Category Archives: Civil Engineering

A Glow-in-the-Dark Skate Park

So cool. More of this kind of urban planning, plz. It’s only suitable, then, that she’s returned to give the island a skate park that’s equally strange. "Otro," as this piece of grindable sculpture is called, is a bevy of craters and wormholes that glows at night, thanks to a type of phosphorescent concrete that […]

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List of natural disasters – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worst_natural_disasters I don’t “like it” per se, but it’s interesting nonetheless: I was under the impression the 2004 Tsunami was the worst natural disaster in history. Turns out, it’s not – not by a long shot. China’s got five bigger disasters on its own, with shocking losses of life. Mother Nature really is a bitch.

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