Interesting Links for 28-04-2021

[andrewducker]

This is the first house to be 3D printed from raw earth

(tags:3dprinting housing architecture Technology )

Autistic teens face 'barbaric' treatment, parents tell MPs

(tags:autism children UK OhForFucksSake )

Poor people spend much longer waiting for things than rich people

(tags:organisation society inequality bureaucracy )

What's Boris Johnson really like?

(tags:BorisJohnson )

Teenage girls playing football face twice concussion risk of boys

(tags:injury girls football )

Early alphabetic writing in the ancient Near East: the 'missing link'

(tags:language writing prehistory )

Tory donor who paid for PM's Downing Street refurb won lucrative public contracts worth up to £120m

(tags:conservatives money BorisJohnson )

If someone tells you your room is a pig sty they're giving you a compliment

(tags:pigs video cleanliness )

The 7th time this ranger was struck by lightning was also the 22nd time he fought off a bear with a stick

(tags:lightning bears luck )

The Josh Battle Royale! (Many Joshes enter - one Josh leaves!)

(tags:names funny fighting )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

A bit like the Blackhouses on the Scottish Islands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackhouse

[dewline]

I suspect that the practice was already common among Indigenous people as well, with influences from the Scottish practices as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod_house

[danieldwilliam]

The thought that occurs to me is "like a dirt igloo".

I've been in an old Blackhouse on Lewis (I think). It was part of a housing museum which had a few Blackhouses and a Whitehouse i.e. a 1930's council house, known as a Whitehouse because the external render was white.

The Blackhouse was very neat in construction but I'd not want to live in one very long.

I'm also reminded of the one of Andrew's recent-ish posts about a mudbrick city that is decaying. I think in Syria.

[zz]

yemen? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibam_Hadramawt

[danieldwilliam]

It was Yemen - thanks.