The Iconic Floating Forest of Sydney
Spooky, odditycentral.comThere are a lot of shipwrecks in Sydney’s Homebush Bay, near the Olympic village, but none quite like the SS Ayrfield, also known as “The Floating Forest” for the lush mangrove vegetation that now covers its rusty hull.The SS Ayrfield (originally…
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How China Will Eat Your Lunch
Kenneth Rapoza, forbes.comChina is like the sun melting the north pole ice cap. Every day, every year, fresh water drips into the sea. It’s gradual, but it’s noticeable.
“China is going to eat your lunch. They’re going to make your food more costly to produce. They’…
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Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high
Where knowledge is free
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
By narrow domestic walls
Where words come out from the depth of truth
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
Into the dreary desert sand of dead habit
Where the mind is led forward by thee
Into ever-widening thought and action
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.
Detailed Urban Landscape Images Are Actually Ultra-Realistic Paintings
Spooky, odditycentral.comNathan Walsh is an English realist painter who specializes in urban landscapes. He pays tribute to some of the world’s most beautiful cities, like New York, Chicago or London, through photo-realistic paintings of various urban locations.Nathan is…
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The 20 Hottest Startups From The World’s 2nd-Biggest Startup Factory – Israel
Julie Bort, businessinsider.comIsrael calls itself the “startup nation.” Israelis say that technology is the country’s No. 1 export.
By some counts, Israel is home to 4,800 startups today. It’s also home to least two dozen accelerator/incubator programs in the Tel Aviv…
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Hungry Planet: What the World Eats - in pictures
guardian.co.ukCalifornian photographer Peter Menzel visited 24 countries for the book Hungry Planet. From the Aboubakar family, from Darfur, Sudan, who spend 79p feeding four generations, to a German family who spend around £320, his work shows how much the…
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The Ultimate Wine-Pairing Infographic
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.comRed with beef. White with fish. But what do we do about Malvasia and brussel sprouts?
I’ve never understood brussel sprouts. Oh, they’re delicious, roasted in a cast iron pan with big hunks of garlic. But I’ve tried reds, and I’ve tried…
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An Anti-Abuse Ad With A Secret Message Only Children Can See
Gregory Ferenstein, techcrunch.comIn order to discreetly reach abused children, one aid organization designed a clever billboard that only displays a hotline number for people shorter than 4’5″. The secret is a precisely serrated surface, a Lenticular lens, that…
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The Money Shot
By Kara Swisher Photograph by Jonas Fredwall Karlsson, vanityfair.comThe sale of Instagram to Facebook for a cool billion in the spring of 2012 was the ultimate Silicon Valley fairy tale: 18 months from launch to offer. But, for co-founder and C.E.O. Kevin Systrom, it was more of a roller-coaster ride, with…
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