Golden monkeys are rare and obscure, and they’re just beginning to be studied. They are highly endangered, so it’s a race to study them before they disappear. Living in the mountains of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan Provinces, Chinese golden monkeys are seeing their habitats disappear rapidly as the countryside is cleared for more pastures, villages, and roads.

The monkeys are killed for their beautiful fire-orange fur and also their bones, which are believed by Asians to hold special medicinal powers.

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Alexa Meade could be the greatest prank artist alive or just the best body painter. What Alexa Meade does is paints on her subjects in the traditional style of the acrylic paintings. So all of her subjects look like escaped characters of old painting.

You are walking cats and dogs?  And now is very fashionable to walk fish.

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Are you afraid of ants? Hardly, it’s harmless, even beneficial insects. But what would you say when you look at the building of the National Congress of Colombia, the entire facade is covered with huge ants? A little scary, right?  Yet fear is not worth it, because the project “Seized Home” – only the original symbiosis of nature and art, created by the artist Rafael Gomez Barros (Rafael Gómez Barros) to draw attention to the problems of forced migration in Colombia.

Project “Seized house» ( “House Taken”, or «Casa Tomada» in Spanish)

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Project” Inner City Snail “, the essence of which was a decoration of shells of snails, which I found in London – says Slinkachu. –  After the ornaments I returned all the snails on their seats, giving them the opportunity to go about their business in the city.  In implementing the author’s highly unusual venture has suffered none of the snail – in this Slinkachu assures all defenders of wildlife on their site…

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Themed on Franz Kafka`s novel The Metamorphosis, based on the idea that a flat roofed modern house is transformed into a black house.

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The phenomenon, described as thermopower waves, “opens up a new area of energy research, which is rare,” said Michael Strano, MIT’s Charles and Hilda Roddey Associate Professor of Chemical Engineering, who was the senior author of a paper describing the new findings.

Like a collection of flotsam propelled along the surface by waves traveling across the ocean, it turns out that a thermal wave — a moving pulse of heat — traveling along a microscopic wire can drive electrons along, creating an electrical current. The key ingredient in the recipe is carbon nanotubes — submicroscopic hollow tubes made of a chicken-wire-like lattice of carbon atoms.

In the new experiments, each of these electrically and thermally conductive nanotubes was coated with a layer of a highly reactive fuel that can produce heat by decomposing.

This fuel was then ignited at one end of the nanotube using either a laser beam or a high-voltage spark, and the result was a fast-moving thermal wave travelling along the length of the carbon nanotube like a flame speeding along the length of a lit fuse.

According to Strano, in the group’s initial experiments, when they wired up the carbon nanotubes with their fuel coating in order to study the reaction, “lo and behold, we were really surprised by the size of the resulting voltage peak” that propagated along the wire.

After further development, the system now puts out energy, in proportion to its weight, about 100 times greater than an equivalent weight of lithium-ion battery.

While many semiconductor materials can produce an electric potential when heated, through something called the Seebeck effect, that effect is very weak in carbon.

“There’s something else happening here. We call it electron entrainment since part of the current appears to scale with wave velocity,” Strano said.

The thermal wave appears to be entraining the electrical charge carriers (either electrons or electron holes) just as an ocean wave can pick up and carry a collection of debris along the surface, he explained.

“This important property is responsible for the high power produced by the system,” Strano said.

Strano suggests that one possible application would be in enabling new kinds of ultra-small electronic devices.

Or it could lead to “environmental sensors that could be scattered like dust in the air,” he said.

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Agnes Audra did some work on his specialty paper … Playing on the outlook, cuts unlikely and shadows of each work, she has managed to acquire a real renamed and is now working in many areas, like the press , publishing, web … The site is full of his own creations art … If you do not already know her work is to discover!

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