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University of Maine built a massive additive manufacturing device that can build houses, and a whole lot more. In a warehouse at the University of Maine, there’s a gigantic new additive manufacturing machine named Factory of the Future 1.0. And if its developers are right, it could become the new way that many things get built.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareBrunt is on a mission to design a better work boot for America’s 23.5 million tradespeople. When we think of the shoe-obsessed consumer, our minds tend to go to women like Sex and the City‘s Carrie Bradshaw, who opted for Manolo Blahniks over a mortgage. But there’s a large segment of men who also obsess over shoes: specifically, the 23.5 million tradespeople—80% of whom are male—who work in construction, manufacturing, and warehousing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareIn ‘Designed For Life’ designers describe their creative process and what makes a great product. A light fixture made of seaweed. A dreamy, psychedelic laundry machine. A hairy bench fashioned out of agave leaves. All of these objects appear in the new book Designed for Life: The World’s Best Product Designers, published by Phaidon Press.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareOne of the nation’s fastest-growing cities relies on a vulnerable population of workers to fuel its economic explosion. The first time Rosa saw snowflakes falling, she thought they were pieces of cotton. “I thought I was going to choke,” she told me.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareRecent findings suggest, more than ever, that nonhuman animals are capable of suffering. Scientists are begging us to listen. Can animals suffer? It’s a question that has been floated around classrooms and dinner tables for centuries, at least since philosopher Jeremy Bentham posed it over 200 years ago.
More | Talk | Read It Later | ShareStress hormones spike in the weeks before a performance evaluation. This chief people officer says this doesn’t have to be the case. These days, performance reviews are getting a bad rap. They’re described as “awful,” “harmful,” and getting “more stressful.” This is understandable. No one wants to feel that their entire body of achievement at work across a year can be summarized in a few paragraphs, or with a handful of adjectives that might not do justice to all the effort they put in.
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