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Railroad cars carrying some 123 tons of nuclear waste glow red-hot in an infrared picture taken in Valognes, France and released by Greenpeace.
The train is hauling a so-called CASTOR convoy, named after the type of container carried: Cask for Storage and Transport Of Radioactive material.
These casks have been used since 1995 to transport nuclear waste from German power plants to France for reprocessing, then back to Germany for storage.
NIMBY.
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Over the course of three years filmmaker Meghan Eckman tracked the comings and goings of a solitary parking lot in Charlottesville, Va., chronicling the lives of the attendants who worked there.
Hanging tough as they navigate the range of human emotions––from hope to frustration, from a sense of limitless possibilities to stagnation--the film's subjects illustrate what happens when highly educated brainiacs work in a service industry.
You will enjoy. Have I let you down before?
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In February 1542 King Henry VIII ordered the removal from all books ‘all manner of mention of Thomas Becket or the Bishop of Rome’s name.'
And this is how history comes to be written by the victors.
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Barry Steifel, by his own account, took a very strange trip in which he personally visited all 50 states on a one week vacation.
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A key on a ring. Worn by ladies in the 18th century.
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Documentarian Stephen Kijak pays tribute to the influential and enigmatic Scott Walker who shunned pop stardom for a reclusive existence in which he rarely released new music but when he did, it was by both groundbreaking and haunting.
You may not be familiar with Walker, but Brian Eno, Radiohead and David Bowie sure are.
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Notice how the whale is eyeballing the diver. This is not an unconscious act.
Make a nice logo for a whale protection NFP.
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