The Glass Ark. Renzo Piano’s California Academy of Sciences
Ilari Valbonesi @ July 15, 2008 # No Comment Yet
Renzo Piano’s new green museum, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco is almost finished. Located in famous Golden Gate Park, and housing an aquarium, planetarium, and natural-history museum under two “hills” which are really a two-and-a-half-acre “living roof”, the building looks like a part of the park from some views.
As Piano […]
Popularity: 4% [?]
More on page 1892
FARM-Africa. Christmas (Living and Growing) Presents
Ilari Valbonesi @ December 16, 2007 # No Comment Yet
In Africa’s rural areas, many poor families rely on their land to survive. But with such barren earth to farm and unreliable rains, they struggle to harvest enough food to stay healthy.
Through a FARM-Africa goat project, you can transform life for a poor community providing poor families with goats and training in how to care […]
Popularity: 6% [?]
More on page 1431
Panda Bear - Bros
Ilari Valbonesi @ December 15, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Panda Bear - Bros
http://www.myspace.com/rippityrippity
Popularity: 8% [?]
Popularity: 8% [?]
More on page 1420
Cloning (Cat) with Colours
Ilari Valbonesi @ December 12, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A cloned Turkish Angola kitten gives off a red fluorescence glow while an ordinary one appears to be green in this picture taken under ultraviolet light at a laboratory of Gyeongsang National University in Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, Wednesday. The cloned cat’s genes were modified with a fluorescent protein.
via Korea Times
A Gyeongsang National University […]
Popularity: 2% [?]
More on page 1412
LOVE AT FIRST BARK
Ilari Valbonesi @ November 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
P. Selvakumar, a 33-year-old farm labourer from the southern state of Tamil Nadu, who believed he had been cursed for stoning to death two dogs, has atoned for his sin by marrying another dog in a traditional Hindu wedding ceremony.
The four-year-old stray bitch was bathed and processed to his village temple dressed in an […]
Popularity: 3% [?]
More on page 1350
Rare South China tiger cub born at Laohu Valley
Ilari Valbonesi @ November 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Ms Li Quan, founder of Save China’s Tigers today announced that a male South China tiger cub (Chinese:華南虎, Panthera tigris amoyensis) was born at Laohu Valley Reserve, Free State, South Africa at 23:30, November 23rd 2007.
It is truly a historic event, because it is the first time that a South China Tiger […]
Popularity: 6% [?]
More on page 1342
Out of Orbit Recordings: Laika, Moan and Trentemøller Live Band
Ilari Valbonesi @ November 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Laika (from Russian: Лайка, a breed of dog, literally: “Barker”) was a Russian space dog which became the first recorded living creature from Earth to enter orbit. At one time a stray wandering the streets of Moscow, she was selected from an animal shelter. Originally named Kudryavka (Russian: кудрявка), she was renamed Laika after her […]
Popularity: 3% [?]
More on page 1178
The Sun also Rise. “El Andi”, Tauromachia and other Fiesta Brava
Ilari Valbonesi @ November 7, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Video Debut of young torero Andrés Roca Rey, El Andi, at Segunda Corrida de la Feria del Señor de los Milagros 2007, filmed by Danny Alarcón - TorosTV
The sun rises and the sun sets, and to its place it yearns and rises there.
Kohelet - Chapter 1, 5
In 1925, Hemingway attended the festival of San […]
Popularity: 9% [?]
More on page 1080