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  2. Organic architecture - Wikipedia

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    Wright created the ultimate masterpiece of organic architecture, Fallingwater, which best demonstrates his organic architecture philosophy: the harmonious union of art and nature. Fallingwater [1] is the residence Wright designed for the Kaufmann family in rural Pennsylvania. Wright had many choices to locate a home on this large site but chose ...

  3. Asymmetry (population ethics) - Wikipedia

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    But it is in no way wrong to fail to have the Happy Child. [12] The Narrow principle justifies Narveson's defence of the asymmetry. However, this has been contested. For instance, Nils Holtug holds that the asymmetry is incompatible with a person-affecting solution to the nonidentity problem and, in addition, it is counterintuitive in another ...

  4. Information asymmetry - Wikipedia

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    Information asymmetry models assume one party possesses some information that other parties have no access to. Some asymmetric information models can also be used in situations where at least one party can enforce, or effectively retaliate for breaches of, certain parts of an agreement, whereas the other(s) cannot.

  5. Asymmetry - Wikipedia

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    Asymmetry is the absence of, or a violation of, symmetry (the property of an object being invariant to a transformation, such as reflection). [1] Symmetry is an important property of both physical and abstract systems and it may be displayed in precise terms or in more aesthetic terms. [2]

  6. Philosophical pessimism - Wikipedia

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    According to Mainländer, the best understanding we can gain of the nature of existence is as a drive toward cosmic annihilation which has been “slowed down” through organic and living processes — life is something, in other words, that appears as a purely transitory phase in the accomplishment of the world's absolute oblivion, [34]: 232 ...

  7. Forget Traditional Silhouettes, Spring Fashion Is All About ...

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    One buyer says, “The asymmetrical cut on this sweater is fantastic, and the cashmere is really lovely.” She does recommend sizing up if you want to layer it and especially if you have big ...

  8. Ambigram - Wikipedia

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    The word ambigram was coined in 1983 by Douglas Hofstadter, an American scholar of cognitive science best known as the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the book Gödel, Escher, Bach. [ 7 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] It is a neologism composed of the Latin prefix ambi- ("both") and the Greek suffix -gram ("drawing, writing").

  9. The U.S. has the widest health span-lifespan gap - AOL

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    The average life expectancy in the U.S. is 77.5 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But Americans outlive their health spans by 12.4 years, the study found.