Fun Time! The Wormhole Actualization Machine!

You want one of these so bad your teeth are grinding right now.

Yes, I too have always wanted a portable wormhole machine. You know, for those quick jaunts to other galaxies or universes to pick up a quart of sprtchztx.

Well, the wait is over! Want to get your own and travel to distant wherevers? Click HERE.

SpaceX Unveils New Dragon V2 Manned Spacecraft

I looks like the true space age is about to begin. Elon Musk's company Space X, has unveiled their brand new Dragon V2 space spacecraft (notice I didn't refer to it as a capsule) designed to haul up to seven passengers to low orbit altitudes. Described as "a true 21st-century spacecraft," the DragonV2 could first unmanned flight is planned for late 2015, and its first crewed flight as soon as mid-2016.

I won't gush here. I'll let you follow the link and discover for yourself.

Oh joy! With this advance can Serenity be far behind?

A look inside

Can These $20,000 Houses Save the American Dream?

Rural Studio, an undergraduate program of the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at Auburn University, has been working since 2005 to create affordable housing.

Their plan has been to design a house that could be purchased for $20,000. They found that housing currently at this price (think trailer park) depreciated and they wanted to create homes that would appreciate in value. They chose $20,000 because "it would be the most expensive mortgage a person receiving today's median Social Security check of $758 a month can realistically repay. A $108 monthly mortgage payment is doable if you consider other monthly expenditures."

The work has centered around Hale County, Alabama where 43 percent households living under the poverty line are made up of people living alone.

They are currently developing a two-bedroom 20K House, testing larger and expandable models.

Travel Photo of the Week

Gunnison, Colorado

Bee Collapse Solved

It looks like the folks at Harvard School of Public Heath's Department of Environmental Health have the answer on why our bees are all dying.

In their Bulletin of Insectology #67 the blame is squarely placed on the pesticides we are using. From the paper...

"...sub-lethal exposure of neonicotinoids, imidacloprid or clothianidin, affected the winterization of healthy colonies that subsequently lead to CCD. We found bees in both control and neonicotinoid- treated groups progressed almost identically through the summer and fall seasons and observed no acute morbidity or mortality in either group until the end of winter."

My question is whether this will become just another political football with nothing getting done about it except fundraising for election campaigns.

Lest We Forget

Volet Végétal: A Planter For People With Limited Space

Do you have limited space, but still want to garden? Have a look. This just might be your solution. From the French design studio Barreau&Charbonnet.

Fun Time! Moving On: A Stop-motion Music Video Made With Yarn

by Ainslie Henderson

9-Year Old Boy And His Dad Open A No-Kill Animal Shelter

The shelter, which its founder, nine year old Ken named "Happy Animals Club", currently provides a home for a few dogs who are thriving under the young Filipino boy's care.

Ken's dad and donations from around the world have made this possible. If you would like to donate, you can through PayPal.

If you'd like to see the look of success through kindness, just take a gander below.

Travel Photo of the Week

Sunset in the Srinagar Valley, Kashmir