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- A Life Study of Chernobyl Through Drawings.
After the reactor accident at Chernobyl in 1986, she found her true calling: since then, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger has been studying and drawing malformed insects, especially true bugs (Heteroptera), which she collects in fallout areas and in the periphery of nuclear facilities. Building on her 25 years of experience as a scientific illustrator at the Natural [...]
- Limited edition Tiger. Only 399 Left.
Vladamir Putin turned 56!! What better gift then a limited edition siberian tiger. One of 400 signed editions available in the wild. “he has yet to decide between the names Mashenka and Milashka”.
telegraph.co.uk
- GMO Milk, the female edition.
Only available in small quantities, Dutch firm has created a new form of milk which includes
“the protein which is naturally present in human tears, lung secretions, milk and other bodily fluids—fights against the bacteria that causes eye and lung infections, plays a key role in the immune system of infants and adults and improves [...]
- 2k can buy a plane and a home
In Benoit, Mississipi when your home gets destroyed buy a plane! This 2k plane modified and turned into a home by Joanne Ussery is 12 year old news but still news when you’ve never seen it before. Apparently, others have begun to follow in her tracks on slightly larger budgets of $200,000. But thats if [...]
- Moss Graffiti invades Brooklyn
It’s about time more moss grows in brooklyn. Edina Tokodi has been creating moss figures on building sites, and other abondoned walls. I’m guessing it’s a mixture of found moss, some biodegrable glue. Hopefully they will stay, expand and grow beyond the boundaries of her figures.
- Fresh Salad available to billboard climbers
In attempt to promote it’s fresh salads, McDonalds has begun installing billboards showcasing it’s greenery. Instead of using plain bold text, it’s using plants to fill in the bold text. Very Green. I wonder what happens as the plants become part of a larger system, where the billboards become nests for birds, rodents, and insects. [...]
- Wildlife adapts and creates new homes on the heals of morgage crisis.
It doesn’t take long for plants and small animals to move in once a bank forecloses on a home. In the time it take s the bank to find a buyer, other residents have moved in and taken advantage of the free space.
source: Washington Post
- Carbon Offset? What about Everything Else????
What about all the local toxins in your house such as paints, adhesives, oils, household cleaners.
Good Magazine put together a little article about which plants can be used to offset these local toxins.
- Bird Song Radio! Better then Talk Radio
In the Uk, a talk radio station closed, and in its wake a new station was born that simply plays bird songs. It’s audience is tripled that of the talk radio station!
“At the time I thought it was just the sound of an ordinary garden on the edge of Salisbury Plain but now it has [...]
- ISBN Graffiti, Suggestive of Walden Pond
from torontoist.com :
” It seems that some Toronto taggers are no longer content to scrawl their own names on blank concrete canvases around the city and are trying instead to make more of a cultural statement. Last year, references to composer Gustav Mahler popped up in several places around town. This year, a more cryptic [...]
- A Little Ecosystems in Keyboards!!
Bacteria is thriving in dirty keyboards, in some cases better the on toilet seats, suggests a recent study in the UK.
“Out of 33 keyboards swabbed, four were regarded as a potential health hazard and one harboured five times more germs than one of the office’s toilet seats.”
-from the bbc
- 40lb Beaver Rescued from East River
A 40lb beaver was “rescued” from the East River in New York City by police who were searching for bombs during the pope’s visit.
Yes, we appreciate the Police’s efforts in saving the beaver. One of the few ever seen in the East River. It was breathing heavily and clearly sick. But one can’t help notice [...]
- Tigers in the Korean DMZ?
from boing boing:
People are now willing to pay large sums to see wild animals in the proper setting,” Mr. Shore said. “Eco-tourism would protect the DMZ from becoming the Hamptons of South Korea.” [Bruce Sterling says: "Perhaps it's possible to transform the Hamptons into a DMZ."]
- Cops Need Buffalo Management Training
This is old news but the photo is timeless…
PIKESVILLE, Md., April 26, 2006- You could forgive the police in Baltimore County for feeling more like ranchers than officers on Tuesday morning.
Instead of hunting criminals, they were chasing a herd of bison that escaped from a farm and roamed through several affluent neighborhoods for two hours. [...]
- Harbor Seals return to New York Harbor
To the surprise of many, in 2006, Harbor Seals returned to New York Bay . Even the shocked curator of the New York Aquarium suggesting that they were healthy when comparing them to healthy sausage.
“Look at them,” marveled Paul L. Sieswerda, the curator of the New York Aquarium. “They’re like bags of meat. They’re huge.”
Anyone [...]
