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Happy World Sauntering Day
Walkability is important, but there has to be more: Flâneurability
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Industry fight against Meatless Monday won't stop consumer trend
Pushback from conventional livestock producers on the campaign to reduced meat consumption seems like a desperate measure.
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What it's like to photograph the world's biggest shark [Video]
Photographer and filmmaker Tom Campbell tells us what it's like to get in the water with a whale shark, and try to fit the whole experience in the camera's frame.
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Overgrown garden shed shows beauty of wild design
Green Box by Italian architects act_romegialli shows that good design doesn't need to be clean and controlled.
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Tesla does a partial recall of the Model S electric car
Those of you who are lucky enough to be Model S owners take note, Tesla is doing a voluntary partial recall on EVs that were manufactured between May 10 and June 8.
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We Need a Fixer (Not Just a Maker) Movement
Wired has it right. We need more than a maker movement, we need a movement that focuses on repair. Why? Because it will save our souls.
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Bike tricks from 100 years ago (Now THAT is old-school!)
What's old is new again. Fancy Cycling, a book first published in the UK at the start of the Edwardian Era (1901) is being reissued.
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"We need a design diet."
A terrific article in Metropolis describes the value of walking, and what we have to do to promote it.
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Bike helmet displays real-time maps and more for traveling with augmented reality
For those who want to safely add the convenience of Google Maps to their field of vision while traveling on a motorcycle, this new helmet design will interest you.
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North Carolina may repeal energy efficiency standards to reduce building costs
"Anything that can minimize the upfront costs will prevent buildings from not being built.” Huh?
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Archaeologists use lasers to find a lost city
Australian researchers used LIDAR, the aerial laser technology, to rediscover the city of Mahendraparvata in Cambodia.
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Should prefabs be glued instead of screwed (or nailed) together?
Sometimes it seems we are developing solutions in search of a problem. This might be one of them.
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Rich and cheesy kale gratin [Vegetarian]
This rather decadent dish is a wonderful way to have kale on a chilly night.
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3-D Printing tiny lithium batteries (video)
A team at Harvard's Wyss Institute can manufacture microbatteries using scaled down 3-D printer technology.
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In Rwanda, every newborn gorilla baby is given a name and thrown a party
At this year's Kwita Izina, 12 recently arrived baby gorillas will be celebrated and named. And oh my, are they adorable.
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The Farmery is a radical vision of what farms and grocery stores can be
What if you could grow and sell food in the same place? That is the radical idea behind Ben Greene's The Farmery project. Can this revolutionize our current food transportation system?
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Paris designers create "Insectopia" bug houses
This hotel for insects was created to promote urban biodiversity.
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Tesla to demo battery-swapping later this week!
It was starting to look like battery-swapping was DOA, or at least not going to happen for a while, but Tesla seems to want to revive the idea.
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