Everyone wants to see space shuttle launch from as close as possible. This group goes even further and skydives with wingsuits at the time of launch to catch the space shuttle in air.
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Perito Moreno Glacier, in Argentina. It depicts a grandstand, where tourists, and visitors can watch the Glacier advancing down the hill, and a glacier icemelt stream from above, flowing through the Glaciers downhill trudge, creating an ice tunnel, which eventually melts and falls into the stream. It happens every four years like clockwork. Those in attendance clearly enjoyed themselves. Pretty amazing!
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Bad Eighties-quality video. But feel free to close your eyes and drift away. THIS is music.
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MIT grad student David Merrill demos Siftables — cookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do math, play music, and talk to their friends, too. Is this the next thing in hands-on learning?
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We’ve been supporters of Kiva.org for quite some time. They provide microfinance loans to folks around the world who want to start or improve their business, but who lack the necessary funding. It’s an extremely cool idea, and it doesn’t take big money to get involved. This is worth watching.
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Harbin, the capital of Heilongjiang province of People’s Republic of China, is one of the premier sources of ice and snow culture in the world. It is located in Northeast China under the direct influence of the cold winter wind from Siberia. The Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival begins in January and lasts one month. The ice sculptures are decorated with everything from lasers to traditional ice lanterns. Winter activities include Yabuli alpine skiing, winter swimming in the Songhua River, and the ice-lantern exhibition in Zhaolin Garden. The snow carving and ice and snow recreations are world-famous. The Harbin Festival is one of the world’s four largest ice and snow festivals, along with Japan’s Sapporo Snow Festival, Canada’s Quebec City Winter Carnival, and Norway’s Ski Festival.
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Qian Hongyan had to have her legs removed after a car accident on October 21, 2000. Her family in China is poor and couldn’t afford prosthetic legs. Instead, she used a basketball to help her move and two wooden props to drag herself. Doctors from China’s Rehabilitation Research Center in Beijing noticed her and committed to get her set up with prosthetics. They finally acheived this goal in May of 2008.
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While this appears to be a single, large organism, it’s actually a colony of numerous individual jellyfish-like animals that behave and function together as a single entity. The individual units, called zooids, all share the same genetic material and each perform a specialized role within the colony. The best-known siphonophore is the poisonous Portuguese Man o’ War. Some siphonophore species can grow up to 130 ft in length.
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Feeling sorry for yourself? It’s easy to do sometimes. But there are many people who are signficantly handicapped who still manage to have an impressive quality of life. I can’t tell you how old footage this is or anything about the woman, but it’s 10 minutes of absolutely fascinating video…and I suppose we can see anything that really matters about her life without a word of English. I have enough trouble with chopsticks, having 8 fingers and two thumbs…
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What if you watch a film and whenever you pause it, you face a painting? This idea inspired Reza Dolatabadi to make Khoda. Over 6000 paintings were painstakingly produced during two years to create a five minutes film that would meet high personal standards. Khoda is a psychological thriller with an impressive sense of style.
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