Wutopia Lab designed Metal Rainbow-Zhongshu Bookstore in Suzhou, China — via ArchDaily
Nashville Zoo recently welcomed the birth of two Banded Palm Civets. The brother and sister were born on 29 June — via ZooBorns
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Little Ross Island off the south west of Scotland is up for sale for the price of a typical semi-detached house. It’s a 29-acre island (and much more at low tide) in the estuary to the south of Kirkcudbright in the south west of Scotland and located just off Meikle Ross headland on the mainland. So not too isolated. Views of views of the open sea, coastline, countryside, the Isle of Man and Lake District too.
The island has a working lighthouse tower, which was designed and built by Alan Stevenson in 1843, but sadly not part of the actual sale. However, the lighthouse keeper’s cottages, a shared courtyard (with the light Tower) and the remainder of the island, including the three ruinous cottages, along with workshops, a walled garden, a further small ruin and a further walled garden on the southern side and a stone barn on the north side are all included — via Wow Hausd
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Parramatta Square Construction originally uploaded by Red Wolf
The man who launched a million minimalist movie posters
(try not to hold that against him), graphic designer Saul Bass may have spent most of his career advertising other people’s work, but in doing so he quietly became one of the most iconic pop artists of the 20th century. He didn’t work in the movies very often, but many of the posters and title sequences he created have grown to be as famous as the films for which he created them. Directors were floored by Bass’ ability to distil a story down to its bare essence — how his thick black lines and bold swatches of colour seduced and focused a viewer’s attention where other posters would simply try to overwhelm it — and legendary auteurs like Otto Preminger would fight the studios to protect Bass’ creative freedom. His style was so striking and influential that it was widely copied in his own time, and many of the posters that are still attributed to Bass were actually created by imitators (e.g West Side Story
and It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Mad World
) — via IndieWire
Three-week-old black rhino calf Kendi is making short visits outside. First-time-mum Seyia is being cautious, so the mum and calf duo are still hanging out inside more than they go out. Visitors may see Kendi bouncing around, peeking out or even venturing into the yard. Sightings will become more frequent as Kendi gets more comfortable in the new environment — via Youtube
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It’s great for agricultural crops and a bit on the nose, but it’s not your standard manure.
About 180,000 tonnes of biosolids are generated from Sydney’s sewage each year, but authorities are having no troubles with getting rid of it.
Biosolids, which is a by-product of the sewerage treatment process, is proving a hit with New South Wales farmers who want to improve soil health and boost yields.
Harvested from 23 of Sydney’s sewerage plants, the waste is processed through reactors which also create renewable energy that is fed back into the system.
It is then trucked out to about 20 farms in the state’s central west, as well as several mine rehabilitation sites.
Stuart Kelly swapped synthetic fertilisers for human biosolids on his family property at Newbridge, near Blayney five years ago.
He said his soil was healthier than ever and the farm was booming.
My thing is healthy soils and healthy pastures is going to come back to healthy stock,
Mr Kelly said.
Mr Kelly said while he still got raised eyebrows for using the sewage, it was helping complete the production cycle between city and bush — ABC News
The work of artist Alex Chinneck is grounded in architecture. His latest work (and first permanent sculpture), Six Pins and Half a Dozen Needles, taking the form of a large brick wall ripped down the centre — via ArchDaily
Mary Laumua has become an activist for her community of public housing tenants in the Sydney suburb of Waterloo.
The 37-year-old community worker and mother of four, including seven-month-old baby Nayla, wants to shine a light on the struggles of public housing tenants facing large-scale redevelopment and dislocation.
It’s important because we want everyone in Australia and around the world to know that we matter,
she said.
Ms Laumua is part of a small team who have reached out to hundreds of tenants in two high-rise towers set for demolition.
They go into homes to install coloured lights in their windows.
There’s a lot of anxiety around it all, so the lights are a way of expressing how they’re feeling.
We’ve been allowed this glimpse to go into these peoples’ homes, not only to install a light, but see a glimpse of who they are and how their lives matter.
You might just be the one person that makes their day by coming [and] installing those lights
— via ABC News
This photo isn’t fake.
These tiny, dazzling spiders are 100 per cent real — and scientists have just discovered another five species and sub-species in Western Australia.
They’re called peacock spiders and self-described peacock spiderman
Jurgen Otto has spent years discovering and photographing them.
When he first spotted one of the unique creatures in bushland near Sydney about a decade ago, he said he almost stepped on it.
I took a photograph and then later I went home, looked at it on the computer and was just blown away,
Dr Otto said.
When I started with all this, there was not a single picture or video of a peacock spider on the internet.
Nine years later now, you get many thousand hits when you type
peacock spider
into Google.
The reaction of people when they see the latest finds remains the same.
One could think that the novelty of this would all have worn off by now, but people still get excited when they see them,
he said.
Each new species is a complete surprise — the patterns and colours of each species are so different and so unpredictable, you never know what the next one and its display and courtship dance will look like.
Most of the five discoveries were spotted in south-western WA, but peacock spiders can be found across southern Australia.
Dr Otto estimates there are now more than 60 species and sub-species of Australian peacock spiders. Thirty-nine of them were named by himself and fellow spider expert David Hill — via ABC News
A closeted boy runs the risk of being outed by his own heart after it pops out of his chest to chase down the boy of his dreams — via Youtube
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Burgers’ Zoo is now home to five Golden Jackal pups. Until recently, they have been safely tucked away with mum in their underground den, which makes it difficult for keepers to pinpoint their exact birthdate. They are now spending more time above ground and keepers estimate them to be about three-months-old — via ZooBorns
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Protecting one book is easy. Saving 377,000 fragile historic documents from gun-toting vandals hell-bent on erasing centuries of knowledge? That takes a different type of hero — via Neatorama
Image credit: Flickr user United Nations Photo
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