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The Car-Puccino, Coffee Powered Vehicle
by Admin on Mar 9th, 2010
At first view on this I was thinking how it is nice and eco-friendly to have such car that runs on coffee, then It reminded me that one cup of coffee cost as same as one liter of gasoline. Here you can see the car that runs on coffee and its name is Car-puccino. It is actually modified Volkswagen Scirocco from 1988. The constructor of this machine claims that the car will be driven from Manchester to London using the power of roasted coffe...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, Organic, green
Wooden Obsession: Complete House Interior Made From Wood
by Admin on Feb 28th, 2010
Wood is really nice material to build anything that is touchable and I have seen a lot of different wooden house interiors but this one is way more bizarre of all of them. Venetian sculptor Livio De Marchi wasn't satisfied only with regular furniture that can be made from wood, he decided to make almost everything in his house from wood and as you can see from following photos he done that pretty well. If you look in his wardrobe which...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, green
Animal Sculptures Made of Hundreds of Plastic Pieces
by Admin on Feb 23rd, 2010
Sayaka Kajita Ganz is an artist that creates amazing unique sculptures made from a different plastic pieces like spoons, forks, toys and similar. She creates sculptures of different animals from a thousands of plastic pieces. The final result is amazing. She says that she creates those sculptures from a different discarded objects from peoples' houses. She claims that the fact that those objects were part of other peoples' lives before she t...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, green
Inexpensive Home Built With Recycled Containers
by Admin on Feb 9th, 2010
Building a home that is inexpensive and unique in same time is real challenge today. A perfect example how home can be built with less money is this house which is designed by architects Claire Helene Drouin and Jean Marie Sanchez. The entire house is built with 15 recycled shipping containers. After it is finished, you would never notice that it is built from containers and it has a very fashionable design. This home is built in Marseille, F...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Environment, green
Beautiful Home Built From Recycled Materials
by Admin on Jan 27th, 2010
Those people have decided to create something unique and something that you don't see everyday and yet it is cheap and it is built from a recycled materials. This house is one of the examples how home can be built without spending much money. This house has been built from a cheap recycled materials. But those people are not just savvy they are also pretty creative, you can see how some of the walls, doors and roof are mosaic-like decorat...Read More » Tags
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Two tons of ivory seized in eastern Africa
by Admin on Dec 1st, 2009
African authorities raided shops, intercepted vehicles at checkpoints and used sniffer dogs to detect and seize over 3,800 pounds (1,768 kilograms) of illegal elephant ivory in a six-nation operation, Interpol and the Kenya Wildlife Service said Monday. During the three-month-long operation, authorities also seized leopard, crocodile and snake skins, among other illegal animal products, said Awad Dahia, Interpol's eastern Africa chief. Dah...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Research, Science
Nanotechnology – A Boon For Medical Science
by Admin on Nov 30th, 2009
Nanotechnology, or more affectionately nicknamed as nanotech, is a field of research that deals with controlling matter on an atomic or molecular level. This has multiple applications that range anywhere from electronics, to energy production, to engineering, to physics, and even to medicine. In the field of medicine alone, nanotech is giving rise to tools and possible applications that are now being streamlined to focus on finding and eradi...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Research
Insider: Who were the Anasazi?
by Admin on Nov 30th, 2009
Welcome to the dark side of the moon," says Taft Blackhorse. He and fellow Navajo Nation archaeologist John Stein are showing me the desolate and windswept site of Kin Klizhin, or "Black Charcoal" in Navajo. The lonely, multistory masonry structure, or "great house," is our first stop in Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. The two have brought me here to explain the origins of the ancient people known as the Anasazi...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Animals, Environment, Research
Mammoth dung has proved to be a source of prehistoric information
by Admin on Nov 30th, 2009
Mammoth dung has proved to be a source of prehistoric information, helping scientists unravel the mystery of what caused the great mammals to die out. An examination of a fungus that is found in the ancient dung and preserved in lake sediments has helped build a picture of what happened to the beasts.The study sheds light on the ecological consequences of the extinction and the role that humans may have played in it.Researchers describe this ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Animals
Arowanas oldest fish species
by Admin on Nov 29th, 2009
Arowanas were the oldest fish species for over 160 million years, from the late Triassic period about 230 million years ago until the end of the Cretaceous period 65 million years ago. Arowanas are freshwater bony fish. In this family of fishes, the head is bony and the elongate body is covered by large, heavy scales, with a mosaic pattern of canals. The dorsal and the anal fins have soft rays and are long based, while the pectoral and ventral fi...Read More » Tags
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