🤯 World’s largest 3D printer can build a small house in 80 hours

"A single-story bungalow could take a few months to build, but this printer can complete the project in less than four days.

"The university, with a longstanding relationship with the US government, wanted to demonstrate that a 3D printer could print a home with a lower carbon footprint – as the construction industry produces about 37% of greenhouse gas emissions"

#Housing #Engineering #ClimateCrisis

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/largest-3d-printer-maine

World’s largest 3D printer can build a small house in 80 hours - Interesting Engineering

Meet the FoF 1.0 3D printer—the largest and most powerful 3D printer the world has ever seen created by the University of Maine.

^{Maria Mocerino (Interesting Engineering)}

Is it “cruel and unusual” to arrest people who are forced to sleep outside?

#SCOTUS will rule today on a decade of precedent
cc #housing, #housingcrisis

https://www.vox.com/scotus/2024/1/12/24036307/supreme-court-scotus-tent-encampments-homeless

The Supreme Court will hear a case that shapes how cities respond to homeless tent encampments

An Oregon case will clarify whether officials can jail or fine homeless people for sleeping outside.

^{Rachel M. Cohen (Vox)}

#US #Dictionary #AmericanEnglish #News #Housing #Communities

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#US #Dictionary

...and what I cannot stand is that British native speakers are completely oblivious of the #SubjunctiveMode.

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#US #Dictionary

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In saying that, you are aware that #AmericanEnglish is, in many aspects, more original than British English b/c Noah Webster was so far ahead in his time in preparing his famous dictionary.
Also, have you had the change to place a full printed edition of Webster's next to the Oxford's Dictionary?
Even discounting the many neologisms, Webster has more than 1 million words, many more than Oxford's Dictionary or the German Duden.

#News #Housing #Communities

Higher density living is changing the way neighborhoods work in Canada

To contribute to this challenge, our research examines what we do and do not know about neighbors in densifying Canadian cities.

(Note: I sent the editor an email suggesting they invest in a copy of the Oxford English dictionary because "We do not use the US bastardized version of the English language")

#News #Housing #Communities
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-higher-density-neighborhoods-canada.html

Higher density living is changing the way neighborhoods work in Canada

There is growing concern about people's unwillingness to get to know their neighbors. This concern is significant enough to have spurred research into what has been termed the "emerging asocial society"—one of the challenge areas of an initiative cal…

^{Meg Holden (Phys.org)}