This actually isn’t a recent development, but I thought I’d mention this to people who kind of like those semi-build semi-goal oriented games. If you’ve played games at Big Fish, you’ve probably already seen/heard of this. It’s a lot like Build-a-lot and Be Rich, but it’s about being environment friendly. All the buildings and upgrades you do reflect on the environment and you use progressively better power technologies as you go. Solar, Wind, Nuclear etc etc. You do upgrades like…painting to help insulate, adding rain collection to use rain water in the home, you put solar panels on the roof, you add windmills to the top of the house, etc etc, and your little area gets cleaner and cleaner. You also get to muck around with adding transportation things like cycling and scooter access and whatnot.
Anyways, I’m rambling. You should check this game out by either getting it on National Geographic here or on BIg Fish Games here.
Happy gaming!
Today’s photo comes from the National Geographic website in Photography -> History -> Temples and Tombs : view the whole gallery here
Photograph by Reza/Getty Images
Today’s photo comes from the National Geographic website in Photography -> Lost Cities -> view the whole gallery here
Photograph by Stephen Alvarez (National Geographic)
National Geographic sports a beautiful photography section on their website, I’d encourage having a look through the images.
Okay, the original guy, Russell Ciochon, found something that made people really afraid that they came from apes (we more than likely did, but this logic fails some). Anyways, so he’s decided that it really was an ape. But it wasn’t like any ape or human category. Like some weird blend… Here’s a snippet, check the article from the link below.
The fossil was found in the 1980s in south-central China‘s Longgupo cave. According to Ciochon, “the jaw was very perplexing. It didn’t fit in any category of hominin [early human ancestor] that we knew of in Asia, and it also didn’t fit into any ape category.”
Early “Human” Is Ape After All, Discoverer Decides – National Geographic News
Okay, so I stumbled on this random bit of news this morning…
So ages and ages ago, soldiers in the field healed faster if they had maggots in their wounds. Not a surprise really… I mean we use leeches even up to this day. Why not a maggot? So now they want to add the Essence of Maggot to bandages and ointments that you put in your wounds so that you can heal faster. Brilliant idea. Bring it on, cause I’d use it.
Fascinating read from “Essence of Maggot” Ointment to Heal Wounds Faster? – National Geographic :
Today hospitals around the world breed selected fly larvae in sterile environments. These “medical maggots” are applied directly to wounds such as ulcers and burns, which are otherwise difficult to heal.
The secret, according to a new study, is in a fluid secreted by the maggots to help them consume decaying tissue.
In many wounds that are not readily healing, tissue decays and dies, allowing bacteria to thrive. This creates irritation that further prevents proper healing.
A really old brew discovered while examining jars dating back 9,000 years. Dogfish company brings out many ancient types of brews for modern consumption.
9,000 year old brew hitting the shelves this summer – Scientific American
Random ‘new’ cloud types from 4 different places in the world…how odd are these ?
New Cloud Type Discovered? – National Geographic
