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    This Chair is Totally Biodegradable and Made of Mushrooms

    They say good furniture should last you a lifetime, but in our environmentally friendly day and age, furniture has a lifetime — or rather life cycle — of its own. At this year’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair, architecture and design ...
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    Medical School Bets the Future of Medicine is Food

    Tulane University’s School of Medicine created the Goldring Center for Culinary Medicineto integrate culinary arts into the medical curriculum. While diet has always been important to overall general health, this is the US’s first teaching kitchen affiliated with a medical ...
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    Easing the Pain: Meet the Wearables Tackling Pain Relief

    Back constantly playing up? Prone to frequent headaches or stiff joints? If you’re nodding in agreement, then you’re far from alone. Just over one third of the UK population live with chronic pain and it’s a similarly big issue Stateside ...
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    CSI-IDEA Building

    Sustainable design strategies in this building are: passive design to reduce the energy demand, use of vegetation as a constructive element, extra isolation of the envelope, the use of the thermal inertia of enclosure and floors, the use of efficient ...
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    Bacteria-Powered Lighting

    This French startup is using bioluminescent bacteria to produce a sustainable light source. Glowee cultures the sea-derived bacteria in functional forms, making glowing signs and other objects. Based in Paris, the clean tech company is providing an environmentally friendly alternative ...
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    Forget the Foosball Table. This Startup Office was Built for Meditation

    Many companies are starting to build a meditation practice into their culture—from starting out the day with a group meditation session to encouraging individual practices. Yet few companies have actually designed their workspaces around it. EnterHeadspace, the makers of the ...
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    Stéphane Malka Develops Floating Wall System to Delineate Paris Office Space

    In paris’ 13th arrondissement, architect stéphane malka has employed a flexible partition system to delineate a new office in the french capital. agoratic, a company who specializes in computer education, commissioned malka and his team to design a workplace that ...
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    Levitat Tree Tent

    What can be better than sleeping several feet off the ground and out of harm’s way in a sturdy floating tent in the wilderness? Yeah…we couldn’t come up with anything either. Introducing the Levitat, a new way to camp and ...
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    Scientists have Created Polymer ‘Skin’ and Everyone Wants to Use it to Hide their Wrinkles

    For the first time, researchers have created a type of stretchy, polymer film that they’re claiming acts like a ‘second skin’ barrier layer. That’s a big deal, because it means it could one day be used to protect us from ...