Derinkuyu, or: the allure of the underground city
My friend Robert and I finished reading Alan Weisman's The World Without Us almost simultaneously – and we both noted one specific passage. Before we get to that, however, the premise of Weisman's book – though it does, more often than not, drift away from this otherwise fascinating central narrative – is: what would happen to the Earth if humans disappeared overnight? What would humans leave behind – and how long would those remnants last? [Images: Derinkuyu, the great underground city of Cappadocia; images culled from a Google Images search and from Wikipedia]. Manhattan will be gone, Los Angeles gone, Cape Canaveral flooded and covered with seaweed, London dissolving into post-Britannic muck, the Great Wall of China merely an undetectable line of minerals blowing across an abandoned landscape – but there, beneath the porous surface of Turkey, carved directly into tuff, there will still be underground cities. Some tunnels lead from building to building.
China's Abandoned Wonderland
In Chenzhuang Village, China, about 20 miles northwest of central Beijing, the ruins of a partially built amusement park called Wonderland sit near a highway, surrounded by houses and fields of corn. Construction work at the park, which developers had promised would be "the largest amusement park in Asia," stopped around 1998 after disagreements with the local government and farmers over property prices. Developers briefly tried to restart construction in 2008, but without success. Use j/k keys or ←/→ to navigate Choose: A farmer carries a shovel over his shoulder as he walks to tend his crops in a field that includes an abandoned castle-like building that was to be part of an amusement park called "Wonderland", on the outskirts of Beijing, China, on December 5, 2011. A view of a vacant carpark in front of abandoned buildings that were to be part of an amusement park called Wonderland, on the outskirts of Beijing, on December 5, 2011.
Why Nikola Tesla was the greatest geek who ever lived
Additional notes from the author: If you want to learn more about Tesla, I highly recommend reading Tesla: Man Out of Time Also, this Badass of the week by Ben Thompson is what originally inspired me to write a comic about Tesla. Ben's also got a book out which is packed full of awesome. There's an old movie from the 80s on Netflix Instant Queue right now about Tesla: The Secret of Nikola Tesla. It's corny and full of bad acting, but it paints a fairly accurate depiction of his life.
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Napoleon complex
British propaganda of the time promoted the idea that Napoleon was short. In reality, his height was above average for the period. Napoleon complex, or "short man syndrome", is a pejorative slang term describing a type of psychological phenomenon which is said to exist in people, usually men, of short stature.[1] It is characterized by overly-aggressive or domineering social behaviour, and carries the implication that such behaviour is compensatory for the subjects' stature. The term is also used more generally to describe people who are driven by a perceived handicap to overcompensate in other aspects of their lives. Other names for the term include Napoleon syndrome[2] and Short Man syndrome.[3] Research[edit] In 2007, research by the University of Central Lancashire suggested that the Napoleon complex (described in terms of the theory that shorter men are more aggressive to dominate those who are taller than they are) may be a myth. In evolutionary theory[edit] In game theory[edit]
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Grow Your Own Garden Chair With Chair Farm
© Studio Aisslinger Living Walls? Sooo Over: The hottest new trend is living furniture. Unveiled last month at the Milan Furniture Fair, German designer Werner Aisslinger's Chair Farm is a "steel corset" that trains plants into chairs. From Studio Aisslinger's website: The chair is no longer produced in the classical sense of the word. A fast-growing vine is trained to grow around the steel frame, and once it is completed, the frame is removed. Aisslinger sees his chair as the first step towards a utopian future of "product plantations" -- where furniture is grown on a massive scale. Wikipedia/Public Domain Aisslinger's idea is not so revolutionary -- above is banker and naturalist John Krubsack, who could be considered the grow-your-own-chair pioneer. Then there are Peter Cook and Becky Northey, who have coined their tree-shaping technique with the awkward word "Pooktre."
How To Drive A Stick Shift Properly
SExpand for how much I enjoy that movie the content is horrible haha I thought modern syncro-mesh means no need to double-clutch? Don't need to, but double-clutching makes it easier on the synchros when you downshift. I've driven a few cars that have seen some heavy track use from drivers that don't double-clutch, and there's an audible crunch if you downshift them without double-clutching. Also, I didn't get to reply to your last post about driving position. The risk zone is 2-3 inches from steering wheel, so I doubt you would be in danger. >wheel close enough that when you extend your arm straight out with >your shoulders squarely against the seat, you should be able to rest >your wrist on the top of the wheel. Yep, that's exactly what I do.
