The sky is always beautiful and never an empty space in the eyes of a photographer. The only thing photographers need is a good vision over things and some adequate equipment. Here we present 20 outstanding photographs of sky-scapes, offering inspiration and a delight to the eye.
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Gotta have a hit of Twitter!
You’re at an outing or a dinner table with friends but itching to check your email or Facebook or Twitter or Instagram or Google+ or whatever digital hit of serotonin you prefer. Have you ever ‘gone to the bathroom’ in order to check email or come up with a socially appropriate excuse to pull out your smartphone just so you can check your @ replies on Twitter?
Continue reading… “Technology is the new smoking”
Agave can be a fuel?
It fuels your party, your buzz and your hangover the next day, but believe it or not tequila may soon be fueling your car. That’s because the agave plant extract used to make liquor can also be used to make an ethanol like alcohol which can serve as vehicle fuel, won’t interfere with food crops, and can even be grown in the desert…
Someday, our cars may hit the bottle more often than we do, but at least it won’t be hitting our wallets very hard.
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70% of the VC firms have disappeared over the past 10 years.
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Populations in the north have evolved to cope with dull, cloudy skies and short periods of daylight.
Good news for people who are from the north: you are likely to have a bigger brain than your southern counterparts. Unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean you are more intelligent than people from the south – just that you have evolved to cope with the longer winters and greyer skies in northern climates.
Close to a quarter of all global mobile bandwidth is consumed by people watching YouTube videos, according to a new report from network management vendor Allot Communications. The Google-owned video site’s global bandwidth share was 22 percent in the first half of 2011, compared with just 17 percent in the first half of 2010. YouTube now accounts for 52 percent of all global mobile video streaming, according to Allot.
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You would think that video-sharing sites like YouTube are more popular with teenagers looking for music videos and nonsense. But a new study reveals that at least 71 percent of adults are actively using these portals as well.
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Professional social network Linkedin
LinkedIn, a professional social network, took the wraps off a tool that allows jobseekers to apply for open positions by sending their LinkedIn profiles directly to prospective employers.
Make a grocery list and stick to it.
There are reasons your mother told you to make a grocery list and stick to it. From the parking lot to the checkout counter a supermarket is designed to make you spend more money and buy more food than you need.
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Even more health benefits from honey are being identified.
The Guardian reports that Welsh scientists are collecting honey to help identify new anti-bacterial drugs. The idea is not necessarily to use the honey itself, although the article notes that this is a common enough practice, but rather to identify the plants that bees have been feeding on, and then isolate compounds that may be used to develop new drugs. It’s an urgent problem…
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Fatty foods make you less sad.
Does eating a bowl of ice cream, a giant serving of mac ‘n’ cheese or a plate of chocolate chip cookies put you in a good mood? We already know that fatty, comfort foods can help bust a bad mood — but new research from Belgian researchers gives new insight into why.
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The Jiaolong reached 16,591 ft in a dive in international waters in the Pacific.
Scientists in China aim to complete the world’s deepest dive in a manned submersible in 2012 by going to 7,000 meters (22,966 ft) beneath the sea after a successful test dive in the Pacific Ocean, state news agency Xinhua reported Tuesday.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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