The Unexpected and Unawares

The wind picked up in the afternoon on a cloudless day. Nothing unusual for the area, we have windy days all during Spring and into early Summer. The dead tree in the backyard had been an eye sore since last winter, but it wasn’t hurting anything and the cost of removal was not in the … Read more

Solar Powered Air Cooler for the DIY’er

Beat the heat with this solar powered air cooler! This “Blast Chiller” air cooler is great for home, the workplace, and especially great when camping. More importantly, this DIY project won’t break the bank. Check this out. How It Works Solar powered air conditioning is not a new concept. For this particular solar powered air … Read more

8 People Sealed Inside This Fake Mars Colony for 2 Years — Here’s What Really Happened Inside

  Katja Schulz / Flickr   A decade before Elon Musk founded his fast-rising rocket company, SpaceX, or ever spoke publicly about colonizing Mars, a different billionaire captivated the world with Biosphere 2. Oil tycoon Ed Bass spent about $250 million to build and operate that facility as a proof-of-concept for a permanent, self-sustaining habitat on Mars. … Read more

A ‘survivalist’ woman has been arrested for making videos where she skins and eats endangered animals

Natural Life TV/YouTube   Ah Lin Tuch and her husband Phoun Raty earned money on YouTube by skinning endangered animals and eating them.  Viewers reported the couple to authorities after realizing that several of the species were protected.  The couple claims that they bought the animals from a local market and did not actually kill them … Read more

Primitive Hunting Technique: Spear Throwing

If you are a fan of watching primitive videos, then you may have seen this one. If you want to learn how to build and throw a spear, then all you need to do is spend the next 4 minutes checking out this video. A spear thrower is a simple tool that allows the user … Read more

Nano house trend advances into the tiny house market

All around the world, hip young people are competing to see who can live in the tiniest, quirkiest, twee-est house. But this one has them all beat. Assembled by a combination of origami and nanometer-precise robot wielding an ion beam, this tiniest of houses measures about 20 micrometers across. For comparison, that’s almost as small … Read more