Posts Tagged ‘amazing’
The Coolest-Looking Observatories On Earth
We often marvel at the amazing deep-space images that observatories beam back to Earth - but those observatories are almost as gorgeous in their own right. looking like spaceships or temples. Here's a luscious gallery. The telescopes in this gallery include Jantar Mantar, a famous observatory built in 1724 in India. But there's also the European [Read More]
The Marijuana Harvest (Pics)
The ongoing battle between medical marijuana advocates and law enforcement has begotten some tricky legality, which has lead to all sorts of uncertainty regarding growth and distribution, and, ultimately, prosecution (or non-prosecution) of distributors. Meanwhile, in places like Northern California’s Mendocino County, it’s currently harvest [Read More]
The Marijuana Harvest (Pics)
The ongoing battle between medical marijuana advocates and law enforcement has begotten some tricky legality, which has lead to all sorts of uncertainty regarding growth and distribution, and, ultimately, prosecution (or non-prosecution) of distributors. Meanwhile, in places like Northern California’s Mendocino County, it’s currently harvest [Read More]
A Man & His Bear
What if your best friend was an 800 pound grizzly bear?Meet naturalist Casey Anderson and his buddy Brutus. From bear-cub to best man at Casey's wedding, these two are inseparable. Casey holding one-month-old baby Brutus and his sibling. Casey playing with six-month-old Brutus. Brutus at six months. Bear smooch. Brutus going for a dip. Casey [Read More]
An Ocean of Plastic…In Birds’ Guts
Chris Jordan 's work attempts to place the impact of consumerism in perspective. For his latest project he traveled to the Midway Islands, near the heart of the Pacific Trash Gyre , to photograph the decomposed bodies of chicks that have been fed plastic litter by confused parents. What is a Gyre? A gyre is a round shape formed by concentric [Read More]
Nick Scott The Wheelchair Bodybuilder
Nick 'The Beast' Scott is the foremost promoter of wheelchair body building. In August of 1998 Nick was involved in a freak road accident that left him with a broken back and a damaged spine, requiring titanium rods to be vertically bolted to his spine. Diagnosed as paraplegic, Nick was told he would never walk again. After ballooning to 300 [Read More]
The World Famous Capybara Caplin
Capybara Caplin lives in Texas and he is the most famous capybara in the world. The capybara is the largest living rodent in the world. [Read More]
Incredibly Slimming Down
A guy weighed 630 lbs and that’s what he has become. He lost a whopping 29 stone and had more than 30lbs of excess skin removed. To do it he had to do a lot of exercises. For this you should have a strong will. His fitness instructor Chris Powell says “At the start of the training program, David was so fat that he had to be weighed at a local [Read More]
Great LIFE Magazine Images – Some Incredible Moments
1860s US Civil War 1870s US 1880s Wallace Levison 1890s Queen Victoria 1910s World War I 1920s Charles Lindbergh 1930s poverty 1940s Hawaii 1950s Walt Disney 1960s Apollo space 1970s boxer [Read More]