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The Book Surgeon
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed.
Fly Ranch, Reno NV
Fly Ranch features two geysers, one of which is dormant. The other, Fly Geyser, was accidentally formed by a water well drill that hit a geothermal source, and continuously sprays hot water. Fly Ranch is private property and does not allow visitors.
I really really really need to see this, somehow, some day.
26 of the most ridiculous aircraft ever made
These things all actually flew!
There are 24 more… Amazing.
The most alien-looking place on Earth
Socotra, Republic of Yemen:
It is very isolated with a harsh, dry climate and as a result a third of its plant-life is found nowhere else, including the famous Dragon’s Blood Tree, a very-unnatural looking umbrella-shaped tree which produces red sap. There are also a large number of birds, spiders and other animals native to the island, and coral reefs around it which similarly have a large number of endemic (i.e. only found there) species. Socotra is considered the most biodiverse place in the Arabian sea, and is a World Heritage Site.
Look at those awesome juicy plant lumplings!! Like something out of Dr Seuss. I WANT to be there.
Nooooooo waaaaay!
Yes way. Yes. They are all real.
Disturbing Pregnancy Photos
The pics are kinda small. I found I could click on them and drag them into the address bar and they enlarged to their original sizes. But I promise this wont make them any less disturbing.
The Door To Hell
The Door to Hell, as local residents at the nearby town of Darvaza have dubbed it, is a 70 meter wide crater in Turkmenistan that has been burning continuously for 35 years. In 1971, geologists drilling for gas deposits uncovered a huge underground cavern, which caused the ground over it to collapse, taking down all their equipment and their camp with it. Since the cavern was filled poisonous gas, they dared not go down to retrieve their equipment, and to prevent the gas escaping they ignited it, hoping it would burn itself out in a couple of days. Unfortunately, there was a slight miscalculation as to the amount of gas that was trapped, and the crater continues to burn to this day.
You can see it on Google Earth at 40°15′8″N 58°26′23″E
I think it’s worth visiting in this lifetime. Perhaps.
Goodbye Marjanne
Marjanne left today for San Francisco :’( Yesterday I made her a braid with handed down Seawolf Medicine to keep her safe on her travels (photos). Just as I was about to take a photo a little sweetie stopped by to lick her with butterfly luck… he came back later again and hung out with her for an hour while she walked around and did stuff.
Bon Voyage Beautiful!
Limits
Chad – this one’s for you:
I love RADIOLAB! A subject that has been on my mind a lot the past few years or so is finding out what I am capable of. What we can endure and overcome. I believe that deep down all of us have the potential to be top athletes or thinkers or something beyond the bounds of normal strength when we tap into those reserves, when we push ourselves past what feels like the limit. For the past few years I have been curious to know what I can endure, what I can overcome. I don’t really know why except just to know.
The RadioLab podcast LIMITS revealed some interesting things to me that I will use in future to reach my full potential.
How much can you jam into a human brain? How far can you push yourself past feelings of exhaustion? In this hour of Radiolab, we examine human limits.
The Electric Hotel
I DREAM of a visit to this wonderland…
“In the midst of an urban wasteland, crowded with jagged, thick-set metal cast-offs, there sits a chunk of elsewhere. Announcing itself as the Electric Hotel is a four-storey, glass-fronted building bejeweled with the sort of winking neon signs that entice passing tourists, preying on their naivety with glitter and dazzle. It’s almost as if the structure has been wrenched from its Costa del Sol or Copacabana foundations. Light and sound cue the start of a piece of total theatre, a beautiful, meditative and eerie exploration of isolation and violence seen through the eyes of voyeurs.”
“The hotel itself is built from six 40 foot high cube shipping containers which were all hacked apart to fit the floor to ceiling windows, stairwells and larger rooms. And although there is a well documented experience of shipping containers being turned into a variety of different buildings, there are few examples where the finished building then gets broken down into its component parts, driven across the country to get put together again in less than three days as the Electric Hotel has experienced now three times.”
Parasitic Guerrilla Architecture Hijacks the Arche de la Défense
Ooh I really really REALLY like this!!!!
Protect the Western Arctic Reserve From Big Oil
The Western Arctic Reserve, also known as the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, is the largest tract of unprotected, relatively pristine public land in the United States. The 23.5 million-acre reserve is home to imperiled polar bears, seabirds and one of the densest populations of nesting raptors in the world. Its shores and lagoons harbor beluga whales, seals, walruses and other marine mammals. The BLM is accepting comments on a planning document that sets the stage for oil and gas leasing in the western Arctic for decades to come. Help save this national treasure by telling the BLM to protect the Western Arctic Reserve from dirty fossil fuel development »
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