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Stop the all-concrete approach
Concrete dominates today’s buildings. And yet it has major shortcomings. It consumes a lot of water and energy, produces a lot of CO2 and lasts only 80 years at best for reinforced concrete. What’s more, it doesn’t provide sufficient protection from the heat, leading to increased use of air conditioning, which in turn exacerbates global…
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Facing the real me: looking in the mirror with natural hair
Why don’t the characters have natural hair in period films? Costumes, sets and hairstyles are very carefully thought out, and the actors have chemically dyed hair…