A meaningful change to commercial building code has been confirmed in France: rooftops on new buildings must either be partially covered in plants or solar panels, under a law approved on Thursday. Green roofs have an isolating effect, helping reduce the amount of energy
The American Institution of Architects (AIA) is set to discuss the current understanding, and findings, regarding the 9/11 world trade center collapses (specifically WTC 7). A vote about the validity of the NIST report will be held during their 2015 AIA Conference, this May,
Since the “financial repression,” the most powerful people have only gotten more powerful. A 2013 Oxfam report found that 80 people had as much wealth as 1/2 of humanity, and a few months later Forbes said the number had dropped to 67. Many of
Marcus Tullius Cicero is famous for saying essentially: “More laws equals less justice.” The fact is that irrational legislators are a sign of a failing society, be these unsound laws on Saudi or American soil. The upside to irrational laws is that they can
The toll from the four-year civil war in Syria is clearly visible even from space, with satellite images revealing that 83 percent of the lights have gone out in the country since 2011. The satellite data – which compares Syria’s night landscape in 2011
According to Slate’s William Saletan, Iran’s “Council of Guardians” wrote the follow letter to US congress following a message sent by 47 US congressmen to Iran. March 11, 2015 Dear senators: Thank you for your letter of March 9 explaining your system of government.
This isn’t a set-up, the answers are not scripted. A non-partisan student organization went around Texas Tech asking completely basic political questions to students. The questions were “who won the civil war,” “who is the vice president,” and “who did we win our independence from?”
Satellite image showing the extent of damage in Doron Baga taken on 7 Jan 2015, following an attack by Boko Haram. (DigitalGlobe) The scale of last week’s attack on the Nigerian towns of Baga and Doron Baga by Boko Haram militants has been shown
Growing up, I never heard of the economic hitmen. The economic hitmen are the players in this complex game which went on, just beyond my awareness as a kid, in countries across the world. As a kid, it seemed like pure paranoia that leaders like Sadam
German journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer just came back from Mossul after spending 7 months embedded with the IS. Far from being captured, he actually managed to negociate a place among their ranks as a journalist. What he has to say is, unsurprisingly, similar but different
