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Let's talk about different races and ethnic backgrounds. It's something that is a growing topic in our schools, as it should be. Why are these conversations important for students? Studies have shown that kids as young as 3 years old can start showing signs of racism, which can stem from the TV shows they are watching, the toys they play with, and the books they read.

A few of my favorite books to expose children to these different cultures do not explicitly teach how to be tolerant of others, instead, they give you a peek into their worlds and what makes them special. It can be so powerful.

CROW BOYis a book about a young boy who attends school in Japan that walks to and from school by himself every day for years and years. By the end of the book, his classmates see just how special Crow Boy is and what a mistake it was to ignore him all of those years.

I, DOKO: THE TALE OF THE BASKETa story told by the basket a family uses for various purposes over the years, from carrying grain to carrying a baby. This book can become confusing with the different generations of family members, it may be beneficial to write or draw a visual of the family tree to help students understand who is who in the story.

TUKI AND MOKA: A TALK OF TWO TAMARINS this book is sure to capture your students' love with two monkeys that follow a little boy around in Ecuador as they collect Brazil nuts to provide for their family. Later, the monkeys and other animals are captured by poachers and the protagonist must take action right away.

Not only do these books explore the lifestyle of different races and cultures, but they also teach vocabulary words from their language. This can be engaging for students and fun for students to learn these new words and names. A word of advice, before reading these books out loud in class, practice a few readings out loud by yourself to know the words and names pronunciation beforehand.

Books are powerful. Whether read aloud in classrooms or left for little hands to explore, having ready access to different ethnicities through text and pictures will benefit them, our classrooms, schools, and our society. Our students and teachers can make or break someone else's school experience based on their cultural awareness. If you don't believe me, watch this Ted Talk by Melissa Crum.

What are books you use in your classroom that expose children to different races, whether directly or indirectly?

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The Powerful Purpose Of Books About Other Cultures

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Let's talk about different races and ethnic backgrounds. It's something that is a growing topic in our schools, as it should be. Why are these conversations important for students? Studies have shown that kids as young as 3 years old can start showing signs of racism, which can stem from the TV shows they are watching, the toys they play with, and the books they read.

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Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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The different kinds of foods people eat around the world are endlessly fascinating. We at HuffPost Taste want to know what other countries eat for breakfast when we're shoveling down a bowl of cereal or enjoying our eggs and bacon. We're curious about the way people eat and which customs are taboo, and what people consider "healthy eating." We want to know what kids are eating for lunch and what governments are feeding their soldiers.

Photojournalist Peter Menzel and writer Faith D'Aluisio have satiated our curiosity in a new way, breaking down what individuals from all over the world eat in one day. In " What I Eat: Around The World In 80 Diets," Menzel and D'Aluisio document a stunning array of individuals' daily sustenance. The subjects of 'What I Eat' run the gamut from a coal miner and a call center operator to a sumo wrestler.

The book is arranged by the number of calories each individual consumes. Context from D'Aluisio accompanies each portrait, and essays from food experts such as Michael Pollan appear throughout the book.

This isn't the first book from husband and wife team Menzel and D'Aluisio. Their James Beard award-winning book " Hungry Planet," came out in 2007 and documented what families from around the world eat over the course of a week.

On choosing to lay out food consumption at the individual level, Menzel told NPR: "I want people to understand their own diets better - and their own chemistry and their own biology. And make better decisions for themselves."

Below are some examples of the 80 portraits found in "What I Eat: Around The World In 80 Diets."

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Stunning Photos Of What People Eat In A Typical Day

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The different kinds of foods people eat around the world are endlessly fascinating. We at HuffPost Taste want to know what other countries eat for breakfast when we're shoveling down a bowl of cereal or enjoying our eggs and bacon. We're curious about the way people eat and which customs are taboo, and what people consider "healthy eating."

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Us vs Them: Immigration, Empathy and Psychology

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Petitioning for a New Playground by Helen Harris

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If you haven't heard the story of the Choluteca Bridge in Honduras, you are probably not alone. I hadn't heard of the bridge until recently, but after hearing the story, it occurred to me that it's an excellent metaphor for the constantly changing dynamics of markets and business.

The Choluteca Bridge is a suspension bridge located in Choluteca, Honduras. Originally constructed in 1930, the bridge was rebuilt in 1996. The Honduras government, knowing the bridge was likely to face extreme weather conditions, commissioned some of the best architectural minds in the world to build a bridge that could withstand any hurricane. It was state-of-the-art at the time, providing a much-needed access point for the people of Honduras and was built to withstand the high winds and hurricanes that plagued the region.

Sure enough, in 1998, Honduras was hit by Hurricane Mitch, a category 5 storm that devastated the Caribbean. Honduras was wrecked. Roads were wiped out, there was considerable damage to buildings and every other bridge in Honduras was destroyed. However, the Choluteca Bridge stood its ground and survived in near perfect condition.

It was an amazing architectural achievement. Or, at least it should have been.

Even though the bridge stood its ground, there was one problem, the storm caused the river to carve a completely new path which no longer ran under the bridge. That's right, the Choluteca Bridge no longer stood over the river, rendering it essentially useless.

The Choluteca Bridge today

It is quite remarkable how quickly things can change. Even knowing that a hurricane would eventually hit Honduras, the designers of the bridge were still unable to anticipate future conditions under which the bridge would operate, regardless of how technologically advanced the bridge was at the time. This situation demonstrates how even the simplest of assumptions about the state of the world (the location of the river) may prove to be incorrect. The most successful innovators are able to consider how markets and behaviors will change and invalidate those assumptions.

There are some great examples throughout tech's history of the river moving from beneath the bridge. IBM was the preeminent technology company in the 80's until the personal computer came along. The internet and its zero distribution costs disrupted every form of media including print, music, and video. But maybe the best fit for this analogy is Microsoft.

By collaborating with the early hardware manufacturers and embedding its software into their machines, Microsoft became the dominant operating system for over 20 years. The beauty of this business model was how the activities of developers, customers, and PC manufacturers all worked to create further lock in for Windows. Thus, Microsoft became the linchpin in the value chain - the Windows operating system was hardware agnostic, which made switching costs between PC manufacturers low and drove that part of the ecosystem toward commodity pricing. Microsoft held a near monopoly on PC operating systems.

Microsoft built the most successful "bridge" (Windows) in tech over one the largest, fastest growing "rivers" (the PC) in the market, and in doing so had built one of the great defensive moats in the history of business.

Then the internet hit, which dramatically reduced Windows application lock in. More importantly, the mobile wave came, which over time became capable of handling many of the capabilities of the PC but with added benefits such as geo location. As a result, the computing market shifted out from underneath Microsoft and what worked so well in the PC era, did not transfer over to the new paradigm.

What's more, Microsoft saw it coming but could not predict the forces that would dictate competition in the mobile era. It wasn't like they had their heads in the sand and dismissed mobile the way Blockbuster dismissed Netfilx. Microsoft, much like the architects who built the Choluteca bridge, recognized the threat and tried hard to build a solution. Microsoft made aggressive plays into mobile going so far as to release their own phone in 2010 and later buying Nokia.

As we all know, it didn't work. It wasn't that the people at Microsoft were incompetent or blind to the rising importance of mobile, it was the fact that Microsoft assumed that the dynamics of the mobile market would follow those of the PC market. Under that assumption, why wouldn't the Windows-centric approach help Microsoft achieve dominance in mobile? And why wouldn't they? For nearly 3 decades it made everything the company did possible. As Ben Thompson puts it, "Windows had the ecosystem and the lock-in, and provided the foundation for Office and Windows Server, both of which were built with the assumption of Windows at the center." [1]

The problem wasn't that they didn't recognize the threat, it was they were still operating from a Windows centric viewpoint. The real problem was the landscape had shifted and Microsoft was ill equipped and too locked in to Windows to build for that new landscape. I'm sure the Choluteca Bridge architects could sympathize.

Today, Microsoft's share of the entire computing market, which now includes smart phones, tablets, watches, and other connected devices, is in decline. It's no surprise that Microsoft's new CEO Satya Nadella has essentially forsaken Windows and is focused on building new bridges in cloud and services.

Today, Facebook, Apple, Google and Amazon seem unstoppable, much like Microsoft once did, but that's only because we can't always anticipate how the tech landscape will morph in the future, just like the bridge designers could not have predicted that the entire river would shift completely beyond the Choluteca Bridge. The best entrepreneurs know how to survey the landscape and see when the river has or is about to move right out from beneath an existing bridge. That's how startups can compete with and beat established incumbents.

[1] https://stratechery.com/2018/the-end-of-windows/

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Why A Honduran Bridge Is A Perfect Metaphor For Disruption

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If you haven't heard the story of the Choluteca Bridge in Honduras, you are probably not alone. I hadn't heard of the bridge until recently, but after hearing the story, it occurred to me that it's an excellent metaphor for the constantly changing dynamics of markets and business.

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Watch LIVE as hundreds of Alaskan Brown Bears descend on a mile-long stretch of the Brooks River to feast on the largest Sockeye Salmon run in the world.

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Journey through National Geographic's most powerful photographs of the decade

Say the words "National Geographic," and the first thing that comes to mind is photography.

We are known, and have been for most of the past 130 years, for taking people on visual journeys into every corner of the Earth-from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans, from jungles to deserts, from the biggest metropolises to the most remote countrysides. In the past 10 years alone, our photographers have taken 21,613,329 images in the quest to document life on this planet for our print and digital platforms. More than 21.6 million images! That's an amazing number-and a bit terrifying if you try to narrow it down to some kind of "best" or "favorites" list.

But as the 2010s draw to a close, that's exactly what we've done. We've chosen 15 images, by 14 photographers, that have resonated most with us in the past decade: A bear feeding on bison in an iconic American landscape. An endangered pangolin and her baby. The face of a woman who died, soon to be transplanted onto the face of another woman who wanted a second chance at life. A child bride in Yemen. The confident, direct gaze of a nine-year-old transgender girl from Kansas City, Missouri. You may have a different list of National Geographic photos that spoke most strongly to you over the past 10 years. There are, of course, no "right" answers-just images that matter to you, that touch your heart, and that can help bring awareness to make the world a better place.

Thanks for reading National Geographic.

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Journey through National Geographic's most powerful photographs of the decade Say the words "National Geographic," and the first thing that comes to mind is photography. We are known, and have been for most of the past 130 years, for taking people on visual journeys into every corner of the Earth-from the highest mountains to the deepest oceans, from jungles to deserts, from the biggest metropolises to the most remote countrysides.

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In April 2020, a month into quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses, stores, restaurants, and schools were closing. Students abruptly left their classrooms and were forced into distance learning programs isolated from their teachers, friends, and classmates.

The film Cocoon documents the early months of the pandemic told through the perspective of students, ages 4 to 17, living in their homes in Portland, Oregon. The film explores students' varying points of view about the pandemic on issues including job loss, health concerns, and school changes. As students express their fears and insecurities, they also share what they have come to appreciate and what they miss the most-their friends and human connection.

Appropriately titled Cocoon, this collection of narratives provides hope for a future filled with compassion and kindness that emerges from today's sorrow and loss. This film allows students to peek into the lives of their peers and find connections with their experiences, thoughts, and emotions. What would your students say if they were interviewed for this film? How would they express themselves and what might they add to the stories of so many who are confined to their homes? We have much to learn from each other, and even more to share.

Dr. Emily Schell, Executive Director, California Global Education Project

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Sign up or log in to save your favorite stories and lessons, create custom collections, and share with others. In April 2020, a month into quarantine due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many businesses, stores, restaurants, and schools were closing. Students abruptly left their classrooms and were forced into distance learning programs isolated from their teachers, friends, and classmates.

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For nearly 50 years, systematic racial suppression and segregation gripped South Africa. While the tides turned in the early '90s and laws were overturned, apartheid had already seeped into the country architecture. Roads, rivers, and fields functioned as "buffer zones" to separate people by race.

In 2016, photographer Johnny Miller set out to capture "the architecture of apartheid" from above. Separation gave the government the ability to reduce the black community's access to education, high-quality jobs, and city resources, leading to extreme divisions of wealth. Miller's drone pictures show the contrast as never seen before.

Miller shared some of his photos with us. You can check out more on his project website, Unequal Scenes.

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A drone captured these shocking photos of inequality in South Africa

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For nearly 50 years, systematic racial suppression and segregation gripped South Africa. While the tides turned in the early '90s and laws were overturned, apartheid had already seeped into the country architecture. Roads, rivers, and fields functioned as "buffer zones" to separate people by race.

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A newly created map reveals the "wildest" places on Earth-places where humans have the lowest impact. The findings could be used to support the push to set aside half of Earth for nature, its authors say.

"If you want to know where in the world you can find a place that has not yet been transformed by agriculture, infrastructure, or settlements, [this map] is where to find it," says Erle Ellis, a global ecologist at the University of Maryland Baltimore County who contributed to the analysis. "There is a very strong consensus on where these places are."

The map, published today in the journal Global Change Biology, knits together four independently developed models for determining where humanity leaves its fingerprints, each using different indicators of activity.

All four models use human population, built-up areas, and cropland as inputs, but then they start to specialize. The Global Human Footprint index also uses roads, railway lines, navigable waterways, night-time lights, and pasturelands to identify the places where humankind is least noticeable.

The Anthropogenic Biomes project maps various kinds of populated ecosystems, like the " Residential Rangelands" of Africa, where pastoral people live in medium densities. The Global Human Modification and the Low Impact Areas maps are more recent attempts to identify where humans aren't. Both include data on livestock density; the former also looks at mining and energy production and the latter includes data on protected areas and deforestation.

Researchers behind the various efforts decided to come together and see how well their maps overlapped; pretty well, it turns out.

All of the maps agreed that about half of Earth shows "low" human impact, and about half of that-a quarter of the ice-free surface of the planet-could be described as "very low" human impact. Mostly, the maps assigned the same places to those categories. That's not surprising, their creators say, since most of the areas that fit this category are either very cold, such as the tundra and boreal forest that stretches across the far north of the Americas and Eurasia, or very hot, such as the world's deserts.

Each map looked at evidence for contemporary human transformation, so areas that were changed by humans in the past but don't have lots of lights, roads, or people now are ranked as low impact.

For example, archeological research and ecological surveys of tree species increasingly suggest that the Amazon rainforest was thickly populated and carefully managed by humans for centuries. Layers of charcoal from controlled fires and groves of trees that were clearly planted by people, like açaí palms and cacao, still attest to those days. But since the forest is currently without extensive croplands or major infrastructure, much of the Amazon is ranked as "low impact" in the map.

Support for saving half the planet

The researchers say that because 50 percent of Earth has only low levels of human impacts, bold calls to preserve half of the planet for nature are achievable. Lead author Jason Riggio, a spatial ecologist at the University of California, Davis, hopes the map can bolster the case for making the goal of protecting half the planet by 2050 official at the next meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity, scheduled for 2021.

Riggio says the group is not recommending that low-impact areas be made into strictly protected parks. Even many of the "very low" impact areas have people in them. "It is not about excluding people or setting up national parks where people aren't allowed to do any use," Riggio says.

Instead, he says, such areas could be managed for both wildlife and human use, like the coffee farms certified as "bird friendly" by the Audubon Society. These farms grow coffee beans under a canopy of forest trees that provide habitat for birds.

It's not obvious, however, that protection efforts should focus only on low-impact areas.

The new map also shows that low-impact areas aren't evenly distributed across ecosystem types. Less than one percent of temperate grasslands, tropical coniferous forests, and tropical dry forests have very low human influence.

And while preserving largely untouched "wilderness" is an important goal for many, it isn't always where the most plant and animal species are. Globally, the tropics have many more species than the ecosystems closest to the poles, but the tropics also have a lot of people, according to Maria Dornelas, an ecologist at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

But, Dornelas says, "if we just preserve tropical forests, we lose all the polar bears and all the tundra plants and all the desert species."

Dornelas and her colleagues recently made their own global map-this one looking at threats to plant and animal species, from climate change to deforestation to pollution. Their map looks quite different, with hotspots of threats in India, Northern Europe, and the East China Sea. It highlights the fact that without protection or restoration, species and ecosystems in areas with high human impact may be more likely to disappear.

In the end, no map can tell humanity what we should protect. Should we focus on low-impact areas to preserve "wild" places, or on high-impact areas where threats to species are most urgent?

"Ultimately, this is a map of human societies, not a map of nature," Ellis says. "How you interpret this map in relation to nature depends on what your values are."

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This map shows where on Earth humans aren't

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A newly created map reveals the "wildest" places on Earth-places where humans have the lowest impact. The findings could be used to support the push to set aside half of Earth for nature, its authors say.

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26 Mini-Films for Exploring Race, Bias and Identity With Students (Published 2017)

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Universe Size Comparison | Cosmic Eye (Original HD)

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With childhood obesity on the rise and globalization homogenizing nutrition, photographer Gregg Segal set out to discover what a week's worth of food looked like around the world. By focusing on the diets of children, whose lifelong eating habits are created in these formative years, Segal's stunning photographs speak to themes of nutrition, class, and culture.

His new book, Daily Bread, spreads across 120 pages and details the stories behind the portraits. Each child was asked to document exactly what they'd eaten during the course of a week. These foods were then prepared and laid out around them while Segal captured their image from above. From Los Angeles to Kuala Lumpur, the cultures depicted are a fascinating look at how different we are-yet how similar we're becoming.

Segal's work is also an interesting commentary on the global economy and how this effects eating habits. While in the United States lower income families tend to eat more snack foods because of their low cost, in other countries the trend is reversed. In fact, some of the healthiest diets in the world come from low-income cultures where the focus is on fresh fruits, vegetables, nuts, and meat where processed junk foods are luxury items.

We had the opportunity to speak with Segal about the impetus for the project, the challenges of working on a global scale, and what he hopes people take away from the work. Read on for our exclusive interview and pick up a copy of Daily Bread: What Kids Eat Around the World.
What first got you interested in this topic?
Daily Bread grew out of another of my projects on consumption and waste called 7 Days of Garbage. I asked family, friends, neighbors and anyone else I could convince to save their garbage for one week and then lie down and be photographed in it. It's impossible to ignore the problem of consumption and waste when you're lying in it!

To me, the most disturbing thing about the garbage I photographed was the packaging that comes with our food. We've grown totally dependent on the industries of eating and cooking and the result has been a massive increase in waste. I began to ask, how have our diets been impacted by this revolution in the way food is produced and consumed?

It struck me that we don't give enough thought to what's in our food because we're not the ones making it! We've outsourced the most vital ingredient of life, the connective tissue of families and culture. I thought, what if we keep a journal of everything we eat and drink for one week to bring our focus onto diet and take ownership of the foods we eat?
Why the decision to focus on children and what do you think their eating habits say about our overall society?
I focused on kids because eating habits start young and if you don't get it right when you're 9 or 10, it's going to be a lot harder when you're older!

Globalization has had a huge impact on diets around the world. Two quick examples from countries I visited, Brazil and the UAE. A generation ago, Brazil's poor were underfed. Today, 57% of the population is overweight. In 2014, there were 803,900 diabetics in the UAE-about 20 percent of the population. 30 years ago, diabetes barely existed in this part of the world.

We're at a tipping point. The balance of what most children eat now is dramatically moving away from homemade stews and vegetables towards ultra-processed packaged foods and snack foods, many of them designed to appeal to children.
What was the most challenging part of the project?
There were numerous challenges-finding the right mix of kids, an experienced crew, equipment, and locations that met my needs. I needed a studio space with access to a kitchen to prepare the food and a ceiling height of at least 13 feet (the camera height needed to be a consistent 12+ feet above the subject).

Organization was critical, but sometimes lacking. Making sure that all of the kids kept thorough journals of everything they ate so that those meals could be accurately reproduced, for instance. Fortunately, I had competent producers in most countries. Sometimes, the equipment I had access to wasn't reliable, which was challenging because the lighting for the pictures needs to be consistent, of course. Another major hurdle was money; this was a very expensive project to produce and generating the funds wasn't easy. Much of the funding came out of my pocket. I could have really used a benefactor or sponsor!
What did you discover through this process that surprised you the most?
One of the surprising lessons of Daily Bread is that the best quality diets are often eaten not by the richest but the poorest. In the US, the poor are the biggest consumers of junk food because it's convenient and cheap. But in Mumbai, it costs $13 for a medium Dominoes pizza, which is way beyond the means of most people. Anchal lives with her family in an 8 by 8-foot aluminum hut. Her father earns less than $5 a day, yet she eats a wholesome diet of okra and cauliflower curries, lentils, and roti which Anchal's mother makes from scratch each day on a single kerosene burner. Shraman, on the other hand, lives in a middle-class Mumbai hi-rise and eats very differently. His family's extra income means he can afford Dominoes pizza, fried chicken, and treats like Snickers bars and Cadbury chocolate.

In 2015, Cambridge University conducted an exhaustive study ranking diets around the world from most to least nutritional. Remarkably, 9 of the 10 healthiest countries are in Africa. It seems counterintuitive that some of the poorest countries have among the healthiest diets. But when you look closely at what they're eating, it makes sense: fresh vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, grains, fish, and legumes and very little meat (which functions more as seasoning) and few empty calories (processed foods).

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Interview: Kids Around the World Photographed Surrounded by Their Weekly Diet

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With childhood obesity on the rise and globalization homogenizing nutrition, photographer Gregg Segal set out to discover what a week's worth of food looked like around the world. By focusing on the diets of children, whose lifelong eating habits are created in these formative years, Segal's stunning photographs speak to themes of nutrition, class, and culture.

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LEGO Houses, Floating Cities, & Architecture of the Future

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LEGO Houses, Floating Cities, & Architecture of the Future

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Skyscrapers of the Future Will Be Engineered to Copy Nature