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Building Permits in U.S. Jump to Five-Year High

Building permits climbed in October to the highest level in more than five years, signaling the U.S. residential real-estate market will strengthen in 2014.

The data indicated multifamily units are poised to lead the advance in homebuilding in coming months as construction companies look past higher borrowing costs and proceed with larger projects.

(Article source http://bloomberg.com/news/2013-11-26/building-permits-in-u-s-jump-to-five-year-high.html)

(Chart source https://twitter.com/MatthewPhillips)

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50-foot circle of ice found spinning in North Dakota river

Video: http://youtu.be/g6PKVsOZoI4

(Source http://theverge.com/2013/11/28/5154240/north-dakota-river-ice-circle-is-50-foot-wide)

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Hong Kong

(Source http://imgur.com/kxGlVRL.jpg)

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Red suspension bridge

(Source http://imgur.com/uEXdf9t.jpg)

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145-Million-Year-Old Seawater Found beneath Chesapeake Bay

A new study published in Nature provides chemical, isotopic and physical evidence that groundwater found more than 3,200 feet deep under the Chesapeake Bay is remnant water from the early Cretaceous North Atlantic Sea.

The seawater is up to 145 million years old and twice as salty as modern seawater. It was preserved like a prehistoric fly in amber, partly by the aid of the impact of a massive comet or meteorite that struck the area, creating Chesapeake Bay.

http://www.sci-news.com/geology/science-seawater-chesapeake-bay-01551.html

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Updated Boston flood maps move flood zone further inland

http://northendwaterfront.com/2013/11/many-north-end-waterfront-property-owners-will-need-to-buy-flood-insurance-under-new-fema-maps/

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Snow behind my house

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View from a canoe

(http://m.imgur.com/sPxVd6T)

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theatlantic:

The Key to Cheap Energy? Robots

With the price of photovoltaic panels at all-time lows, what’s a solar power plant operator to do to cuts costs and squeeze more electricity out of a multi billion-dollar investment?

One word: Robots.

Read more. [Image: SunPower]

US to build hypersonic spy plane

Mach 6 – about 3,600mph (5,800km/h)
Lockheed Martin
Unmanned
Operational by 2030
High-altitude surveillance but might also be fitted with weapons

(bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24803511)

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