Have you noticed that our need for food has been contributing for the degradation of the environment and that we need new solutions if our population continues to grow. This degradation comes from pesticides, fertilizers or from overfishing. Against this backdrop there are a growing amount of people working to refine and popularize a technique [...]
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Ancient lost settlement found in Amazon
Through satellite images of the Amazon region scientists have discovered a settlement made of a complex of ancient towns in which about 50,000 people lived in. The findings were published on Thursday in the journal science and described clusters of towns and smaller villages connected by complex road networks and housing society doomed by the [...]
The World’s Biggest Spiderweb
This might be one of the biggest, if not the biggest spiderweb ever found. This huge web was found covering 180 meters of trees and bushes by the employees of park Lake Tawakoni in Texas. It’s not yet clear if this “work of art” has been made by a single or a colony of spiders. [...]
Last shuttle launch
The pinnacle of our technology is present in our space exploration activities. One of the most amazing things that we now easily do is to get into space and that’s why I selected this video of the latest launch of a shuttle. This one is going to our space station to deliver a Japanese lab. [...]
Stonehenge was used as a cemetery from the beginning
Image via Wikipedia Though the stones were only erected in 2500 B.C. there are evidences of burials since 3000 B.C. It seems like the local was used to only bury elements of one family being the first one at 3000 B.C. and then as the family gown up more and more bodies were then buried [...]
A baby was up for sale on Craiglist
Can you believe that a couple in Canada has their baby for sale at Craiglist for $10,100. The police after been alerted by a woman found the 23-year-old mother and the 26-year-old-father using the cell phone number that was listed in the advertisement. The couple was arrested and the baby taken to social care. The [...]
Retracted green light on GM crops feeds suspicions
Image via Wikipedia Like if we haven’t learned enough with the past from playing God men still wants to do it in the search of high profits. Seems like we haven’t learned enough from our previous experience from playing God. Now we play with food modifying its genetic structure in order to obtain higher profits. [...]
The famous writer Paulo Coelho is online and updated.
That’s right, one of the best writers of our age can be found on one if not the best social site in the web. If you’re a fan of Paulo Coelho you can find him at www.stumbleupon.com, and from there get to know the blog that he holds online as well as his favorite pages [...]
Amazing photo of a natural phenomenon
This amazing photo was taken at Patagonia, Chile. The volcano seems to be in its critical phase and an abrupt descent of the material he has spewed may cover vast areas with deadly hot gas, ash and molten rock. Since eight days ago that the volcano has been expelling the material that has accumulated in [...]
Microsoft and Google launched their competition into space
Two of the most powerful companies in the world of the computers will take their competition into space as they develop their new programs that will allow internet users to travel around our known space from their homes thanks to the most advanced telescopes and satellites of the world like the Hubble and the Spitzer [...]