Gunther von Hagens is the anatomical originating from Germany and was born on January 10, 1945. He is an expert plastinasi. Plastinasi is a technique used in the field of anatomy to create a body or body part is more durable. Water and fat in the body is replaced with a kind of plastic, so the specimens can be touched, no smell or foul, even able to maintain the original properties of the sample. Gunther von Hagens exhibit containing a man who preserved and shaped in such a way that it has such a way as doing activities when they are still alive. Highly controversial exhibition. sumber :http://www.abizmal.co.cc/2010/08/pameran-tubuh-manusia-yang-diawetkan.html
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Plastic bottles are produced, consumed, and trashed each and every day. Of the 28 billion bottles of water bought by Americans each year, more than 22 billion sit in landfills. Only 13% of our plastic bottles are recycled.
Those statistics on plastic bottles don’t include the ones that have been rescued for amazing reuse projects! We’ve discovered more than 340,000 plastic bottles in the creations below – from chic plastic vests to floating islands, the possibilities for reusing bottles are endless …
Richie Sowa’s Spiral Island floats off the coast of Mexico atop 250,000 plastic bottles. The plastic island is completely self-sustaining and is classified as a ship with the freedom to float wherever Sowa would like to go. If you prefer your residence to feature a bit more land and a little less water, this house is made of 8,000 plastic bottles and is one of many bottle homes built by Honduras-based Eco-Tec. The bottles are filled with mud and bound together with a cement mixture, offering low cost, long lasting construction. Is anyone else saying “poor doggie”? While it may not be considered extraordinary, this plastic doggie armor is definitely a bizarre reuse of a plastic bottle. This plastic bottle apparel looks a little more comfortable than the doggie sweater above. Designed by Saleyla, the vest is made of 16 plastic bottles. The designer decorated each plastic piece with her slogan, but the possibilities are endless – artwork, logos, etc. A couple of the leftover bottom pieces from the recycled plastic bottle project above – and a zipper – are all you need to make a one-of-a-kind coin purse. The zipper is sewn in using a needle and thread.
Any recycle craft also found in Sensatiocraft
Bambang PE from Indonesia , is the man who care not only in the reused recycled bottles, he also artist which amazing handmadecraft in the world. Used bottles,used pipe become more functional in his hand.
Cat clock, material from pvc plastic used, in any diameter, quarts machine wacth, 1,5 v battery. System knock down. www.sensatiocraft.blogspot.com
A Japanese engineer creates cars with his plastic bottles. For now, the solar-powered plastic racer is only available in miniature size – but with advancements in plastic recycling, we may very well see cars made of plastic bottles in the near future.
Image by Monte Mitchell
This team of 4 Appalachian University students is already brainstorming the possibilities of a plastic bottle car after winning first place in the Juicy Ideas competition sponsored late last year by Google. Their winning entry was a plastic bottle bike that worked – at least for a little while until the front end snapped off.
The Junk Raft recently voyaged from California to Hawaii to raise awareness about the amount of plastic polluting our oceans. Six pontoons, filled with 15,000 plastic bottles, sit below salvaged sailboat masts and the recycled Cessna cabin. After 3 months afloat, the plastic bottles beneath the raft were still in excellent condition – more than can be said for the shriveled stomach of the fish caught on the trip, sporting “14 fragments of plastic in it’s stomach”.
These plastic bottle curtains adorned the Jasmil Olympic Stadium in Seoul during the first-time Designbloom Mart in October, 2008. The ‘beads’ were created from a variety of plastics, including soda bottles, detergent containers, and plastic egg trays.
Tomislav Radovanovic, a math professor in Serbia, built this house with 13,500 plastic bottles and a little cement. The foundation, support pillars, and roof are cement – the rest of the construction is nothing but rescued plastic bottles.(ecoble.com) ShareThis
JK Rowling's mother died from complications related to MS
Author JK Rowling has donated £10m to the University of Edinburgh to set up a multiple sclerosis research clinic.
The Harry Potter writer, whose mother Anne had the disease and died aged 45, said the funds were to help attract top researchers to seek a cure for MS.
The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic will aim to put patients at the heart of the research process.
Rowling stood down as patron of the MS Society Scotland last year saying the charity was split by internal rows.
Work at the new clinic will also focus on other degenerative neurological conditions, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's disease, Huntington's disease and Motor Neurone Disease.
Multiple sclerosis affects about 100,000 people in the UK, while Scotland has one of the highest rates of MS in the world, with some 10,500 people with the condition.
Ms Rowling said: "I cannot think of anything more important, or of more lasting value, than to help the university attract world-class minds in the field of neuroregeneration, to build on its long and illustrious history of medical research and, ultimately, to seek a cure for a very Scottish disease."
We can only find improved treatments if we can truly understand diseases and the biological processes behind them”
End QuoteProf Charles ffrench-ConstantCentre for Multiple Sclerosis Research
She added: "I have just turned 45, the age at which my mother, Anne, died of complications related to her MS.
"I know that she would rather have had her name on this clinic than on any statue, flower garden or commemorative plaque, so this donation is on her behalf, too; and in gratitude for everything she gave me in her far-too-short life."
The clinic will be based in a purpose-built facility at the university.
Academics will work closely with researchers studying neurodegenerative disorders already based at the university, as well as training a new generation of researchers.
The university set up a Centre for Multiple Sclerosis Research in 2007, which has also received support from Rowling.
Professor Charles ffrench-Constant, the centre's co-director, said: "We can only find improved treatments if we can truly understand diseases and the biological processes behind them.
"The Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic will enable us to carry out studies that can inform laboratory research and, in turn, this knowledge can be translated back into treatments for patients."
Mexico City, Mexico (CNN) -- As more governments approve same-sex marriage laws, officials here are hoping to attract a growing part of the tourism market: gay honeymoons.
The first couple to wed under Argentina's recent law allowing same-sex marriages nationwide arrives in Mexico this week on an all-expenses-paid trip -- part of a new push by the government in Mexico City, Mexico to woo gay travelers.
"We hope that many same-sex couples who get married around the world spend their honeymoons here," says Alejandro Rojas, the city's tourism secretary.
In July, the city opened an office aimed at catering to gay tourists that officials describe as the first of its kind in Latin America.
"We are a very tolerant, liberal, avant-garde city," Rojas says.
Officials inaugurated the new office by cutting a rainbow-colored ribbon. Rojas said the office's goal is to make Mexico City the No. 1 gay-friendly destination in Latin America.
"Mexico has a tradition of being a rather macho culture... This is a sign of a very important social change," says Argentinean architect Jose Luis David Navarro, who will be spending part of his honeymoon in Mexico City this week.
The city's tourism secretary called to congratulate Navarro and his husband soon after they wed in northern Argentina in July.
For years, it was rare to see gay rights issues gaining traction in Mexico and other Latin American countries.
Not anymore, according to Javier Corrales, a professor of political science at Amherst College in Massachusetts.
"Latin America currently has some of the most gay-friendly cities in the developing world," says Corrales, who ranks cities' gay-friendliness in a new book he co-edited, "The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America."
Homosexuality remains a divisive issue in much of Mexico, with conservative politicians pushing for laws banning same-sex marriage in many states after Mexico City approved a gay marriage law last year.
The country's Roman Catholic Church leaders have been vocal opponents of the Mexico City law, which took effect in March and also allows married gay couples to adopt children.
But Mexico City officials say they hope to set a strong example that the rest of the country will follow.
Project plans for the new gay tourism office are still in the works.
In addition to training local hotels and restaurants on how to be sensitive to gay clientele, officials say they hope to create maps of the city highlighting attractions for gay tourists and possibly host an international gay tourism conference.
Hotels, restaurants and businesses in Mexico City have responded positively to the program so far, Rojas said.
So many sponsors offered to chip in for the Argentinean couple's free honeymoon that the city government didn't have to contribute any funds.
The annual economic impact of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender travelers is about $63 billion in the U.S. alone, according to Community Marketing, Inc. of San Francisco, California. On the global scale, Rojas says, that number is even greater.
"Around the world, it is a very important market," Rojas says.
Gay tourists represent 15 percent of the world's tourism market, and they spend more money than heterosexual tourists when they travel, he says.
Recognizing the commercial value of gay tourism is a positive step, Navarro says, but it also shows that more social change is needed.
"I hope that there comes a day in the future when they don't have to have an office for gay tourists, just like there isn't an office for Asian tourists," Navarro says.
But for now, he says, he and his husband are looking forward to the chance to visit Mexico City for the first time.
"Our suitcase is already packed," he says. "After 27 years of happiness together, this is the icing on the cake."
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When it comes to large-scale alternative power, hydroelectric plants are currently the most common – supplying more than 80% of the word’s renewable energy. While hydro power is much cleaner and more cost-efficient than the generation of electricity using fossil fuels, there are a number of disadvantages including the threat of dam failures, disturbance to the natural environment, and some greenhouse gas emissions.
Small hydroelectric power systems, however, create fewer threats and can be an excellent alternative energy source for residential use. Could small-scale hydro power be a viable option for your home? Keep reading to learn more…(ecoble.com) Read the story »
Kami telah menyoroti beberapa energi berkelanjutan , termasuk sepeda perahu bertenaga surya kreatif digambarkan di atas. Dalam posting ini, kami membawa Anda lebih banyak contoh beberapa perahu ramah lingkungan - beberapa yang tersedia, atau segera akan tersedia untuk umum! Dari tenaga surya untuk listrik, ada beberapa inovasi menarik di cakrawala untuk menyenangkan berkelanjutan di atas air ...(ecoble.com) Terkait: amazing options for sustainable boating solar-powered bicycle boat
Gus Dur's dream,
Gus Dur - KH Abdurrachman Wahid - the former Indonesian President
Media oil on canvas, 145x145cm
That said, there is a story that Gus Dur had a dream to climb coconut trees, and rocked hard by rocking with his political opponents, although Gus Dur is not falling in a dream, but reality also stepped down from the presidency.
Wahid Farewell, father of the nation, teachers have left the nation we all, may peace and His eternal side.
Inversnaid Primary School costs £108,000 a year to run
A school in a tiny Scottish village that costs £108,000 a year to run has only two pupils - and the head teacher is the children's mother.
The £54,000 cost per pupil at Inversnaid Primary in Stirlingshire makes it one of the most expensive in the UK.
The average cost per child in other Scottish primaries is £3,948 per year.
Stirling Council said it was committed to providing a "high quality education" to all children in its area.
A spokeswoman said: "In some rural areas this includes providing schooling in schools where the roll can be low. This is not uncommon in rural areas across the UK.
"The school has an annual total budget of £108,000 to cover all of its running costs, which are inevitably incurred, regardless of the number of pupils on its roll."
The four members of staff at Inversnaid Primary are the head teacher, a part-time classroom assistant, a part-time teacher and a part-time cleaner.
Head teacher Christine Carter was appointed this year after previously being acting head. The only two pupils are her 10-year-old son and eight-year-old daughter.
The nearest school is 15 miles away in Aberfoyle
Stirling Council said there had been four pupils on the roll last year.
The school was earmarked for closure 13 years ago when it had three pupils, but parents threatened to keep their children at home rather than allow them to be taken daily by taxi more than 10 miles (16km) to what was then the nearest school.
The ruling Labour group eventually decided it would be "inappropriate" to push ahead with the closure plans and Inversnaid remained open.
The closest alternative now is the primary school at Aberfoyle, which is 15 miles (24km) away on roads that can be dangerous in wet or wintry conditions.
Stirling Council said that in light of the school's current and projected size, the authority's education service would be seeking approval to consult on its future at the next meeting of the executive on 2 September.(bbc.com)
Digital nomads often have to come up with innovative ways to log on
By L J Rich BBC Click
Online digital storage devices and innovative internet connections mean working from anywhere in the world while travelling has never been easier. For the 20% of UK workers who spend three hours or more commuting each day living as a digital nomad could be more than just a dream.
Lea Woodward upped sticks three years ago for a life on the road - permanently.
Since then, she has seen her blog, Location Independent, grow into an online community of 22,000 members.
But she says working from anywhere is a little more complicated than packing flip-flops and laptops.
"People romanticise the lifestyle, thinking it is all on beaches and we gad about the globe, but it can be really challenging.
Lea Woodward quit her job in London for life on the road three years ago
"A lot of people are often so keen to hit the road and do the travel bit, that they forget the business aspect. It is really hard to cram everything in, including business, travel and sightseeing."
Ms Woodward's hotspots for great lifestyle and good wi-fi include Bangkok and Costa Rica.
But for those of us on the brink of booking that one-way flight, she warns that being location independent can make it difficult to get a business going.
"People think that once they have hit the road, they will have so much time to focus on getting income streams up and running.
"I think 99% of them have found it is completely the opposite.
"When you are working on the road you do not have an office, you do not have a desk to sit at and you do not always know what the internet connection will be like. 'Iraq please'
For blogger and bushcrafter Christian Payne, travelling has become his business and his assignments run further afield than most.
He began mobile documenting in 2005, when he went to see for himself the continued violence following the Iraq war.
"They were not flying directly to Iraq so I got a cheap flight into Turkey, took a camera and tried to travel as light as possible.
I have been known to attach a mi-fi onto a string of helium balloons - not too good when you are walking through the woods
Christian Payne, blogger
"The only way for me to get in was to literally exit the airport and say 'Iraq please, mate' to the taxi driver.
"There was a lot of fuel smuggling going on so it was very easy to find a taxi driver very keen to take me in, because he could bring a massive container of fuel out."
Mr Payne is no stranger to being off the beaten track and miles from an internet cafe.
By using solar power and a personal wi-fi generator to create a personal wi-fi hotspot, he has got his kit down to just hand luggage. Floating measures
Even so, he has had to resort to more unusual methods when technology has let him down.
"I have been known to attach a mi-fi onto a string of helium balloons. Not too good when you are walking through the woods, not many helium balloons survive," he said.
A look at some of the tools that can help you work away from the office
A mi-fi is a device which holds a SIM card. Powered by battery it takes the cellular signal and transforms it into a wi-fi hotspot which can then be accessed by various devices simultaneously.
"I find it more difficult to attach a mobile wi-fi hotspot to a kite but I have done that," he added.
"Having a data connection is key - then of course a mobile device that enables me to use that data to share multimedia."
Staying connected without resorting to such extreme measures is easy enough.
One thing both adventurers are insistent upon is that back-up services are a lot less expensive than having to recover lost data.
Online storage services like Dropbox allow you to keep 2GB of data in their cloud for free - along with Microsoft Skydrive (25GB) and Adrive (50GB).
Google Docs and Microsoft Office Live also let you view, edit and share your documents online.
Gadgets like the pink Pogoplug connect external hard drives to the internet
And, for those who have not sold up and moved out, files can be accessed at home securely using Pogoplug.
Plug the device into the mains, a router and a hard drive, and it becomes a personal storage cloud.
Other secure services, such as LogMeIn, are web-based. These let you control computers remotely and run programmes.
In LogMeIn Pro, a machine can be logged in to even when it is on standby, but the power does have to be kept on.
Being able to explore files while away from the office has ecological benefits too, as Mr Payne explained.
"More people should be free from the chains of having to go to an office. It would be much more environmentally friendly if I could sit in the garden and do a day's work.
"Even if I can work on the train on the way in to work, how much more beneficial is that going to be for my business or the company that I am connected to?"
But although more typically tech-facing companies have warmed to remote working, many bosses remain sceptical of how productive their staff would be if they were not in sight.
That may mean it could take a while before those of us who want to escape the office are allowed to do so.
(bbc.co.uk)
The late pop start Michael Jackson owned a number of interesting items during his lifetime - the rights to the Beatles songs, a monkey named Bubbles, and an authentic Egyptian harp, among others. One of his strangest pieces, was an oxygen chamber, which he felt would help him live longer. On a dark and ironic note, at the time Jackson owned the chamber he was quoted as saying, " . . . if I treat my body properly I'll live to be at least 150." Jackson died at the early age of 50 and the chamber was donated to the California Medical Center.
Pirates Of The Caribbean actor Johnny Depp has played some bizarre characters, but his collections may even be more bizarre. Besides collections of bats and insects he's also into pigeon skeletons. What got him hooked on this unique collection is anyone's guess. Other items you'll find at the Depp abode are the bladed limbs from the movie Edward Scissorhands and personal items of the late author Jack Kerouac. Besides Kerouac's original manuscripts, Depp also owns two of Kerouac's jackets, letters written by Kerouac and the author's suitcase. He's reported as having paid $15,000+ for the author's shabby raincoat.
The Eagle has eyes quite different from humans, the backs of the eyes being larger and flatter, and thus providing an excellent vision. In the center of the Eagle fovea – focusing point on the retina – there are approximately 1,000,000 cones per mm, compared to the measly 200,000 that humans have, so that objects or prey can be seen much more clearly and sharply, even from great distance. Eagles and Owls also have three eyelids, with the bottom eyelid being larger than the top one, and this explains why they always blink up instead of down.
The beast in the above photo never actually “cries crocodile tears”, because they do not have tear ducts, and cannot weep. The eyes can produce secretions and these fluids are secreted behind the third eyelid, or nictitating membrane, to both clean and lubricate it as it travels across the surface of my eyes, and inhibiting bacterial growth. The edge of this nictitating membrane is visible in the corner of the eyes when opened widely, and ‘tears’ can always be seen forming within it.
Do you know why snakes like the Python shown above always keep the eyes open? They do not have movable eyelids as most lizards do, which help them to lubricate and protect their eyes. This is why snakes always stare at prey. The eyes are protected by tough, immobile, transparent scales. While snakes do not have very good eyesight, their sense of smell, the reason why their tongues are always so active, is the best in the animal world. Some of snake species have a reddish brown ring around the left edge of their pupils, and even green, orange, gold, yellow or brown eyes.
This is the assassin fly, which is often mistaken for abumblebee. Living in grasslands all over the world, it has excellent vision that enables it to determine the distance and speed of objects or prey moving in front of it. When it spots food, it will fly close to investigate. The head is very large with two large compound eyes, each containing several thousand separate lenses that provide remarkable vision, particularly good for spotting small insects from a long way off.
The most striking eyes among the reptiles have lower and upper eyelids joined together, leaving one large hole for the pupil to see through. The Chameleon has the ability to roll or rotate each of the eyes independently, to see two different objects from two different directions at the same time. This perfect visual ability gives it a 360 degree field of vision, unique in the natural world.
Dragonflies are amazing creatures in that each has a pair of large multifaceted compound eyes which occupy almost all of their heads. Each compound eye has up to 30,000 individual lenses called ommatidia (a separate light-sensing organ), and thus giving these incredible beasts 360 degrees perfect fields of vision.
Scallops like the one pictured above have many eyes positioned along the right and left valve mantle margins. Each of eye is very unique, functioning like a reflecting telescope to bounce incoming light rays back to theimage-forming retina with an angular resolution of around 2°. The crude image then is formed on light-sensitive cells located in the middle of the eyes. These fantastic shellfish can afford to lose an eye, too, as they are able to regenerate them.
Eyes, as you can see, come in many strange and beautiful forms. Many of these creatures see the world in ways we never could, because human visual ability is really quite limited. The wonders of nature never cease to amaze and delight. The more you think you know, the more you realize how much there is still to learn.
SCALLOP EYE Dan Hershman http://www.flickr.com/photos/hershman/529072033/
CHAMELEON EYE David Dennis Photos.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/davidden/2252931518/
FROG EYE http://www.flickr.com/photos/lidarose/2554232489/
DRAGONFLY EYE http://www.flickr.com/photos/timitalia/254780912/
FLY EYE Thomas Shahan http://www.flickr.com/photos/7539598@N04/3085177911/
SNAKE EYE http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/469473526/
CROC EYE http://www.flickr.com/photos/llamnuds/2723112324/
EAGLE EYE http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterkaminski/3163654917/
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I have been known to attach a mi-fi onto a string of helium balloons - not too good when you are walking through the woods 
On a dark and ironic note, at the time Jackson owned the chamber he was quoted as saying, " . . . if I treat my body properly I'll live to be at least 150." Jackson died at the early age of 50 and the chamber was donated to the California Medical Center.
Other items you'll find at the Depp abode are the bladed limbs from the movie Edward Scissorhands and personal items of the late author Jack Kerouac. Besides Kerouac's original manuscripts, Depp also owns two of Kerouac's jackets, letters written by Kerouac and the author's suitcase. He's reported as having paid $15,000+ for the author's shabby raincoat.
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