Saturday, 23 November 2013
Monday, 11 November 2013
The Fibonacci Tree-house, Spain
The design of this beautiful house in the trees was inspired by the
Fibonacci Spiral. That's the spiral found in plants and animals like the
sunflower and the snail's shell. The building, by Blue Forest, is
finished
from sustainably managed forest timbers using laminated ribs for the
framing which is clad inside and out with larch boards. Larch has
comparable characteristics as oak but is less cost. This small house is
just 270 Sq.ft with a tiny kitchen and space for
a bed and chairs. Once the frame of the house was made off-site it took
a little team of builders about 8 weeks to construct. You can say it’s a
bit of a kid's paradise with 130 ft of rope bridges and a 75 ft slide.
What an awe-inspiring aspect of nature!
This lovely house is a marvel of nature and human intelligence. In the
Fibonacci sequence, as you may divide a number into its successor, the
further along you go the closer you get to the value of "Phi" - The
Golden Ratio (value 1.618033), i.e 13 divided
into 21 = 1.61538; 144 divided into 233 = 1.61805. The dimensions of
our Meditation \ Yoga Hut at Lee Road are based approximately! on the
value of Phi.
Glow-in-the-Dark Ice Cream Exists — And It's Made Out of Jellyfish
Glow-in-the-dark ice
cream is being real but that's not even the weirdest part. Its key
ingredient is jellyfish protein, which makes each lick brighter and more
luminous. Once the protein extracted from jellyfish
reacts with the warm temperature of a tongue, the PH level of the
tongue increases to a higher level, reasoning the ice cream to glow.
Charlie Francis, a British entrepreneur founded ice-cream company Lick
Me I'm Delicious, invented the fluorescent ice cream.
Francis came up with
this stunning idea after studying on jellyfish, and he worked with a
China scientist to chemically recreate the jellyfish protein in
synthetic form. Since jellyfish protein is so expensive,
one scoop sells $225. Although; the high value is not disappointing the
businesses chefs and customers from trying the gleaming dessert. He
said; I grew up on an ice cream farm in the South of Wales, and I have
always made ice cream. At Lick Me I'm Delicious,
we can make any flavor of ice cream for our clients. Those concerned
about eating part of a sea creature famous for its toxic sting will be
relieved to be acquainted with that jellyfish protein is safe to eat at
least according to Francis. "Is it safe to eat?
Well I tried some and I don't seem to be glowing anywhere, so we shall
go with a yes for now.
Famous for its original
and sometimes bizarre ice-cream flavors, Lick Me I'm Delicious offers an
unusual assortment of choices, including roast beef, horseradish and
Yorkshire pudding, lamb and mint, cheddar cheese,
dark port and stilto cheese, and raspberry mojito. What's more, the
company once created ice cream with a fire extinguisher, and uses a
unique ice-cream making device known as the "Ice Cream Pottery
Gramophone Machine. He plans to make more unconventional
ice-cream flavors in the future, including invisible ice cream and the
hottest ice cream in the world.
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