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Portland Is Now Powered By Water Pipes and Flushing Toilets

Portland Is Now Powered By Water Pipes and Flushing Toilets

VIA “inhabitat.com” by Colin Payne Portland residents can now generate green electricity simply by turning on their water taps and flushing their toilets. Fast Company reports that the Oregon city is using a state-of-the art system to capture energy from water flowing through the city’s pipelines. Small turbines installed inside the pipelines are turned by […]

This New Experiment Will Answer Some Mind-Bending Questions About Whether We Live In a Hologram

This New Experiment Will Answer Some Mind-Bending Questions About Whether We Live In a Hologram

VIA “themindunleashed.org” by Josh Richardson The Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory is completing a unique experiment called the Holometer which has recently started collecting data to answer some mind-bending questions about our universe–including whether we live in a hologram. Much like characters on a television show would not know that their seemingly 3-D […]

22 Astonishing Places That Are Hard To Believe Actually Exist

22 Astonishing Places That Are Hard To Believe Actually Exist

VIA “themindunleashed.org” Our world is so full of wonders that new and amazing places are discovered every day, be that by professional photographers or amateurs. Different geographical locations, climatic conditions and even seasons offer the widest variety of natural wonders: pink lakes, stunning lavender or tulip fields, breath-taking canyons and mountains, and other places you […]

Nine Houseplants That Clean The Air and Are Basically Impossible To Kill

Nine Houseplants That Clean The Air and Are Basically Impossible To Kill

VIA “simpleorganiclife.org” Pop quiz: which is more polluted, indoor air or outdoor air? 10 times out of 10, indoor air in your house, office or apartment is going to be worse than the air outside. Indoor air pollution has been ranked among the top 5 greatest risks to public health by the EPA, and stagnant […]

Worlds Tiniest and Most Adorable Rodeo Captured On Camera

Worlds Tiniest and Most Adorable Rodeo Captured On Camera

VIA “pulptastic.com” Wildlife photographer Henry Mp must be really good at timing. Or maybe he’s just luckier than most of us. During his stay in Indonesia, Mp spotted a Reinwardt’s Flying Frog on the back of a giant horned wood-boring beetle. And much to his surprise, the scene that unfolded before him looked unbelievably awesome. […]

NASA Releases Spectacular 5 Year Time Lapse of the Sun

NASA Releases Spectacular 5 Year Time Lapse of the Sun

VIA “iflscience.com” by Danielle Andrew As a nod to the fith anniversary of the Solar Dyamics Observatory’s launch, NASA has created and released a stunning five-year timelapse of the sun. The footage was captured by taking one frame every 8 hours from 2010 to 2015, with different colours representing different wavelengths.

NASA’s Kepler Discovers The First ‘Earth Sized’ Planet In The Habitable Zone of Another Star

VIA “nasa.gov” Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered the first Earth-size planet orbiting a star in the “habitable zone” — the range of distance from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the […]