Monthly Archives: October 2009

End Child Poverty

Posted on October 16, 2009 | Leave a comment

Child poverty has been an issue dogging our country for years, despite the government’s best efforts. We’ll we’ve come up with a solution. It’s all about the schools.

Read the full argument here and then send it off to Gordon!

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Dinosaurs as museum galleries

Posted on October 15, 2009 | 2 Comments

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Over the past 30 plus years if you were driving west on Interstate 10 in Southern California, US, you would have seen Dinny the Dinosaur – a 150-foot-long recreation of an apatosaurus. To be fair you could not miss the self styled  “World’s biggest dinosaur.” Along with his ‘brother’ a 65-foot-long Tyrannosaurus Rex counterpart called “Mr. Rex”, this makes up a desert roadside attraction known as the Cabazon Dinosaurs.

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So why post now if it has been there for 35 years – well rather randomly Dinny now houses a creationist museum in its abdomen. It is certainly ‘different’. It’s not the concept of a creationist museum that rocks our world you understand, but the fact it is in a dinosaurs belly.

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Source: Atlas Obscura

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Ghost Forest Project

Posted on October 15, 2009 | 1 Comment

We spotted this project a few days and got very excited. The fourth plinth has been an incredible statement, and what better way to follow that than to plant a forest of tree stumps in the middle of trafalgar square?

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The project is the work of Angela Palmer, and is aimed at raising public awareness of deforestation. She has been sourcing and shipping the huge stumps from Ghana over the past few months and it’s all set to go in mid-November. After this, it will go off to Copenhagen to stand outside the buildings hosting the UN Conference whilst the climate change summit is on.

This may be so left-field that even Anthony Gormley said it couldn’t be done, but it’s ready to go, and we can’t wait…

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Underwater forests

Posted on October 15, 2009 | Leave a comment

Human ingenuity truly knows no ends. Deforestation, as we know, is becoming something of an issue. Unfortunately, we do still really quite need wood. Well, what about all that wood that lies underwater?  The building of reservoirs left huge areas of forest underwater when entire valleys were flooded.

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The ‘sawfish’ shown above is not a hyper-evolved swordfish, but is in fact a specially designed water-logging (sorry) device. Although underwater logging has been going on for years, the sawfish allows new reservoirs to be tapped and without the risk and environmental expense of sending in human divers.

The advantage of cutting down these trees is that, due to their being somewhat drowned, they do not take in CO2, and as such have no real benefits in preventing climate change. In that there are around 300million of these underwater trees, and that they would rot otherwise, it can’t be all bad…

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(source: boingboing)

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Piano Stairs

Posted on October 14, 2009 | 1 Comment

Just a quick one – all of us love this idea, which has been put together in Stockholm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

Who’d have thought it – turn a staircase into a piano and suddenly everybody wants a go – us included. Although we are slightly worried how easy it is manipulate people…

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Toy art

Posted on October 14, 2009 | Leave a comment

We just had to post this when we found it due to a serious sense of nostalgia.

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Each of these creations is made out of bits of toys discarded by the artist’s children. Obviously, they are therefore all recycled, but that’s not really the point of this stuff. The artist (Robert Bradford) claims that each creation represents a point in time, due to the toys used to create it, and we’re forced to agree. Looking closely reveals dozens of toys that we all used to play with, and the relevant memories… One question though – what was wrong with lego and meccano?!

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(source: The Cool Hunter)

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Twitter pumpkin

Posted on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

Twitter really does get everywhere doesn’t it? This fantastic pumpkin is just the latest topical example of Twitter’s logo (or their “Fail Whale” logo in this case) getting absolutely everywhere. Still, anything that combines social networking and Hallowe’en has to be good.

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(source: ifitshipitshere)

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Pumpkin boat

Posted on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

Here at Baby we always have our eyes open for any wierd and wacky stunts, and this has to be our recent favourite. Mr. J.R. Hildebrant, of Wisconsin USA, has turned a pumkin - of truly titanic proportions - into a boat. Certainly beats just carving a face on the front. He’s even got room for a heater in there with him.

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This is all in aid of fundraising for a charity which gives memorable trips to children with special needs. Or possibly it’s just one-upmanship with the owl & the pussycat, but it’s a good excuse anyway.

(source: The Daily Mail)

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Biosphere farm

Posted on October 12, 2009 | 1 Comment

If you thought growing food out of the back of a truck was pretty handy, how about this?!

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The biosphere farm from Philips is an entirely self-contained unit which grows vegetables and fish 52 weeks a year, allowing food to be served literally fresh from the field, and with absolutely no air miles.

This alone is pretty impressive, but the unit is powered with food waste, so no emissions there either, and will produce hydrogen, ready for use in powering cars. We’ve always been fans of this kind of thing but this is a complete no-brainer. Although you would have to decide what you wanted to eat a few months in advance…

(source: The Daily Mail)

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Pedal powered party

Posted on October 12, 2009 | Leave a comment

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This bike is brilliant – a mash-up of human-powered pizza delivery, brew pub, and portable entertainment system. Check out these images of one mean machine (source).

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