Weekly Filet #82: Imagining The 8849 Metre Skyscraper. And more.
This week's top recommendation
Have you ever wondered if there is - if not the sky - any limit to how much higher we can build skycrapers? 828 metres is the current record height, set by the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. Later this year, China plans to go 10 metres higher, in 2018, Saudi Arabia intends to break the 1 kilometer mark. So how much taller can we go? This articles weighs the limiting factors - and surprises with its findings.
→ Is There a Limit to How Tall Buildings Can Get? (The Atlantic Cities)
Further recommendations
Welcome to Rape: The Idiot's Primer. A very British response to you know what. Excellent read.
→ Everyone's talking about rape (The Guardian)
Take a LED that lights up when exposed to water, then thousands more, and you have one very entertaining re-usable graffiti wall.
→ Water Light Graffiti (Flowing Data)
Does anyone of you have experience with this? The invisible bike helmet that actually is more like an airbag.
→ Invisible Bike Helmet (Hövding)
Game changer: The discovery of a winning strategy for Prisoner's Dilemma is forcing game theorists to rethink their discipline.
→ The Emerging Revolution in Game Theory (Technology Review)