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Most Beautiful Places In The World. Everyone views beauty in different ways and what one person considers to be beautiful may be completely different to how other people view it. These beautiful places from all around the world are, in their own right, beautiful. Consisting of everything from individual monuments to expanses of water and ancient villages to modern cities, they may not all be attracting, appealing or aesthetically pleasing to everyone, but to some, they are some of the most stunning places on earth. Pakistan is blessed with sights that are beautiful beyond words. Mother Nature has been very kind to Pakistan when it comes to natural beauty. Of course there are many incredible man-made structures built throughout the course of history but here we are just taking a look at the natural wonders of Pakistan.

Lessons. Drawspace Pro Lessons are designed for artists of all levels and educators, and are logically organized into resources and activities.

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Eventually, all lessons and E-books authored by Brenda Hoddinott will be available here: four to eight brand new lessons and newly-revised older lessons are being added every month! Upgrade Now: Download all 310 lessons and 4 e-books! Try for Free: Download lessons marked as "Free"! 1.1.R1 Glossary Of Art Terms Definitions of art-related terms used in the resources and activities of Drawspace Curriculum (updated February 2013) $3.99or Upgradeto access all files.

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Hack your solar garden lights.

How on earth do they manage to sell something with a solar panel, rechargeable battery, step-up converter, LED and the plastic and metal casing for a dollar/pound. You can't even buy the bare components for anywhere near that, in fact the solar panel alone would probably cost you five times the cost of the whole light! Ana Somnia - lights out! 10 Vestigial Traits You Didnt Know You Had. How Animals See the World. The human eye is pretty amazing, but there are some things it cannot do such as see ultraviolet light or detect images at a great distance. The visual capabilities on non-human creatures can help to open our eyes to the possibilities beyond our limited sight. How To Mix Chalkboard Paint in Any Color. We love using chalkboards as backdrops for displays and parties (like this one here!).

How To Mix Chalkboard Paint in Any Color

A DRAMATIC SURPRISE ON A QUIET SQUARE. Denis Dutton: A Darwinian theory of beauty. What causes the smell after rain?" Most people notice a distinctive smell in the air after it rains.

What causes the smell after rain?"

It's frequently linked with spring, as the smell of fresh cut grass is associated with summer. Art 1. Optical Design. Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever - Music. My.opera.com/jarkendia/homes/topics/chihiro02.JPG. Neonflames.

Pondering a universe without purpose - latimes.com. The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.

Pondering a universe without purpose - latimes.com

Everywhere we look, it appears that the world was designed so that we could flourish. The position of the Earth around the sun, the presence of organic materials and water and a warm climate — all make life on our planet possible. Yet, with perhaps 100 billion solar systems in our galaxy alone, with ubiquitous water, carbon and hydrogen, it isn't surprising that these conditions would arise somewhere.

And as to the diversity of life on Earth — as Darwin described more than 150 years ago and experiments ever since have validated — natural selection in evolving life forms can establish both diversity and order without any governing plan. Centsational Girl & Blog Archive & Recycled Wine Barrel Planter. I know this happens to you.

Centsational Girl & Blog Archive & Recycled Wine Barrel Planter

You see something in a catalog or online and you think to yourself, “I bet I could make that for less money” or “I think I could pull off a similar version, but give it my own twist”. That’s just what happened when I spied the tiered recycled wine barrel planter in the Napa Style catalog for $299. As I mentioned yesterday, wine barrels are readily accessible where I’m from, and we can find them for as little as $20 a half barrel. Bengal Cats For Sale Bengal Cat Breeder Breeders Snow Bengal Cats For Sale. Visual Inspiration - AaronWeissArt.com.

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How to Trick Your Brain for Happiness

In this excerpt from his talk, Dr. 11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks. Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries.

11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks

Neuroscience Sheds New Light on Creativity - Rewiring the Creative Mind. 500MW from half a gram of hydrogen: The hunt for fusion power heats up - Slideshow. You’ve heard of the Manhattan Project — the Allied research and development program that resulted in two nuclear bombs being dropped on Japan and the end of World War II — and now it’s time to learn about one of its successors, Project Matterhorn, a Cold War program to control and harness thermonuclear reactions to create fusion power.

500MW from half a gram of hydrogen: The hunt for fusion power heats up - Slideshow

Nuclear fusion occurs when two atoms fuse together (usually hydrogen) to form a heavier atom (helium), and releasing a vast amount of energy in the process. This process can only occur at incredibly high temperatures, such as the center of a star (such as our Sun). Every second, the Sun fuses 500 million tons of hydrogen into helium, releasing about 5 million tons of gamma rays that eventually heat and illuminate Earth. Buckliball opens new avenue in design of foldable engineering structures. (PhysOrg.com) -- Motivated by the desire to determine the simplest 3-D structure that could take advantage of mechanical instability to collapse reversibly, a group of engineers at MIT and Harvard University were stymied — until one of them happened across a collapsible, spherical toy that resembled the structures they'd been exploring, but with a complex layout of 26 solid moving elements and 48 rotating hinges.

Buckliball opens new avenue in design of foldable engineering structures

The toy inspired the engineers to create the "buckliball," a hollow, spherical object made of soft rubber containing no moving parts, but fashioned with 24 carefully spaced dimples. When the air is sucked out of a buckliball with a syringe, the thin ligaments forming columns between lateral dimples collapse. This is the engineering equivalent of applying equal load on all beams in a structure simultaneously to induce buckling, a phenomenon first studied by mathematician Leonhard Euler in 1757. Nature, it appears, has already figured this out. Exploratorium - StumbleUpon.

Want to melt those years away? Travel to an outer planet! <div class="js-required"><hr> This Page requires a Javascript capable browser <hr></div> Fill in your birthdate below in the space indicated. (Note you must enter the year as a 4-digit number!) Click on the "Calculate" button. THE PLAYLIST: MASOCHISTIC PIANISTS. Satanic climaxes, perilous fireworks, duelling fencers: there's nothing quite so seductive to piano students as a nearly unplayable piece of music. Irving Wardle finds some models on iTunes ... From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Summer 2009 Piano students tend to be difficulty snobs for whom nothing is worth playing unless it’s unplayable. Most Amazing Time Lapse Video of Milky Way Ever Made. Seriously. Artificially intelligent vs. artificially human: creating better NPCs. Usually, when we think of creating artificially intelligent characters in games, we think of making these characters smarter and better at responding to various situations.

But at a Game Developers Conference presentation this week, two industry veterans suggested that we should take lessons learned from the study of human psychology to make characters more believably human, which doesn't necessarily mean "more intelligent. " Conveying emotion is seven seconds Dave Mark of AI consulting firm Intrinsic Algorithm noted that the average character in many games is an enemy that only appears for seven seconds, which makes it hard to convey any meaningful characterization through traditional methods. Early game characters were like early silent movie characters, according to Mark, making exaggerated movements and using short audio "barks" to reveal their emotions.

Darwin Pond. Welcome to TWAN project official website. Thinking styles - StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon. David Attenborough - Wonderful World - BBC Nature - HD 1080p. Biggest Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011 - StumbleUpon. Craig Venter is on the verge of creating synthetic life. Sparks and mirrors: Quantum scientists make something out of nothing. By Daniel Bates Updated: 18:42 GMT, 7 June 2011 Swedish researchers have literally made something from nothing - by creating sparks in a vacuum for the first time. The team moved a magnetic field over a special device at one twentieth the speed of light and caused it to ‘wiggle’ by switching the field’s direction. SyNAPSE: a cognitive computing project from IBM Research. Print Your Own 3D models (by @baekdal) #trends - StumbleUpon.

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