• One Man's Trash, Another Man's 'Earthship' | Online NewsHour | September 30, 2009 | PBS
  'The open end of the U will be closed off with a glass wall, which must face south, because Earthships are designed to use solar energy for heating. Reynolds says the design keeps an Earthship's interior around 70 degrees, regardless of whether it's 115 outside or 20 below, without heating or air conditioning.'
  (tags: nifty environment structures design weird)
• Twitter / Wallid Ismail: @martialfarts You welcome! …
  "You welcome!!! We are one guy, the guy who like fight, live for fight!!!!"

  Whoa!

  (tags: martial.arts weird nfity whoa engrish humor.unintentional)
• Giant, Mucus-Like Sea Blobs on the Rise, Pose Danger
  'As sea temperatures have risen in recent decades, enormous sheets of a mucus-like material have begun forming more often, oozing into new regions, and lasting longer, a new Mediterranean Sea study says (sea "mucus" blob pictures).'

  'But the new study found that Mediterranean mucilages harbor bacteria and viruses, including potentially deadly E. coli, Danovaro said. Those pathogens threaten human swimmers as well as fish and other sea creatures, according to the report, published September 16 in the journal PloS One.'

  'Beyond warm temperatures, it's still not exactly clear what drives the blobs' formation, Scripps' Azam pointed out. For instance, no one knows why the dead marine matter in the blobs doesn't decompose.'

  (tags: weird sea environment disease nature global.warming lovecraft)

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