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19 Jan 19:42
Make 20 Meals to Feed a Family of Four for $150 and One Trip to Costco
by Melanie Pinola
Costco is one of the best places to buy quality ingredients in bulk and save money on food. With just one trip and $150, you can pick up enough to make nearly three weeks' worth of dinners (4 servings each)—and have lots of leftovers.
    
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19 Jan 19:14
A Maldives Beach Awash in Bioluminescent Phytoplankton Looks Like an Ocean of Stars
by Christopher Jobson
While vacationing on the Maldives Islands, Taiwanese photographer Will Ho stumbled onto an incredible stretch of beach covered in millions of bioluminescent phytoplankton. These tiny organisms glow similarly to fireflies and tend to emit light when stressed, such as when waves crash or when they are otherwise agitated. While the phenomenon and its chemical mechanisms have been known for some time, biologists have only recently began to understand the reasons behind it. You can see a few more of Ho’s photographs over on Flickr.
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18 Jan 18:05
The Totally-Unverifiable but Awesome Tale of Next-Level Laziness
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18 Jan 18:02
The Incredible Underwater Art of Competitive Aquascaping
by Christopher Jobson
Forest Scent, Pavel Bautin. Russia. 2010 IAPLC Grand Prize Winner
Pale Wind, Takayuki Fukada. Japan. 2013 IAPLC Gold Prize
Whisper of the pines, Serkan Çetinkol. Turkey. 2013 IAPLC Top 27
Verve!, Chow Wai Sun. Hong Kong. 2011 IAPLC Bronze Prize
Way to heaven, Dmitriy Parshin. Russia.
Wild West, Stjepan Erdeljić. Croatia.
Georgi Chaushev, Bulgaria. 2012 IAPLC Top 100.
Francisco Wu, Spain. 2012 IAPLC Top 100.
Long Tran Hoang, Vietnam. 2012 IAPLC Third Place.
Pilgrimage, Shintaro Matsui. Japan. 2013 IAPLC Fifth Place.
No, these aren’t exactly your childhood goldfish bowls. The world of competitive aquarium design, or aquascaping, is just as difficult, expensive, and cutthroat as any other sport but requires expertise in many different fields to guarantee success. Aquarium designers possess large amounts of expertise in biology, design, photography, and excel in the art of patience, as individual aquascapes can take months if not years to fully mature into a completed landscape.
The world’s largest nature aquarium and aquatic plants layout competition is the International Aquatic Plants Layout Contest (IAPLC) which annually ranks hundreds of competitors from around the world with Asian and Eastern European countries generally dominating the top slots. While it’s somewhat difficult to track down galleries of winners from every year, above are some amazing entries from the last few years. To see more, oh so much more, check out: IAPLC Grand Prize Works, IAPLC 2011 Top 27, IAPLC 2013 Top 6, IAPLC 2012 Top 200 (or here), and the first Eastern European Planted Aquarium Design Contest.
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18 Jan 18:01
Rather unknown but really special places on earth
by bspcn
The Bastei Bridge in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains of Germany
Herrenchiemsee New Palace, Lake Chiemsee, Germany
Popeye Village in Mellieha, Malta
The Labassin Waterfall Restaurant, located at the Villa Escudero Resort in the Philippines
Sidari, Corfu, Greece
Bellinzona, Switzerland
Spiral Staircase in Taihang Mountains, China
A nice corner in London, England, where new and old buildings meet!
Wat Rong Khun, Chiang Rai, Thailand
Procida, Italy
The scarab beetle statue in Luxor, Egypt. The legend says that if you walk around the beetle counter-clockwise seven times, you will have good luck.
Bishop Castle in the San Isabel National Forest located North West of Rye, Colorado
Cappadocia in Central Anatolia, largely in Nev?ehir Province, in Turkey
Castillo de Colomares in Benalmadena, Malaga, Spain
Mount Ai-Petry at night, Crimea, Ukraine
The Sun Temple at Modhera in Gujarat, India
In front of the St. Patricks Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland
Samos, Greece
Ragusa, Sicily
Wroclaw, Poland
The Grand Mosque, Abu Dhabi
Wooden boats bridge, China
Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra, Portugal
Again Quinta da Regaleira, Sintra, Portugal, from the inside
Gloucester Cathedral n Gloucester, England. The cathedral has been used from as a location for the Harry Potter films.
Prinsengracht, Amsterdam, Netherlands If you like this post, I’m going to make another! https://imgur.com/gallery/3Oebg/new <- here it is, I really really hope you like it!:) http://imgur.com/gallery/XzRNI/new <- the third one, thank you so much for your feedback! http://imgur.com/gallery/yO8yS <- YOUR list:) Please continue to write me messages about your secret places!
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18 Jan 18:01
Severe Skies: The Photography of Storm Chaser Mike Hollingshead
by Christopher Jobson
Just a cursory glance at a few storm photos by Mike Hollingshead and it’s clear this guy has probably seen it all, and probably put his life at risk to do so. The intrepid storm chaser has been enduring foul weather since the late 90s, clocking some 20,000 miles a year in his car as he stalks thunderstorms and other extreme weather occurrences waiting to capture the perfect shot. Hollingshead shares his story with Jakob Schiller over at Raw File, and you can see hundreds of his photos, many available for purchase as prints, over on his website. All images courtesy the artist. (via Raw File)
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