Category Archives: General

Originally posted on RioReal:
Rio police surround, then occupy the dangerous North Zone favelas of Manguinhos, Mandela, Varginha, and Jacarezinho, midway between the Maracanã soccer stadium and the international airport.  The occupation is complete: flag-raising on TV Globo Rio’s transformation…

Originally posted on Passing Through . . . .:
Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese art Heaven, closer to earth Oct 12th 2012, 14:59 by A.Y. | CHICAGO     FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT is best known as a revolutionary American architect. A hallmark of his…

Originally posted on Maps, comics, adventure!:
October 2011, I found myself in Belgrade. It was windy, slightly cold and misty, and all sorts of awesome. Back then, it was my First Big Adventure, and I made a comic about elevators.

Originally posted on The Political Idealist:
A shop window advertising payday loans. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Personal credit, its sources and its costs are issues that are slowly rising in Britain’s political consciousness. Over the past five years, payday loan firms…

Originally posted on Maps, comics, adventure!:
These maps came to be out of a practical need: For the first one I looked on google maps for all the parking lots on top of buildings in the center of Manchester, and…

Jamaica currently leads the Caribbean in wind energy integration, boasting an installed capacity of 41.93MW (Megawatts). Its latest addition to the national grid being the Munro Find Farm, completed in September 2010. The Munro Wind Farm is a 3MW power…

Originally posted on The Geography Lady:
  Tunneling through Andes to speed global trade. BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — South American engineers are trying to tackle one of the continent’s greatest natural challenges: the towering Andes mountain chain that creates…

Originally posted on Nowgirlcking's Blog:
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