79 Amazing Underwater Eco Sculpture Images +1 Video

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"79 Unique and Awesome Underwater Sculptures"

Vicissitudes

(image credits:Jason de Caires Taylor)

Like characters that step off the page of a good book, Jason de Caires Taylor’s underwater sculptures literally come to life. In Grenada, West Indies, 26 life-sized figures await divers to view them in their underwater playground. The Vicissitudes were cast from children with diverse ethnic backgrounds. These underwater kids stand united in a circle, holding hands. The Vicissitudes are both art and an enhancement the environment, inviting marine life to rebuild the reef.

A Brief History Of Jaw-Dropping, Havoc-Wreaking 'Scam Ads'

A Brief History Of Jaw-Dropping, Havoc-Wreaking 'Scam Ads':
"A Brief History Of Jaw-Dropping, Havoc-Wreaking 'Scam Ads'

By now, you've seen that terrible ad from the World Wildlife Foundation and agency DDB comparing 9/11 to the 2005 Tsunami.

WWF said they approved neither the ad's production nor its publication. But it actually ran once in a small Brazilian newspaper.
How could that happen?

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How to make money in a flash? Sell Your body!

How to make money in a flash? Sell Your body!: "How to make money in a flash? Sell Your body!"With unemployment on the rise, there's a growing interest in ways to make money -- preferably how to make money fast.

When you don't have time to go around filling out job applications and taking night classes, your best bet for how to make quick cash might be to pay tribute to the King of Pop and start with the man in the mirror -- and ask him if he has any body parts you can sell off piecemeal for bread money. Here are a few places to get started on how to make money:

The New, Real "Minority Report": How the U.S. Gov't Aims to Catch Criminals That Haven’t Yet Committed a Crime | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond

The New, Real "Minority Report": How the U.S. Gov't Aims to Catch Criminals That Haven’t Yet Committed a Crime | The Daily Galaxy: News from Planet Earth & Beyond:

The New, Real "Minority Report": How the U.S. Gov't Aims to Catch Criminals That Haven’t Yet Committed a Crime

"Project Hostile Intent is part of the Human Factors Division of the DHS. DHS says that they need a way to detect possible “future” terrorists without a criminal past and with no known ties to terrorist organizations and therefore do not appear in any government databases. The technology will use advanced biometric technology in an attempt to “read minds” of people in public places"

Climate Geo Engineering - Pros and Cons of Geoengineering the Climate - thedailygreen.com

Climate Geo Engineering - Pros and Cons of Geoengineering the Climate - thedailygreen.com: "Geo-Engineering: A Climate Fix or Cloud Cuckoo Land?
A quick-fix solution to global warming, through engineering a cooler climate, is appealing - but dangerous. Here's why."

Fault lines already are developing on a wasp's nest of technical, economic, and political questions.

A climate engineering analysis published this month by a University of Texas engineering professor and an American Enterprise Institute researcher concludes that all of the 21st century's projected global warming ... that's right, all of it ... could be offset by spending a mere $9 billion on ships that spray seawater mist into the atmosphere in order to thicken clouds that would redirect sunlight back to space.

Bjorn Lomborg, the skeptical environmentalist, says the idea sounds like the cat's pajamas and never mind the worry warts who in his view have "overstated" the risks of climate engineering.

Not buying it is Roger Pielke, Jr., a University of Colorado environmental studies professor and a bit of an iconoclast who regularly annoys liberal greens and fellow climate researchers.

Pielke argues that the sea mist spraying proposal "is not well grounded in a realistic set of assumptions about how the global earth system actually works." Not enough is known about climate engineering to come up with cost-benefit analyses at this time that would be worth the paper they're printed on.

There is a thicket of vexing issues that cannot be waved away. "The consequences of reflecting sunlight would almost certainly not be the same for all nations and peoples, thus raising legal, ethical, diplomatic, and national security concerns," the American Meteorological Society said in a cautious geo-engineering policy statement published July 12.

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Hanging with South Sudan’s All-Female Mine Squads | Danger Room | Wired.com

Hanging with South Sudan’s All-Female Mine Squads | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Hanging with South Sudan’s All-Female Mine Squads" Twenty years of civil war in Sudan, ending in 2005, left the breakaway southern region littered with landmines and unexploded ordnance. Since 2002, aid groups have removed more than 16,000 mines from the region, but thousands more remain. “Many people are not aware that they have a mine on their doorstep,” said U.N. mine official Doep du Plessis.

Armor-wearing de-mining teams employed by humanitarian group Norwegian People’s Aid are on the front lines of an intensive clearing effort. The teams sweep with metal detectors to locate mines, then trim back any grass and soften the hard-baked earth with water before carefully digging up

Teaching Drones to Fly in Formation | Danger Room | Wired.com

Teaching Drones to Fly in Formation | Danger Room | Wired.com: "Danger Room What’s Next in National Security
Teaching Drones to Fly in Formation"

In a clever bit of viral marketing, a few weeks ago Lockheed Martin released artwork on-line depicting the company’s F-35 Joint Strike Fighter painted in the colors of the Air Force’s Thunderbirds aerobatics team, which in the real world flies F-16s. The delayed, over-budget F-35 is “not likely to appear in Thunderbird colors for at least another decade,” Steve Trimble noted.