Archive for July 19th, 2010
14/07/10- Junk Modelling…or is it art?
The Chilean artist Don Lucho has built an entire scale model of an apartment out of cardboard he found on the street. He painted it white, taped it together to make furniture and household items and then added details in black marker pen….I feel inadequate that me and the children have only managed a bad robot and a rocket so far…
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13/07/10 – The Clean Up Operation
Since the BP oil leak started it is estimated that over 40,000 barrels have been pumped in to the sea around the Gulf of Mexico.
These photos in the Guardian, admirably illustrate that in the end, for all of our technology and the oil businesses being one of the richest in the world, the clean up job basically consists of people [...]
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12/07/10 – The Large Blue
Check out this fascinating story about the lengths some dedicated naturalists have gone to to re-introduce the Large Blue butterfly to England after it was made extinct in the 1970’s. Its bafflingly complex life-cycle which involves shedding its larval skin four times, falling off the thyme flowers it is hatched on to, being picked up [...]
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