Subaquatic Fashion
As magazines and fashion houses strive to capture ever more striking images, traditional photography settings are being pushed to the limit - underwater fashion shoots have become increasingly popular in recent years and some of the results are simply breathtaking, as this collection shows...Shot earlier this year for Japanese fashionista bible, Numero Tokyo, the swirling curves and dramatic poses of Marcelina Sowa are perfectly captured by photographer, Alix Malka, as she floats underwater.
Continue reading...Magnetic Fields As You’ve Never Seen Them Before [pics]
Friday, July 11, 2008
A stunning new film shot at the NASA laboratory at UC Berkeley reveals the secret lives of magnetic fields as they morph and twist in space - but are we observing a scientific experiment, the universe in flux or a documentary of a fictional world? They surround us, yet they can't be seen. They shift vast currents through space, yet we rarely feel their presence.
Continue reading...10 Radioactive Products That People Actually Used
Friday, July 11, 2008
Nuclear power has long been touted as a utopian technology, ushering in an era of work-free, unlimited energy supply and correspondingly longer and healthier lives. Today it is more well-known for its dangers, which include the atom bomb and radiation poisoning . Yet for 40 years, Radium was a popular tonic added to everything from tea to lipstick. We've decided to explore some of the strangest radioactive products in history and the effects they might have had on those that used them.
Continue reading...Cute Baby Panda Adopted By Cat In Dutch Zoo
Thursday, July 10, 2008
A baby panda rejected by its mother has been adopted by a domestic cat and is being raised along with its litter. The panda and another sibling were initially accepted by their mother but were found to have been abandoned a day later, suffering from hypothermia. Zookeepers at the Artis Zoo in Amsterdam successfully encouraged a cat that had just given birth to suckle the pair - however one of the pandas unfortunately did not survive.
Continue reading...WTF? Online Community to Celebrate Your Toilet’s Birthday
Thursday, July 10, 2008
‘There's a blog born every second, a sucker born every minute and 133 million children born every year. But how often is a toilet born?' The answer to that is likely to be: very frequently. But despite their large and ever increasing numbers a new website called toiletbirthdays.com aims to celebrate each and every beautiful ceramic cistern system individually.
Continue reading...World’s First Electric Sportscar
Thursday, July 10, 2008
A new sports car that is every eco-conscious car-lover's dream arrives in Britain later this month. Powered by 30 electric batteries it can reach speeds of 130mph, accelerate from 0-60mph in four seconds and has a luxury interior to boot - but will it be the vehicle that finally cracks the UK's eco-car market? The Lightning Car Company, based in Peterborough, unveils its long awaited GT prototype at the UK motor show in London later this month, aiming to deliver its first fully roadworthy models early next year.
Continue reading...The Amazing Story of the Gold Accumulating Machine
Monday, July 7, 2008
Image by Flickr user Project BS In 1897 Charles E. Fisher and Prescott Ford Jernegan presented their ‘gold accumulator’ to a crowd of potential investors at Passamaquoddy Bay, Maine. They claimed it could suck particles of the precious metal out of the swirling currents, making untold fortunes – [...]
Continue reading...“Biofuels Behind World Food Crisis”- World Bank
Friday, July 4, 2008
Biofuels are responsible for a 75 percent increase in world food prices according to the findings of a World Bank report published in The Guardian newspaper on Friday. The bank said concern over climate change and increasing competition for cropland had prompted Europe and the US to encourage the use of biofuels, driving up the price of raw materials used in their production, such as wheat, soy, corn and palm oil.
Continue reading...Cheese Sculpture Honors Independence Day
Friday, July 4, 2008
Image by Reuters The French may be known for their love of the most pungent of cheeses and the British for the cheese-rolling antics, but the US claimed bragging rights in the world cheese stakes today when they immortalised the signing of the Declaration of Independence into the [...]
Continue reading...The Beer Bottle Phone
Friday, July 4, 2008
For those who just can’t live without a cold one within reach at all times, the latest in the long line of food and drink themed phones is the Bud phone.
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Monday, July 14, 2008
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