‘Love handles’ raise death risk
Carrying extra fat around your middle increases your risk of early death, even if your overall weight is normal, say researchers.
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Archive for November 12th, 2008
Breast drug failure cause found
Scientists have identified a key reason for the drug tamoxifen failing to help some women with breast cancer.
Sex-matched transplants ‘better’
The chance of long-term survival after a heart transplant rises if the person getting the new heart is the same sex as the donor, say researchers.
Solar Power, Sea-Water Heating and a New ‘Bridge’ for Copenhagen
Steven Holl Architects have made our pages before – from a huge ‘eco-complex’ in China, to the shiny Whitney Water Purification facility. Now we hear via Inhabitat and The Guardian that the ground-breaking architect has won a competition to design a new gateway for Copenhagen. The result? Towering sky scrapers with some pretty impressive eco-features. […]
Arizona Elementary Kids Find Online School Newspaper an Eco-Smash
When students and staff at the Frontier Elementary School in Peoria, Arizona realized just 100 kids didn’t have regular access to email in one form or another they took a shot at taking their journalistic masterpiece online, and they’re beaming because of it….
The Chair That Has Seated Millions
We often talk about the importance of good design in building a sustainable society, and have fewer better examples than the Thonet Chair. It is just six pieces of wood-two circles, two sticks and a couple of arches - held together by 10 screws and two nuts. It has been kicking around for a while- […]
Modern Prefab + Credit Crunch = Teardown
The architects of the prefabs at the MoMA show Home Delivery were allowed to sell their houses at the end of the show. Most were more works of art rather than livable houses, so it shouldn’t really be a surprise that there were not many takers. Only the micro-compact home found a buyer, and it […]
What to Do With Styrofoam: Make Robots!
Photo via Dinosaurs and Robots
Ever open up the box for your new monitor or DVD player, look at the Styrofoam packaging and wonder what on earth you’re going to do with it? Well, Kevin Kelly sure did, and he came up with a great idea for a way to repurpose all that frightening foam. The […]
Transformer Furniture: Quickie by Jared Dickey
Transformer furniture lets people get more out of small spaces, and you are going to be a neat minimalist if you have to clean off your desk before you go to bed every night.
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Vauxhall Sky Garden by Amin Taha Architects
Amin Taha Architects are building gardens in the sky in their new Vauxhall tower, with 25,000 square feet of communal gardens, each three stories in height.
the idea behind the gardens is to create a space for social interaction foster micro communities. while the building is as dense as planning authorities allow, it maintains a […]
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