Out of the mud and into…the mudcrete!
A pioneering company named WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project) is conducting experimental research using plant seeds to try to strengthen clay mixes as it works towards 3D printing of houses in developing nations.
About Shaun Carter
Shaun Carter is a Masters student at the University of Manchester, England. His hobbies include writing, reading, playing sitting volleyball and listening to progressive music. If there was more time, he'd surely do more.
The Impact of Sitting Volleyball: Part One
When he came to, in a tragic trick of the light, his left thigh slept numb and scarred. But this was no trick. Perhaps looking upon it was like looking upon the hilt of a broken sword – the blade snapped and lost with just a small, jagged shard jutting from the crossguard. For Paul Ledward, everything had changed.
Silence Kills Best
A new relationship brings new challenges. A new person to understand the desires of, and to desire their understanding in return. This, I suppose, would be requited love, after a fashion. Yet sometimes these feelings are never reciprocated. Unrequited love. Loving somebody who never loves you back.
Siblings: Part 2
Being 21, it’s difficult nowadays to imagine myself treating my older siblings in the manner I see my younger brothers and sister treat me. There was a time when I looked upon my older brother and sister and saw them in a glowing light, similar to what a child sees in an adult.
Siblings: Part 1
The love of one’s siblings is a gift we might often take for granted. Very rarely does a child have a say regarding the family planning conducted by the parents — who would want such responsibilities at a young age, anyway? — and so the age gaps could be small, with a family of young ones grouped together and able to play and develop both collectively or individually; or conversely, there could be a whole decade between a person and their siblings. This, then, becomes a conflict. A clash of needs, desires, even wills. It also becomes the delineation of responsibilities.
Wrongs and Rights Unknown
When loved ones die, their life should be celebrated, for in that celebration, they shall be immortalized. In other places, mourning seems to be the only thing that happens.
Looking Back With the New Order
Has social networking changed us and made us prone to misplaced awe and extremity? Have we forgotten the weighty meaning of such words as “never” and “always”?
The Master of Puppets
Subjectivity is often a hostage of desire. It is understandable, for it is a part of the human condition to have favourites. A favourite is something you can draw upon in your moment of need and feel safe with, feel comforted by, and believe once more in the purpose of us all.
Take Your Bravery With You, You Just Might Need It
If you have ever watched Forrest Gump, you might have felt, once the credits began rolling, a plethora of emotions. Sorrow and yet happiness, guilt and yet hope. If that film touches anything, it is compassion.
The Odd One Out
Superstition is not a gift, nor, necessarily, a blessing or curse. What it might be is a state of insecurity and disharmony.