Raleigh has had two monsters show up recently – both created by man and our roadways. The Barrel Monster was created by Joseph Carnevale. See this thread from NewRaleigh. Meanwhile, in very close proximity and under the street, city workers searching the sewer system with a video probe found this compelling video of a life form [...]

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Wouldn’t it be awesome if your plant could tell you if it were thirsty, or drowning? With this little DIY Plant Twitter Kit from botanicals, you can give your plants a voice through their own personal twitter account! Check out @pothos on twitter! Botanicalls is an ongoing collaborative project about communication between plants and people [...]

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This summer British explorer and environmentalist David de Rothschild will set sail with a crew of scientists from San Francisco to Sydney, covering approximately 12,000 nautical miles. His boat, Plastiki, is a high tech 60 foot research catamaran made from reused plastic bottles and recycled plastics. Plastiki hosts solar panels and turbines to power it’s [...]

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