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In 1954, Buckminster Fuller received the U.S. patent for the geodesic dome, a hemi-spherical structure built on a frame of interlocking polygons. (Picture living inside of a giant soccer ball, and you're not far off.) Fuller hoped that geodesic dome structures would catch on big as a solution to the postwar housing crisis.... Continue Reading »

A three-bedroom fisherman's cottage on half an acre of land in Kent, England sounds just about perfect -- if you happen to forget to mention that it sits next to two nuclear power plants. That's what Geering & Colyer, the estate agents who listed the "bungalow" at a modest £247,000 (about $395,000), seemed to... Continue Reading »