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MDU by LOT-EK (2003)

The Mobile Dwelling Unit (MDU) transforms a single shipping container into a flexible, self-contained living and working space.

Client: University Art Museum, UCSB Type: Mobile Dwelling Size: 500 SF Completed: 2003 Photography: Courtesy of the Walker Art Center

[comradehosiah]

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Lessons from a mass shooter's mother

A decade after her son committed a massacre, Chin Rodger is on a quest to help prevent the next tragedy.

Earlier this year, the mother and father of a 15-year-old mass shooter at Oxford High School in Michigan were convicted of involuntary manslaughter—an extreme case in which they’d ignored their son’s mental deterioration and gave him a gun just before he attacked in November 2021. In many ways, that scenario could not have been more different from Elliot’s. The Oxford shooter was an openly distressed minor living at home who was given no mental health care but access to a weapon. Elliot, by contrast, was a young adult out in the world who got extensive counseling and family support and skillfully hid his intent. Both cases, however, speak to the role of parents as potentially key to prompting expert intervention.

In a decade-plus of investigating mass shootings, I had never before heard of a perpetrator’s mother making the grueling choice to become a student of her son’s case. None of the nearly dozen threat assessment experts I spoke with for this story suggested they thought that Chin, or anyone else in Elliot’s life, was at fault for failing to anticipate what happened. Yet, Chin came to believe that there had indeed been warning signs, even though she’d had no way of knowing back then what they were. She feels she can help spread awareness, especially for people whose own loved ones might be turning dangerous. “I hope my hindsight will be others’ foresight,” she says.

[danlag4]

Have you seen him???

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Sometimes when I'm birdwatching

[dancam]

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[materialsscienceandengineering]

First comprehensive characterization of the extraordinary thermoelectric properties of cadmium arsenide thin films

If there's one thing we humans are good at, it's producing heat: significant amounts, and in many cases most of the energy we generate and put into our systems we lose as heat, whether it be our appliances, our transportation, our factories, even our electrical grid. "Waste heat is everywhere," said UC Santa Barbara mechanical engineering professor Bolin Liao, who specializes in thermal science and renewable energy. "Our power plants, our car exhaust pipes—there are so many places where we create excess heat waste." For the moment, we're fairly limited as to how we can make the most out of this dissipating heat. But Liao and UCSB colleagues, alongside collaborators from Ohio State University and University of Hong Kong, are making headway toward putting that heat to use, with a first-time comprehensive characterization of the thermoelectric properties of high-quality cadmium arsenide thin films.

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