Oh Ommm
After air and water, sand is the most used commodity in the world.
The world as we know it would stop functioning without it – no glass, no highways, no computer chips, no concrete buildings, etc. And due to greed and sand’s value, it is quickly disappearing.
I’d never even given it a thought previous to seeing a brilliant documentary film on Knowledge Network last night. More here:
Saw this a few months ago. Still worth posting.
We’ve seen a lot of Orcas (Killer Whales) and dolphins or our regular travels in the Salish Sea of western Canada, but never something like this. The video was taken right in the harbour of the city of Nanaimo, where the ferry docks on its trip from the Vancouver area.
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McLaren engineers seem to have developed a device that uses sound waves to prevent snow, rain, dirt, even insects from sticking to car windshields.
Teaser here: http://tinyurl.com/legz582
Source article here: http://tinyurl.com/qhdch8n