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Educative New Zealand Cartoon Kleenex Sculpture by Neil Dawsonby

This surreal metal sculpture is created by a famous sculptor, Neil Dawson in New Zealand. The masterpiece is made from steel and painted like if it’s a drawing from a cartoon. The artwork can be visited at Gibbs Farm, that is host to many other art sculptures as well.

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22 Jan 2014 13:05:00,post received 0 comments

Educative The Archerfish

The archerfish (spinner fish or archer fish) are a family (Toxotidae) of fish known for their habit of preying on land based insects and other small animals by literally shooting them down with water droplets from their specialized mouths. The family is small, consisting of seven species in the genus Toxotes; which typically inhabit brackish waters of estuaries and mangroves, but can also be found in the open ocean as well as far upstream in fresh water They can be found from India to the Philippines, Australia, and Polynesia.

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21 Nov 2012 12:54:00,post received 0 comments

Wow Geeky Contact Lenses

The Batman logo displayed in your eyes? Geeky contact lenses: Batman, the Eye of Sauron, Zombie, Saw, Naruto, X-Men, Terminator, Twilight, Blade, Exorcist… Some kitsch gadgets, but I’m curious to try!

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06 Dec 2012 11:35:00,post received 0 comments

Fact CHIP House Powered by Solar Energy

CHIP is a prefab, net-zero solar-powered house designed and built by a student-run team from two Southern California schools: Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The house is the team's entry for the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 competition.

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13 Dec 2012 11:35:00,post received 0 comments

Fact Batmobile Replica Spotted in Sweden

A Swedish guy built it from a 1973 Lincoln Continental. It took him over $1 million USD and 3.5 years to complete, or some 20.000 hours of work.
It features a lot of gadgets like satellite navigation, voice recognition, reversing cameras, a DVD player, a plasma TV...

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21 Dec 2012 13:27:00,post received 0 comments

Sad Don't Forget About The Animals During Flooding!

A stranded cat swims through flood water searching for dry land June 16, 2008 in Oakville, Iowa. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

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01 Aug 2011 13:50:00,post received 0 comments

Fact The Week in Pictures: February 21 – February 28, 2015, Part 3/3

Costumed revelers perform during a carnival procession in the southeastern Macedonia's town of Strumica, Saturday, February 21, 2015. Strumica carnival is held every year during the Christian Orthodox holiday Trimeri, marking the beginning of the Easter fasting period. (Photo by Boris Grdanoski/AP Photo)

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02 Mar 2015 07:24:00,post received 0 comments

Touching The Week in Pictures: Animals, March 16 – March 22, 2013

A white tiger cub growls at the Buenos Aires Zoo in Argentina, Thursday, March 21, 2013. The cub's mother, Cleo, a captive Bengal white tiger, gave birth to two females and two males on January 14. (Photo by Natacha Pisarenko/AP Photo)

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23 Mar 2013 14:12:00,post received 0 comments