Dark Centre of the Universe
Civil Engineering student. Likes Philosophy, Fibonacci numbers and owls.
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These Beautiful Bridges Are Just For Animals
by Jess Zimmerman
If we’re going to keep putting roads in the middle of their habitats, animals are sometimes going to need to cross the road. But it’s better for everyone involved if they don’t have to push a button and wait for the light to change, because they don’t have thumbs and nine times out of 10 they’ll just careen into the side of your car. Which is why some highways have overpasses built specifically for animals like deer, elk, and grizzly bears.
Nobody teaches moose pedestrian etiquette like “look both ways,” but they figure out pretty quickly that crossing the terrifying asphalt river is safer if you take the beautiful grassy bridge. That’s just my guess at a moose’s internal life, but there’s data too: In Banff National Park in Canada, animals have used the six overpasses and 35 underpasses more than 200,000 times since monitoring began in 1996…
(read more: Grist.org)
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images:
Top - Highway A50, Netherlands (photo: Niels Verheul)
BL - France. BR - Banff, Alberta, Canada (photo: Joel Sartore)
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It happened in the midst of a massive crowd scene on Wall Street in Manhattan, during a fight sequence between their two characters.
“It was the first time I ever heard Christian say he was tired,” Hardy remembers. “I was watching him for however many months getting beaten up and wet and cold, and he never said anything. Inside, I was dying, but I was thinking, ‘This can’t bother me because he’s not bothered.’ But on Wall Street, he just turned and said, ‘You know what? I’m exhausted.’ I said, ‘Me too.’”
“We stopped the fight and started hugging each other,” Bale adds.Wouldn’t this be the best end to a superhero movie ever? Hero and villain stop fighting because they’re tired, and just hug it out.
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Photo reblogged from Dinosaur Meat
Heath Ledger as the Joker skate boarding over Christian Bale as Batman while they take a break on the set of The Dark Knight.
You can all quit your lives now. Single greatest picture in the history of pictures and internet.
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These spectacular light installations by Bruce Munro can be seen in the Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania through September 29, 2012.
About the project:
Wander through a field of light reminiscent of flowers, discover a meadow of glowing towers changing hues, and delight in a shower of cascading raindrops fashioned from delicate lights as you are immersed in a new and truly unique garden experience. Both indoors and outdoors, by day and by night, Light will change the way you see gardens.
As if that wasn’t enough, they’re also hosting a wide range of activities including SmART Nights where you can “hear some of the region’s brightest minds explore the science of light, then share your own bright ideas in an audience-participation StorySlam facilitated by First Person Arts”.
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Photoset reblogged from Miyazaki: A Beautiful Mind
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Photo reblogged from did you know?
This building is located in Dresden, Germany. It’s called Neustadt Kunsth of passage. And when it rains it starts to play music.
Revising Flood-Risk Management. Imagining how this sounds.. Zzzzzzzzzzz
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Photoset reblogged from Inject and infect
