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Sorry for the slow week here; too many writing commitments elsewhere for the next few days. A few links to tide you over:

— Pruned takes a look at the "New Kiribati," a floating archipelago purpose-built for climate change refugees – but the design might have been plagiarized (or did two ideas just innocently overlap?)
— what are your options for living under the sea?
— watch a team of cosmonauts explore a derelict spacecraft; it's Rendezvous With Rama crossed with Sunshine in grainy black and white
— a Canadian urban explorer has died after a fall at an industrial site:
"Police said the man and a 24-year-old friend, who were not employees at the site, 'gained access through a secure area of the building for the purposes of taking artistic photographs of the building's interior' and were on a sixth-floor catwalk when the man fell and became trapped at about 4 p.m. Emergency workers took nearly three hours to free him."
— check out this interactive cave map of Ohio
— there are "hints of structure beyond the visible universe"
— what will the Earth be like in the year 2100?
— what might London look like even more soon than that – and will the city's future include urban farms?
— meanwhile, Iain Sinclair asks if the city's 2012 Olympics are just a "scam"
— finally, the mystery on 5th Avenue will soon be a film directed by J.J. Abrams; BLDGBLOG would happily serve as a script consultant...

(Thanks to David Gadd, Steve Silberman, Maxwell Harwitt, Freya Bardell, Tim Stevens, and Alexis Madrigal!)