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President Barack Obama defends his plans for health reform in a news conference broadcast live in the US.

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

US President Barack Obama will take questions on his plans for healthcare reform at a televised news conference on Wednesday.

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 under Health and Medicine. Comments: None

Model of the London 2012 olympics site. Photo: Flickr, CC
What You Can Measure You Can Improve
Cities lucky enough to host the Olympics have a rare opportunity to improve their infrastructure in a major way. London will host the games in 2012, and it’s doing a lot of things right, but it seems like it could […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Keep Pedalling
Well, now I’ve seen everything. “The worlds of hip hop and cycling finally collide in Keep Pedalling, the new film clip from Hugo and Treats.” The video (you can see it below) was shot over a single day in Brunswick, North Melbourne, in Australia. All the other cyclists you see are there for the […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

Computers are enabling architects to do things that used to be virtually impossible, or possible for only the most original and creative architects. (see Robot Bricklayer Builds Swiss Winery) Karrie Jacobs writes in Metropolis that computer software is changing architecture so that anyone can do it:
All the swoopy, curvilinear, geometrically perverse gestures that we associate […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Photo: Ariane Colenbrander
Motorists Predicted the Apocalypse…
A week ago, the city of Vancouver converted 1 of the 5 lanes of Burrard Bridge into a bike lane for a 3-month trial. This was a controversial move, many motorists predicted the apocalypse and the media, smelling blood, were on the scene to interview angry drivers. But as Gordon […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 under Cars and Transportation. Comments: None

images via wienerberger brick awards
Can a robot do what a human bricklayer cannot? Fabio Gramazio and Matthias Kohler of ETH Zurich have been playing with robot bricklayers for a while, (seen last in Computer Lays the Prettiest Brick Walls Since Eladio Dieste) and now have worked with Bearth & Deplazes Architekten to build Daniel Gantenbein […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

Images via Speigel Online
Architecture is not a profession for those with short attention spans, but German architect Ferdinand Ludwig is creating a whole new branch of architecture: he grows buildings.
Philip Bethge writes in Speigel Online :
Ludwig and fellow architects, Oliver Storz and Hannes Schwertfeger, call their new specialty “building botany.” As part of this the […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None

All too often, houses that are really green are not architectural gems, and vice versa. Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin visits Michael Yannell’s Net Zero house, designed by Jonathan Boyer of Farr Associates. He approves, noting:
The Yannell House, which has four bedrooms, two bathrooms and three occupants (the owner and his two cats), is […]

Posted on July 22nd, 2009 under Design and Architecture. Comments: None