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Hearth and Home

Students in LAS Global Studies 298 spent 2.5 weeks in Nicaragua deploying low-cost alternatives to scarce wood for cooking and heating. Here they are learning to make charcoal briquettes by pyrolizing left-over corn husks. The carbonized husks are mashed and mixed with cassava into a paste that is then pressed into forms to produce the briquettes. The students also built solar ovens.

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In 1907, this structure was built in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson’s Rotunda. Which building is it?