Tag: history
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The Atacama Giant
Here is your object of wonderment for the day. The Atacama Giant is the largest geoglyph (a large drawing made on the ground) of a human figure in the world. It is located on the Atacama Desert plateau in Chile and measures an impressive 119 metres tall. The plateau is a canvas for over 5,000…
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Way before anti-vaccine there was anti-caffine.
I am currently reading ‘This is your mind on plants’ by Michael Pollan. A fascinating series of 3 essays on the complicated intricacies of opium, caffeine and mescaline. Walking us throught the history of coffee, Michael recounts the social unrest in seventeenth-century England resulting from the amount of time men were spending in local coffeehouses.…
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Commonwealth Avenue Bridge. Canberra.
Spanning Lake Burley Griffin, the Commonwealth Avenue Bridge has been a recurring landmark in my life. Location: Latitude: -35.293835 Longitude: 149.126588 Google Map. I can remember sitting in the back seat of our Datsun 180-B (usually fighting with my sister) driving over it inumerable times on our way into the city. Or off on holidays.…
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The path of progress
Just a short walk from steam engine to electric charging station. I thought this was a pretty interesting sight in a tiny (but obviously progressive) country town. No doubt it will not be too long before these electric stations are ubiquitous. Here are a few other pictures from my morning walk around Jugiong, including a…
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