Photograph by Jefferson Bernardes     In Porto Alegre, Brazil, there is a beautiful street called Rua Goncalo de Carvalho that is completely blanketed in trees. Over a span of 500 meters (0.3 miles), the sidewalks are lined with more than one hundred Rosewood trees. The trees were actually planted in the 1930s by German [...]

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  THE WINDOW TO YOUR SOUL   Photograph by A Silly Person on Flickr   This striking image was posted to Reddit yesterday. Her iris looks fascinating (ok that sounded weird), and apparently the ‘gaps’ or circles in the iris tissue that are so pronounced in this particular eye are known as ‘Crypts of Fuchs’, [...]

Photograph via cafeteriafraiche on Reddit     As the deep freeze spreads across Europe, one country that is embracing the cooler weather is The Netherlands. With temperatures dropping to around -7 degrees Celsius (19 degrees Fahrenheit) earlier this week, many of Amsterdam’s iconic canals have frozen over, allowing residents and tourists to skate the city’s [...]

  PUTTING THE SIZE OF A WHALE IN PERSPECTIVE   Photograph via timz45 on Reddit   Everyone knows whales are huge. In fact, the Blue Whale is the largest known animal to have ever existed (source). Roughly the length of a basketball court, these majestic creatures are a sight to behold. In this startling image, [...]

Photograph via JIM DENEVAN @ JIMDENEVAN.COM     Artist, surfer, chef; Jim Denevan is a man of many talents. The 50-year-old is best known for his colossal temporary land art, using natural materials to create massive scale drawings on earth, sand and ice. His sculptures are not placed in the landscape, rather, the landscape are [...]

  MEANWHILE IN SWITZERLAND   Photograph by Reuters/Denis Balibouse   A boy sits in front of an ice covered car in Versoix, near Geneva, Switzerland, on February 5, 2012. Bitterly cold weather sweeping across Europe claimed more victims on Sunday and brought widespread disruption to transport services, with warnings that the chilling temperatures would remain [...]

© Ray Demski / Red Bull Cliff Diving     Cliff diving is the purest extreme sport on earth. Take a high cliff, deep water and courage. What you get is all you need. No additional machinery, no protection whatsoever, just absolute concentration and complete body control. The equipment – a swimsuit – fits into [...]

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