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Water monster? Watch this video and you’ll be in no doubt

January 16, 2015 by Andrew 1 Comment

You might well think there’s some monster in the water. If I had said this was filmed at Loch Ness then the first 10 seconds or so would surely show the Loch Ness monster. But no, the creature here is a water monster we all know about but sometimes forget how dangerous it can be. […]

Starts off silly but there’s a horrible twist in this Doritos ad

January 16, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Did you watch the video? Maybe you took a look at the thumbnail and figured this was an ad for Doritos. It’s not. It really isn’t. This is an ad that urges people to persuade Doritos and PepsiCo, the company that owns the brand, to help protecet the rainforest and orangutans. The problem is palm […]

Incredible photographs show nature reclaim a transport ship with a floating forest

January 15, 2015 by Andrew 2 Comments

In Homebrush Bay, Sydney, Australia you can see a remarkable floating forest. The remains of an abandoned transport ship, a 1911 steam collier, is slowly being overgrown by a forest. Humankind has helped. From 2008 to 2010 there was an effort to remove chemicals from Homebush. These incredible photographs come from Bruce Hood, Andy Brill […]

Amazing photographs from FESTIMA: Festival International des Masques

January 14, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

North of Burkina Faso there’s Dédougou, the capital of Mouhoun Province, and home of Festival International des Masques. Italian photographer Anthony Pappone attended and took a series of stunning photographs. It is said that the person wearing a mask becomes the embodiment of the spirit shown by the mask. As they dance the chief can […]

Explore the ancient Egyptian city found beneath the waves

January 13, 2015 by Andrew 2 Comments

Two years ago the ancient city of Thonis-Heracleion was found below the waves in the Abu Qir Bay. Just off the coast of Egypt but lost for hundreds of years, scientists had no idea what they would found. Thonis-Heracleion was founded around the 8th century BC and after a series of natural disasters it vanished […]

Haunting firefly time-lapse photography

January 12, 2015 by Andrew 1 Comment

This remarkable video was made in the summer of 2013 with time-lapse photography taken around the Lake of the Ozarks, MO and Grand Ledge, MI in the US. The soundtrack was composed by Brandon McCoy for the film and is called “Luciole” which is French for firefly. Amazingly, this was Vincent Brady’s first attempt at […]

Is plastic confetti killing our oceans?

January 11, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

We all know that large collections of plastic are harmful and a problem in the ocean. As it turns out that micro-plastics are just as dangerous even if it is much harder to track their effect. This useful video from Minute Earth has notched up over half a million views in half a year. Do […]

North Carolina beach complete with a shark feeding frenzy

January 10, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

If you’re just walking along the sand, the breaking waves washing against your feet would you end up in the middle of a shark feeding frenzy? You could. This video shows the shore of a beach in North Carolina host more than 100 sharks. The sharks were caught in a feeding frenzy, chomping their way […]

Very weird: Monsterous Kappa rises from the river

January 9, 2015 by Andrew 2 Comments

A Kappa is a Japanese water goblin or demon. It’s name means River-child and a local would describe it as a Yokai. This Kappa is at home in the pond at Tsujikawayama Park near Fukusaki in Hyogo Prefecture. The head of the beast is important; Kappa’s have power while their hairless patch is filled with […]

Listen for free: Be amazed at these ancient Sumerian songs

January 8, 2015 by Andrew Leave a Comment

Sumer is the original “land of the civilized kings” and was one of the first ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia. The god of beneficence, Enki, is Sumerian, as if Enlil the lord of ghost-land, Sin the moon god and even An who was the god of heaven. Now musician Stef Conner learned how to read and […]

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