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7 unconventional and creative ways to recycle

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:04:50 GMT

clipped by: Aribeth

Clip Source: www.environmentalgraffiti.com

here are seven ways to make recycling a visible impact

7. The Walking Bike

This invention from Max Knight is a creative way to use old shoes.

Of course, you have to be willing to give up your hand brakes, but it’s a small price to pay to ride in such amazing style. The bike even has socks!

6. Pop Art Duck

5. The Washing Machine Spaceship

This alien-looking craft is, believe it or not, made entirely out of refrigerators and washing machines, dishwashers and garbage compactors.

4. A 2-liter Paradise: Build Your Own Island

looks like a fairly normal island, doesn’t it?

Why, you’d never suspect that it’s covering a floating heap of trash, thousands of plastic bottles in bags, held together with a bamboo frame, the island is 66 by 54 feet and can support a two-story house!

3. The Beer Bottle Buildings

a way to create odd works of pop art while building a brutally tough structure

2. Garbage Architecture

1. The Trashosaurus

this is a dinosaur made entirely out of garbage

weighs one ton

Tags: environment, green, design, cool

The New Acropolis Museum

Tue, 06 May 2008 10:27:00 GMT

clipped by: Charolastra
clipper's remarks: http://www.newacropolismuseum.gr/eng/
http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=537580
http://www.uk.digiserve.com/mentor/marbles/museum.htm

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

] “No sane architect,” Nicolai Ouroussoff writes, “would want to invite comparisons between his building and the Parthenon. So it comes as little surprise that the New Acropolis Museum, which stands at the foot of one of the great achievements of human history, is a quiet work, especially by the standards of its flamboyant Swiss-born architect, Bernard Tschumi. But in mastering his ego, Mr. Tschumi pulled off an impressive accomplishment: a building that is both an enlightening meditation on the Parthenon and a mesmerizing work in its own right. I can’t remember seeing a design that is so eloquent about another work of architecture.”

Tags: athens, acropolis, parthenon, museum, art

Unbelievable x-rays - lucky to be alive?

Wed, 07 May 2008 09:47:34 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Yikes!

Clip Source: fundivision.net

Lucky To Be Alive

Leonard Woronowicz, 63, had such a terrible headache that he was forced to go the hospital to check it out. The doctors pulled out a 12 cm long blade from his head.

The construction worker Isidro Meija, 39, from California accidentally slipped and shot himself with a nail gun in 2004.

Shafique El-Fahkri, 19, got a chair leg straight through his eye during a bar fight last year. He recovered 95 % of his eyesight.

Without noticing it Patrick Lawler shot himself with a nail gun in the head.

The construction worker Ron Hunt fell from a ladder onto the drill in California

Morgan Andersson, 34, from Sweden accidentally swallowed a nail.

Tags: accidents, bizarre, medical, doctor, surgery, x-ray

Why Does the Brain Need So Much Power?

Wed, 07 May 2008 11:06:21 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.sciam.com

It is well established that the brain uses more energy than any other human organ, accounting for up to 20 percent of the body's total haul. Until now, most scientists believed that it used the bulk of that energy to fuel electrical impulses that neurons employ to communicate with one another. Turns out, though, that is only part of the story.

A new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA indicates that two thirds of the brain's energy budget is used to help neurons or nerve cells "fire'' or send signals. The remaining third, however, is used for what study co-author Wei Chen, a radiologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School, refers to as "housekeeping," or cell-health maintenance.

Their goal: to determine whether ATP production is linked to brain activity by measuring the energy expended during different levels of consciousness.

Sure enough, ATP levels appeared to vary with brain activity

Tags: brain, power, energy, atp, consciousness

21 Excuses for not Having Sex

Wed, 07 May 2008 14:34:20 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: — You can’t stop thinking about all the stuff you have to do tomorrow, and what you really want to do is find a pencil and a piece of paper.
— You have your teeth-whitening equipment in.
— You are bloody tired.
— You have hiccups.
— He hasn’t shaved.
— You think the heating might still be on. It is unbelievably hot.
— It is too cold to risk the duvet moving at all.

Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Clip Source: women.timesonline.co.uk

— You were in the mood an hour ago, then he insisted on watching more TV, and now all you can think about is Heather Mills and gifted children.

— He has been remiss. You can’t remember exactly how, but it was earlier, and you are still angry.

— You have drunk the perfect amount and now feel peculiar – any movement could provoke nausea.

— He doesn’t seem to be as keen as he should be, and if he is waiting for you to demonstrate keenness, which he may be, then you thought of it first.

— You are worrying about early-onset Alzheimer’s, particularly on account of the keys-left-in-the-front-door incident.

— You have noticed a large crack in the bedroom ceiling. This has led you into a spiral of self-loathing because of the decorating that still needs to be done

— You accidentally watched a documentary on Five called How to be Averagely Good in Bed by 21st-Century Standards, and it has taken the wind out of your sails.

— The dog is looking.

— You think you have a heart murmur.

Tags: sex, health, humour, humor

Best Online documentaries

Wed, 07 May 2008 01:03:46 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver

Clip Source: www.bodocus.com

Tags: documentaries

Thomas Jefferson's Warning

Wed, 07 May 2008 21:44:24 GMT

clipped by: willhelm
clipper's remarks: "As this power passes from each individual to a central governing power, individual freedom and liberty is snuffed out, replaced with an arbitrary economic equality as defined, confiscated via progressive taxation and redistributed by those who seek the political power to rule over the lives of others."

Serfdom

Clip Source: therant.us

Jefferson warned, “I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.”

Yet by 2008, our government has perfected the art of wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.

As American soldiers die to guarantee others around the world, the right to individual self-determination, average Americans back home are trading their individual right of self-determination for an alleged greater good, the right to the earnings of others, in the name of economic equality.

Americans are passing their individual powers to define and pursue individual economic conditions to the state, the federal bureaucracy, under the guise of a greater communal good, whereby the state becomes the central arbiter of individual worth.

Audrey Hepburn

Tue, 06 May 2008 17:39:19 GMT

clipped by: JohnWaterman

Clip Source: www.audreyhepburn.com

10 Insulting Words You Should Know

Tue, 06 May 2008 19:39:34 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: Cacafuego Synonyms: BLATHERSKITE, BRAGGADOCIO, FANFARON, GASCONADER, and RODOMONTADE. See analysis of the other words at the site.

Clip Source: www.neatorama.com

There is a crisis of insults on the Web. On one hand, the volume of flames is very high yet the quality is poor.

Gone are the days of the razor-sharp wit of Oscar Wilde and Winston Churchill*, only to be replaced by a string of four letter words typed in ALL CAPS by n00bs

10 Insulting Words You Should Know:

1. FRENCHIFY

Definition: 1) To make French in quality or trait 2) To make somewhat effeminate, and 3) To contract a veneral disease (a 19th century slang).

2. BESCUMBER

Definition: To spray with poo.

3. MICROPHALLUS

Definition: An unusually small penis.

4. COCCYDYNIA

Definition: Pain in the butt.

5. NINNYHAMMER

Definition: A fool or a silly person.

6. BUNCOMBE

Definition

bullshit or nonsense.

7. HIRCISMUS

Definition: Offensive armpit odor.

8. CORPULENT

Definition: Very fat.

9. FEIST or FICE

Definition: 1) A small dog of uncertain ancestry, a mongrel. 2) A person of little worth or someone with a bad temper, and 3) Silent fart.

10. CACAFUEGO

Definition: A swaggering braggart or boaster.

Tags: humor, humour, words, english, scatological tinntinnabulations

Scientists find something good about a big bottom

Wed, 07 May 2008 07:28:55 GMT

clipped by: Deepti
clipper's remarks: Researchers have known for some time that fat that collects in the abdomen -- known as visceral fat -- can raise a person's risk of diabetes and heart disease, while people with pear-shaped bodies, with fat deposits in the buttocks and hips, are less prone to these disorders

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

A type of fat that accumulates around the hips and bottom may actually offer some protection against diabetes, U.S. researchers said

They said subcutaneous fat, or fat that collects under the skin, helped to improve sensitivity to the hormone insulin

Mice that got transplants of this type of fat deep into their abdomens lost weight and their fat cells shrank, even though they made no changes in their diet or activity levels

it turns out that subcutaneous fat -- fat found just under the skin -- may be actively protecting people from metabolic disease

Dr. Ronald Kahn

started the study to find out why fat located in different parts of the body seems to have different risks of metabolic disease such as diabetes

Kahn's team is working to find the substances produced in subcutaneous fat that provide the benefit with the hope of developing a drug that might copy this effect

Although fat is known to produce several hormones, Kahn said none of the known hormones appeared to be involved in this process

Tags: fat, bottom, disease, research, study, benefit

Scientists provide explanation for how cancer spreada

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:44:17 GMT

clipped by: Silkweaver

Clip Source: physorg.com

Metastasis, the spread of cancer throughout the body, can be explained by the fusion of a cancer cell with a white blood cell in the original tumor, according to Yale School of Medicine researchers, who say that this single event can set the stage for cancer’s migration to other parts of the body.

Their work was Published in the May issue of Nature Reviews Cancer. The studies, spanning 15 years, have revealed that the newly formed hybrid of the cancer cell and white blood cell adapts the white blood cell’s natural ability to migrate around the body, while going through the uncontrolled cell division of the original cancer cell. This causes a metastatic cell to emerge, which like a white blood cell, can migrate through tissue, enter the circulatory system and travel to other organs.

“This is a unifying explanation for metastasis

“To date, the fusion theory and the considerable evidence supporting it have largely been overlooked by the cancer research community,” said Pawelek.

Tags: medicine, cancer

The artist who brings walls to life

Tue, 06 May 2008 16:16:21 GMT

clipped by: michellezm

Clip Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

The artist meticulously spends up to 19 hours copying the design from the wall-covering onto the naked women.

Her models then stand against the surface to create a striking 3D 'human wallpaper' effect.

Real wallflower: body artist Emma Hack spends up to 19 hours painting her models to blend in with the patterns on the wallpaper

The incredible images were created by self-taught body artist Emma, 35, who lives in Adelaide, Australia.

She scrupulously paints the patterns onto her models by hand until they seamlessly blend into their background.

"It can be exhausting for myself and my models," she says.

Emma is a veteran body artist who's been in the trade for over 20 years, making a living from painting bodies for adverts, events and exhibitions.

More of Emma's work can be seen on www.emmahack.com.au.

'Being stared at was all I ever knew'

Tue, 06 May 2008 20:08:44 GMT

clipped by: CrazyRedHead
clipper's remarks: In 1993, Paul Tessier, the "grandfather" of cranio-facial surgery, performed a massive procedure on him in Paris to bring his eyes closer together and lower his eyebrows. Before the operation, Adam overheard Tessier saying to his anaesthetist in French, "We're entering a patch of fog without a compass."

Clip Source: lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk

Christian Constantine was born with the severest facial deformities his doctors had ever seen. Since a baby, he has been through more than 35 agonising operations to rebuild his features.

"I didn't know anything was wrong until Christian was born and I saw my doctor's eyes," she says. "Then they put me to sleep again immediately. I didn't see him for three days. Not until the nurses said, 'First we're going to show a Polaroid picture of baby to mummy.' That's when I insisted on actually seeing him. He was very wrong-looking indeed. But I felt love at first sight."

The doctors were mystified. The bones of Christian's face had stopped forming prematurely,

his eyes were too far apart and his eyebrows abnormally high, and a severe cleft lip and palate, leaving the roof of his mouth open and the top gum exposed.

the doctors were particularly concerned that the frontal lobe of his brain had been damaged by the cleft, which went up to his forehead.

Tags: courage, birth defects, science, child, health