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On February 5th, concrete roadblocks were set up in Cairo to protect the Ministry of Defense from protesters.
It's like mushrooms coming through concrete.
It's two and a half inches thick, concrete with a void interior.
As we looked at the river itself, you could see there's a concrete stone on the west side.
It's very hard to find any example of abstract language that is not based on some concrete metaphor.
We removed 123,000 tons of concrete only from the riverbanks.
Are there concrete things we can do to reduce stress, draw our family closer, and generally prepare our children to enter the world?
It's a lot of water-based materials like concrete, water-based paint, mud, and also some refined oils as well.
It's an umbrella of air all across it, and that layer of air is what the water hits, the mud hits, the concrete hits, and it glides right off.
So this is an investment that pays off in very concrete terms for a broad range of income groups in the state's population and produces large and tangible benefits.
And a combination of devices here, the kind of heavy mass concrete of these book stacks, and the way in which that is enclosed by this skin, which enables the building to be ventilated, to consume dramatically less energy, and where it's really working with the forces of nature.
I've never seen anybody walk into one of my buildings and hug a steel or a concrete column, but I've actually seen that happen in a wood building.
But the challenge is, as we move to cities, cities are built in these two materials, steel and concrete, and they're great materials.
Steel represents about three percent of man's greenhouse gas emissions, and concrete is over five percent.
We need to reduce the concrete and steel and we need to grow bigger, and what we've been working on is 30-story tall buildings made of wood.
It's hard to start them on fire, and when they do, they actually burn extraordinarily predictably, and we can use fire science in order to predict and make these buildings as safe as concrete and as safe as steel.
If we built a 20-story building out of cement and concrete, the process would result in the manufacturing of that cement and 1,200 tonnes of carbon dioxide.
Even a concrete building can be very temporary if that is made to make money.
We've gone from people who confronted a concrete world and analyzed that world primarily in terms of how much it would benefit them to people who confront a very complex world, and it's a world where we've had to develop new mental habits, new habits of mind.
And these include things like clothing that concrete world with classification, introducing abstractions that we try to make logically consistent, and also taking the hypothetical seriously, that is, wondering about what might have been rather than what is.
Luria looked at people just before they entered the scientific age, and he found that these people were resistant to classifying the concrete world.
And he was interested, effectively, in what he could do with those concrete objects.
In other words, he was unwilling to treat this as anything but a concrete problem, and he was used to camels being in villages, and he was quite unable to use the hypothetical, to ask himself what if there were no camels in Germany.
In 1910, they looked at the examinations that the state of Ohio gave to 14-year-olds, and they found that they were all for socially valued concrete information.
In other words, they were fixed in the concrete mores and attitudes they had inherited.
And you can get moral argument off the ground, then, because you're not treating moral principles as concrete entities.
That is, they had moved so far from the concrete world that they could even ignore the appearance of the symbols that were involved in the question.
From the outside, behind this always-changing facade, you see how the fixed concrete beams provide a framework for the inhabitants to create their homes in an organic, intuitive way that responds directly to their needs.
Just like consumer goods and chain stores, we mass-produce glass and steel and concrete and asphalt and drywall, and we deploy them in mind-numbingly similar ways across the planet.
And I started thinking about the textile like a shell made of concrete with perforations that would let the air in, and also the light, but in a filtered way.
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