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noraleah: Study of Scotch & In the Rocks. Tucked in a box filled with fragrant pine boughs and herbs, a trio of Scotch cocktails that riffed on three classics: the cobbler, the sour, and the Sazerac. I can’t tell you how exciting it was to watch the box being assembled, craning my neck to see what was going in there — and then watching it delivered to our table. And for the lady, an Old Fashioned suspended in an ice sphere. Pull the slingshot and ping! a perfectly chilled cocktail in your glass. (Somehow Craig knew to always give me the interactive ones.) noraleah: Study of Scotch & In the Rocks. Tucked in a box filled with fragrant pine boughs and herbs, a trio of Scotch cocktails that riffed on three classics: the cobbler, the sour, and the Sazerac. I can’t tell you how exciting it was to watch the box being assembled, craning my neck to see what was going in there — and then watching it delivered to our table. And for the lady, an Old Fashioned suspended in an ice sphere. Pull the slingshot and ping! a perfectly chilled cocktail in your glass. (Somehow Craig knew to always give me the interactive ones.) noraleah: Study of Scotch & In the Rocks. Tucked in a box filled with fragrant pine boughs and herbs, a trio of Scotch cocktails that riffed on three classics: the cobbler, the sour, and the Sazerac. I can’t tell you how exciting it was to watch the box being assembled, craning my neck to see what was going in there — and then watching it delivered to our table. And for the lady, an Old Fashioned suspended in an ice sphere. Pull the slingshot and ping! a perfectly chilled cocktail in your glass. (Somehow Craig knew to always give me the interactive ones.) noraleah: Study of Scotch & In the Rocks. Tucked in a box filled with fragrant pine boughs and herbs, a trio of Scotch cocktails that riffed on three classics: the cobbler, the sour, and the Sazerac. I can’t tell you how exciting it was to watch the box being assembled, craning my neck to see what was going in there — and then watching it delivered to our table. And for the lady, an Old Fashioned suspended in an ice sphere. Pull the slingshot and ping! a perfectly chilled cocktail in your glass. (Somehow Craig knew to always give me the interactive ones.)

noraleah:

Study of Scotch & In the Rocks. Tucked in a box filled with fragrant pine boughs and herbs, a trio of Scotch cocktails that riffed on three classics: the cobbler, the sour, and the Sazerac. I can’t tell you how exciting it was to watch the box being assembled, craning my neck to see what was going in there — and then watching it delivered to our table.

And for the lady, an Old Fashioned suspended in an ice sphere. Pull the slingshot and ping! a perfectly chilled cocktail in your glass. (Somehow Craig knew to always give me the interactive ones.)

Reblogged 3 days ago from crookedindifference (Originally from noraleah) 246 notes
theastralcity: Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth.  Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile. To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744. The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated.  Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind. Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything.  Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage.  A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections. The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park. I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at. For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w theastralcity: Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth.  Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile. To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744. The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated.  Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind. Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything.  Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage.  A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections. The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park. I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at. For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w theastralcity: Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth.  Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile. To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744. The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated.  Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind. Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything.  Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage.  A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections. The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park. I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at. For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w theastralcity: Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth.  Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile. To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744. The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated.  Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind. Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything.  Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage.  A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections. The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park. I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at. For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w

theastralcity:

Inspired by another post here on Tumblr, I decided to look into the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong a bit more, it truly was one of the most amazing and terrifying places on earth.  Being slightly smaller than an NFL stadium, the structure was built of 350 smaller interconnected buildings and hosted, at it’s peak, a population density of 5 million people per square mile.

To put those numbers in perspective, this would be like taking the entire population of metro Philadelphia, the 4th largest in the US, and putting it in 1 square mile instead of 1,744.

The area was also largely ungoverned and unregulated.  Factories, apartments, schools, temples, churches, shops, cafes, hotels and almost anything else one could imagine were housed within the structure that never had a full blueprint of it done. Buildings were built onto buildings, expanded, rebuilt, and re-purposed as needed without a central authority of any kind.

Within the structure, natural light was almost non-existent, and an unknown number of miles of jury-rigged wires provided electricity to everything.  Water constantly dripped down to the lower levels from both rain and leaking pipes, while garbage filled every passage.  A constant yellow haze filled the structure and there were never any government safety inspections.

The Kowloon Walled City was demolished in the early 1990s as part of the deal that returned Hong Kong to the Chinese from the British. The entire area is now a park.

I find places like this fascinating, it is just incredible what we, humans, build and live in. This, hive, for lack of a better term, was one of the most interesting structures I’ve yet looked at.

For a documentary shot inside of the Kowloon Walled City, check here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lby9P3ms11w

Reblogged 3 weeks ago from sofresh (Originally from theastralcity) 18,700 notes
crookedindifference: Newest Canary Island pictured rising from the deep The recent earthquakes in the Canary Islands of late aren’t due to Poseidon the earth-shaker, but a submarine volcano to the south of the island of El Hierro. Hot magma spewing from beneath the surface of the ocean has injected volcanic chemicals into the water, staining the sea green. Ocean waters have been churning with heat and seafloor sediment spewed from the volcano’s plume, which stretches tens of kilometres under water. The eruption of magma is venting 50 to 100 meters below the surface, but catapulting volcanic rocks as high as 19 meters in the air. The volcanic activity is warming the waters by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, reports Red Orbit. The island of El Hierro sits on a tectonic hot spot in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco, and the volcano off its shores has been erupting since mid-October. View Larger

crookedindifference:

Newest Canary Island pictured rising from the deep

The recent earthquakes in the Canary Islands of late aren’t due to Poseidon the earth-shaker, but a submarine volcano to the south of the island of El Hierro. Hot magma spewing from beneath the surface of the ocean has injected volcanic chemicals into the water, staining the sea green.

Ocean waters have been churning with heat and seafloor sediment spewed from the volcano’s plume, which stretches tens of kilometres under water. The eruption of magma is venting 50 to 100 meters below the surface, but catapulting volcanic rocks as high as 19 meters in the air. The volcanic activity is warming the waters by as much as 10 degrees Celsius, reports Red Orbit.

The island of El Hierro sits on a tectonic hot spot in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Morocco, and the volcano off its shores has been erupting since mid-October.

Reblogged 3 weeks ago from crookedindifference 248 notes
brosnakes: infoneer-pulse: Pigeons Can Learn Higher Math as Well as Monkeys By now, the intelligence of birds is well known. Alex the African gray parrot had great verbal skills. Scrub jays, which hide caches of seeds and other food, have remarkable memories. And New Caledonian crows make and use tools in ways that would put the average home plumber to shame. Pigeons, it turns out, are no slouches either. It was known that they could count. But all sorts of animals, including bees, can count. Pigeons have now shown that they can learn abstract rules about numbers, an ability that until now had been demonstrated only in primates. In the 1990s scientists trained rhesus monkeys to look at groups of items on a screen and to rank them from the lowest number of items to the highest. They learned to rank groups of one, two and three items in various sizes and shapes. When tested, they were able to do the task even when unfamiliar numbers of things were introduced. In other words, having learned that two was more than one and three more than two, they could also figure out that five was more than two, or eight more than six. Damian Scarf, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, tried the same experiment with pigeons, and he and two colleagues report in the current issue of the journal Science that the pigeons did just as well as the monkeys. » via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content) Pigeon! View Larger

brosnakes:

infoneer-pulse:

Pigeons Can Learn Higher Math as Well as Monkeys

By now, the intelligence of birds is well known. Alex the African gray parrot had great verbal skills. Scrub jays, which hide caches of seeds and other food, have remarkable memories. And New Caledonian crows make and use tools in ways that would put the average home plumber to shame.

Pigeons, it turns out, are no slouches either. It was known that they could count. But all sorts of animals, including bees, can count. Pigeons have now shown that they can learn abstract rules about numbers, an ability that until now had been demonstrated only in primates. In the 1990s scientists trained rhesus monkeys to look at groups of items on a screen and to rank them from the lowest number of items to the highest.

They learned to rank groups of one, two and three items in various sizes and shapes. When tested, they were able to do the task even when unfamiliar numbers of things were introduced. In other words, having learned that two was more than one and three more than two, they could also figure out that five was more than two, or eight more than six.

Damian Scarf, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago, in New Zealand, tried the same experiment with pigeons, and he and two colleagues report in the current issue of the journal Science that the pigeons did just as well as the monkeys.

» via The New York Times (Subscription may be required for some content)

Pigeon!

Reblogged 1 month ago from tank-commander (Originally from infoneer-pulse) 376 notes