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12 Most Amazing Bionic Buildings
This is a guest post written by Andy Boyd Have you ever pictured what the high-rise buildings of the future might look like? If so, you’re not alone. One 21st Century movement (among others) which may give an indication as to what future architecture will look like, [...]
Continue reading...First Time In World History, Killer Whales Filmed Hunting Dolphins
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Image from The Herald. Let’s see how long until we get a cease-and-desist. A tour operator in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, unwittingly stumbled into the history books this weekend when he, his boat captain, and four tourists were in the right place at the right time to [...]
Continue reading...5 Bionic Exoskeleton Suits of the Future
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Real Life Iron Man Suits Image via Kotaku As the old saying goes: the suit makes the man; never will this maxim resonate so well, than when referring to bionic exoskeleton suits. They’ll not only make you the man, they’ll make you superhuman.
Continue reading...How Do Nature and Rainforests Help Medical Research Anyway?
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The UN has announced that medical research is on the verge of being seriously impaired by a lack of biodiversity. image via flickr user carreon I’m positive that I wasn’t the only grade schooler that was told that one of the reasons timber companies in Costa Rica were evil [...]
Continue reading...The Aircraft Boneyard: Where Aircraft Go To Die
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Continuing Environmental Graffiti’s “lost” theme this week, Chris Ingham Brooke – Chief Graffiti Artist had the chance to catch up with legendary night-time photographer Troy Paiva to talk about his work: Lost America. DINOSAUR [...]
Continue reading...5 Most Stunning Marathons in the World
Friday, April 11, 2008
I’ve been a bit of a runner since I had a girlfriend call me out on being fat four years ago; of course, by “a bit of a runner”, I mean “obsessed about it constantly”, and dropped my weight from 220 down to a fighting 160. God, I [...]
Continue reading...The 5 Weirdest Animal Experiments
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Science is frequently weird. Image by Jean-Etienne Poirrier We know relatively little about the world we live in. Almost every new experiment adds a little something to the general knowledge of humanity.
Continue reading...Men Cause $200,000 Grass Fire Trying to Blow Up Gophers
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
In a story reminiscent of Carl Spackler’s struggles in Caddyshack, two Canadian men caused hundreds of thousands in damages as they attempted to blow up some wily gophers. The gopher laughs heartily at your pathetic attempts to exterminate it. Image by Chuck Szmurlo The two men set out to [...]
Continue reading...The World’s Fastest Evolving Animal
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
A recent study has found that the tuatara, a “living dinosaur” found in New Zealand, is the fastest evolving animal in the world. The tuatara is an ecological oddity. While it resembles a lizard, it’s equally related to both lizards and snakes. This has made
Continue reading...Gorillas, Guns and Blogs
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Kenyan writer Dipesh Pabari sent us his report on how Africans are using blogging to help conservation efforts in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Senkekwe, one of the gorillas killed in the Rugendo massacre. Image from Wildlife Direct 29TH OCTOBER 2007 – 1200HRS: “A Ranger was killed and another [...]
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Monday, June 16, 2008
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