This makes me so happy and I don’t even know why.
Toucan by Maryam
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Grass House by David Luck Architecture
It shows how residential architecture can give back to the street; the building is the garden, the grasses are the tree canopy.
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The Layering Movement by Chengxu Tian
Liquid PVC is poured into a mould, before they’re heated in an oven to a solid state. Fabric was then layered on top, and a pressing machine used to combine the two materials together.
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GURNEY’S PITTA
Pitta gurneyi
Posted by birds.littlepuffin.net/Gurney’s Pitta is endangered. It was initially thought to be extinct for some time after 1952, but was rediscovered in 1986. Its rarity has been caused by the clearance of natural forest in southern Burma and peninsular Thailand.
Its population was estimated at a mere nine pairs in 1997, then believed one of the rarest bird species on earth. A search for it in Burma in 2003 was successful and discovered that the species persisted at four sites with a maximum of 10-12 pairs at one location. This granted the species a reassessment from the IUCN, going from Critically Endangered to Endangered. Later on, further research completed in Burma by 2009 provides strong evidence that its global population is much greater than previously estimated, owning to the discovery of several new territories in this country.
This rare and spectacularly-colored bird was recently voted the “most wanted bird in Thailand” by bird watchers visiting that country.
The Gurney’s Pitta diet is slugs, insects, and earthworms
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney%27s_Pitta
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Investigating the Potential for Miscommunication Using Emoji | GroupLens
Hey emoji users: Did you know that when you send your friend Google’s grinning face with smiling eyes emoji on your Nexus, they might see Apple’s grinning face with smiling eyes emoji on their iPhone? And it’s not just Google’s grinning face with smiling eyes emoji; this type of thing can happen for all emoji (yes, even pile of poo emoji). In a paper (download) that will be officially published at AAAI ICWSM in May, we show that this problem can cause people to misinterpret the emotion and the meaning of emoji-based communication, in some cases quite significantly. face screaming in fear emoji, we know.
What’s more, our work also showed that even when two people look at the exact same emoji rendering (e.g., Apple’s grinning face with smiling eyes emoji), they often don’t interpret it the same way, leading to even more potential for miscommunication. face screaming in fear emoji face screaming in fear emoji!
[Note: original has actual emojis in text…]
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