Construction Complete on the UK’s Stunning Seed Cathedral

The brilliant bristling structure you see above is not the world’s largest pincushion – it’s Thomas Heatherwick ’s recently completed UK Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai Expo . Dubbed the “Seed Cathedral”, the six-story high structure is studded with 60,000 translucent rods that act as fiber-optic filaments that channel sunlight into the pavilion’s interior.

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Construction Complete on the UK’s Stunning Seed Cathedral

The Surprisingly Bold and Beautiful World of Sea Slugs (Slideshow)

Photo via jon hanson @ flickr Slugs as we know them aren’t the most colorful land-based creatures, but the shell-less mollusk known as nudibranchs (meaning “naked gills”), or sea slugs, are the complete opposite: The more than 3,000 different members of this species are each entirely different. In most cases, their brilliant colors come from the food they eat–and do double duty as a protective feature: Some slugs are poisonous, and some aren’t, but what kind of predator would want to take the chance?

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Starbucks’ Farmers Discuss the Impact of Fairtrade

Images by B. Alter It’s been Fairtrade Fortnight , and in celebration Starbucks has released a special new Fairtrade coffee from Rwanda.

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Starbucks’ Farmers Discuss the Impact of Fairtrade