Good old geothermal plants generate power using water heated by hot rocks deep underground. But what if we could get energy directly from the seething magma down below? In Iceland, an accidental discovery let scientists actually stick a pipe into magma to test this idea—and the results of their experiment has just been published in the journal Geothermics.
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A lawsuit that halted a new highway in Iceland was filed on behalf of elves. The road construction project is now being delayed until Iceland’s Supreme Court rules on a case from Friends of Lava, a group concerned about destruction to elf and wildlife habitats. Their ideas may not be as bizarre as it first appears.
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Aww, look at the cute little kitty candles… Now light them up and enjoy their warming glow.
Now watch in horror as their tiny insides are slowly revealed…
These nightmare-inducing candles, titled The Devil’s Pet were conceptualized by Icelandic artist Thorunn Arnadottir using a tiny aluminum skeleton inside of a wax casting.
Sweet little kittens are transformed in a fire. Crawling from the ashes come forth grinning metallic devils with sharp claws and fire blazing in their eyes.
Now that’s quite a visual.
Due to popular demand, Thorunn plans on producing these candles via a Kickstarter campaign in the near future. If you’re interested in grabbing some once they’re available, hit this link to sign up for the artist’s newsletter. It’s too bad they won’t be ready for Halloween. Oh well, there’s always next year.
[via Excused from This via Everything Floats]
You can travel every inch of this world and probably travel every inch of the galaxy and you’d find very few places more beautiful than Iceland. Even alien paradises don’t look this good. Stian Rekdal covered over 3,000 miles and took more than 40,000 photos of Iceland over three weeks to cook this time lapse video up and it’s so worth it. More efficient than combing through the entire universe to find something better. [Stian Rekdal via Laughing Squid]
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After making a run for it from Sweden to Greenland, and then finding that Greenland really didn’t want a bunch of pirates plundering its waters, Iceland seems happy to have the Pirate Bay. So, time to update your bookmarks: ThePirateBay.is is TPB’s new home. More »
If there’s one thing we’ve learned about Iceland this year, it’s that they’re not big fans of Internet pornography. But one thing we could have done without is the fact the country suffers from potentially having accidental incest as the entire country has a population of only 320,000, which means you’re bound to bump into someone your related to more often then not.
An app called IslendigaApp, which translates to “App of Icelanders,” is trying to help the country from accidentally falling in love with a relative by allowing its users to “bump” their phones together to see if they’re in any way related. If the app senses they’re closely related, it emits a warning alarm, although we’re not sure just how much of a deterrent that will be if a distant cousin of yours is smoking hot. (more…)
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I believe it was Trekkie Monster from the broadway show Avenue Q that said “The Internet is for porn,” although Iceland is looking to ban pornography completely as they say the explicit online images are a threat to the children of its country.
Advisor to Iceland’s Interior Minister Halla Gunnarsdottir says many of the country’s experts ranging from those in education, emergency services and others that work with children have come together to work on the banning of Internet pornography. (more…)
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“If we can send a man to the moon, we must be able to tackle porn on the internet.” Those are the now immortal words of Halla Gunnarsdóttir, the political advisor to Iceland’s Interior Minister Ögmundur Jónasson. Iceland wants to block all internet porn. More »
The card game “Go Fish” isn’t named that way because it has anything to do with fish. Its name is inspired by the act of “fishing” another card out of the pile when the other player doesn’t have the card you’re looking for. But in Iceland, Go Fish is literally about fish – at least if you buy this deck.
Artist Stefán Pétur Sólveigarson created this quirky deck of cards that’s been covered with images of a diverse range of aquatic species. And the cards don’t just teach you to identify the fish, it teaches you how to prepare and cook them. You know the old saying “give a man a fish, he’ll eat for a day; teach him to fish, he’ll eat for a lifetime?” That’s what these cards are all about – or at least teaching him how to cook fish.
You can reel in a deck of these literal Go Fish cards over at the Reykjavik Corner Store for $14.90(USD).
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