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...temblor. But over the past decade, dozens of architects and builders have begun specializing in tiny-house designs. And home buyers--motivated by the desire to simplify their lives, use fewer resources and save money--are falling in love with the little things. Gregory Johnson, a co-founder of the Small House Society in Iowa City, Iowa, estimates that anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand homes measuring less than 500 sq. ft. and costing less than $100,000 have been built since his group of 40 architects and builders formed in 2002. Says architect Marianne Cusato, a small...
...hard labor in prison; in Rock Hill, South Carolina. What was dubbed the "jail, no bail" tactic relieved activists of financial burden and inspired similar protests. "I guess if we had to do it today ... we'd do it again," he said in 2001. DIED. Yasuo Takei, 76, founder and former chairman of consumer-credit company Takefuji and Japan's second-richest man; in Tokyo. Takei, worth an estimated $5.6 billion, started Takefuji in 1966 with just four employees and grew it into one of Japan's most profitable companies, famously claiming to have slept only two hours a night...
...Frederick Mosteller, the founder of the Harvard’s Statistics Department, died of sepsis on July 23 at Powhatan Nursing Home in Falls Church, Virginia. He was 89.Mosteller first came to Harvard in 1946 as a professor in the Department of Social Relations, and he remained on the faculty of the University for the rest of his academic career. He helped found the Stats department in 1957, and in doing so, helped distinguish statistics as a distinct field of study across academia. As its first chair, he led the department for over a decade.“When...
...technique employed, called Raman spectroscopy, uses a laser for optical analysis. After shining a light on a substance, liquid or solid, the device analyzes the optical characteristics of the scattered light that reflects back. "You can read the substance as if it had a bar code," explains Ahura founder Daryoosh Vakhshoori...
...Joshua Micah Marshall is head of TPM Media and the founder of Talkingpointsmemo.com...