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Video: Impressive Bridge Explosion in China
Three seconds were enough for a bridge with a height of 180 meters, in China, to be destroyed, after a controlled explosion. Three seconds were enough for a bridge with a height of 180 meters, in Chi...
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The Winner of Building Design Magazine 2015!
The building of the Uruguayan architect Rafael Viñoly Beceiro, '20 Fenchurch Street' - that Londoners have given the nickname 'Walkie Talkie'-was named the winner of Building Design magazine's Carbunc...
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The Dead Sea 'Dies'
The Dead Sea dies due to human interventions, with the water level to fall by more than a meter per year. One of the consequences is the sinkholes that occur along the coast -Some of them are in field...
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The fight for Water in the Middle East and North Africa
Middle East and North Africa face the prospect of new violent events for ... water. Turkey, Syria and Iraq are in dispute as Turkey restricts water supply to Syria and Iraq, and simultaneously ther...
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Calculation Example: Axial Force
For the building shown below, the forces on the wall are as illustrated. What is the axial force on the column due to the lateral loads? For the building shown below, the forces on the wall are as il...
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Insufficient Measures of Australia for the Environment
According to the committee for the climate of the United States of America (USA), the first six months of 2015 were the warmest for the last 136 years, for which there are relevant statistics. If t...
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Massive Slab is in Jeopardy of Falling
A 500,000-pound slab is up to crash down from a canyon wall to the base of Glen Canyon dam. In this type of rock, erosion is very common. A 500,000-pound slab is up to crash down from a canyon w...
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Elevator of 20 km!
The Canadian space company, Thoth Technology Inc., received approval in the patent application filed in the competent US authorities for a ... space elevator. The Canadian space company, Thoth T...
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Soil Erosion in EU
Despite the measures of the Common Agricultural Policy in soil erosion, rain and rivers erode every year around 600 million cubic meters of soil, according to the findings of the European Commission's...
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Video: Shinzo Abe Apologized For Tokyo 2020 Olympic Stadium
The hefty construction costs of the new Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, after the estimates of the Japanese government, forced the prime minister, Shinzo Abe, to apologize to the people. The hefty construc...
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