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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

This Is What Your Adult Life Looks Like, Chaz Hutton

From One Moment to the Other, Aurélien Voldoire

LensCulture’s Street Photography Awards 2015: The winners

Endangered orangutans are falling victim to a devastating forest fire haze crisis that has left them sick, malnourished and severely traumatised as fires rage through Indonesia's forests, reducing their habitat to a charred wasteland. Rescuers at a centre for the great apes in Borneo are considering an unprecedented mass evacuation of the hundreds in their care, and have deployed teams on hazardous missions to search for stricken animals in the wild.

Wealth or Happiness

Steve Lambert

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"Disappearing Africa" by Anton Lyalin

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Get Moving Up There! I’m Late For Work!!

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The pirate ants that keep slaves

Not far from you, ants are fighting for their freedom. They have been victimised by "slave-maker" ants, which subjugate other ant species to do their work for them. To recruit slaves, the slave-makers deploy troops that conduct raids on surrounding colonies. The system can be terrifyingly effective, in a sense akin to the horrific methods humans have used to keep slaves in line. The enslaved ants pay the ultimate price: they do not get to reproduce. But the slave-makers do not get it all their own way.
Some of their victims are fighting back. This battle is being fought, not just from day to day, but over evolutionary time – and nobody yet knows how it will end.

Rare Unlooted Grave of Wealthy Warrior Uncovered in Greece

Along with the well-preserved skeleton of a man in his early thirties, the grave contains more than 1,400 objects arrayed on and around the body, including gold rings, silver cups, and an elaborate bronze sword with an ivory hilt. More surprising were 50 stone seals intricately carved with goddesses, lions, and bulls, as well as a half-dozen delicate ivory combs, a bronze mirror, and some 1,000 carnelian, amethyst, and jasper beads once strung together as necklaces. Between the man’s legs lay an ivory plaque carved with a griffin.
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Steve McCurry: India

Steve McCurry has been coming to India for more than 30 years, knows it intimately, understands its charms, and has seen it change.

This collection is a testament to a long-standing love of India, and a commitment to recording its wondrous diversity. It represents a genuine panorama of the country.

Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Dog on Ice

Tomáš Werner

Bordalo II

Trick or Tweet

Pearls Before Swine

Self-Sufficient Living

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Comfort Food

It’s no wonder that when you’re feeling low, homesick, or just plain sick, nothing sounds better than curling up on the couch with a blanket and a hot bowl of something you grew up eating.
Historians differ on the origins of most food concepts, and comfort food is no exception.
The Oxford English Dictionary points to a 1977 Washington Post article about Southern food (and shrimp and grits, a beloved dish of the American South, in particular) as the first use of the term.
But the late food historian Lynne Olver dug up references to comfort food in the U.S. dating back as far as 1965. Origins of the phrase aside, many people from different cultures agree on the notion of comfort food, if not the individual dishes themselves: foods that are easy to eat (so, often loaded with carbs, like Spanish paella, Japanese katsu curry, and Italian gnocchi), hot and steaming dishes (chicken noodle soup or Vietnamese pho), and, most importantly, foods that trigger those fond childhood memories. Your favorite comfort foods are a product of where you come from, where your parents come from, and, as palates become more global, where your neighbors come from, too. This last point helps explain how Vietnamese pho and Korean bi bim bap, relatively unknown to many Americans a generation ago, came up more than once in my highly unscientific office poll.
Finally, does comfort food really comfort?
Well, the jury’s out on that, too. But hey, if you think a plate of rice and beans can perk you up when you’re feeling low, isn’t that all that matters?
While you’re thinking of your own favorite comfort foods, take a look at some beloved dishes of eaters the world over.

The man who make walls happy

Marco Cortese

Ozarks Concerto

Photograph by Terra Fondriest

Dog named Trigger shoots owner in the foot

The woman, named as Allie Carter, 25, was hunting waterfowl on Saturday in the north of the state, Jonathon Boyd, an Indiana conservation officer said. She put down her 12-gauge shotgun but her chocolate Labrador stepped on it, shooting her in the foot. To add insult to injury, the dog was named Trigger. Mr Boyd said she suffered injuries to her left foot and toes and has since been released from hospital. He said Ms Carter had not completed a hunter education course and urged all prospective hunters to do so.

When you can't buy a gun you can build one

Thanks to pop culture weapons are the first thing on everyone's mind when they think about survival during the end times, and that goes double for a zombie-related apocalyptic scenario.But even though a biblical armageddon will never happen, and corpses will never rise from their graves to devour the living, people are preparing for an unknown future by making sure they're well armed. If you're wondering what the weapons of that dark future might look like you should check out this gallery of Homemade Weapons.

Monday, October 26, 2015

How to carve the perfect Halloween pumpkin

We’ve all been there. Halloween is nearing, and you decide that it’d be fun to create a jack-o’-lantern with your children/flatmates/on your own with a bottle of wine. After all, how hard can it be?
An hour later, your hands are cut and bleeding, the floor is covered in seeds, there's a pile of smelly pumpkin flesh you have no idea what to do with and your pumpkin looks like it’s been attacked by a mad surgeon.
Here’s a step-by-step guide to creating a pumpkin lantern that you won't be embarrassed to put in your window.

Mad Max Power Wheels

Some people think Halloween isn’t as fun with kids because you can’t spend all night partying.
But Cory and Jeremy Newton-Smith once again prove that Halloween is infinitely better when you’re a parent, because you get to build phenomenal costumes like this Mad Max Power Wheels.