Mar 13
Those intrepid Googlers
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Mar 12
Human civilization has littered the natural terrain with sprawling megastructures too big to be entirely seen from the ground. But when seen from above, isolated from their surroundings—as in the work of Jenny O’Dell—these vast tangles of organized chaos will wreak even more havoc on your sense of scale.
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Mar 09
A 40-foot wall of ice reaches down to the high-tide line at Acadia National Park in Maine, proving t
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A 40-foot wall of ice reaches down to the high-tide line at Acadia National Park in Maine, proving that as cool as artificial ice climbing walls are
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Mar 06
Swedish and American researchers have successfully engineered plants to produce chemical attractants like those released by insects to find mates. They say their plant factories could be used to lure and trap nuisance bugs as an environmentally friendly alternative to pesticides and synthetically produced attractants.
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Feb 28
If you think every possible use for drones has been thoroughly exhausted, you’re wrong. This clever photographer figured out that the hovering crafts would be perfect for lighting his mysterious scenes from the sky.
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Feb 26
Artist Allan Wexler‘s most recent work—going on display March 29th at New York’s Ronald Feldman Fine Arts gallery—explores architecture purified down to its most basic conceptual elements. There are foundation pits and walls, yawning excavations and the cubic masses that are pulled from them.
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Feb 26
If you’ve ever made a trans-Atlantic call—or, heck, used the internet—then you might like to know a few things about the ocean floor. Mighty but enigmatic underwater rivers flow along the ocean bed. And it’s telecommunications companies, who have to lay thick cables for transoceanic phone and internet connections, with perhaps the most to worry about when it comes to mapping those rivers.
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Feb 21
The world is vast and travel budgets finite, so looking for deforestation as it’s happening all over the world is nigh impossible. That is, of course, unless you have an all seeing eye in the sky—and, hey, you know what, there are satellites orbiting over all of our heads right now. Global Forest Watch is a new, near real-time forest monitoring system from World Resources Institute, Google, and another 40-odd partner organizations.
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Feb 20
The design and fabrication of artificial ice-climbing structures is an incredibly creative yet widely overlooked form of experimental architecture. The resulting constructions are often astonishing: ice-covered loops, ledges, branches, and towers reminiscent of the playful 1960s experiments of Archigram, yet serving as some of the most spatially interesting athletic venues in all of today’s professional sports.
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Feb 18
Worrying about the Big One is so passé. What you should really be worried about are the Big ONES. Yep: chances are, it won’t be a single large earthquake that takes California out, it will be multiple, large earthquakes. Or perhaps you’d prefer to use the official Sharknado-esque term: "earthquake storms."
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