Solar City Tower, to be built with the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
This vertical structure will be built in Cotonduba Island, in front of Rio, in conjunction with the Olympics 2016, that is taking place in Brazil. The building is both an observation Tower and a welcome sign for the visitors arriving by air and by Sea at Rio de Janeiro.
Designed by Zurique firm, RAAFA, Solar City Tower features an artificial waterfall designed to generate clean, renewable energy: during the day the solar panels capture the energy needed to pump the sea water at the top, that is then conveyed through the turbines and produce the power to feed the system at night.
Don’t get excited it’s just a concept don’t get excited it’s just awoeignnavoifOIfwejignangvaewOWEJJAIERGJIOANEVAJDSNVJKSNDVJFOWIER
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A brilliant series of minimalist typographic tributes to scientists and their discoveries. I especially like the Copernicus one :)
Artwork by Kapil Ghagat (on Tumblr at bhagatkapil)
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Cat Hugs Baby Kitten Having Nightmare (by timah99)
“some historians think that michelangelo was drawing god in a human brain. very few people knew what one looked like at the time; but michelangelo had dissected cadavers and would have known. it even has the hint of a brain stem. if true this would have been a great “fuck you” to the pope whom he was not friendly with but also would have meant god was in a human brain, or created by man.”
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what is going on
This happened in North Carolina
did she catch a chair?
i want her on my team!!!
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Simon, an assistant language teacher in Japan, gave some of my old “fill-in-the-dialogue” comics to his 9th grade students for a fun activity and sent me some of the results. Check the gallery to see “Terror Suddenly,” “Do You Have Nose,” and many others!
this is my favorite thing
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So, we used to waste hours throwing paper balls at trash cans trying to make it. Now we will spend hours throwing paper balls trying to miss.
Has science gone too far?
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wow.
watch in full.