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Camel Beauty Competition
Most people wouldn’t consider that camels are beautiful. But at King Abdulaziz camel festival in Saudi Arabia, “beautiful” camels compete for prize money that can reach $66 million. The month-long festival includes camel races, breeders selling their camels and other … Continue reading
Leather from Mushrooms
Raising animals for their skins to make leather involves toxic chemicals and CO2. The process has long been criticized by environmentalists and animal rights activists. Now, a company call Mycoworks, has engineered a way to make a material just like … Continue reading
Super Spud
Imagine a quiet afternoon working in your vegetable patch digging up weeds. Your shovel hits something hard. Is it a treasure or a rock? Carefully you dig around the strange object and pull it out of the ground. What is … Continue reading
Dealing With Heat
We are all aware the climate is changing, it’s getting hotter. For cities in the middle of the desert, it is already a huge problem. Phoenix, Arizona last summer experienced 103 consecutive days of triple-digit heat with record setting deaths … Continue reading
37 Years at Sea
Ocean currents can be quite remarkable. A recent news story tells of a message in a bottle put in the ocean 37 years ago, that turned up this year on a Hawaiian beach. In 1984, students from the natural science … Continue reading
Heart-warming Tribute
A farmer called Ben Jackson, whose sheep ranch was in Guyra, a tiny town in New South Wales, Australia, found this charming way to honor his aunt who had died. She had succumbed to a two-year fight against cancer and … Continue reading
Cave Life in Anglo-Saxon England
A team from Royal Agricultural University and Wessex Archeology have recently discovered that a cave dwelling in Derbyshire, once thought to date back to the 18th century was, in fact, a dwelling back in the 9th century. They believe it … Continue reading
The World’s Tallest Sandcastle
Blokhus, Denmark is now the site of the World’s Tallest Sandcastle. This amazing sculpture stands 69.4 feet (21.16m) high and is now a Guinness World Record holder beating the previous German sandcastle record by 11.4 ft (3.5 meters). It took … Continue reading
Highline walk across Yosemite Valley
Two brothers from San Francisco, Daniel and Moises Monterrubio, were part of a group who recently broke the California record for the longest highline walk. Photo credit: Ryan Jenks Highlining (or slacklining as it is sometimes called) is a little … Continue reading
A Rope Suspension Bridge
The Queshuachaca Bridge in Peru can only be described as an amazing feat of engineering. It crosses a gorge above the Apurimac River in the Canac Province and connects four communities, providing a vital link for the local Andean people. … Continue reading
