They were born on 7 May, but these Arctic Wolf pups were just seen coming out of their cave by keepers for the first time at Knuthenborg Safaripark in Denmark — via ZooBorns
The hitchhiking photographer who captured the hearts of a nation after being shot while researching The Kindness of America
, has admitted administering the lead supplement himself and making the rest of the tale up.
Authorities in Montana are considering whether to charge Ray Dolin over the whole sorry saga.
Dolin was found bleeding by the side of a highway on Saturday, 9 June. He told authorities that he had been hitchiking across the state as part of his research for a planned memoir
on the Kindness of America
when a car had pulled up briefly in order for its driver to pop a cap in his ass (actually, his arm).
Sheriffs subsequently arrested 52 year old Lloyd Danielson, who was slapped with charges of felony assault.
Dolin, for his part, surfed a wave of public sympathy from his hospital bed, practically assured of a guaranteed audience for the putative book.
However, charges were dropped against Danielson late last Thursday, and on Friday authorities said that Dolin had confessed to shooting himself — via redwolf.newsvine.com
I am a new fan of shampoo bars for many reasons. The lather is incredible, the bar is long lasting, I have shinier hair with zero build up, and it’s all natural! My recipe contains a lot of castor oil, which creates a rich and foamy lather. Coconut oil and palm oil also provide a fluffy lather and add to the hardness of the bar — via Soap Queen
I have five or six different kinds of tape in my shop, and last weekend I got fed up with rooting through a drawer to find the one I wanted. To solve the problem, I built this tape dispenser that holds a variety of tape widths and types — via American Woodworker
Tony Abbott. Opposition Leader
Originally aired on ABC TV’s 7.30: 14 June 2012
Alan Bernard is a colourful character. Based in Florida, he runs Santiago Chopper. This machine has got the go
to match the show. The motor started life as a Kawasaki 750 H2, but it’s a high-power drag bike engine built by Fast By Gast that sucks through 40mm Lectron carbs. It’s nestling in a 1988 Suzuki GSX-R frame, with a front end from a Ducati 1098 — via Bike EXIF
A nine-year-old blogger has won a food fight with authorities in her Scottish town, after an online outcry prompted officials to lift a ban on posting photos of her school lunches.
Martha Payne’s images of uninspiring school meals — one consisted of two croquettes, a plain cheeseburger, three slices of cucumber and a lollipop — drew international attention. The blog, set up about six weeks ago as a writing project and to help raise money for a school-meals charity, has drawn more than two million hits — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Barely a year since its first successful birth of Clouded Leopards, Night Safari recently welcomed another litter of cubs. The three cubs that arrived on 14 April 2012 were born to parents Tawan and Wandee, who had their first litter in May last year. Clouded Leopards are among the world’s rarest and most secretive wild cat species — via ZooBorns
The Ethiopian government has passed legislation criminalising the use of VoIP services like Skype and Google Talk. Anyone using these services within the country now faces up to 15 years in prison. Ethiopian authorities argue that they imposed these bans because of national security concerns
and to protect the state’s telecommunications monopoly. The country only has one ISP, the state-owned Ethio Telecom, and has been filtering its citizen’s Internet access for quite some time now to suppress opposition blogs and other news outlets. … Reporters Without Borders also reports that Ethio Telecom installed a system to block access to the Tor network, which allows users to surf the Web anonymously. The organisation notes that the ISP must be using relatively sophisticated Deep Packet Inspection to filter out this traffic — via Slashdot
It was France’s first glimpse of an online future. But now, 30 years after it was invented, the wired experiment that foreshadowed the World Wide Web is about to lose its connection once and for all.
Long before the coming of the World Wide Web, the Minitel provided a sort of Internet-in-one-country. Long before Facebook, Google or Twitter — millions of French people went online daily to search for information, to book their holidays, chat to strangers or seek cheap (or not so cheap) thrills.
The Minitel — a rather sinister, computer-like terminal attached to classic telephone landlines — was installed in one million French homes by 1985. At the end of the 1990s, nine million terminals were linked to some 25,000 Minitel services. So the French invented the Internet? No, not exactly.
At the end of this month, Minitel will finally go offline, ending a brave experiment in French exceptionalism. The surprise is that the network has lasted so long — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Only a complete twit would set up home on a railway line.
So when train driver Guo Zuchun saw a family of baby owls perching on the tracks ahead of him, he could hardly believe his eyes.
They were so small I almost didn’t see them,
explained Gho, who was taking power station workers to their plant in Chongqing city in southern China.
But I slammed on the brakes and when we went to look there were three baby owls hopping around on the rails,
he added — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The residence KGN [Carazo Architects] was developed as a result of very special conditions defined primarily be located in a tropical mountain of difficult access, the religious needs of the clients of Indian origin, who are guided by the VaastuSastra (the spatial layout system linked to Hindu religious beliefs) and a dramatic and impressive site in the mountains of the coast line with primary forest, pristine waterfalls, tropical wildlife and unparalleled views — via ArchDaily
If there’s anything more impressive than a bear’s size, it’s its intelligence. Bears can learn to ride bicycles, use tools, and as new research shows, count
. Scientists trained three American black bears (Ursus Americanus) to discriminate between groups of dots on a touchscreen computer: Two bears learned to pick the group with fewer dots, while the third learned to choose the group with more dots. In some trials, the group with fewer dots took up more space; in others, the dots moved. All three bears could use the number of dots to guide their choices, but the bear trained to pick groups with more dots performed better on its tests and could also discriminate with moving dots, researchers report online this month in the journal Animal Behaviour — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A pack of wolves attacked and killed a worker in their enclosure at one of Sweden’s most popular wildlife parks on Sunday.
Police said they did not know what had triggered the attack on the 30-year-old woman.
She was so badly hurt in the attack that she died of her injuries,
a police spokesman for the Ostergotland district, where the Kolmarden park is located, said.
We do not know why they attacked.
Police remained on the scene to investigate the incident — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The biotechnology giant Monsanto is one step closer to losing billions of dollars in revenues from its genetically-modified (GM) Roundup Ready soya beans, following a ruling this week by the Brazilian Supreme Court of Justice.
The decision marks the latest chapter of an epic legal battle, in which millions of Brazilian farmers are trying to recover payments made to the company over the past decade. It could also have important implications for research in the country, some scientists say — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Scottish scientists have made a world-first breakthrough that could help feed the world by developing a next generation
barley seed which inherits disease-resistant qualities from its parent plant.
A research team from the Scottish Agricultural College (SAC) has discovered a technique that for the first time allows barley – the fourth most important cereal crop grown across the globe – to pre-arm its seeds against attack in a process that may be passed on to subsequent crops.
The new weapon against agricultural pests will mean that farmers do not have to use so much pesticide, thus cutting costs and reducing the amount of chemicals entering the food chain — via redwolf.newsvine.com
MyZeil Shopping Mall is a project designed by Studio Fuksas in Frankfurt, Germany in 2009. The sculptural glass façade creates impressive and dynamic spaces within the public atriums, creating a unique environment for a common activity. The 77,000 square metre structure includes shops, leisure spaces, kids areas, restaurants, fitness centre and parking — via ArchDaily
Is your door causing a sticky situation by refusing to stay ajar? It’s time to get Kraken and get the fabulous tentacle doorstop from the NeatoShop. This cephalopod inspired doorstop is handcrafted in the USA. If you miss this deal you’re a sucker — via Neatorama
Google Blockly is a visual programming language that can help you get started quickly.The webapp lets you drag blocks together to build apps, which can then be exported to actual programming languages
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