flood wind dwellings built to fail replace

Sometimes rebuilding a house is cheaper than making it survive

In places with frequent floods or very strong winds, some homes are deliberately built cheaply enough to be replaced after severe damage. Making every house strong enough to survive the worst conditions may cost more than rebuilding it.

Antarctica was not always ice-bound

For most of the last 400 million years, Antarctica has been at high latitudes. Yet for a large part of Earth's history, it had a relatively temperate climate and forests. Its present ice-covered state is not permanent.

A gift is not always as free as it seems

Giving someone a gift can create an obligation that nobody says aloud. Anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski described societies where receiving a gift carried an expectation of giving something back later, sometimes of equal or greater value. What looks like generosity can also be part of a system of social exchange.

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Sometimes rebuilding a house is cheaper than making it survive

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