Frans Timmermans says older people need to make sacrifices to protect the future.

Older people will have to make sacrifices in the fight against climate change or today’s children will face a future of fighting wars for water and food, the EU’s deputy chief has warned.

 Frans Timmermans, vice-president of the EU commission, said that if social policy and climate policy are not combined, to share fairly the costs and benefits of creating a low-carbon economy, the world will face a backlash from people who fear losing jobs or income, stoked by populist politicians and fossil fuel interests.

 Read more

 

Dry Dock Near Picton, Trey Ratcliff

Stuck in Customs

 

‘The Mushroom’, ZJJZ Atelier

more

 

That Evening Sun Goes Down , Tamary Kudita

The CAP Prize has announced 25 shortlisted projects.

  

Why is a global tax overhaul necessary?

The economy has changed dramatically over the past 40 years. Bricks and mortar businesses have given way to a digitalised economy driven by intangibles, such as copyrights and patents, which are extremely mobile and devilishly slippery for the tax expert working within a system designed for traditional tangible goods. Value creation is concentrated within a few companies, the clear winners of globalisation. 

Many of the largest and most successful firms often pay the least corporate income tax. 

The sense of unfairness – for citizens and governments alike – has become untenable. 

Read more 

 

Europe’s first fully 3D-printed house gets its first tenants

New home in shape of boulder is first legally habitable property with load-bearing walls made using 3D-printing technology. 

Read more

Just another day in Australia

more

 

Underwater Photos by Steven Kovacs

more

 

Second Skins, Miguel Vallinas

more

 

Ryan Jenq’s still life images

Brookyln-based photographer Ryan Jenq’s dreamy still life images integrate storytelling and emotion, painting the objects that he photographs in a romantic light.

 

Lyuba

For many years, Lyuba was the most well-preserved woolly mammoth ever discovered. Poor Lyuba was only 30 to 35 days old when she died. Clay found in her trunk has led researchers to believe that she may have suffocated from it while getting water or crossing the river with her herd. 

This same mud helped preserve her body, keeping it in near-pristine condition. In fact, not only was her trunk intact, but so were her eyes, skin, and organs. Scientists even identified her mother's milk in her belly and fecal matter in her intestines. If it weren't for the dog attack after her discovery, Lyuba would be perfect.

 She now has a permanent home at the Shemanovsky Museum. Occasionally, the museum lends her out for exhibitions—she's traveled to Australia and the United Kingdom. Weighing just 110 pounds and measuring a little under three feet tall, Lyuba is the size of a large dog.

 more

 

Moby is in pain, Gil Shachar

via

 

The Last Picture Show, Devin Oktar Yalkin

via

 

Scan the World

Scan the World might be one of the only institutions where visitors are encouraged to handle the most-valued sculptures and artifacts from art history. The open-source museum hosts an impressive archive of 18,000 digital scans—the eclectic collection spans artworks like the “Bust of Nefertiti,” the “Fourth Gate of Vaubam Fortress,” and Michaelangelo’s “David” in addition to other items like chimpanzee skulls—that are available for download and 3D printing in a matter of hours.

 more

 

Mona Lisa of philately

The British Guiana one-cent magenta, the world’s most valuable stamp, on display before its sale at Sotheby’s where it is expected to fetch as much as £10m. 

via

 

How to Be at Home

Hand-Blown Glass Spiders

Glass Symphony, a small family-owned glassblowing studio, has been in the business for generations, and their talent and love for their vocation is apparent in the colorful and meticulously crafted creations that they produce.

Kayaker Finds World's Most Venomous Fish on Her Paddle

The stonefish is the world's most venomous fish. It's dangerous even by the ambitious standards of Australian wildlife. Its body has 13 spines through which it can inject venom into its prey.

 The fish usually lie peacefully on the bottom of shallow waters in northern Australia.

 A kayaker spotted one clinging to her paddle while she was out for a jaunt. It mercifully permitted the humans to leave its territory alive. 

 more

Scientists find way to remove polluting microplastics with bacteria

Microbiologists have devised a sustainable way to remove polluting microplastics from the environment – and they want to use bacteria to do the job. 

Read more

 

Knock loud, I'm home

Adam Jordan’s ‘Shagwong Residence’

 

Spirals in Sanya, Trey Ratcliff

Stuck in Customs 

 

Sex Bomb

A German police bomb squad called to investigate a suspected hand grenade in a Bavarian forest has revealed that the object was a rubber sex toy. A jogger reported finding a bag containing the device on Monday in a forest outside the city of Passau, near Germany’s borders with Austria and the Czech Republic. The discovery of forgotten or hidden munitions is a regular occurrence in Germany more than 75 years after the end of the second world war. When the bomb squad arrived and inspected the contents of the bag, they determined it was a rubber grenade replica. The condoms and lubricant in the bag helped point to the device’s intended use, police told the German news agency dpa.

 more