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10 Small Dining Room Ideas that Cost Almost Nothing
Brief With just a bit of visual trickery and the right furniture, you can make your tiny dining room feel spacious and grand — without breaking the bank. Keep reading to learn a few small dining room ideas on a budget. Insight You don’t need to have a huge...
A Solution to Asbestos Waste
Brief A pioneering research project is developing a commercial-scale method of diverting asbestos-containing waste from landfill and transforming it into a harmless – and useful – building product. David Taylor reports. Insight One of the biggest health &...
From a Burning Bridge to a Sinking Road, 5 Times Pittsburgh Infrastructure Raised Worries.
Brief As local officials continue to highlight the importance of investing in infrastructure in the aftermath of Friday’s bridge collapse, here are five recent examples of infrastructure failures and damages in Allegheny County. Insight Pittsburgh has seen its...
How Using 3D-printed Foam Can Cut Down Concrete Waste
Brief In an effort to cut down construction-related carbon emissions, researchers in the Digital Building Technologies (DBT) department at ETH Zürich have created FoamWork. The project examines how foam 3D printing (F3DP) can be used in conjunction with concrete...
3 Ideas for Career Growth in This New Era
Brief In a changing workplace, focus less on linear paths to titles and promotions and instead seek out work that emphasizes interpersonal skills, provides personal growth and adds value to the organization, writes Julie Winkle Giulioni. "Communication, empathy,...
How to Say “No” to Bad Meetings
Brief If you don't know the point of a meeting and feel your presence will not add value, it's OK to ask who will attend, what the agenda is or why you're needed. And if you don't get the answers you need, politely decline or offer your input through email or a phone...
4 Ways to Build Your Mental Resilience
Brief Resilience is something you can develop, especially when you find others for support, seek fulfillment beyond yourself and avoid trapping yourself in a victim mindset, writes LaRae Quy. "When you talk out your fears and concerns, you'll find that people who...
Why Gossip can be Managed but Not Avoided
Brief Gossip is a natural part of life, but you decide whether you'll engage in positive, neutral or negative gossip, writes Dan Rockwell. "When you say, 'Your reputation precedes you,' you acknowledge the power of gossip," Rockwell writes. Insight Slander and...
How Engineers Moved an 11,000-ton Telephone Exchange
Brief In November 1930, in Indiana, United States, one of the great feats of modern engineering was executed: a team of architects and engineers moved an 11,000-ton (22-million pound) telephone exchange without ever suspending its operations either basic supplies for...