{"id":3424,"date":"2010-08-03T08:38:10","date_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandrosalsi.com\/blog\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2010-08-03T08:38:10","modified_gmt":"2010-08-03T16:38:10","slug":"houses-in-the-sahara-desert-using-living-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandrosalsi.com\/it\/houses-in-the-sahara-desert-using-living-bacteria\/","title":{"rendered":"Houses in the Sahara desert using living bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another beautiful video from the good folks at TED &#8211; ideas worth spreading.<\/p>\n<p>In today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s video Magnus Larsson is showing us a new kind of architecture. 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