September 2010
36 posts
Solar One and Solar Two →
Solar One and Solar Two
Decommissioned experimental solar facilities that pioneered solar energy technology Out in the Mojave Desert, the glint of the hundreds of reflectors at solar power…
Banff Springs Hotel →
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I miss the Canadian Rockies
Banff Springs Hotel
Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies
A former Canadian Pacific Railway hotel built in the…
Santa Cova of Montserrat →
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I visited this place, the photo here doesn’t do it justice.
Santa Cova of Montserrat
Holy Grotto of Montserrat Monastery holds one of Europe’s mysterious black Madonnas
Modestly cradled into the side of a steep mountain lies one of the most venerated shrines in Spain: The Santa Cova of Montserrat.
Massive Fish Kill in Mississippi Not Due to BP... →
Photo via Stuff Biologists from the Louisiana Fish & Wildlife Department have determined that a massive fish kill that occurred in the mouth of the Mississippi River — that resulted in…
Odessa Catacombs →
Odessa Catacombs
The largest Catacomb system in the world is a very bad place to get lost in… In Odessa, when someones waterline suddenly breaks, or a house settles oddly, or a family…
Yoko Ono Takes a Weekly Hot Seat on Twitter ::... →
Images of alcohol under a microscope →
This is an image of tequila under a microscope with 1000x magnification. Unclear whether this is well tequila or god’s piss. Time magazine has more micrographs of libations. “What Booze…
Human Impacts on Deep Sea Floor Measured for First... →
Image via SkyTruth We know that bottom trawling — the practice of dragging a net across the sea floor to collect anything and everything in…Read the full story on TreeHugger
Jean-Luc Godard donates €1K for accused MP3... →
My French is very rusty, and there doesn’t seem to be any coverage of this story yet in English-language news… but apparently, the great French-Swiss film director Jean-Luc Godard (above)…
Are air fresheners bad for the environment? - By... →
A Technical Look At Termite Mounts Foretells... →
Gulf Oil Spill Threatens Extinction of World's... →
Defining Normal In The Brain - Science News →
A Cellular Secret To Long Life - Science News →
The Hunchback Of Central Spain - Science News →
Daley Mulls a Big Back to the Future Move for the... →
Chicago Riverwalk photo by Multisanti.
Just because the Mayor is on his way out, does not mean he is out of big ideas for the City. He let loose a doozy with the Trib yesterday. The
Chicago Has Drilled 109 Miles of Mammoth Tunnels... →
Chicago’s mechanized subterranean restructuring project, TARP (Tunnel And Reservoir Plan), has bored out a massive complex of manmade caverns. The goal? To prevent flooding and sewage overflow…
Turtles Eating Things →
My favorite new one-note-samba image blog: Turtles Eating Things. There’s a Facebook Fan page, too. I like turtles. (via @seanbonner and @quarrygirl)
Fire tornado photos →
This is a fire tornado that emerged from a brush fire on Sunday near Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano. National Geographic posted a gallery of amazing shots of these strange blazing whirlwinds….
Fall Spectacular: Elk Once Again Bugle In Great... →
Editor’s note: [i] What started out as an experiment in 2001 is now considered a success.
Abstract: A male elk ambles through the field checking his harem. He sidles up to each cow and…
A Village Sacrificed For China's Greater Good :... →
Big Bertha Drum →
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Another relic from UChicago’s past
Big Bertha Drum
Controversially claiming the title of world’s biggest bass drum, UT’s Big Bertha was once made radioactive by the…
Tree Cathedral →
Tree Cathedral
Natural cathedral designed by Italian artist Giuliano Mauri The Italian artist Giuliano Mauri was known for creating “natural architecture” by blending organic materials such…
Elephants: India's New "National Heritage Animal"... →
Photo: Elephant being bathed in a temple in Thrissur (K.C. Sowmish via The Hindu) As long-standing icons of its unique cultural psyche, India’s threatened elephants are finally getting the…
Why Starved Flies Need Less Sleep - Science News →