Twenty years ago few people would have imagined that they could sell the rights to wind blowing across a field. Today, however, wind rights are becoming a hot commodity and the complicated issues of “wind shadows”, “wind poaching”, and “wind wakes” are beginning to pepper the conversations of legal experts involved in this emerging new […]

Peter Head of the British design firm Arup. Head leads the 100-person team
behind the green city of Dongtan, set to be completed by 2050.
Dongtan is a new city planned for the island of Chongming, near Shanghai. The city should be open, with accommodation for 50,000, by the time the Expo 2010 opens in Shanghai. By […]

This just happens to be a very funny video of someone having a very bad day.

 
“For the last time.  Do not tell me where to go.”
Germany has a string of cities that take one through the entire digestive tract: Essen (eat), Darmstadt (intestine city), and Pforzheim (which is close enough to the German word for “fart” to make it a punch line). But are you familiar with the weirdest town […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWnbFZ-N-gU

Touchpad Pro lets you control your PC or Mac through your iPhone or iPod Touch. It’s got multi-touch capabilities just like the Mac Airbook without the cost of one. It’s got all the features people have asked for, including landscape mode, multi-touch zoom, scroll, right-click, and much more. You really have to see it […]

We’ve come a long way in bridge building since crossing a river on a fallen log. The first bridges were built with wooden planks, ropes and stones. Soon, stronger material were required. Wood and stone bridges gave way to iron, then to steel ones. Bridge building techniques also evolved: beam, cantilevered, cable-stayed, and suspension bridges […]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayaiArVkpA4

Baking a cake to celebrate 20 years in business wasn’t enough fun for sub makers Erbert and Gerbert, oh no— they decided to build a man-sized air vortex cannon to blow out its candles. What’s an air vortex canon, you ask? It’s one of those big gun-like toys that fires puffs of air surprisingly far […]

 
For those of you who get bored with the regular old chess games, here is a variation designed to challenge you on a whole new level.
 

Researchers in Sweden have discovered a protein that stimulates the formation of fat cells, a finding that could potentially be used to treat obesity, the Karolinska Institute said on Wednesday.

This bridge is on the Old Donner Pass Highway. It has a spectacular view of Donner Lake and Donner Pass on Route 80. The rest of the story after the jump.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lejJZlGpjhA

From the Ontario Science Center comes this funny and revealing explanation about space toilets.