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As long as people think that animals don’t feel, animals will have to feel that people don’t think | Gabriele Corno 

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Better Shelter on BBC World Service: People Fixing the World | BetterShelter

Getting refugees out of tents: can we provide better shelters than tents for displaced people? On a day of record-setting heat in Sweden, Better Shelter was visited by the production team at the BBC World Service – People Fixing the … Continue reading

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How To Make Shelter Relax In The summer Ep1

How To Make Shelter Relax In The summer Ep1

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Industrial Fire Hoses and Bricks Are Upcycled into a Minimal Outdoor Furniture Set | Colossal

AUGUST 25, 2022. GRACE EBERT All images © Local Works Studio Loretta Bosence and Ben Bosence are behind the East Sussex-based Local Works Studio, which recently completed a furniture collection focused on revitalizing what’s been discarded or cast aside. Designed for … Continue reading

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Cannon-Thurston maps: naturally occurring space-filling curves

Saul Schleimer and I attempt to explain what a Cannon-Thurston map is. Thanks to my brother Will Segerman for making the carvings, and to Daniel Piker for making the figure-eight knot animations. I made the animation of the (super crinkly) … Continue reading

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Meet The World’s Most Curious Human

Ex-Microsoft CTO Nathan Myhrvold is a chef, astrophysicist, paleontologist and inventor who is trying to out-engineer the climate crisis. In this episode of Hello World, we visit his lab to see how. […]

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How can history help the never-ending human dance with water? | Aeon Essays

Preparing the fields near Gotemba, Japan, in 2000. Photo by Chris Steele-Perkins/Magnum As storms, droughts and floods become more intense, what can the world learn from Japan’s profoundly wet history? In early June 2018, I landed at Kansai airport in … Continue reading

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Simone Giertz (@simonegiertz) • Instagram reel

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Why Singapore Is Insanely Well Designed

Why Singapore Is Insanely Well Designed #singapore #infrastructure #urbanplanning

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How an Ancient Egyptian lock worked | World Of History

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