When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable trophic cascade
occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix — via Youtube
If you can’t afford a midcentury gem, you can always invest in one for your feathered friends, courtesy of these midcentury-style birdhouses by KoolBird. The only downside here is (perhaps with the exception of price) is deciding which one to opt for. There are 10 designs in the range.
All are handmade (which perhaps accounts for the price), all are eco-friendly, made from a variety of tropical hardwoods sourced from offcuts via tropical hardwood floor manufacturers and all are available to buy online in limited numbers.
Prices start at around £89 — via Retro To Go
Public Art originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Adam Savage shares his notes chronicling his build of The Overlook Hotel Maze from The Shining — via Tested
Tibouchina originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Golden dewdrop (Duranta erecta) originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Rooster, Little Black Duck, Thor, Whizzer and African Four Horn Sheep originally uploaded by Red Wolf
The HTML5 Drum Machine borrows its aesthetics from classic beat boxes like the TR-808 Rhythm Composer. It’s got five different sound banks: Hip hop, electro, house, techno, and acoustic. Each bank has 13 different sounds for which you can tweak the individual volume and tone. Pick your bank, hit play, and lay down your instruments on the 16-step sequencer interface that runs across the bottom. After you’ve laid down your beat, you can export it as a WAV — via Gizmodo Australia
Four 16-week-old Cheetah cubs push the limits of their mother’s patience every day at Florida’s White Oak Conservation Centre — via ZooBorns
At the SAMO space for contemporary art in Italy, the inventive art collective Truly Design have transformed a simple concrete hanger into a B-Movie set, as a giant jungle green coloured octopus spreads it eight tentacles over pillars and the ceiling. They use the space provided to them in ingenious ways, as the dips and cracks of the hanger become places to create perspective illusions — via Illusion Magazine
Visiting Huntsman originally uploaded by Red Wolf
How far down would you have to dig before you came to the centre of the Earth? And what would you find along the way? BBC Future descends into the depths
The French Interior Ministry on Monday ordered that five websites be blocked on the grounds that they promote or advocate terrorism. I do not want to see sites that could lead people to take up arms on the Internet,
proclaimed Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
When the block functions properly, visitors to those banned sites, rather than accessing the content of the sites they chose to visit, will be automatically redirected to the Interior Ministry website. There, they will be greeted by a graphic of a large red hand, and text informing them that they were attempting to access a site that causes or promotes terrorism: you are being redirected to this official website since your computer was about to connect with a page that provokes terrorist acts or condones terrorism publicly
.
No judge reviews the Interior Ministry’s decisions. The minister first requests that the website owner voluntarily remove the content he deems transgressive; upon disobedience, the minister unilaterally issues the order to Internet service providers for the sites to be blocked. This censorship power is vested pursuant to a law recently enacted in France empowering the interior minister to block websites.
Forcibly taking down websites deemed to be supportive of terrorism, or criminalizing speech deemed to advocate
terrorism, is a major trend in both Europe and the West generally. Last month in Brussels, the European Union’s counter-terrorism coordinator issued a memo proclaiming that Europe is facing an unprecedented, diverse and serious terrorist threat
, and argued that increased state control over the Internet is crucial to combating it — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A Constitutional Lawyer
Originally aired on ABC TV: 19/03/2015 — via Youtube
Former Liberal prime minister Malcolm Fraser has been remembered as a giant of Australian politics
and a great moral compass
following his death early on Friday morning at the age of 84.
It is with deep sadness that we inform you that after a brief illness, John Malcolm Fraser died peacefully in the early hours of the morning of 20 March, 2015,
a statement released by his office said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Photo: William West/AFP/Getty Images
Golden dewdrop (Duranta erecta) and Lichen originally uploaded by Red Wolf
Squid — via Quantum Creative Glass
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