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  • Who do we spend time with across our lifetime?

    In adolescence we spend the most time with our parents, siblings, and friends; as we enter adulthood we spend more time with our co-workers, partners, and children; and in our later years we spend an increasing amount of time alone.

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  • The Construction Material Pyramid

    Based on Denmark’s food pyramid’s graphical language, the Centre for Industrialised Architecture (CINARK) at the Royal Danish Academy have developed a digital version of the Construction Material Pyramid.

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  • How orange juice took over the breakfast table

    Orange juice used to be a treat you had to squeeze out yourself. More than a century ago, an overproduction of oranges helped create the morning staple we know and love.

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  • The Lost Art of the Miniature Golf Course

    They go large in the States – even when it comes to the small stuff. And perhaps nowhere is that more true than with a particularly kitsch specimen of American vernacular architecture, the miniature golf course.

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  • Sacred Trees in Japan

    Trees provide many benefits, from clean air to carbon absorption. Some benefits are less measurable, however. In Japan, ancient trees and forests have long been valued for their cultural and spiritual significance.

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  • Why pessimism sounds smart

    Pessimism sounds smart because optimism often requires believing in unknown, unspecified future breakthroughs—which seems fanciful and naive.

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  • The Selective Laziness of Reasoning

    Discusses the research into reasoning which suggests that people use more stringent criteria when they evaluate others’ arguments than when they produce arguments themselves.

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  • CEO personality traits and structure of compensation

    An examination into the effects of a CEO’s big five personalities (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) on their annual compensation.

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  • Stanford study finds walking improves creativity

    Stanford researchers found that walking boosts creative inspiration. They examined creativity levels of people while they walked versus while they sat. A person’s creative output increased by an average of 60 percent when walking.

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  • Less but Better: Dieter Rams’ 10 Principles

    Dieter Rams is a man who not only reveres the simple things in life but has also sought to distill simplicity into everyday objects. While Rams will certainly be remembered for the hundreds of iconic and innovative products he designed while working for Braun and Vitsoe, his impact as a modern visionary ripples much further than the discipline through which he made his living.

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