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Guachimontones Inflatable Museum by Estudio 3.14

In the need of impact of cultural centers, and more important, to communicate the relevance of national cultural heritage to the youngest, the Ministry of Culture commissioned Multidisciplinary design studio based in Guadalajara, Mexico, Estudio 3.14 in order to achieve this mission… Read more: http://on.fb.me/1IOSMqf

This is Sathorn Unique Tower, a 49-storey luxury condominium that became a Bangkok tourist attraction of very different kind following its abandonment in 1997.

(Photo: Jonathan Burr)

These Bacteria Are Wired to Hunt Like a Tiny Wolf Pack

There is an elaborate stealth communication network in the Earth beneath your feet. This smart web acts like a superorganism, fortifying defensive capabilities and coordinating deadly attacks on unsuspecting targets. But it’s not run by the NSA, the CIA, or the military. This web is made of bacteria.

A team of scientists led by Manfred Auer at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have used cutting-edge 3-D microscopy to identify a new mechanism for bacterial networking. They observed elaborate webs of a common soil bacterium, Myxococcus xanthus, connected by thread-like membranes. This system of cellular pipelines suggests that some bacteria have evolved complex ways to deliver molecular cargo out of sight from snooping neighbors. Their work appears in the journal Environmental Microbiology.