Deadly Lake Water Turns Bird into Stone

1. Tanzania's Lake Natron actually a mix of chemicals and it contains mainly sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) and sodium carbonate de-cahydrate (soda ash). The lake Natron is fed by mineral hot springs and a river, but no water flows out except through evaporation. The results are totally havoc and the caustic waters create deadly outcomes.

Deadly Lake Waters Turn Birds to Stone

2. Calcified Fish Eagle

It may look like this bird was gripped by the icy hand of death, but actually it was calcified in the caustic waters of Tanzania's Lake Natron.  The unexpectedly found the creatures all manner of birds and bats washed up along the shoreline of Lake Natron in Northern Tanzania.No one knows exactly how they die, but it appears that the extreme reflective nature of the lake’s surface confuses them, and like birds crashing into plate glass windows, they crash into the lake.The water has a tremendously high soda and salt content, the soda and salt causes the creatures to calcify, perfectly preserved, as they dry. Across The ravaged land is to give these clearly lifeless creatures an air of reanimation. 

Calcified Fish Eagl

3. Calcified Bat

The Lake Natron waters can reach high temperatures up to 120 degrees Fahrenheit. And during dry spells the PH can go up to 10.5, just shy of the alkalinity of ammonia. Sometimes the mineral to water ratio is so high that the water becomes almost thick to the touch.

Calcified Bat

4. Calcified Songbird

Some living things can survive the super salty waters, with the exception of certain red-colored cyanobacteria a type of blue green algae which give the lake a rust colored appearance from space. A single species of endemic fish can thrive in the corrosive environment. 

Calcified Songbird

5. Calcified Flamingo

Lesser flamingos take advantage of the inhospitable environment as a breeding ground. They feed off the blue-green algae in the lake and nest on islands of evaporated salt, or even along the dry, salty shorelines. It's such a good spot for nesting, indeed, that this lake area where these 2.5 million birds will breed. There are no needs to fear predators because there are none. However; saline waters themselves can prove toxic if the birds aren't careful. The lesser flamingo is now categorized as "near threatened" by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

Calcified Songbird

6.Calcified Swallow

The Gelai Volcano sits on the southeastern shore of the 35-mile lake, towering 9,652 feet above the caustic waters. Due to its exclusive ecosystem, the Lake basin is on the Ramsar List of Wetlands of International Importance. The significance of birdlife and other species to big threats from nearby development, which include a proposed hydropower plant on the Ewaso Ngiro River, just over the border into Kenya, and a mill to process the soda ash from the lake itself.

Calcified Songbird

7. Calcified Dove

Today nomadic peoples occasionally herd cattle through the region, but public do not live in the Lake Natron basin. The existing lake is a highly poisonously concentrated remnant of what used to be a massive, freshwater lake 5,000 to 6,000 years ago. Even go to more in past, people did occupy this area. Just west of the lake is the resting place of Australopithecus boisei  and the early East African hominin whose 1.75-million-year-old jaw and full set of teeth were uncovered in 1959. His dried bones are not unlike the calcified remains of Brandt's birds.

Calcified Dove

Eye-Catching Multicolored Kernels of Corns

The eye-catching multicolored kernels of corn that seem to be glass beads belong to a particularly bred variety, aptly named Glass Gem Corn, and they are actually grown from seeds. The Glass Gem corn was actually developed by Carl Barnes, a part-Cherokee farmer living in Oklahoma, who noticed that every so often, a cob showed signs of unusual coloring shining through. Carl Barnes collected and saved those seeds, and thanks to his supernatural knack for corn breeding and many years of painstaking effort, Glass Gem corn was born.

Carl Barnes bestowed his precious seed collection to his friend Greg Schoen and also shared with Schoen actually process of breeding the Glass Gem corn. In 2010 Greg Schoen decided to move, however he made the determination of finding someone to store and protect his seed collection so that it didn’t get lost or ruined in the moving process. Then he decided to store the seeds with Seeds Trust, (A small seed company in Arizona), ensuring Carl Barnes magnificent collection of Glass Gem corn seeds wouldn't face the risk of getting lost when he relocated, these special seeds with the unusual name of Glass Gems.  Bill McDorman, the owner of Seeds Trust decided to plant a few seeds in his own garden, and he was amazed at what the seeds produced. I was ecstatic when I see the corns, because no one had ever seen corn like this before. These Glass Gem seeds are now available for sell through its website for $7.95 (£4.90) per packet, although they are so highly sought-after that they are frequently sold out. The corn can be used to make flour or popcorn, even though it is not recommended to eat it straight off the cob.

Two-Tailed Ancient Bird Discovered

An ancient dinosaur-era bird turns out to have two tails, one maybe for flying while the other for showing off. Paleontologists suggest that the early bird gets two tails? A 120-million-year-old bird sported a long tail and a second, unexpected tail frond, the discovery points to a intricate evolutionary path for the tails we see in birds today. The 2^nd oldest known bird, Jeholornis, lived in what is today China, along with a trove of other feathered dinosaurs uncovered in the region over the last decade. Fossils explain that Jeholornis was turkey-size, had claws on its wing forelimbs, and possessed 3 small teeth in its lower jaw, and thought to sport only a long fan feathered tail at its back end. Therefore; paleontologists are claiming discovery of a second tail frond adorning the bird. It is believed that 'two-tail' plumage of Jeholornis is unique. Of 11 Jeholornis fossils that retain evidence of ancient plumage, six have signs of this frond of eleven feathers, which would have jutted above the bird's back at a jaunty, upright angle in a "visually striking" manner.

Visibly the display aspect of the frond would have been irrefutable. It calls to mind living birds, even peacocks, which display broad plumes of feathers. In peacocks and other birds, such feathery skin textures are more for attracting the attention of potential mates than for any functional purpose. Male birds are the ones with the striking plumage, and perhaps only one sex of Jeholornis sported the eye-catching tail fronds.

Jeholornis is not thought to be directly related to modern birds, which seem to have evolved from a different line of early avians. The tail frond may have played a stabilizing role in the flight of these early birds and that if the arrangement of feathers had proven advantageous enough, modern birds might have evolved to sport such two tailed features. The fronds are flattening to offer a streamlined appearance when the bird was in flight. Other researchers aren't convinced the newly discovered tail frond played much of a role in aviation, however. Feathering in the new specimens is quite interesting; it could have been a peculiarity of the one species, as the authors note. Perhaps the frond simply evolved as an easy-to-notice "sexual display" flaunted by these early birds

World's First Invisible Tower

The current global battle to crank out record-breaking tall buildings the South Korean government has granted approval to start construction on the world's first "invisible" tower. It is well designed by United States based GDS Architects, the glass-encased Tower Infinity will top out at 450 meters  almost 1,476 feet and have the third highest observation deck in the world. This mega project is supported by Korea Land & Housing Corporation, a state-owned land and public housing developer. More importantly the invisibility illusion will be achieved with a high-tech LED facade system that uses a series of cameras that will send real-time images onto the building's reflective surface and it will be built just outside of Seoul near the Incheon International Airport.

The target completion date is not confirmed yet neither by developer nor GDS. The project will be primarily used for leisure activities, observation decks, a movie theater, roller coaster, water park and plentiful food and beverage outlets. It is expected to be in sixth on the list of the world's highest towers, behind Tokyo SkyTree, Guangzhou's CantonTower, Toronto's CN Tower, Moscow's Ostankino Tower and Shanghai's Oriental Pearl. Therefore; Tower Infinity's invisible face is basically just state of the art camouflage. Cameras will be placed at 3 different heights on 6 different sides of the building to capture real-time images of the surroundings; 3 other sections, each filled with 500 rows of LED screens, will project the individual digital images. In the course of digital processing, images will be scaled, rotated and merged to generate a seamless panoramic image that appears on the LED rows to produce the illusion of invisibility.

Flying Fish Exocoetidae

Exocoetidae, usually called Flying Fish, is a family of fishes aptly named for their ability to emerge out of the water and fly for long distances with their outstretched pectoral fins. Asian countries, like China, Vietnam, and Japan commercially fished flying fish. including the Caribbean where it’s a coveted flimsiness. In many Japanese cuisine, the flying fish is used to make some sort of sushi. It is also a used in the diet of the Tao people of Taiwan. In Barbados, flying fish were heavily threatened by pollution and overfishing, and changing the occurrences of flying fish in the waters off of Barbados. This sparked a fishing controversy between Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago maneuverability. These fishes are known as four-winged flying fish.Flying fish are thought to have evolved this extraordinary gliding ability to get away predators, of which they have many. Their pursuers include mackerel, tuna, swordfish, marlin, and other larger fish. unluckily, this elusive maneuver is not enough to escape the biggest predator on earth humans.

Their streamlined torpedo shape assist them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing-like fins get them airborne. Once in the air, these fishes can glide over considerable distances. Their flights are naturally around 50 meters, but some fishes have been recorded to fly up to 200 meters or even more. Some species of flying fish have enlarged pelvic fins as well as enlarged pectoral fins, which let them to fly further than two winged gliders up to 400 meters, and have far greater To glide upward out of the water, a flying fish moves its tail up to 70 times per second. It then spreads its pectoral fins and tilts them to some extent upward to provide lift. At the end of a glide, it folds its pectoral fins to reenter the sea, or fall its tail into the water to push against the water to lift itself for another glide, possibly changing direction. The curved profile of the "wing" is comparable to the aerodynamic shape of a bird wing. The fish is recognized to take advantage of updrafts created by air currents to boost its time of flight.

Amazing Boardman Tree Farm, Orgeon, USA

The Boardman Tree Farm is situated in Morrow, county Oregon, along Interstate 84, 5 miles west of the I-82 junction. Boardman Tree Farm is owned by the GreenWood Tree Farm Fund and operated by a Portland-based tree farm management group GreenWood Resources, this 25,000 acres beautiful land comprises thousands of hybrid poplar trees, which are efficiently arranged in evenly spaced rows, and they are about the similar sizes, identical height and equal thickness. It’s such a fantastic sight that GreenWood Resources would conduct group tours for those visitors willing to invest some time and effort.

This Tree Farm is just one of the many holdings of GreenWood Resources in, South America, North America and China, but obviously one of the most accessible, being situated next to the interstate. The boardman farm is broken up into 40-acre and 70-acre plots with easy access of roads separating the plots from each other on all sides. Each plots comprises 600 trees per acre. For irrigation purpose, the farm employs nine 1,000 horsepower pumps that pull water from the Columbia River at a rate of up to 117,000 gallons per minute. In deed, this is the largest facility drip irrigation system in the country, with more than 9,000 miles of drip line. This whole system is controlled by computer so that each tree gets a very specific amount of water, allowing it to grow at an implausible rate while not wasting resources, like water or money. Moreover; use of chemical pesticides is limited, as integrated pest management processes are employed. Sawdust and the refuse from harvesting is chopped back into the soil, limiting the requirement for chemical fertilizers.

Therefore; type of tree they grow in the tree farm is called Pacific Albus, a trademarked name that loosely means Pacific whitewood. It’s a hybrid of 4 to 5 different poplars, cross strained for better yield, quicker growth, less use of irrigation water, straighter growth.The Boardman trees take 10 to 12 years to reach its maturity after which they are felled and sent to the mill where they are formed into boards and wood chips. The wood chips are mainly used for paper manufacturing, while tallers and older trees are harvested for lumber products. Any specific part of the trees that can’t be made into boards is turned into pulp or hog fuel. However; sawdust from the sanding mill is compressed into bricks for fireplaces and wood stoves.

Harvesting is contracted out to independent logging companies and on a normal day, 25 loads of saw logs and another 25 loads of chip logs from the saw log side, and probably 13 loads of chip logs from our thinning side, and up around 65 loads a day that will deliver to the mill, and each load averages about 35 to 40 net tons. The sawmill, is located roughly in the center of the tree farm, and process the produce of 2,000 acres of land each year. The processed lumber is sold to China, Indonesia, and Malaysia, Mexico, as the biggest off-shore buyers.

Unique Hanshin Expressway in Japan

This is almost well known by everyone, that current traffic needs high quality roads. Japanese are so inventive, quality conscion to find out different ways of making their life easier, even they’ve to their  highway passes through a building. Due to the exclusive and artistic shape of Hanshin highways,  Japan’s infrastructure can easily be compared with an amazing work of art. Moreover, despite the earthquake that caused severe damage to some sections of the Hanshin Expressway, the Japanese road infrastructure is a striking web that seems rather surreal.This building is located at Fukushima in Osaka City, Japan. When the owner of this building wanted to rebuild his building, the exit of Hanshin expressway had been planned to pass this block. The owner that did not want to sell his building and then negotiated with Hanshin Expressway Company and the result was this road-combined building. The construction was completed in 1992.

Amazing Hotel Rooms in Sweden

This is a hotel room in Sweden Kolarbyn which consists of 12 little forest huts situated at the beautiful lake Skärsjön. It’s called Sweden's most primitive hotel, the huts have no electricity and the dark evenings are lit by candles or traditional oil lamps. It’s absolutely perfect for all nature lover; or for anyone who lives almost entirely in the city in apartments, and don't have back yards and have very little experience with nature, but want to feel it at it's a best and don't want to do the camping thing, this is absolutely perfect without no doubt two thumbs up to the designers.