This tickled me. In Turkey, the Pride parade was the target of a police crackdown. Their riot police took to the protestors with water cannons, inadvertently creating a huge rainbow and a 100-foot-long arch of irony.
A decade of getting cold and wet in search of the perfect shot has led an Aussie photographer to create a beautiful collection of waves from around the world.
New research has been done into how the first inhabitants of what is now Australia came to reach the continent. Obviously, continental drift meant that the land masses were much closer together as a meta-continent called Sahul. This article in The Conversation digs into the strategies and planning that went into getting people to migrate further on and the “voyages over centuries” that brought the first people to Australia.
Virtual Reality is coming on in leaps and bounds. Fast Company reports on what they call “the iPod of VR”, a $400 unit that isn’t clunky or too ridiculous and might prompt a few game developers to spend some time working on the platform rather than developing the next Angry Birds. Not sure if I’m going to buy one soon but worth keeping an eye on.
And to finish with something funny today: when a woman asked for Mariah Carey birthday cake, what turned up was something altogether more niche - a Marie Curie cake. “When a hero comes along…”
