On this episode of The Downshift, we tour Bentley’s landmark factory in Crewe, where engineers, mechanics and artisans have been designing, building and sculpting Rolls Royce and Bentley motors and vehicles for over 70 years.
Monthly Archives: April 2012
Photos from inside Apple Headquarters
It’s the Chocolate Factory for tech nerds. Search the web for “Apple HQ,” and most of the results you get will be pictures of Apple’s Cupertino headquarters — from the outside. Usually with some fanboy standing next to the “1 Infinite Loop” sign. But what we really want to see is what’s inside the ultra-top-secret place …
Reveling in Ranunculus
Ranunculus, with their layered, crepe-like petals that explode in blooms of red, yellow, orange, white and pink, are cheery in the Fall and equally festive in the Spring. The bright beauties spread their rainbow happiness in small pots on tables, as part of larger plant containers and along the front of home borders. They are …
What’s inside the 26 ingredient school lunch burger?
A great piece from NPR. Makes me think twice about those fortified items that have extra protein or vitamins. What’s Inside The 26-Ingredient School Lunch Burger? Thiamine mononitrate Disodium inosinate Pyridoxine hydrochloride Why are these hard-to-pronounce ingredients added to everything from a burger served in schools to veggie burgers in the frozen food aisle of …
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Monster Bash – awesome 5-second animations
1st place in Greyscale Gorilla’s 5-Second Project contest under the Monster Bash theme. My animation is a 5 second story about a little vampire that comes to life in paper and gets bashed with a poetic wooden stake – a pencil. Runners Up See them all – Greyscale Gorilla – Monster Bash …
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Vin Scully – the Dodgers gave spread-out Los Angeles its core
When Vin Scully arrived from Brooklyn with the Dodgers for the 1958 season, he found Los Angeles to be lacking a core. “When I came to Los Angeles, all I knew was that it was like 450 square miles. There was no ‘there.’ I felt Los Angeles did not have a centerpiece.” The opening of …
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Byblos, Lebanon – oldest inhabited city in the world (7,000+ years)
Carbon-dating tests have set the earliest age of settlement at Byblos around 7000 BC, however it was not officially established as a city until sometime around 5000 BC. Byblos is in Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast about 26 miles north of Beirut. “Byblos” is the Greek name. The first city built by the Phoenicians, Byblos …
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Kids in 3rd grade are 8 years old and 20% have cell phones
Kids in the third grade are, on average, eight years old. Nowadays, 20 percent of third-grade boys and 18 percent of third-grade girls already have a cell phone, according to a 2011 study of 20,766 Massachusetts elementary, middle, and high school students. By the time the kids reach fifth grade, 39% of the kids have …
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A slow motion video of exploding eggs and smashing glass
A super slow motion video of exploding eggs and smashing glass filmed by the Phantom Flex camera….not your typical tea party. The frame rate was anywhere between 3,200 to 6,900 frames per second.
Rethink Your Drink – showing how much sugar is in milk, soda, kool-aid
Sugar is one of the most addictive substances known to us… // Thx to Don Burke