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sastyk | April 17, 2011Lucy Worsley has a Guardian piece about the merits of medieval architecture as a model for a lower-resource use future:
Domestic life in the past was smelly, cold, dirty and uncomfortable, but we have much to learn from it. I spend much of my time working as a curator in Britain's historic royal palaces. But recently, for a television series, I've visited a lot of normal homes dating from the Norman period to the present day, and I've concluded that the houses of the past have a huge amount to teach us about the future. When the oil runs out, I think our houses will become much more like…
rallain | March 24, 2009There are some really cool questions out there. Questions that do not require a lot to ask and do not require a lot to answer. Here is one such question (I can't remember where I first found this question or something like it):
Suppose you put take two identical cans of soda out of the fridge and place them on the floor in the middle of a room. One can you leave alone and one can you cover with a wool blanket. After an hour, you come back and check on the two cans of soda. Which will be warmer?
First, why do I like this question? Mainly because everyone can give an answer. If asked…