10 Buildings Shaped Like What They Sell. Looking for a good way to advertise your business?
Why not shape your headquarters like what you sell or offer? It’s worked out pretty well for these businesses and groups. 1. The Longaberger Company, Newark, OH Longaberger is known for its handcrafted maple baskets, so its headquarters are obviously shaped like a giant basket. 2. Between 1983 and the mid-1990s, Twistee Treat opened 90 or so ice cream shops around the country, and each one is shaped like a delicious cone of soft-serve vanilla. 3.
Parking garages are usually eyesores, but this one’s beautiful. 4. Kansas City doesn’t have a monopoly on book-shaped buildings, though. 5. This one’s a Boston institution. 6. United sells and rents heavy equipment like compactors and excavators, so it’s only natural that the company’s headquarters building is shaped like a two-story yellow bulldozer. 7. 8, 9 and 10. 2012 Best Kid's Books. Happy Birthday, Richard Feynman: The Key to Science in 63 Seconds. The Only Footage of Mark Twain in Existence. 10 Movie Characters and Scenes Built Out of Legos. This diorama looks deceptively simple, but the recreated rocky scene of the epic sword fight between Inigo Montoya and the Man in Black is actually fairly complex. The minifigures for the characters are quite believable. Wall-E is a popular character with Lego aficionados, but this one manages to capture the robot’s personality.
This scene is not as large as some of the others, but it’s very detailed, from the smoke coming out of the volcano to the countless tiny aquamarine-colored Lego pieces that look like water. The angelfish is also quite an accomplishment. Hobbiton, the hometown of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins in Tolkien’s , is technically from a book, not a movie. Disney World has commissioned numerous Lego sculptures of classic scenes from their movies, including this depiction of Snow White kissing Dopey. Many people have made passable Lego versions of the famous DeLorean from , but this one is unusually clever.
A cyborg just begs to be made out of Lego. The Best Science Books of 2012. By Maria Popova From cosmology to cosmic love, or what your biological clock has to do with diagraming evolution.
It’s that time of year again, the time for those highly subjective, grossly non-exhaustive, yet inevitable and invariably fun best-of reading lists. To kick off the season, here are, in no particular order, my ten favorite science books of 2012. (Catch up on last year’s reading list here.) “Six hours’ sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool,” Napoleon famously prescribed. In fact, each of us possesses a different chronotype — an internal timing type best defined by your midpoint of sleep, or midsleep, which you can calculate by dividing your average sleep duration by two and adding the resulting number to your average bedtime on free days, meaning days when your sleep and waking times are not dictated by the demands of your work or school schedule. The distribution of midsleep in Central Europe.
The scissors of sleep. Chronotypes vary with age: Stewart writes: