"Really amazing photos of animals from a new National Geographic documentary called “Extraordinary Animals in the Womb"."
Eclectic Perambulations in the Noosphere
Explore the wierd and wonderful interactive WimCity website of the very unusual and creative Belgian artist Wim Delvoye
"The 27th story of a building provides a skyline vista, if you’re lucky, or a maybe a coastal view. But in Milan, residents in the upper reaches of two under-construction buildings, 110 and 76 meters (360 and 250 feet) in height, will see a tree outside their window…a tree they can touch.
The project, Bosco Verticale (or Vertical Forest), is the first in a development called BioMilan which will integrate vertical gardens into the exterior structure of some new Milan buildings, such that the trees and plants will help control the building’s climate, through shading in summer and daylighting in winter, and also help filter the air. Plants are being chosen based on their ability to produce humidity and absorb CO2, dust and urban noise."
"An emaciated 18-year-old Russian girl looks into the camera lens during the liberation of Dachau concentration camp in 1945. Dachau was the first German concentration camp, opened in 1933. More than 200,000 people were detained between 1933 and 1945, and 31,591 deaths were declared, most from disease, malnutrition and suicide. Unlike Auschwitz, Dachau was not explicitly an extermination camp, but conditions were so horrific that hundreds died every week."
"World War II is the story of the 20th Century. The war officially lasted from 1939 until 1945, but the causes of the conflict and its horrible aftermath reverberated for decades in either direction. While feats of bravery and technological breakthroughs still inspire awe today, the majority of the war was dominated by unimaginable misery and destruction. In the late 1930s, the world's population was approximately 2 billion. In less than a decade, the war between the nations of the Axis Powers and the Allies resulted in some 80 million deaths -- killing off about 4 percent of the whole world.
This series of entries will last from June 19 until October 30, 2011, running every Sunday morning for 20 weeks. In these photo essays, I hope to explore the events of the war, the people involved at the front and back home, and the effects the war had on everyday lives. The entries will follow a roughly chronological sequence, with some broader themes (such as "The Home Front") interspersed throughout. These images will give us glimpses into the real-life experiences of our parents, grandparents and great grandparents, moments that shaped the world as it is today."
Alan Taylor
Read the 20 part series at The Atlantic
