The Waitomo Glowworm Caves, located just outside the main Waitomo township on the North Island of New Zealand, is a famous attraction because of a sizeable population of glowworms that live in the caves. Glowworms or Arachnocampa luminosa are tiny, bioluminescent creatures that produce a blue-green light and are found exclusively in New Zealand.
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The Waitomo Glowworm Caves were first explored in 1887 by local Maori Chief Tane Tinorau accompanied by an English surveyor Fred Mace. Local Maori people knew of the Caves existence, but the subterranean caverns had never been extensively explored until Fred and Tane went to investigate. They built a raft of flax stems and with candles in hand, floated into the cave where the stream goes underground.
The secret to getting a job is a good cover letter. With so many people applying for the same jobs, how do you stand out? The answer: GREAT COVER LETTERS! Cover Letter Advice From a Psychopath By John Zachary Townsend
This is one of the greatest video compilations of all time.
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A collection of the most hilarious, creative, and impressive videos of people opening cans or bottles.
Some techniques are more effective than others.
Using only a black marker, Boey draws intricate and detailed artworks on the exterior of various coffee cups. Since 2009 he has posted his progress in a frequently updated album on Flickr entitled Coffee Cups. To date there are over 363-photos showing the final results along with process shots and various angles to appreciate the 360 degree nature of some of the pieces.
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Star Wars Weekends is an annual special event at Disney’s Hollywood Studio theme park. It runs Friday-Sunday throughout June and brings Star Wars fans to celebrate the epic space-fantasy Star Wars Saga and the new animated television series The Clone Wars. To promote Star Wars Weekends 2010, Disney’s in-house ads studio Yellow Shoes Creative Group has designed a ads campaign featuring Yoda, Darth Vader, Darth Maul, General Grievous, and Chewbacca. All the characters are in funny situations, for instant, Darth Maul has a rainbow and clouds painted on his face, and Yoda is trimming a Mickey Mouse hedge with his lightsaber. You will like it. Enjoy!
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One visible sign of China's recent economic growth is the rise in prominence of inventors and entrepreneurs. For years now, Chinese farmers, engineers, and businessmen have taken on ambitious do-it-yourself projects, constructing homemade submarines, helicopters, robots, safety equipment, weapons and much more. Some of the inventions are built out of passion, some with an eye toward profit, (some certainly safer than others), and a few have already led to sales for the inventors. Gathered here are recent photos of this DIY movement across China
NASA’s Advanced Food Technology Project is responsible for providing space flight crews with a food system that is safe, nutritious, and acceptable to the crew, while balancing appropriate vehicle mass, volume, waste, and food preparation time for exploration missions. For the past 50 years, the methods involved in the preservation process have evolved from pilots eating seed and crackers to allowing for gourmet diets like freeze dried shrimp and meats to be eaten. 10 PICS John Glenn was America's first man to eat anything in the near weightlessness of Earth orbit. Before that, Yuri Gagarin, the first man on space, experimented by eating three 160 g toothpaste-type tubes serving puréed meat and chocolate sauce for lunch. Glen found the task of eating fairly easy, but found the menu to be limited. Many Mercury astronauts had to endure bite-sized cubes, freeze dried powders, and semiliquids stuffed in aluminum tubes. The astronauts found it unappetizing, experienced difficulties in rehydrating the freeze-dried foods, and did not like having to squeeze tubes. Moreover, freeze-dried foods produced crumbs which could foul instruments.
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Have you ever looked at an object or building and thought, “hey that kind of looks like a face!”? It’s actually a psychological phenomenon known as pareidolia. Pareidolia involves a vague and random stimulus (often an image or sound) being perceived as significant; it’s a form of apophenia (seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data). Online you can find entire communities dedicated to finding faces in everyday objects, places and buildings. On Flickr, the group FACES IN PLACES has over 6,365 members and a staggering 23,563 pictures. And on Reddit, there is a subreddit called /r/Pareidolia with nearly 40,000 members! You can also find countless Tumblrs, blogs and hashtags dedicated to this fascinating phenomenon that so many of us experience.
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Photos of Life at Woodstock Festival 1969 The Woodstock Festival was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to August 18, 1969. Bethel, in Sullivan County, is 43 miles (69 km) southwest of the town of Woodstock, New York, in adjoining Ulster County. During the sometimes rainy weekend, thirty-two acts performed outdoors in front of 500,000 concert-goers. It is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history. Rolling Stone listed it as one of the 50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock and Roll.
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