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Einstürzende alte Gebäude 

If you're of a certain age (oh, mid-sixties for example) and were into "the new wave" of music that came out in the eighties, you might recall a German art band called Einstürzende Neubauten: translation, Collapsing New Buildings. Noisy, obtuse, artsy, they personified some of what it felt to be like during the 1980's. …

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I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid you can’t fly that

Pity the poor airlines.  During Covid, nobody wanted to fly.  Now everyone wants to fly . . everywhere . . .all at once.  And, in some cases, it almost feels like the airlines have forgotten how to run their business. But, as always - Covid or not - things go wrong and your flight is cancelled. …

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Tokyo space capsule

Time is tight, as well as short.   Money can be, too. Luckily, there are big thinkers who think small in big ways, if you know what we mean.  We're thankful for them. One example is the capsule hotels that are dotted around - mostly in Japan, but in other countries as well.   They're exactly what they say…

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Roadkill

It is almost certain that you recently interacted closely with an invisible giant, as the Harvard landscape ecologist Richard T T Forman has described it. Others have called roads ‘the single most destructive element in the process of habitat fragmentation’, declaring that ‘Few forces have been more influential in modifying the Earth than transportation.’  But, the engineering…

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