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Living Concrete

25 Monday May 2015

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architecture, bacteria, building, concrete, construction, future, News, Science, science news, self-repair, technology

Have you ever noticed how things built today don’t seem to last like things built “yesterday?” Seriously, look at some of the structures built in ancient times: Stonehenge comes to mind, as well as the Coliseum in Rome and castles across Europe. Then you look at buildings today and how quickly they seem to deteriorate. True, we’re trying to build faster and cheaper, trying to be more efficient with our resources. Maybe the things we’re building don’t need to last that long.

But maybe we’re just waiting for the technology we need to come along. Like self-healing concrete. IFLS wrote an article called Self-Healing Concrete Repairs Its Own Cracks.

A brilliant microbiologist came up with the idea of having a particular kind of bacteria encapsulated inside concrete used for building. When the concrete grows old and cracks, moisture creeps in and releases the bacteria. The bacteria then revive. When the bacteria eat the “food” encapsulated with them, they produce limestone to fill the cracks in the concrete.

Voila, self-healing concrete.

No more navigating this minefield to avoid "breaking your mother's back."

No more navigating this minefield to avoid “breaking your mother’s back.”

Even cooler, these bacteria can lie dormant for centuries until needed. Now there’s an insurance policy that’ll keep you covered.

For more details, check out IFLS’s article above. The technology is a little expensive right now, but scientists are seeking to develop cheaper options without compromising the effectiveness.

Future concrete: it’s alive!

What do you think, readers? Is this cool or what?

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Feats of Human Creativity

09 Thursday Oct 2014

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architecture, art, author, creativity, jokes, lol, music, pancakes, puns, Stephanie Beavers, writer, zombies

Well, anyone who follows my blog will know that I LOVE random feats of human creativity. Like these:

violin piano music school

This is a building, people. A music school.

puns jokes humor lol
So you don’t have to tilt your head sideways and squint:
The short fortune teller who escaped from prison was a medium at large.
He often broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.
Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds
A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.
In democracy, it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
A backwards poet writes inverse.
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
What’s the definition of a will? (It’s a dead giveaway.)
A bicycle can’t stand on it’s on; it’s two-tired.

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