Niigata Prefecture in Japan demonstrated a great way to use straw after rice harvesting. The "Vara" or rice straw festival is held annually on August 31. Here, local artists create complex straw sculptures on wooden frames. Beginner local artist Amy Goda has gained fame thanks to her magnificent dinosaur sculptures. ...

SAIL Amsterdam is a unique and amazing ship parade that can be seen in Amsterdam every 5 years. As part of this event, thousands of the most diverse ships gather in Hey Bay in the north of the city, from where they begin their journey along the river along the capital of the Netherlands. In 2000, for example, about 8,000 ships took part in the famous parade. ...

13,000 people live in Anadyr, and about 500 children are born every year in the maternity ward. The city is no longer empty buildings and free housing. At this pace, the capital of Chukotka will soon catch up with Moscow in terms of quality of life. The city is very "young". Young people or parents walking with children are much more common on the street than single men with a bottle of beer. ...

Minimalism is gradually taking over the world. People like Marie Kondo become famous by preaching the idea of ​​throwing everything away, leaving only the truly necessary things. Today, this movement is most popular in Japan, where Zen Buddhism inspires people to strive for simplicity. For the Japanese, less means more. ...

Each of us does not like to overpay and prefers profitable trips. So that the prices do not greatly exceed the cost, and the quality matches the price. In the modern world, it might seem that buying one dollar is extremely difficult, but in fact, in different countries of the world you can buy quite a lot of everything for such an amount: from a piece of bread to a full dinner. ...

An important event occurred in the field of domestic air transportation. The Supreme Court of Russia indicated Pobeda Airlines that, in addition to hand luggage, passengers can take backpacks, handbags and other things specified in the Federal Aviation Rules with them to the cabin. Until this moment, “Victory” had its own rules. ...

Each in his own way expresses his love for the city, which he adores! You can make a declaration of love to your hometown by making a tattoo in the form of minimalistic outlines of its buildings. Like, for example, this one dedicated to Paris Or Chicago ... Or maybe London ... New York ... Vancouver ... Or Seattle Or you can choose a more elaborate design Vancouver Liven up the tattoo with Stockholm color You can also put the image in a beautiful and creative frame Present your city heart ... Paris Or show that for you it is the center of the world Osnabruck (Germany) Fill a tattoo in the form of a snow globe with the place of your dreams. ...

At first glance, this is similar to the intersection of two rivers. In reality, in the pictures you see a very unusual Magdeburg bridge. Its most important difference is that it is water. This means that instead of the usual cars, boats, yachts and barges move along this bridge connecting the Srednegermansky and Elba-Havel channels. ...

Do you think that working like a dog or getting tired like a horse is only accessible to humans? Many animals find work to their liking in a variety of fields - from science and politics to sports and show business. And some even make good money on it! Ferret-cleaner in a scientific laboratory In 1971, scientists at the National Accelerator Laboratory (NAL) had a problem: the new NAL Meson Laboratory was almost completed, but its pipeline through which subatomic particles were supposed to fly was dirty. ...

We all in our native country / city / village have such works of "art", when mentioned, we feel ashamed. And even where everyone says about the ugliness and absurdity of a particular architectural object, arguments will always be heard that art should cause debate and does not have to please everyone. ...

These wonderful pictures are taken by photographer and anthropologist from Mexico Anuar Patyan. Photographing the underwater world in black and white is a rather unusual practice, but it is worth paying tribute to Patyan’s special talent. After all, his work does not lose in monochrome tones. The frames are clear, expressive and very impressive! ...

Patty Maher is a photographer from Ontario, Canada. She specializes in beautiful, surreal photographs, but one of the last pictures that she shared with the world cannot be called fabulous at all. However, they are incredibly mysterious. The girl says that not so long ago, driving along one of the Ontario country roads, she came across an unusual place in the forest, where there were a huge amount of shoes. ...

If the cloning of extinct animals is still a dream of genetic scientists, the successful cloning of trees that have been cut down and from which only one stumps have remained has already become a reality. In the United States, the goal was to restore the unique sequoia stands, the trunk diameter of which exceeded 10 meters, and the first steps in this direction have already been taken. ...

You will be surprised no less than us, but it turns out that the standard of living, the state of the health sector and health indicators directly affect our growth! In connection with the global improvement of all of the above factors, according to scientists, the average growth of the inhabitants of the planet Earth has increased by almost 10 cm over the past 100 years. ...

Civitacampomarano is a small village in the Italian province of Campobasso, with a population of only 400 people. In addition, all of them are mostly elderly. In this village, the Internet is a rather rare and unknown phenomenon compared, for example, with folk traditions. Mobile phones are poorly caught, and there is virtually no data connection. ...

The existence and prosperity of most civilizations of the ancient world depended heavily on crop yields. Frequent droughts causing crop failures could lead to famine, epidemics, and internal unrest in the country. There are frequent cases when years of poor harvest put entire nations on the brink of extinction. ...