The American children’s television show Sesame Street turns forty this year. The image in the link is an enormous interactive poster, with details about 101 muppets that starred on Sesame Street. picked by Bingo 4 months ago

World Beach Project is a global art project open to anybody, anywhere, building on the experience many of us have had on holiday of making patterns on beaches and shorelines. picked by cb__ 3 months ago

The Millennium Seed Bank Project (MSBP) is the largest ex situ conservation project ever conceived. Its partners will have banked seed from 10% of the world's wild plant species by the end of the decade. These will not be just any plants, but will include the rarest, most threatened and most useful species known to man... picked by bingo 8 months ago

Andy Woodruff noticed that Ohio has 88 counties, the same number as keys on a piano. So he went to work on a map application that assigns a note to each county. You can play a song on the map, a couple of songs are plotted out for you. You can even hear what a route from one place to another sounds like!
MAP HERE picked by Bingo 2 months ago

A hoard of dinosaur bones has been discovered at the site of a planned desalination plant meant to deliver Australia's second biggest city from drought, forcing a re-think of the A$3 billion ($2.7 billion) project. The fossilised bones, estimated to be 115 million years old and belonging to dinosaurs and ancient marine reptiles, were found on a windswept beach in front of the planned project at Po... read full post picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Happy 40th Anniversary Sesame Street! Did you know that Cookie Monster smoked?

First Lady Michelle Obama will kick off the the new season with an appearance on the show. Link to video in article. And Google celebrates with different characters. picked by suebe 3 weeks ago

Slinkachu, the artist who was responsible for Little People, a Tiny Street Art Project, has a new “moving art” project. It moves pretty slowly, as it consists of snails with painted shells placed in London landscapes. picked by doggylives 2 years ago

A man captured taking a huge snake for a walk in a city in amazing images on Google Street View has come forward.

Thumbnail source. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago

A wish could come true for paraplegics who play the piano and are paralyzed from the hips down: the Heidelberg researcher Dr.-Ing. Rüdiger Rupp has developed a method with which a pianist can operate the right pedal of a concert grand wirelessly – a first in the world. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Yes, there is one (perhaps more), obtaining views not accessible to the automobile.

The Google Street View trike and all the equipment it carries weighs around 18 stone (252 pounds), but actually it's not as hard as you think to get moving. A flat surface helps, but it's really just a case of pushing off firmly, keeping straight for a few metres, and then you're away. picked by Bingo 4 months ago

In streets across Britain many people don't even know their neighbour's names. But that certainly isn't a problem on Cotswold Gardens in Gateshead. This small street is home to 69 members of the same family, ranging in age from four weeks to 76 years. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Check out the upscale McDonald's near Wall Street in Manhattan, which "might be one of the only McDonald's in the world that has a live piano player." picked by runninutes 2 years ago

Google has removed dozens of photos from its new UK Street View service.
The street-mapping facility launched amid a fanfare of publicity but now the firm has been forced to pull some of the images after complaints.
It is thought the pictures removed contained revealing images of homes, a man entering a London sex shop, people being arrested and a man being sick. picked by bingo 8 months ago

When Laurel and Hardy did it, everyone laughed. But when removal men bungled the delivery of a real-life grand piano costing $89,000, no one was smiling. picked by kissmenow 3 years ago

It might be the explanation for the mysterious piano in the middle of the woods. picked by suebe 12 months ago

Nine mystery silver discs can be seen above a bookmaker's shop in an image of Bethnal Green, east London, taken last year.

They appear to be flying in neat formation in three rows, attracting the attention of several passers-by, in the photograph of Wolverley Street. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago

Three giant pianos wash up on shore in this wonderful piece of public art. I so want to travel to where ever this is. picked by MUPpetMAKer 2 years ago

An unidentified man has been murdered on one of the world's busiest streets during rush hour. picked by pocksucket 2 years ago