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2013 » June
Archive for June, 2013 Newton’s Beads: Momentum Gone Wild… The best bead chain experiment ever, from “Earth Unplugged” – Enjoy! “Newton’s Beads” (with BBC’s Steve Mould): Emily K. Editor on 30 Jun 2013 | Audio & Video &Science & Research | Comments Off The Abandoned Suitcases of Insane Asylum Patients… So many stories to imagine of so many lost lives – this is a journey into the minds of other people… Abandoned Suitcases Reveal Private Lives of Insane Asylum Patients By Hunter Oatman-Stanford “If you were committed to a psychiatric institution, unsure if you’d ever return to the life you knew before, what would you take with you? That sobering…
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2008
Archive for 2008 The Pyramids Never Cease to Amaze My first thought after reading this article was that perhaps, just maybe, the pyramids were created to store vast quanities of WATER for emergencies or for some otherwordly purpose? Read this and let us know what you think. We would love to hear your own theories. The Concave Faces of the Great Pyramid Aerial photo by Groves, 1940 (detail). In his book The Egyptian Pyramids: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Reference, J.P. Lepre wrote: One very unusual feature of the Great Pyramid is a concavity of the core that makes the monument an eight-sided figure, rather than four-sided like every other Egyptian pyramid.…
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The Alternate Universe of Kymaerica
The Alternate Universe of Kymaerica This art is so deeply strange and oddly intriguing – are the installations permanently marking real locations commemorating history from an alternate reality? Or are the markers temporary art pieces placed strategically for short periods of observation? Either way, the work touches on the concepts of memorials, travel, geography, and history in a way that gets our imagination soaring… THE BELIEVER – NOVERMBER/DECEMBER 2009 Discover Kymaerica The brick courtyard was adjacent to the railroad tracks on Atlanta’s industrial west side—and part of a structure that had been transformed from its industrial roots to become the home of a five-star restaurant. I must have taken a…
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2013 » May
Archive for May, 2013 Teotihuacan has concealed a mysterious secret. Until Now. An interesting discovery has been made in Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan. I wish that robots like this would be used in more mysterious ancient places – how about for exploring beneath the Sphinx where there may be large hollow chambers? The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble “For centuries, Mexico’s ancient city of Teotihuacan has concealed a mysterious secret, only recently revealed by the help of robots equipped with lasers and infrared cameras. The small, remote-controlled devices have explored several rooms beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent, a structure described by Discovery as a “six-level pyramid…
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Lost Egyptian City Revealed
Lost Egyptian City Revealed Nothing floats the Museum of Mysteries’ boat more than new Egyptian discoveries… Enjoy! (HuffPost) “It is a city shrouded in myth, swallowed by the Mediterranean Sea and buried in sand and mud for more than 1,200 years. But now archeologists are unearthing the mysteries of Heracleion, uncovering amazingly well-preserved artifacts that tell the story of a vibrant classical-era port. Known as Heracleion to the ancient Greeks and Thonis to the ancient Eygptians, the city was rediscovered in 2000 by French underwater archaeologist Dr. Franck Goddio and a team from the European Institute for Underwater Acheology (IEASM) after a four-year geophysical survey. The ruins of the lost…
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Abandoned amusement parks from around the world…
Abandoned amusement parks from around the world… With a tip of our hat to BoingBoing from whence many of these links originated, enjoy the mysterious beauty of abandoned amusement parks from around the world… Eerie images from the lost amusement park in New Orleans . The beautiful decay of River Country, Walt Disney World’s first waterpark. It opened in 1976, and closed in 2001. All the attractions remain in place, slowly being overtaken by nature and neglect… here. Berlin’s answer to the creepy and wonderfully abandoned amusement park here. Gorgeous photos of an abandoned park in northern Japan, here. And last but not least, the incredible and abandoned cheap Japanese…
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Beautifully Strange Paintings of Visual Chaos
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The Atacama Humanoid
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The Giant That Guards The Badlands
The Giant That Guards The Badlands Some of the amazing natural oddities that we can see from the sky are even more spectacular than the ones we’ve made ourselves. This is an excellent example of Earth’s geology as sculptor… The Badlands Guardian (Atlas Obscura) “Located in southeastern Alberta, Canada, near Medicine Hat, this great geological wonder can only be seen from high above the ground. Nevertheless, its humanoid details are stunning when one considers that human hands took no part in shaping this large mass of rock. The profile was formed by the erosion of rainwater on layers of clay-rich soil. Viewed from the air, the feature bears a strong…
