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Toss Your Cookies! The World’s 10 Biggest Food Fights Toss Your Cookies! The World’s 10 Biggest Food Fights Article by Steve, filed under Culture & History in the Travel category. Sometimes it seems like the world’s one big Animal House, with tens of thousands of Bluto’s just itching to pop. Wasteful? The Battle of the Oranges, Ivrea, Italy (images via: Europe Euphoria) The Battle of the Oranges (Battaglia delle Arance), which takes place annually in the Italian city of Ivrea, is certainly the largest and quite possibly the oldest organized food fight in Italy. (image via: The Ugly Truth) Oranges haven’t always been the weapon of choice in the annual battle – at first beans were thrown, then apples. La Merengada (Meringue War), Vilanova i La Geltrú, Catalonia (images via: Frommers, Vilanova Digital and Wirdheim In Vilanova) Also known as the Batalla de Caramelos (Candy Fight), this sweet celebration begins each year on Fat Thursday… of course. (image via: Daniel Bartoll) La Tomatina en Reno, Reno, NV, USA (images via: Suite 101)

The 10 Most Inspirational TED Talks for Architects The 10 Most Inspirational TED Talks for Architects Inspiration is a funny thing: when you need it is nowhere to be seen, and just when you're not expecting it, it can blindside you in the least convenient of places. Here's ten inspirational TED talks for architects (in no particular order) from people with broad and unique views on architecture. Some might enlighten, educate or even enrage you - at the very least they should get those creative juices flowing a little better. Take-in these ten TED talks after the break... 1. There's usually an obvious answer to most problems, and then there's Thomas Heatherwick's solution. 2. With buildings, it is usually the finished product which grabs the most attention, however, for Bjarke Ingels the story behind the design is more interesting and useful than whatever the final product happens to be. 3. How does a graph become a building? 4. 5. 6. Julian Treasure wants to know: 'Do architects have ears?' 7. 8. 9. 10.

Furniture & Decor Archived Articles: Furniture & Decor From insane interior designs to fantastic furniture ideas, here are various photographs, drawings and other images of incredible works of functional art. Whether you are looking for inspiration by space (e.g. living, dining, bedroom and bathrooms) or by type of furniture (e.g. chairs, tables, mirrors and lamps) you can navigate this space to find all kinds of creative and offbeat design objects suitable for any interior design project. Flintstones Furniture: 15 Designs Made of Stone and Lava Evoking the primitive furniture of mankind’s cave-dwelling days, these tables, chairs, stools and desks feel massive and monolithic, yet many are ... Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 IKEA 2014 Small-Space Set: 51 Designs from Cool to Kitsch The sales pitch for this new 2014 series is compelling: 51 inexpensive designer objects made for young city dwellers, people who may be on the move more often ... Reading Room (Dividers): 13 Creative Bookshelf Designs

The Top Places To Watch Architectural Lectures Online As we enter December and the holidays draw nearer (and we might be looking forward to a little extra time on our hands), we’ve gathered together some of our favourite sources for watching architectural lectures online. Ranging from Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel’s famous American Architecture Now interviews with Frank Gehry in 1980 and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown in 1984, to Sir Peter Cook speaking at Frankfurt’s Staedelschule in 2012, these open-source films provide invaluable insights into architects and architects throughout recent history. Check out our favourite sources after the break. A Post-Modernist Utopia: the American Architecture Now lectures (USA) Featuring conversations with Peter Eisenman and Jack Robertson, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, and Kevin Roche – to name only a few - Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel’s interviews with some of the giants of American post-modernism mark a particular moment in recent architectural history.

12 Inspiring Urban Image Galleries | 500+ Pictures 12 Inspiring Urban Image Galleries | 500+ Pictures Jump in and take incredible visual tour of the best of WebUrbanist, from alternative forms of graffiti to amazing green designs and awe-inspiring abandoned places from around the world. Collection 1: Alternative Street Art and Graffiti 20 Light Graffiti Artists and Photographers: Light graffiti is a unique art that takes many forms, from comic and creative to refined and deliberate. These light graffiti artists span the spectrum and use a wide range of tools to create art that can only be captured in the right time and place via photography, itself a difficult art. 3D Graffiti, Sidewalk Chalk Art and Street Painting: Rendering something in two dimensions to appear three dimensional is a difficult art alone – but all the more amazing for the scale at which these 3D artists produce it. Collection 2: Green Design Past, Present & Future Collection 3: Haunting Images of Abandoned Places

Indian inventor creates children's science toys from trash Children in the First World have a lot of choice when it comes to scientific toys. In fact, there are whole stores devoted to selling things like robotics kits, ant farms, and simple microscopes. In the developing world, however, such fancy toys are relatively scarce. So, what's an adult to do if they want to get the local children interested in the sciences? Well, in the case of Arvind Gupta, they show the kids how to make scientific toys from trash. View all Gupta's story began in the 70s, when he was an engineering student at the Indian Institute of Technology. Upon graduation, he went on to work at Tata Motors, where he helped to build trucks. Gupta proceeded to devote his life to designing toys that demonstrate scientific principles, that children can build for themselves out of cheap or free parts. Today, he is part of the four-person team that runs the Children's Science Centre, at India's Pune University. "Every child is born a scientist," he said. Source: Toys-from-Trash

Insect-inspired Material That Could Solve Our Plastic Problem What if you could come back from the store, extract your haul, and throw your grocery bag in the garden to compost away? Scientists have created a sturdy, versatile, completely biodegradable alternative to plastic that could just make this crazy dream real. And it’s made from insect skeletons. Javier Fernandez, a Spanish materials scientist, and his collaborators at the Wyss Institute, have created the material they’re calling "Shrilk," which mimics the architecture of arthropod exoskeletons. Grasshoppers and other similar bugs have an exoskeleton that is strong enough to support their innards, but light enough to allow the insect to fly. Shrilk, made from the proteins in these natural materials, also adopts a similar duality: It has the strength of an aluminum alloy, but is half its weight. Fernandez was experimenting with chitin--found in insect shells-- for use in bio-compatible microelectronics. Shrilk is a shoe-in for use in medicine, Fernandez says.

IBM's building an air-breathing EV battery that goes 500 miles on a single charge IBM Research Boosts Battery 500 Project with New Materials Partners Asahi Kasei and Central Glass to enhance electric vehicle lithium-air battery innovation SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 20, 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that two industry leaders -- Asahi Kasei and Central Glass -- will join its Battery 500 Project team and collaborate on far-reaching research with the potential to accelerate the switch from gasoline to electricity as the primary power source for vehicles. In 2009, IBM Research pioneered a sustainable mobility project to develop lithium-air battery technology capable of powering a family-sized electric car for approximately 500 miles (800 km) on a single charge. As partners in the Battery 500 Project, Asahi Kasei and Central Glass bring decades of materials innovation for the automotive industry to the team. "These new partners share our vision of electric cars being critical components of building a cleaner, better world, which is far less dependent on oil," said Dr.

Bats rebound in NY caves first hit by white-nose (AP) -- Researchers found substantially more bats in several caves that were the first ones struck by white-nose syndrome, giving them a glimmer of hope amid a scourge that has killed millions of bats in North America. Figures released Thursday by the state Department of Environmental Conservation showed notable increases in the number of little brown bats in three out of five upstate New York hibernation caves where scientists first noticed white nose decimating winter bat populations six years ago. The largest cave saw an increase from 1,496 little browns last year to 2,402 this winter. There are hopes this is an early sign that bats can adapt to a disease that has spread to 19 states and Canada. But scientists caution it's far too early to tell if it is the start of a trend or a statistical blip. Scientists fear the disease could push some species to extinction and dramatically reduce the population of an animal farmers depend on for natural pest control.

Oldest Known U.S. Made Motorcycle Up For Auction You'll be able to bid on a piece of history Saturday April 21st. A 1903 Indian motorcycle is going up on the block, the oldest unrestored motorcycle made in the US and the only one of its kind. UPDATE: Sold for $155,000 Steve Rinker, who runs Buck's Indian, an Indian motorcycle restoration firm explains, "This motorcycle predates the Harley - the bike most Americans associate with homegrown motorcycles." Auctioneer Josh Ruby adds, "What makes this bike particularly intriguing is that it's never been restored. You can find out more about this rare bike and everything else that is up for auction at Wolf Auctions and can bid at Proxy Bid.

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