Carpe Diem: In another sign of housing market recovery, framing lumber prices have been rising lately and reached $347 per 1,000 board feet last week, which was the highest level since early May 2010 (see blue line in chart). And except for a sharp, temporary spike in lumber prices for about four weeks in April-May […]
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StudiosWine.com: The ‘Sea Chair’ is made entirely from plastic recovered from our oceans. Together, Studio Swine and Kieren Jones have created devices to collect and process marine debris into a series of stools. The United Nation estimates the world’s oceans to contain some 100 million tons of plastic. As our society’s consumption grows, the concentration
In 1948 Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA overheard the president of the local food chain, Food Fair, asking one of the deans to research a system to automatically read product information during checkout. Silver told his friend Norman Joseph Woodland about the request, and they started
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YourLocalGuardian.co.uk: A sixth-form student from Sutton Grammar School has been chosen to represent the UK in a European-wide young scientist competition. Andrew Cowan, 17, from South Park Road in Wimbledon, created a remote controlled search and recovery robot as part of his A-level coursework. The robot so impressed the competition judges, that he was chosen
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Want to buy a ghost town with a bar and liquor license? Expand it into a unique getaway! Perhaps the most remote “restaurant” in Northern California. 12 acres. The property includes the “town” and the bar and 3 small rundown cabins and the acreage. Here’s the location in longitude and latitude: 40.112083,-121.0848. You should be
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Any entrepreneur is faced with tough decisions on a daily basis – often these decisions go beyond affecting just business, and can have wider effects on the environment. Consequently government agencies and environmental campaigners have long encouraged companies to go green by looking at their sustainability roadmap and cutting carbon emissions among other things. Perhaps
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