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@wrathofgnon: They don't want the family. The family does things for each other in the name of love. They make babies, they care for and nurse and teach and clothe and finally bury each other. There is no money in this. Therefore, the Machine wants the family destroyed by negation.
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Social housing done right. We can do this again, anytime. If we want. Fuggerei, Augsburg, Germany.
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How to extract atmospheric nitrogen and store it in soil. About 45kg/acre. Repeat at necessary.
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In Japan (like elsewhere), wells are considered holy. Traditionally, once dug they can not be filled in as it would trap the spirit (or god) of the well. Only the most foolhardy building crew would undertake such a task without proper precautions, from a prayer to a ceremony.
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A Swedish building preservation association has created a recipe book for building beautiful new cities. Can some clever Swede please send me a PDF? It looks fantastic.
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Pesticide use on strawberries reduce both flavor and nutrition. It seems like everywhere we decide to look we find more hidden negatives. https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2023/february/are-your-strawberries-bland-pesticides-could-be-to-blame.html
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On October 14th 1996 a man driving in the Chichibu mountains just north of Tokyo took some photos of what might have been the last Japanese wolf (Canis lipus hodophilax) still in summer coat. Or is it a wild dog? It would be nice to DNA test all water sources in those mountains.
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Fun blog post of a Norwegian project to build a small limekiln and burn 2.5 tons of limestone to make lime mortar. Most people could do this locally if necessary, maybe on a smaller scale, using charcoal which is an eminently DIY kind of project. https://per-storemyr.net/2017/07/13/experimental-archaeology-building-a-classic-intermittent-limekiln-and-burning-marble-at-millstone-park-hyllestad-western-norway/
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You can do high density in small areas if you do it well. Heidelberg Altstadt is a Baroque city mostly built in the 1700s, half a mile across. Houses of 800-1200ft², front to street and back to courtyard, 2-4 floors. You could easily house 68,000/km², 2.5 times modern Manhattan.
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"He built WHAT, in Guatemala?! Surely this is a gated community? Surely no one can just walk into this town? Right? RIGHT?!"
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The proof, as they say, is in the pudding. The ideology behind one of these towns controls academia, industry, and politics. The ideology behind the other one will brand you for life as a dangerous heretic.
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A 1852 model of Vienna. I can't find the exact figures but it looks like 2.88km² with a population of 54,000 in about 1000 buildings. A population density just under that of modern Monaco or more than three times of modern London. No cars of course.
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A 300 year old coppiced sawtooth oak in Japan. The coppiced material has many uses but mostly it makes a superb kind of charcoal called "chrysanthemum charcoal." Sustainable forestry.
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First proper snowfall in Tokyo of the year. Still almost nothing though. I had to look around to find this much.
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“Hey Wrath you've been on a roll lately about the benefits of wood and wooden architecture for mental and physical health...and I....well...”
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“There's just this thing, our new church you see...”
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Your first week at a new office, President announces a team building exercise: entire marketing dept. gets on a bus and taken to a rural location where you are met by grizzled old timer and a pile of tools. Your mission: build one of these from a pile of material. Would you balk?
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@wrathofgnon: A Swedish Kökssoffa. Kitchen sofa. A dual use piece: bench in the daytime and a bed at night, often used by kitchen staff or unmarried maids. It must have been an enviable place to sleep, in the warm kitchen. It usually had storage space for personal belongings, bed clothes.
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Up until maybe the 1850s most American homes had a settle, basically an evolved medieval bench with a high back and arm rests. Usually placed facing the fireplace. The high back was to protect against the cold air and draughts from behind. Nice settles were even hooded (3rd img).
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Life with less plastics: traditional Japanese wooden wrapping paper, kyōgi (経木) is making a comeback, replacing styrofoam, plastic containers in upscale supermarkets. Made of 0.05-1.0mm slices of pine or cedar wood. Antibacterial, breathable (doesn't condense or trap moisture).
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In Japan crows are attacking trains by placing rocks from the ballast on the rail. As a response railway companies hire falconers and their hawks to patrol railway lines and attack the crows, in addition to putting gardening nets over the ballast (not ideal).
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Move over Okinawa: Shiga Prefecture takes the lead as offering the longest life expectancy. Males at 82.73 and women at 88.26. The secret seems to be a highly active population with low unemployment, high productivity. It is also the 2nd youngest prefecture counting under 15s.
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The sixth annual Wagyu Koshien (Japanese Beef National Championship) is underway. The top 40 out of 300 agricultural High Schools across the country compete to raise the finest possible beef. Participating student teams are mostly 17-18 years old. May the best beef win!
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Back in the 20th c. in Europe (at least south of the Alps), I remember a "coffee on the go" meant you stopped at one of several standing bars and got an espresso in a porcelain cup. Not much garbage produced. Is that still a thing? Or did consumerism and mass-tourism kill it?
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In the long run, a nation's wealth resides in its water and its soil. Everything else is secondary.
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This Dutch website about rewilding has some phenomenal free artwork about wild ecosystems in several languages. Perfect for classroom walls, home schoolers etc. I want a poster book! https://www.webwinkel.ark.eu/producten/35
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Don't trust the manufacturers' claims about nutrients. The label might list lots of it but not the fact that your body can't absorb it. “Low nutritional quality in vegetarian meat.” https://www.chalmers.se/en/departments/bio/news/Pages/Low-nutritional-quality-in-vegetarian-meat-.aspx
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“Not only is the topsoil crucial for U.S. agriculture—the annual cost of diminished agricultural productivity and environmental degradation due to erosion is estimated to be tens of billion dollars per year.”
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/soil-midwestern-us-eroding-10-1000-times-faster-it-forms-study-finds
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Firefighting bicycles for human scaled cities. Even though less than 3.7% of firefighter calls actually involved fires (in the U.S. during 2021) you can still fight them on two wheels. From lowtech to Japanese futuristic.
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Becky Bee's "The Cob Builder's Handbook" from 1997 is a classic on self-building with cob/earth/soil, the intuitive way. These days we mostly prefer slipform style rammed earth over cob but if you want something even more natural you go with cob. https://t.co/kuZWtVM3RV
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: Cob building is best if you have many friends or enthusiastic helpers with mixing the materials (which is heavy work). For larger projects you'll save tons of time and money if you get some cattle to help out. Do the training yourself and sell at a tenfold profit when trained.
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Becky Bee's "The Cob Builder's Handbook" from 1997 is a classic on self-building with cob/earth/soil, the intuitive way. These days we mostly prefer slipform style rammed earth over cob but if you want something even more natural you go with cob.
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The—“It never used to flood like this in our town, never! It must be climate change! Guess it can't be helped until we all drive EVs to work”—explanation gif.
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@wrathofgnon: With ginger and carrot. Taste is great, a little chewier than what you'd get in a restaurant. But at this price (next to nothing).
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@oteycoueye You can't operate a copper furnace complex on that scale on widely dispersed trees like the acacia forests we see in say the African savannah.
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@nicolew100 And even that one was a downgrade from their earlier version.
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This is your culture on rootless Globalism: spinning faster and faster around an empty void until it all disintegrates into nothingness.
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@EduardHabsburg When they tell you who they really are by their sniveling takes, just believe them.
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The lying media never does this kind of weasel headline with modernist developments: they're too scared of losing advertising revenue. Poundbury is independent from the start and sold out, no need to feed Fleet Street hacks.
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Diversity in tree species makes forests more drought resistant. Yet we keep going for the monoculture tree farms everywhere. And then we blame climate change for our own greed and stupidity. https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/research_news/earth/202209/t20220920_320569.shtml
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@wrathofgnon: Timna valley today versus what it might have looked like 3000 years ago. A monument to mankind.
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'Tis the season! Three kilos picked so far, should last me till Christmas. #GingkoNuts https://t.co/2IEAejMuqC
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: Gingko nuts, the only fruit eaten by both humans and dinosaurs.
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'Tis the season! Three kilos picked so far, should last me till Christmas. #GingkoNuts
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Demographic change is bad for your mental wellbeing: UK farmer edition. https://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_930804_en.html
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In Japan a five story purely wooden commercial building (no seismic dampeners or anything fancy) just underwent a full scale seismic test of six consecutive shocks each one equivalent to the main 1994 Northridge LA quake: resulting in almost no damage at all.
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My favorite "vernacular" mosques might be the Belarusian/Polish/Lithuanian Lipka Tatar mosques. A beautiful ad-mixture of local building culture. Here the mosques in Bhohniki (timber, 1873, roof 2003), Kruszynianach (timber, 18th c.), Nemėžis (timber, 1909), Iwye (timber, 1884).
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@sparky_jim @healthcoachkait Hate to break it to you, don't use peanut oil.
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@sparky_jim @healthcoachkait Rice oil is getting more popular in Japan recently. I have it but didn't use it yet (usually an olive oil person).
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Biogas plant in Hokkaido, jointly run by a brewery and a restaurant chain. In its 20 years of operation it has resulted in 4.5 million JPY annual savings (electricity and fertilizer for sale and 90% reduction in garbage handling/fees). Any farm/village in Europe can set this up.
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A pine bonsai plantation in Takamatsu. Grown from seed in a field these bonsai tend to have thicker trunks and softer bark, compared to wild harvested mountain pines which are gnarlier and thinner. Both variants have their special schools of care and pruning.
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37,800/km² is five times that of modern Paris and if it was an arrondissement it would rank 2nd in terms of density (after the 11th Arr.). Impossible if the city is too large, but at 0.8km² it was perfectly possible and indeed fairly average for an ancient semi-arid city. https://t.co/JzdpSCzrY4
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: It is probably more likely that a city like Palmyra had two story buildings more similar to ancient Pompeii, but with flat roofs more like ancient Egypt. Obviously there was little space for gardens or pools though.
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30,000 at 0.8km² is an impressive population density at almost no floors above the ground floor. We imagine narrow streets to keep the sun out, covered alleys and only monumental streets open to the elements. Not quite as these reconstructions but close enough. https://t.co/PG1DyPZ8aF
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: 37,800/km² is five times that of modern Paris and if it was an arrondissement it would rank 2nd in terms of density (after the 11th Arr.). Impossible if the city is too large, but at 0.8km² it was perfectly possible and indeed fairly average for an ancient semi-arid city.
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@wrathofgnon: 30,000 at 0.8km² is an impressive population density at almost no floors above the ground floor. We imagine narrow streets to keep the sun out, covered alleys and only monumental streets open to the elements. Not quite as these reconstructions but close enough.
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This book looks interesting. I hope there will be an English translation? Reviewer summarizes Léon Krier's chapter: 'he unmasks the "modernist conspiracy" (!) and the "planetary cultural coup d'état" against beauty in art, particularly in architecture.' https://katholisches.info/2022/09/20/europa-aeterna-unsere-wurzeln-unsere-zukunft/
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A colossus of a building in Pittsburgh. Once a brewery, today it is an artist's collective/community center (Brew House Association (BHA)). Good architecture can be adapted for many different uses. Photo by Dakota (@dsmith238). https://t.co/K1O8H3BjFB
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: Built in 1899.
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A colossus of a building in Pittsburgh. Once a brewery, today it is an artist's collective/community center (Brew House Association (BHA)). Good architecture can be adapted for many different uses. Photo by Dakota (@dsmith238).
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@wrathofgnon Make your own out of abundant local materials!
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Henri Fabre (1882-1984), first seaplane flight, 1910. Built in wood (ash).
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Rather than flying cars, flying boats. Too bad they are so expensive to build and operate. ShinMaywa US-2. https://t.co/XLpPvgUEDw
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: One reason for their cost is that salt water is bad for airplanes, making maintenance extremely expensive and the second hand market almost non-existent.
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Rather than flying cars, flying boats. Too bad they are so expensive to build and operate. ShinMaywa US-2.
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Colorado is a center for research on the use of biosolids (dried sewage waste) on pasture grasslands. Interestingly the trace amounts of copper and zinc found in it comes from municipal copper water pipes and solder. And it is good. https://www.agronomy.org/news/science-news/benefits-biosolids-spread-across-decades-research/
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@GodotAwaits @danbelknap They are "buried" two meters deep. Something like this. https://www.shimz.co.jp/shazi/topics/t170621.html
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One of the torii gates at Tokyo's Meiji Shrine has been rebuilt for the first time since 1920. The old gate was Taiwanese cypress but the new is Nara (Japanese) cedar. Two meter deep, the next rebuild will be in 200-300 years from now.
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@wrathofgnon: Not sure of this is the actual bridge in the video (there were 18 replaced at the same time) but this is the general design. Not in any way meant to survive a flood.
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The easiest way to predict cognitive decline is to look at the length of the stride of a person. Elderly who walk slowly and with short strides are on average three times as likely to suffer from dementia in the future. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22389458/
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The original smart city. Last mile transport in Utrecht, ca. 1730. A manual rotating crane was used to bring goods from the 12th century canal to the streets and warehouses of the city.
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@wrathofgnon: 75 cubic kilometers of freshwater over a 30 year period. If the "Bengal Water Machine" was an above ground dam it would be one of the largest in the world. Quite an accomplishment for a country that is completely flat.
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@wrathofgnon: This is another reason having small towns (0.3km²/3000ppl) surrounded by small farms is ideal: the town and the farms can feed each other with food, energy (gas, charcoal, muscle power), in something close to a closed cycle loop. Keeping livestock helps though.
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Japanese trial project to build small-scale biogas production facilities in Madagascar. Obviously high tech solutions or imports are out of the question but the locally made low-tech domes or bags filled with fermented cow manure and water works just as well.
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“Solitary bees that ingested the pesticide clothianidin when foraging from rapeseed flowers became slower. In addition, the strawberries pollinated by these bees were smaller.” https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/strawberries-were-smaller-when-bees-ingested-pesticides
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Edible weeds: Commelina communis, Tsuyukusa, salad, raw, fried, anything. Also used to reduce fever and diarrhea. The dye from the flowers fade extraordinarily fast so it was used to "sketch" on fabrics before applying fast dye. This particular specimen will be left alone: dogs.
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In Japan there is now a minor boom in falconry: crows are attacking solar power plants with stones, and the only effective way to keep crows away is to deploy falcons. One trained falcon making 60 attack sorties a day can protect 100,000 solar panels from vengeful crows.
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@wrathofgnon Thank you! Do you know the name of this method? Is there a resource in English so I can learn more about it?
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I don't know any English language descriptions: even in Japanese it is rare to come across it. Basically it is a catenary curved stone wall with faggot infill: as the trees on top grow downward they replace the faggots with roots tying the entire thing together.