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These Kung Fu Nuns Are Saving the World by Bike
More than 200 nuns from Kathmandu rode across India to promote gender equality and environmental conservation<p>What do you call 235 nuns on bicycles? It’s not the start of a terrible joke: It was an actual question in India last week as hundreds of nuns finished an epic ride for the Live to Love …
Martial ArtsBMW R Nine T Custom Project
For six months, four of Japan’s top custom workshops have been tearing down and rebuilding BMW’s R nineT roadster.<p>The names will be familiar to most readers—Shiro Nakajima, Brat Style, Hidemo and Cherry’s Company—but until now, the R nineT Custom Project bikes have been hidden behind closed …
RoadstersFantastical Clouds Magically Suspended in Empty Rooms
Amsterdam-based artist Berndnaut Smilde is best known for his fantastical <i>Nimbus</i> series, in which individual clouds appear to magically float in empty rooms. The haunting images portray the airy nimbuses drifting through gorgeous Rococo rooms, Gothic cathedrals, and abandoned factories, evoking a …
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Mother Takes Adorable Portraits of Her 10-Month-Old Baby and Their Rescue Dog
Not since Tokyo-based mother Aya Sakai's photos of her son and their French Bulldog, have I seen such a cute pairing like this! Meet Zoey and Jasper. Lifestyle photographer Grace Chon recently turned the camera on her 10-month-old Chinese-Korean baby Jasper and their 7-year-old rescue dog Zoey, …
CuteSt. Petersburg From Above
Recently, photographer Amos Chapple spent some time in Saint Petersburg, Russia's second-largest city. He used a small drone to lift his camera high above the cathedrals and fortresses, capturing some amazing aerial photos. Chapple: "There's a legend in Russia that Saint Petersburg was constructed …
A Retired Traveler's Breathtaking Photos of International Landscapes
Bangkok-based Thai photographer Weerapong Chaipuck discovered his passion for photography after an early retirement from the medical profession. Now, Chaipuck travels the world, snapping shots of all the beautiful landscapes he comes across. His breathtaking images offer eye-catching perspectives …
PhotographyAstronomers Get First Glimpse of Cosmic Web
Changing Planet<p>Computer simulations suggest that matter in the universe is distributed in a “cosmic web” of filaments, as seen in the image above from a large-scale dark-matter simulation. The inset is a zoomed-in, high-resolution image of a smaller part of the cosmic web, 10 million light-years …
Ancient Chinese cat bones shake up domestication theory
Fossil discovery an 'important step' in understanding feline transformation from pest-control to pet<p>A cat-and-mouse game played out in a Chinese village 5,300 years ago is helping scientists understand how wild felines became the tame pets we know today.<p>Scientists believe it was the cat's appetite …
Estudo revela que quimioterapia pode afinal provocar crescimento dos tumores
Os resultados foram publicados na revista Natural Medicine e os investigadores indicam que os resultados foram totalmente inesperados.<p>O processo de …
2014 World Ducati Week Set for July 18-20
<b>2014 World Ducati Week Dates</b><p>For the eighth year, hundreds of Ducatisti from all over the world will gather in Misano, Italy, for World Ducati Week. …
REV’IT! Opera Motorcycle Jacket
Reading time: about 1 minute.<p>Clothing<br>• Gear<br>• Jackets<br>• Style<p>The REV’IT! Opera motorcycle jacket is designed as a jacket for the urban motorcyclist (or …
Back this Crowdfunding "SPACEme
A reflective fabric with a drawing of a car overtaking a cyclist leaving a space of 1.5m, the fabric would be easy to remove,to attach to any t-shirt …
The 10 Best Buys in 2014 Motorcycles
The colder weather might signal the end of the riding season in many parts of the country, but that's no reason to stop hunting for your next bike. Many of the 2014 motorcycles have already hit dealer lotsand there are plenty of bargains no matter w<p>The colder weather might signal the end of the …
ShoppingBill Gates Thinks Tech Billionaires Have Their Priorities Totally Out Of Whack
"Take this malaria vaccine, [this] weird thing that I'm thinking of," Gates told Richard Waters of FT. "Hmm, which is more important, connectivity or malaria vaccine? If you think connectivity is the key thing, that's great. I don't."<p>It's a not-so-thinly-veiled shot at tech giants like Google and …
Bill GatesGermany To Allow Parents To Choose No Gender For Babies On Birth Certificates
On Friday, Nov. 1, Germany will become the first country in the world to allow parents to leave the gender box blank on their child's birth certificate.<p>As reported in August, the move is an effort to create legal recognition for intersex individuals, or children born without a clearly determinable …
Landscape photographer of the year 2013 – in pictures
The winners of the inaugural Take a View Landscape Photographer of the Year awards have been announced
How to Recover From Hard Rides
Before you wrap yourself in compression wear and guzzle chocolate milk after every ride, make sure your effort warrants it<p>If you’ve hit it really hard, the next few hours are the optimal window for helping your body get the most from your effort, says exercise physiologist Stacy Sims, PhD. The good …
CyclingChina schools seek to nip young love in the bud
<b>In recent weeks a number of Chinese secondary schools have introduced prescriptive new rules designed to discourage teenage romance. But this has been met with scorn and outrage on both social and official media, as the BBC's Dong Le reports</b><p>On the campus of a secondary school in China's famous silk …
RelationshipsI was sold by Mum and Dad to make images of child abuse
Aged four, Raven Kaliana's parents took her to a film studio where she was sexually abused in front of cameras. For most of her childhood they regularly trafficked her to the sex industry. Now she campaigns against child abuse<p>One of Raven Kaliana's earliest memories is being taken to a family …
Chupeta - o que toda mãe (e pai) deveria saber antes de oferecer uma para seu bebê - Por Andreia Stankiewicz
<b>REFERÊNCIAS BIBLIOGRÁFICAS</b><p><i>1. VICTORA, CG; et al. Pacifier use and short breastfeeding duration. Cause, consequence or coincidence. Pediatr, 99,</i> …