and serving actions like scooping, aligning, pouring […]
-
5000 Years Later, It’s Time to Improve Bricks – COOL HUNTING®
[ad_1] As CNN reports, “For thousands of years, the humble clay-fired brick hasn’t changed.” In fact, there’s very little difference between those from ancient Babylon to the thousands and thousands that surround us right now. Engineers Gabriela Medero (a professor of geotechnical and geoenvironmental engineering at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland) and Sam Chapman established Kenoteq […]