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Artist Injects Herself With Horse Blood, Wears Hooves

By Olivia Solon
August 10, 2011 |
12:49 pm |
Categories: Art, Design and Fashion

Marion Laval-Jeantet has injected herself with horse blood plasma as part of an artistic project exploring trans-species relationships.

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Mercredi, 10 Août 2011 17:00

How to Tow a Building-Sized Iceberg

By Mark Brown, Wired UK

French engineer Georges Mougin has a big idea. He wants to go to Antarctica, tie a big rope around a six-million-tonne iceberg, drag it back to Africa and melt it into fresh, drinkable water.

Some might call him crazy, but Mougin reckons the plan could work. Using 3D computer simulations and declassified satellite data, his “IceDream” team believes that towing a drifting mountain of fresh water to Africa is absolutely possible.

He came up with the plan more than three decades ago, when he and polar explorer Paul-Emile Victor met with a Saudi prince...

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