Five furry European Grey Wolf pups made their debut last week at Scotland’s Highland Wildlife Park. Born on 25 May to mum Elara and dad Puika, the still-shy six-week-old pups are starting to explore their forested habitat, aptly named Wolf Wood. It’s been 12 years since Wolves were born at the park — via ZooBorns
Called Scoro
, it’s owned by Berliner Sven Wedemeyer. Sven started making changes as soon as he bought this Moto Guzzi Le Mans Mark III. My love for cafe racers is huge, so I decided to rebuild it,
he says. For me, it’s about sound, feeling and style
— via Bike EXIF
This is a building of a textile planning and trading company which handles the entire process from the production to retail. The site is well located on the corner plot near the fashionable city Harajuku
. The client had been focusing on female apparel business, so the concept of our building design [Takato Tamagami] which is a metaphor of female beauty was suitable for them to put across their corporate identity — via ArchDaily
On 27 May this little Lynx kitten was born at the Montreal Biodome. The baby is growing very quickly — just this week it opened its eyes and as of today it weighs 1.135 kg. Having recently started to pad around with it’s relatively big paws, the kitten is showing great curiosity about its surroundings. Its mother is very protective and keeps a careful watch over her little one. In the wild, young stay with their mothers for about nine months before they go out on their own — via ZooBorns
the housing for the 100 inch telescope is really the most amazing and visually striking (probably cos it’s the biggest) part of mt wilson. even though it’s kind of old it still looks like the future. or at least the future that i grew up loving and revering (filled with scientists and benevolent robots, as opposed to 4 year olds drinking mountain dew playing angry birds in the back of a mini-van).
oh, to put it in context: mt wilson observatory is an observatory at the top of mt wilson, located in the million acre angeles national forest, about an hour from where i live — via Moby Los Angeles Architecture Blog
Tigers at a zoo in Denmark have killed a man after he climbed a fence and crossed a moat to enter their enclosure.
Keepers at Copenhagen Zoo found his body early on Wednesday morning, surrounded by three tigers, a police spokesman said.
The man appeared to be in his early 20s and may have entered the enclosure in order to commit suicide, police said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A South Yarra cosmetic surgeon is among a handful of medical practitioners who could be hauled before a disciplinary panel for selling discounted breast enhancements, liposuction and other cosmetic surgery on daily deal coupon websites, such as Groupon.
Dr Josef Goldbaum from Liposuction Australia will be sent a please explain
letter from the Australasian College of Cosmetic Surgery Complaints Panel for breaches of the college’s code of conduct, which prohibits surgeons from advertising time-limited deals for cosmetic procedures.
College president Dr Colin Moore says the code exists because such advertisements can force consumers into making impulse decisions about potentially risky and life-changing surgery — via redwolf.newsvine.com
This was hardly a joyride for Bob Russell.
But nearly 42 years after someone stole his 1967 Austin Healey 3000 from a Philadelphia apartment complex, the Southlake sleuth is back in the driver’s seat.
That was quite the knockdown-dragout,
Russell said of the decades-long search that finally turned up his British sports car at a California car dealership in mid-May.
Russell, 66, a retired sales manager, spent years surfing the Internet looking for his car and eyeing similar Healeys on the road.
Still, he didn’t hold out much hope of ever finding the vehicle he paid a friend $3,000 for back in 1968, only to find it stolen the morning after taking his future wife out on their second date.
The fact that the car still exists is improbable,
he said. It could have been junked or wrecked.
Instead, it was listed for sale by a dealer in an online auction, which is where a restless Russell came across it when he rolled out of bed a few weeks ago and wandered onto eBay — via redwolf.newsvine.com
We’re sure it’s just a fluke that wedding season happens to coincide with hurricane season. Ensuring that everything is perfect for the big day requires a great deal of strategy, coordination, and patience. As you gather your nearest and dearest to celebrate what should be a joyful time, Mother Nature, clashing personalities, and unexpected situations could easily thwart even the best laid plans. Being in the throes of wedding season, many of us here at CDC realised that planning for a wedding isn’t that much different from planning for a disaster. Just remember: Get a Kit, Make a Plan, and Be Informed.
Build a Kit
You’ve put in a lot of work leading up to this event, so the idea of a back-up emergency kit shouldn’t be too far-fetched. The bridal kit should include extra safety pins, make-up for touch ups, maybe a few sedatives. It also wouldn’t hurt to have the essentials from a home emergency kit or go-bag
by your side. You never know when you might need to bandage up a clumsy flower girl, revive a passed out reception guest, or even evacuate. A first aid kit, bottles of water, snacks, medications, extra cash, and important documents are just a few of the more practical items to have handy. If you’re the bride, add this to the list of things you need your maid of honour or someone in the bridal party to put together for you. For a more extensive emergency kit list, visit FEMA’s Ready.gov — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Whence came pants? I’m wearing pants right now. There’s a better than 50 percent chance that you, too, are wearing pants. And neither of us have probably asked ourselves a simple question: Why?
It turns out the answer is inexplicably bound up with the Roman Empire, the unification of China, gender studies, and the rather uncomfortable positioning of man atop horse, at least according to University of Connecticut evolutionary biologist Peter Turchin.
Historically there is a very strong correlation between horse-riding and pants,
Turchin wrote in a blog post this week. In Japan, for example, the traditional dress is kimono, but the warrior class (samurai) wore baggy pants (sometimes characterized as a divided skirt), hakama. Before the introduction of horses by Europeans (actually, re-introduction — horses were native to North America, but were hunted to extinction when humans first arrived there), civilized Amerindians wore kilts.
The reasons why pants are advantageous when mounted atop a horse should be obvious, nonetheless, many cultures struggled to adapt, even when their very existences were threatened by superior, trouser-clad horseback riders — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Created to commemorate the 160th anniversary of Singer, the Limited Edition 160 Sewing Machine takes it’s design cues from the classic antique metal sewing machines but combines them with the latest technology to make a simple and easy to use machine — via Retro To Go
What if it were illegal for you to be you? Imagine if it were illegal to have blue eyes or be under 5ft 10ins and if breaking this law meant you could go to prison or face attack or even death.
In many countries around the world, gay people don’t have to imagine it. They already face the very real prospect of being criminalised for their sexuality. In no fewer than 78 countries around the world homosexual acts are still illegal. In five of them the maximum penalty is death.
Kaleidoscope Trust will campaign until equality is respected everywhere and there is universal acceptance of human rights for all regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity.
It should never be a crime to be gay
Daniel Kim from Lit Motors is nothing if not ambitious. His goal is to revolutionise personal transportation by combining the best elements of a car and a motorcycle. The result of his work is the prototype C-1 — an enclosed motorcycle that uses gyroscopic stabilisers to remain upright — via Neatorama
Tony Abbott says that boat people are un-Christian
for coming to Australia the way they do.
Specifically, he said:
I don’t think it’s a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door. … I think the people we accept should be coming the right way and not the wrong way. … If you pay a people-smuggler, if you jump the queue, if you take yourself and your family on a leaky boat, that’s doing the wrong thing, not the right thing, and we shouldn’t encourage it.
It is not surprising that Mr Abbott has a view about the moral dimension of refugee issues. It is entirely appropriate that he should consider the matter from the perspective of Christian teaching, given that he trained for the priesthood. I would go so far as to say that more politicians should pay attention to the moral implications of the policies they have to determine.
What is striking is that Mr Abbott could get the matter so spectacularly wrong, both as to the facts and as to the moral equation — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The communications regulator says it hopes a new consumer protection code will help reduce complaints about misleading mobile phone plans and bill shock
.
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) is introducing tough new rules for advertising and billing by the telcos amid soaring levels of complaints from customers
The code, developed by the telcos themselves, will require them to include more information on their advertisements, including the cost of a two-minute call and an SMS.
It also moves to make mobile plans easier to compare, reduce what is known as bill shock or unexpectedly high bills, and improve how complaints are dealt with — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Some window blinds helped catch a man police say was breaking in at CNM.
Thomas Molina, 38, is charged with burglary and breaking and entering.
APD says they got a call about someone trying to break in at CNM on Sunday.
When they arrived they say Molina tried to get away but got stuck in the window blinds — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Researchers at MIT have taken a significant step toward battery-free monitoring systems — which could ultimately be used in biomedical devices, environmental sensors in remote locations and gauges in hard-to-reach spots, among other applications.
Previous work from the lab of MIT professor Anantha Chandrakasan has focused on the development of computer and wireless-communication chips that can operate at extremely low power levels, and on a variety of devices that can harness power from natural light, heat and vibrations in the environment. The latest development, carried out with doctoral student Saurav Bandyopadhyay, is a chip that could harness all three of these ambient power sources at once, optimizing power delivery.
The energy-combining circuit is described in a paper being published this summer in the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Journalists have an almost superhuman ability to hold forth on the ethics of our own profession. And yet, despite endless talk about self-plagiarism
or some such, we have been wilfully blind to the more grievous ethical breaches carried out by revered reporters who cover the so-called superhero beat
. Perhaps we are unwilling to admit that those who write about truth and justice are the least likely to champion transparency and proper attribution. Here are some examples of the most severe offenders:
Peter Parker
Imbued with the proportional strength, speed and ethical judgement of a spider, Parker has made a career of taking photos of himself in a mask and selling them to his employers. Some might argue that Parker is merely a symptom of the poor wages awarded to photojournalists, and the intense pressures they face (I want pictures! Pictures of Spider-Man,
his editor regularly exhorts). Amid such a cut-throat environment, this promising talent has clearly learned that with great power comes great ethical lapses.
Spider Jerusalem
Finally, a journalist whose ethics are beyond reproach. Hound of truth. Scourge of authority. Ignoring the guns and wanton drug use, here is a reporter we can all look up to — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A dog could be a baby’s best friend, according to a study in the medical journal Pediatrics.
Infants living in households with dogs were healthier and had fewer ear infections than those without a dog, the study found. Researchers also found that cats appeared to offer some protection, but the link wasn’t as strong.
The study, posted online Monday and based on 397 children who lived in rural and suburban parts of Finland, examined whether contact with dogs and cats during a baby’s first year offers any protection from respiratory tract infections, such as colds and resulting common ear infections. The children having dogs at home were healthier, they had less ear infections and they needed less antibiotics,
said Eija Bergroth, the study’s lead author and a paediatrician affiliated with Kuopio University Hospital in Kuopio, Finland — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Romain Jerome continues it series of watches containing the “DNA” of famous objects (like the Titanic or the moon) with the Liberty-DNA, which contains material from the Statue of Liberty. The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation and the Gold Leaf Corporation supplied fragments of the statue recovered during resoration work, which have been incorporated into the dial. In addition, the bronze bezel (which contains 12 spikes resembling the statue’s crown) will change colour as it ages, just like the Statue of Liberty itself has.
This watch is limited to 125 pieces with a retail price of $14, 900 — via WatchTime.com
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