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Engineers progress in their work by testing things so that they fail.
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Ultimately architecture is unique. Each building sits in a site in a certain moment in a very different way.
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“Green” architecture is a kind of “soup du jour” at many firms, but the push to create sustainable buildings is an important movement.
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Composite materials have had a vast impact on the way that we think about structural skins.
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The social nature of technology instigates a relationship between images and words, and allows many more people to be involved in the drawing platform.
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Design education can either embrace the world in all its complexity or concentrate on singular elements in depth.
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A conversation with the M.I.T. Architecture professor and Office dA principal.
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In his work with the government, the professor helps to suss out the underlying motives of our allies and enemies.
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As in real estate, the name of the game in our choice of spouse is “location, location, location.”
2010 marks the 40th anniversary of the Boston Women’s Health Collective, also known as “Our Bodies, Ourselves.” Executive Director Judy Norsigian sat down with Big Think to talk about the […]
On the heels of the untimely passing of heavy metal legend Ronnie James Dio, it’s worth analyzing the social and political force of Dio and his hard-rocking brethren. Dio’s work […]
Despite colloquial wisdom that social networking sites deprive teenagers of contact with the real world, new research shows that users are quite well adjusted.
Moral dogmatism is the true enemy of free thought, says Jonah Goldberg, not ideology; attention to the facts must supersede commitment to a scripted morality.
"The Arab world today is ruled by contradiction," writes David Ottaway; extreme wealth surrounded by crushing poverty will determine the culture's future.
Great sex, a commitment to children and lots of together time are three rules of a good marriage that are made to be broken say two marriage experts at Psychology Today.
The blank slate of pop music welcomes entertainers flashy, materialistic and audacious enough to sing endlessly without really singing about anything; pop music, thy name is Ga Ga.
Researchers are using social networking sites to map the spread of flu symptoms between friends, a technique which may one day aid greatly in stemming a public epidemic.
The divide in American ideology between rugged individualism and collective responsibility can be bridged by devolving powers to local communities, says Matthew Dowd for The CSM.
"Reminiscence—not forgetting—faces extinction in a digital age that prioritizes the present over even the recent past," writes Evgeny Morozov for the Boston Review.
From Paper Monument, British culture is observed by an American writer as a reflection of his own; in both cases he sees a cultural facade papering over Empires fallen and falling.