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  "path": "/news/2026-06-wood-feature-simple-misfit.html",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-04T20:00:01.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Urging industry to make better use of wood that is wasted or burned for energy, researchers have released the first structural tests of non-straight, forked, and double-curved roundwood logs used as columns. In his mission to normalize the use of \"misfit wood,\" Aalto University architect and researcher Jaakko Torvinen has shown how standard, business-as-usual calculation methods can predict load-bearing capacity for organically shaped logs.",
  "title": "From waste wood to load-bearing feature, a simple calculation could change the way we use 'misfit wood'"
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