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...On the whole, both books boil down to the same idea: that the super-rich are a waste of space, and that our societies would be much better off if no one could get more than moderately wealthy....
...De Kestelier is planning to manufacture soft furniture there, using waste plastic to grow mycelium as the raw material....
...The US has an installation on the longevity of plastics; outside, there are garish sculptures created from barrels and buckets, creating a rather beautiful landscape of waste....
...CopenHill is a genius idea — take the industrial ugliness of a waste-to-energy plant and turn its long sloping roof into an artificial ski slope....
...Thomas also sees a role for Reaction Engines’ technology in the recovery of waste heat, “taking waste from a factory or an industrial process, running it through the heat exchanger and extracting more energy...
...The FAA is treating them as a special class of “powered lift” aircraft, requiring specific pilot training....
...A shelf of 40cm is a waste of 10cm.” Double hanging rails are “the least sexy option but the most effective in terms of space and finances”....
...He established a clear-cut division of labour to “make such machines of the men as cannot err” and, to eliminate waste, initiated the earliest system of cost accountancy in British corporate history....
...It also controls imports, especially in Gaza, whose healthcare system has withered under an 11-year land, sea and air blockade....
...“This system is not really good for anyone,” says one pharmaceutical company employee in Massachusetts....
...It has been calculated that Thailand’s annual corn waste is the volume of 35 Mahanakhon Towers, a 77-storey skyscraper in Bangkok....
...In Dundee, the most pro-independence city in Scotland, a new £80m V&A Museum opened in 2018, part of a dockside redevelopment....
...(WSJ) What else we’re reading Just one in 10 fund managers expect V-shaped recovery V, U, W, L — just a handful of the letter-shaped recoveries that investors have put forward as possible paths for the...
...group, Levete and AL_A – the practice she established in 2009 alongside co-directors Ho-Yin Ng, Alice Dietsch and Maximiliano Arrocet – are most known for their work on the contemporary wing of London’s V&...
...In the opening section, which considers food waste — before and after it has been processed by our digestive systems — radical designers crowd a room with ideas for upcycling byproducts that are usually...
...They argue that their IT departments should be focused primarily on ensuring that their trading systems are able to operate smoothly....
...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...The V&A acquired fragments of the building, including the exterior façade and interiors of two flats....
...Cisco Systems’ chief executive ruled out taking control of Nokia and Ericsson, a blow to the Trump administration’s hopes of countering Huawei....
...(FT) Lax oversight led to Boeing’s woes In the days following Boeing’s first 737 Max crash, FAA engineers realised they didn’t understand the system that had sent the plane into a deadly nose-dive: regulators...
...as pilots are trained in how to override the automated system properly....
...The company is expected to outline changes to software that controls a system designed to automatically prevent a mid-flight stall....
...(FT) Boomers v millennials investing challenge The millennials have come of age, but their impact on stock market returns is only beginning....
...This is a gift from someone, maybe savers and DB pension systems....
...(The growing system uses LEDs, which were only invented in the 1960s.) And thanks to a new waste-management system, they should not have to worry about loose stools in zero gravity....
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