Walking Through The Crowds - Nov. 6, 2014

Lunar New Year celebrated around the world

Millions around the world headed home to celebrate the year of the goat (or sheep or ram depending on how you translate it) with their families, as lunar New Year starts Feb. 19, 2015.

Trains in China were jammed as people returned to their family homes. Apartments were cleaned to sweep away ill fortune. Traditional red envelopes, called hongbao or ang pow are offered for good luck and prosperity in the New Year.

Factories in parts of Asia shut down but the holiday is celebrated globally. In Sydney, Australia processions, lion dances, and dragon races welcomed the New Year. New York welcomed the holiday with a fireworks display on Tuesday over the Hudson River. (Yahoo News)

(Photos by Chaiwat Subprasom/REUTERS, Edgar Su/REUTERS, Kim Kyung-Hoon/REUTERS, Edgar Su/REUTERS, Erik De Castro/Reuters)

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Our new robot overlords need to make a living, you know. 

(via Marc-Etienne Peintre)

'The Tallest Block in the World' (A vertical panorama of the Dubai Marina)

By Freddie Ardley Photography

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A beautiful flower bed.

Between 470 million to 760 million people worldwide could lose their land to rising seas if global warming is allowed to continue unbridled, says a study conducted by scientists at Climate Central, a nonprofit research and news organization. In this photograph by Shahria Sharmin of @ap.images, Saleha, 38, who lost her land to river erosion, stands in a field that she farms with her husband in exchange for a place to stay in the island district of Bhola, where the Meghna River spills into the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh. For more on the UNited Nations Climate Change summit in Paris, France, visit TIME.com. http://ift.tt/1RnIReR

Tumblr Tuesday: Earth Day

Fursty Photo (furstyphoto) Earth Day is about critical issues facing our planet, but sometimes it’s also about how goddamned beautiful a mountain is. Look. 

Miss Marine Bio (missmarinebio) The ocean is as terrifying as it is amazing, full of sharks and maybe even the ghosts of dead sharks. Lucky for us, Miss Bio is going where few of us are brave enough to go, and she’s taking pictures along the way.

Earth Street (earthstreet) Imagine if someone stopped you on the street, took your picture, and asked you what you thought about the Earth. Caren didn’t have to imagine it. Good job, Caren. 

Exoteric Environmentalism (exotericenvironmentalism) If you’re into cool facts, you’re into this blog. If you’re into dumb lies, we don’t know what to recommend you, but we still respect you.

Marine Conservation (marine-conservation) Now that we all agree ghost sharks exist, please read this blog to educate yourself on man-sized swimming centipedes.  

Landscape via erosion, tectonics, volcanoes, etc. Human via sperm and egg. Photo of landscape via furstyphoto

Photos of the day - November 6, 2014

A murmuration of starlings put on a display near the town of Gretna, Scotland, a riot police officer tries to spray demonstrators during clashes in central Brussels and a surfer performs an aerial as he rides a wave in the Atlantic Ocean at the Hoek in Cape Town, South Africa are some of the photos of the day. (AP/EPA/Getty/Reuters)

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Adventures in the United Kingdom

Study Abroad If you were asked to spend a year living in a different location, where would you choose and why?

One of my  favourite countries in the world are the United Kingdom and France. If I could study and live anywhere in the world, it would be the UK. 

For some reason, the more I read about the it,  the more I want to be there. I was always fascinated about travelling to other places from my country and the UK was on top of my list. 

I really like how they have preserved much of their history and buildings which in my eyes are really beautiful. I always liked places or cities which are modern but with a classic look like London. 

And the UK has some of the best Universities in the world such as Oxford and so on. I hope I’ll have the capacity to study there one day.