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The tower, which opened on January 4th, became the world’s tallest building, outdoing the previous record-holder, the Taipei 101, by a staggering 1,046 feet. 3 Today, wind engineering is an integral aspect in the design of any new tall building, especially the very tallest of them all: the Burj Khalifa.Īt 2,717 feet, the Burj Khalifa, formerly known as the Burj Dubai, rises like a bolt of lightening into the sky, dwarfing the surrounding skyscrapers. Since the 10-story steel-frame Home Insurance Building, the world’s first skyscraper, opened in Chicago in 1885, architects have had to think about wind stress, or “wind loading,” as they’ve built higher and higher. Which means there is only one thing left to understand in this symbolic way and that is the entirety of the cosmos.From the disconcerting to the dangerous, wind has always been an important consideration when constructing skyscrapers. We’ve mapped Mars, the Moon, the solar system, even our own galaxy. But here, at Give Kids the World Village, these illnesses seem to matter a little less, if only for a week. To be lucky enough to visit this place, you will be unlucky enough to be a child with a critical illness, or someone in their constellation. Admittance is sacred, special, and limited to the very few who are lucky enough to receive an all-expenses-paid trip to central Florida to be fêted as guests of honor, though some might say it is a very lack of luck or felicity that brought them here: a damning of atoms, a genetic wild card. The world’s most magical place is not somewhere you would ever hope to go. Once Upon a Time in Central Florida Downside to Life in a Supertall Tower: Leaks, Creaks, Breaks” An intimate and powerful exploration of what it means to be and be seen, the film chronicles Derek DelGaudio’s attempt to answer one deceptively simple question, “Who am I?” His personal journey expands to a collective experience that forces us to confront the boundaries of our own identities. It tells the story of a man fighting to see through the illusion of his own identity, only to discover that identity itself is an illusion. It is part magic performance, part mentalism, part performance art, and part poetry.

Lawyers + Zoom Video Conferencing = Hilariousĭerek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself is a new kind of lyric poem. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Judicial musical chairs are playing out well for President Biden on the influential U.S.

Target Sued For Firing Employee Who Sought Leave For Personal Mental HealthĪ former team lead employee for a Philadelphia-area Target store has sued the company, claiming that his he was unlawfully fired while he was on job-protected medical leave for his personal mental health.īiden Gets Two Vacancies To Fill On Influential D.C. The goal of this article is to provoke thought and discussion regarding the larger themes of research in statistics and data science." We discuss common features of these ideas, how they relate to modern computing and big data, and how they might be developed and extended in future decades. "We argue that the most important statistical ideas of the past half century are: counterfactual causal inference, bootstrapping and simulation-based inference, overparameterized models and regularization, multilevel models, generic computation algorithms, adaptive decision analysis, robust inference, and exploratory data analysis. What are the most important statistical ideas of the past 50 years? What do you think, find the post of this newsletter on my Facebook page and let me know in the comments. Personally, I think it is another holiday that like most, should be used as a gentle reminder and a good excuse to let someone you care about know just how much while leaving out as much of the crass commercialism as you can. The Atlantic has a roundup of all the arguments. Just as predictable and inevitable as the sappy movies are the V-day haters. Despite the promulgation of sappy romance movies and the sudden explosion of red and pink romantic decor in early January, many people happily go with the flow, welcoming Valentine's Day as an affirmation of true love.Īnd of course, many people don't. The Annual Argument Against Valentine's Day