Pencil vs. Camera

A talented Belgian illustrator and photographer, Ben Heine has put together an amazing ongoing project called ‘Pencil Vs Camera'. His creative thinking combines both art and pictures portraying two different things within the same scene.


@Ben Heine, 2011

The World's Most Incredible Bridges

01. Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy: Oldest and famous

5 Green Homes That Won Gold

EcoHome magazine's 2nd annual design awards chosen such of houses that are not only environmentally exceptional, but look good at the same time.

Award winning green homes have:

• a subdivision of affordable homes in Hawaii;
• a passive-solar home in Carmel, Calif., that's so energy efficient i.e. it has no air conditioning;
• a major remodel of a 260-year-old home on Nantucket Island in Massachusetts that also had to meet architectural-preservation standards.

Here are the five award-winning Eco-friendly homes:

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Project: Caterpillar House | Location: Carmel, Calif.
Architect: Feldman Architecture | Builder: Groza Construction



The Caterpillar House in Carmel, CA | Photo: Joe Fletcher Photography

 The Caterpillar House sits on a bluff in the Santa Lucia Preserve in Carmel, Calif. Its east-west, slightly curved layout maximizes passive solar gain, and additional energy savings come from concrete floors and rammed-earth walls that act as a thermal mass to protect against temperature fluctuations. Overhangs shade the south- and west-facing low-e windows. Ceiling fans and cross-ventilation also work to eliminate the need for air conditioning. A 27,300-gallon rainwater harvesting system supports all site irrigation, and all the plantings are native and drought-tolerant. The house has sustainability-certified cabinetry and reclaimed cork flooring. It has received LEED-Platinum certification.

Now you can walk with New Facebook Timeline

You’ve been hearing about all the wonderful new Facebook features, and like us, you’re probably super-eager to get started with them.

Good news is, after a long patience Facebook now open it for all. :)
Visit: www.facebook.com/about/timeline

Click Get It Now, and you're in!


Thats all. have fun :)

Improve your memory: Give up smoking

New research catches that by give up smoking one can Upturn his/ her memory.

In a study reported on science news website ''Science Daily'' on September 20/2011, former smokers performed on average 25 percent better on memory tests than current smokers did. Those who never smoked scored 37 better than the smokers.
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"We already know that giving up smoking has huge health benefits for the body, but this study also shows how stopping smoking can have knock-on benefits for cognitive function, too," said study researcher Tom Heffernan, a psychology professor at Northumbria University in England, in a press release.
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Previous studies have shown that quitting smoking improves "retrospective memory," which is the ability to learn new information and retrieve it later.

The newest study, however, called "prospective memory," or the ability to remember to carry out a particular action at some future point in time, such as picking up milk after work or taking daily medication at a set time.

It is unclear exactly how smoking interferes with cognitive function, but the researchers suggest that smoking could damage areas of the brain linked with memory.

The study is published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Dependence.