Bill Gates from Microsoft is well-known for backing and investing in state-of-the-art technologies, and his newest investment is in sun-dimming technology.
The name behind the initiative is the Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) and is led by scientists from Harvard University who want to attempt to reflect Earth’s sunlight out of the atmosphere. Continue reading “A Bill Gates Venture Aims To Spray Dust Into The Atmosphere To Block The Sun. What Could Go Wrong?” »
Halloween is just around the corner, and even though the pandemics might prevent people from trick or treating this year, it does not mean that decorating your house needs to be postponed too. If you want to scare your neighbors or simply bring a bit of the Halloween spirit in your yard, you can make these amazing ghost shapes out of chicken wire. Continue reading “People Are Making Ghosts Out of Chicken Wire For Halloween and They All Look So Real” »
The Amazon is home to a lot of animals, and wildlife photographers love to travel there to take pictures of the jungle and its inhabitants.
Mark Cowan traveled there in 2016 and studied the lives of reptiles and amphibians from the Amazon together with the Herpetology Division of the University of Michigan. Continue reading “Once-In-A-Lifetime Photo Captures a Caiman Wearing a Crown of Butterflies in the Amazon” »
Egypt is full of hidden treasures and archaeologists have yet again uncovered an ancient tomb. It is a colorful tomb in Saqqara, the place of some of the oldest pyramids. The tomb is in an excellent state, and its paintings look so fresh and clean, even though they were made 4,000 years ago. Continue reading “Archeologists Discover a Perfectly Preserved 4,000-Year-Old Tomb in Egypt” »
Nature can offer so many, from resources to peace of mind and even artistic inspiration, and illustrator Jo Brown agrees with the latter. She is a UK-based artist who documents her outdoor explorations in the colorful Nature Journals collection.
Brown fills notebooks with stunning plant and animal drawings accompanied by notes of her findings, just like a true botanist would do. Her drawings are filled with vibrant colors, making them pop out from the pages of the notebook and the works are the result of many hours spent outdoors observing the environment. Continue reading “Illustrator Documents the Things She Discovers During Her Outdoor Adventures” »
Amy Jandrisevits is an amazing crafter who is doing great things for children with disabilities, as she designed a line of toys that help them feel represented.
She was previously a social worker, who worked with people from different backgrounds and understands social issues and traumas. Jandrisevits now specialized in dolls that look alike to the children for whom they are designed, representing their physical differences in an honest way. Continue reading “Compassionate Crafter Makes Look-Alike Dolls for Children With Physical Differences” »
They say that one’s trash is someone else’s treasure, and Matt Wilson is here to prove this with his works. He is a sculptor who creates beautifully unique pieces out of scrap metal and silverware and loves to upcycle old items.
Wilson is based in Carolina and goes by the pseudonym Airtight Artwork. Most of his works represent animal sculptures and his very first work was a bird sculpture that he made in 2017. Since then, he extended his collection, which now includes cats, squirrels, and even insects, all looking futuristic and almost robotic. Continue reading “Artist Turns Discarded Silverware and Scrap Metal Into Striking Animal Sculptures” »
There is constant competition among interior designers to create the perfect design piece, one that catches everyone’s attention and gets the best reviews.
Derek Pearce made a series of pieces that have the potential to become truly big, and they are called Water Tables. Each of these unique tables displays an animal as their base, and they look like they were underwater, emerging from the surface of the table. It is an illusion created by blending the wooden animal sculptures with the glass tabletop and each piece is fascinating. Continue reading “Unique Tables Designed to Look Like Animals Are Half-Submerged in Water” »
LEGO bricks are a lovely childhood memory for most people, except for the ones who once stepped on that painful little piece of plastic. But jokes aside, LEGO is a great toy to enhance both creativity and logic, and in 2011 a street artist named Megx (Martin Heuwold) paid his respects to this great design. Continue reading “Street Artist Paints a Bridge in Germany to Look Like Giant LEGO Bricks” »
