npr:

Used restaurant grease has become a hot item for thieves, who siphon it from barrels behind restaurants to sell on the booming biofuels market. (via Restaurant Grease As Good As Gold To Biofuel Thieves: The Salt)

Photo: from grease to fuel (by durhamskywriter)

Once upon a time, boys and girls, people used to use hand-held ink dispensing rods to make marks on flat sheets of manufactured plant fibre, fold them, place them inside an envelope of the same material, write a distant geospatial reference on one side, their own geospatial reference on the other. They would then pay for a coloured sticky icon and then hand this package over to a corporation that used to exist solely for the carrying and dispensing of such message envelopes” the old story teller said. The assembled children gasped in amusement, then vlogged about the experience collaboratively via the ether.

Peter Whitehouse via Lindy Orwin

kangaroo+rat+trex?

visualhorticulture:

My submission for the Rethink The Food Label challenge.

The air we breathe will as soon fill a hungry belly as creature-comforts will satisfy the spirit.

Thomas Case

Cold praying is no more prayer than a painting of fire is a fire.

William Gurnall

#toronto riders… i thought #NYC #bikers were pretty nuts.

Photo: Like an #alien:

Japanese artist Iori Tomita transforms the scientific technique of preserving and dying organisms into an art form with this series entitled New World Transparent Specimens. The images give us an breathtaking look at the inner workings of underwater life.

The process Tomita goes through is extremely extensive. First, he removes the scales and skin that have been preserved in formaldehyde. He then soaks the creatures in a stain that dyes the cartilage blue. Tomita uses a digestive enzyme called trypsin, along with a host of other chemicals, to break down the proteins and muscles, halting the process just at the moment they become transparent. The bones are stained with red dye, and the specimen is preserved in a jar of glycerin. From start to finish, the entire production takes about five months to a year.

http://www.shinsekai-th.com/en/photo.php