Study: Lighter Pavements can Relieve Urban Hot Zones

Brief US cities could reduce the frequency of heat waves by 41% by strategically deploying lighter-colored and more reflective pavements, researchers say. Modeling at MIT’s Concrete Sustainability Hub explores how light pavement and white roofs reflect rather...

Tunnel Connecting Scandinavia to the Mediterranean

The SCAN-MED corridor runs from Finland all the way down to Malta – and, thanks to a bridge over the sea at Copenhagen, it’s all pretty easy-going, until you reach that rather major mountain range called the Alps.For decades that’s slowed travel down, creating a...

Clear Thinking is a Lifelong Process

Brief  The act of clear thinking is a never-ending lesson where “you’re aiming at a process, the result of which will always be an act of communication, complete with all the imperfections and contingencies this implies,” writes Tom Chatfield, author...
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