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8 years ago+13 13 0BIG Plans to Turn 4 London Power Plant Chimneys into Tesla Coils
Danish firm BIG Architects has a feasible strategy for converting four iconic smokestacks in the center of London into a series of gigantic pedestrian-powered Tesla coils. These would be the tallest of their kind and their visual effect would be noth ...
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8 years ago+37 37 0 x 1Restored Corvette
I was driving past a local shopping centre when I saw this beauty. Quite a rare sight over here in Oz.
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8 years ago+5 5 0 x 1Guerrilla Grammarians Fix Street Graffiti Spelling & Punctuation
Calculated correctors, this team of vigilante street art fixers patrols for grammatical mistakes then regroups to decide on edits before hitting the streets of Quito, Ecuador, to deploy them.
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8 years ago+14 14 0 x 1Great Train Journeys-The Indian Pacific (Australia)
From the Indian ocean on the west coast to the Pacific ocean on the east, the Indian Pacific train travels 4,352 km on a journey that takes 3 nights and 4 days, travelling through a diversity of environments along the longest railway track in the wor ...
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8 years ago+16 16 0Garma Festival Dancers Support Goodes
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8 years ago0 1 1Fooled By Your Own Brain- Don't be so certain your senses are telling you the truth.BY VIRGINIA HUGHESJUNE 13, 2013
Attention is, by definition, limited. And that’s usually a good thing. If you’re searching for a lost earring on the floor, you want to ignore anything that’s not small and shiny. When talking to someone at a party, your mind helpfully tunes out all ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0A Riot of Color Lurking in the Amazon
Imagine a tropical rainforest and the picture that appears in your mind’s eye is probably filled with green and brown. It’s true that those colors dominate the landscape, but a closer look at some of the jungle’s inhabitants reveals tremendous variat ...
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8 years ago+1 1 0Behind-the-scenes with Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu as he performs an intimate concert702 ABC Sydney By John Donegan
Singer Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was stopped by passers-by as he walked through Ultimo with his producer Michael Hohnen. They just want to shake his hand and wish him well, which he obliges to silently. Gurrumul seems to be saving the words for s ...
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8 years ago+10 10 0Australians' transgender journeys continue as Caitlyn Jenner media storm subsides
As US reality TV star Caitlyn Jenner's latest show on her transition to life as a woman premieres, Australian transgender women talk about their complex quest to be themselves while society plays catch up. By Margaret Burin
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8 years ago+8 8 0Long fight for stolen wages for Western Australia's Aboriginal stockmen and women
Oscar Yanigee does not know how old he is because his birth was never recorded, but he does know what he was paid for a lifetime of work. "Sugar and tea and a bit of corned beef," he told Lateline. Mr Yanigee was an Aboriginal stockman on ...
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8 years ago+16 16 0Fake iPhone operation worth millions shut down in China; nine arrested
Police in Beijing have busted a factory that produced more than 41,000 fake iPhones worth millions of dollars, including some that reached the United States.
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8 years ago+10 10 0Pets help humans find valuable social support from neighbours, study finds
Owning a pet can act as an ice-breaker when in comes to making friends in the neighbourhood, a Perth study has found, and animals could be used to address social isolation in communities.
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8 years ago+2 2 02015 Archibald, Wynne and Sulman winners
Sydney barrister Charles Waterstreet is the subject of Nigel Milsom’s winning portrait in the 2015 Archibald Prize. Milsom’s canvas – the largest painting of the 47 finalists in this year’s prize – presents Waterstreet as a larger-than-life figure. ...
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8 years ago+2 2 0Paper People: Hand-Cut Zig-Zag Photorealistic Portraits
Tiny slivers are sliced away from a single, oversized sheet of white paper in a zig-zag pattern to reveal portraits of public figures, from Audrey Hepburn to Michael Jackson, in this series of photorealistic portraits by Korean artist Yoo Hyun. There ...
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8 years ago+9 9 0Baroque and Broken: Eerie Paintings in Abandoned Places
Shuffling through ancient paint chips, dead leaves and empty bottles in an abandoned and dilapidated building, you turn a corner and register a human figure emerging from the darkness in a haze of flesh tones and pale fabric. It might take a moment t ...
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8 years ago+1 2 1Robot City: Entire Fake Town Built to Test Driverless Vehicles
Opening this week, Mcity is a completely artificial village for self-driving cars, bringing the future of automobiles back to Michigan, the historical home of Motor City.
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8 years ago+2 2 0Affinity Photo
Hi, anyone on here started using Affinity photo? I've just downloaded it an think it's pretty good. I would be interested to hear about anyone else's experiences with it.
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8 years ago+2 2 0Bella- the Most Patient Dog in the World
Bella is a Labrador/Golden retriever cross and a three year old boy's best friend.
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8 years ago+1 1 0Celebrating Aboriginal Culture-NAIDOC Week 2015
The theme for this year's NAIDOC celebrations is We Are Standing on Sacred Ground- Learn, Respect and Celebrate.This sand painting was created during a NAIDOC Week celebration I participated in, in Nyoongar Whadjuk Country,Western Australia. Onc ...
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8 years ago+4 5 1Are we Storming?-Tuckman may help see the way through.
As new groups are formed, a model developed by Tuckman helps to describe the phases that the group moves through on its way to performing at its best. With consideration given to some of the posts I have seen today, we could well be in a storming pha ...