A six-year study of Britain’s drug laws by leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it is time to introduce decriminalization.
The report by the UK Drug Policy Commission says no serious rise in consumption is likely if possession of small amounts of controlled substances are allowed.
Whether using chalk outside on the sidewalks, or paint indoors, as in the room pictured here with alligators, Nikolaj Arndt, a Russian-born artist knows how to fool the eye with his trumpe l’oeil images.
In just three years Arndt has become a master of the art of illusion, often depicting wild animals on city sidewalks with 3-D murals that demand of viewers to snap photos or jump into the scenes themselves.
Educated in drawing and painting, the Russian moved to Germany in 2006. He currently works in advertising as a designer and lives in Marburg. He was drawn into street art by the annual German festivals focused on trumpe l’oeil chalk art.
Through the use of perspective and shading, and one or two days work, his street art can make you think the Earth has just opened up before you revealing a great dark pit, or that a great lion has just emerged from a cave.
(WATCH the video below, and see more art on his Facebook page…
– Also, see his art on Pxleyes.com)
Whether using chalk outside on the sidewalks, or paint indoors, as in the room pictured here with alligators, Nikolaj Arndt, a Russian-born artist knows how to fool the eye with his trumpe l’oeil images.
In just three years Arndt has become a master of the art of illusion, often depicting wild animals on city sidewalks with 3-D murals that demand of viewers to snap photos or jump into the scenes themselves.
Educated in drawing and painting, the Russian moved to Germany in 2006. He currently works in advertising as a designer and lives in Marburg. He was drawn into street art by the annual German festivals focused on trumpe l’oeil chalk art.
Through the use of perspective and shading, and one or two days work, his street art can make you think the Earth has just opened up before your eyes revealing a great dark pit, or that a lion is emerging from a cave.
(WATCH the video below, and see more art on his Facebook page…
– Also, see his art on Pxleyes.com)
A Philippine dog became a national hero after he sacrificed himself for two girls who were about to be run over.
His snout took the brunt of the force and horrific injuries have left him without a top jaw.
“Kabang” arrived in the US to receive groundbreaking surgery after a website raised the $20,000 needed for her flight and care.
A Philippine dog became a national hero after he sacrificed himself for two girls who were about to be run over.
His snout took the brunt of the force and horrific injuries have left him without a top jaw.
“Kabang” arrived in the US to receive groundbreaking surgery after a website raised the $20,000 needed for her flight and care.
All cars are filled with hundreds of sensors, measuring everything from tire pressure to brake pad condition. Right now, though, you’re only aware of those sensors if something goes wrong and the car wants to notify you. That’s starting to change.
Since 2010, the USC School of Cinematic Arts and BMW have been working on Nigel, a Mini Cooper outfitted with 230 sensors that creates a log of everything that happens in the vehicle.
Now USC’s Center for Body Computing is getting in on the Nigel project, looking at how the car could be used to monitor driver health as well as vehicle health.
As the whole world watched him via live streaming video, Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner completed a record-breaking free-fall from the edge of space Sunday morning.
He reached speeds of more than 600 mph during the 128,000-foot fall to earth.
Baumgartner broke the record for both the highest jump and the fastest jump in a free-fall. On the ascent upward, he also broke the record for the highest manned balloon flight.
The jump was sponsored by Redbull which streamed the video here: www.redbullstratos.com
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Aidan Milligan’s home will be alive with the sound of music once again. The orchestra says it will replace a trombone, the pride of a budding musician, if the instrument isn’t found.
The Philadelphia Orchestra has stepped in to offer a replacement trombone to a 9-year-old with Down syndrome, whose instrument was taken from the curb outside his house Thursday morning. Because it was a trash day, his mother, Helen, said, it was unclear whether the trombone was stolen or mistakenly thrown into the garbage truck.
Early on Friday, the Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo did something unusual: Instead of rewarding the Nobel Peace Prize to an individual, it gave it to the European Union — an international institution facing a 3-year-old existential crisis that looks nowhere close to being over.
Beyond the Nobel prize, history best can describe what the EU has done for peace in Europe.
The massive Space Shuttle Endeavour rolled carefully through the streets of Los Angeles today, creeping slowly towards its final resting place at the California Science Center.
People lined the streets pointing their cameras as the five-story-tall spacecraft with its 78-foot wingspan wound along its journey.
Streetlights and some power lines had to be moved, and a few trees trimmed as the shuttle rolled by.
A recently announced agreement between the Philippine government and Muslim rebels waging a decades-old insurgency in the southern island of Mindanao paves the way for the establishment of a new autonomous region, more access for humanitarians to conflict-affected areas and an end to the cycle of failed peace deals and displacements.
About 150,000 people have died in one of the region’s longest-running insurgencies, which has left the mineral-rich island mired in poverty.
A recently announced agreement between the Philippine government and Muslim rebels waging a decades-old insurgency in the southern island of Mindanao paves the way for the establishment of a new autonomous region, more access for humanitarians to conflict-affected areas and an end to the cycle of failed peace deals and displacements.
About 150,000 people have died in one of the region’s longest-running insurgencies, which has left the mineral-rich island mired in poverty.
A recently adopted dog saved a nine-month old infant who had stopped breathing last Sunday.
The dog, named Duke, jumped into bed to wake them after sensing the daughter not breathing in her crib.
A nice story for October, which is National Adopt a Shelter-Dog Month.
A recently adopted dog saved a nine-month old infant who had stopped breathing last Sunday.
The dog, named Duke, jumped into bed to wake them after sensing the daughter not breathing in her crib.
A nice story for October, which is National Adopt a Shelter-Dog Month.
It isn’t only the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics that is issuing surprisingly good news about the U.S. economy these days… It’s also auto dealers, real estate agents, the Federal Reserve and corporate America’s 96-year-old Conference Board.
The economy is improving more than professional forecasters anticipated, particularly in generating jobs and in data on housing, according to the Bloomberg Economic Surprise Index, based on gauges compiled by private businesses and trade groups in addition to government.
A woman is saving the orphan calves of African elephants illegally hunted to satisfy the ivory trade in Asia.
The 900-pound toddlers crave a mother’s nurturing but have been left motherless by poachers.
30 years ago, the conservationist Daphne Sheldrick set up the world’s first elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.
A woman is saving the orphan calves of African elephants illegally hunted to satisfy the ivory trade in Asia.
The 900-pound toddlers crave a mother’s nurturing but have been left motherless by poachers.
30 years ago, the conservationist Daphne Sheldrick set up the world’s first elephant orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya.
CIA spies are the good guys for a change in Argo, Ben Affleck’s shrewd reconstruction of a heroic real-life mission to retrieve six Americans from Tehran during the 1979-1980 Iran hostage crisis.
There’s not a single gunshot fired over the course of the film and Affleck delivers an uplifting portrait by narrowing the story’s focus to one mind-blowing chapter of the Agency’s legacy.
While running the last mile of a youth triathlon Sunday, Ben Baltz’s prosthetic leg broke and the 11-year-old went down. That’s when a group of Marines stepped in and carried him the rest of the way.
More than a few people crying as they crossed the finish line.
According to the CNN iReport, Ben completed the 150-yard swim and 4-mile bike ride and half the one-mile run when a screw came loose and his running leg broke in half.
His mother said, “Everybody was crying…cheering and giving them support.”
(WATCH the video from Newsy or READ the story at CNN iReport)
While running the last mile of a youth triathlon Sunday, Ben Baltz’s prosthetic leg broke and the 11-year-old went down. That’s when a group of Marines stepped in and carried him the rest of the way.
More than a few people crying as they crossed the finish line.
According to the CNN iReport, Ben completed the 150-yard swim and 4-mile bike ride and half the one-mile run when a screw came loose and his running leg broke in half.
