Due to its isolated location high in the arid Chilean Andes, CTIO provides breathtaking views of the southern night sky and pristine observing conditions for astronomers. Photograph courtesy of Guillermo Damke (via SEEDMAGAZINE.COM)

Volvo Open 70 Ericsson 4 is moored by the dock in Cochin the night before the start of leg 3 from Cochin to Singapore, seaweed floating by with the current. (© Oskar Kihlborg) (via The Volvo Ocean Race - The Big Picture)

Latvian Blondes on Parade (via SPIEGEL ONLINE)

MIT visualisation of mobile calls during Obama inauguration. For more info see: The City.

Just when you thought the SDM thing couldn’t get any worse: The Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)

Artist Steve Powers’ “The Waterboarding Thrill Ride” features simple animatronic robots that recreate a torture session. Installed at Brooklyn’s Coney Island in the summer of 2008, the “attraction” costs $1. (via Do-It-Yourself Waterboarding - TIME)

On a cup at Chipotle restaurant:

Left to nature, dairy cows produce up to eight gallons of milk a day. This natural way has worked well for man and cow for eons.
However agricultural chemists have formulated a synthetic hormone that is injected into a cow to artificially increase milk production. Recombinant bovine growth hormone (rBGH) is used in the United States, but banned in other countries. Many farmers report rBGH causes maladies such as udder infections and joint problems. These synthetic growth hormones affect us, they’re just another thing we, and the cows, could probably do without.

Read about Chipotle at: Ode to a Burrito

But also see: http://www.ciw-online.org/Chipotle_debate.html

szymon:

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A London bound British Airways B737 crosses Winston Churchill Avenue in Gibraltar. (via kpmarek)

Duckling rescue (via BBC News)