Near the top of Italy’s heel, there’s a mysterious-looking structure – an absolutely huge circle, 4 kilometres across! You might guess that this is a particle accelerator, but in fact it’s a perfectly circular high-speed test track – The Nardò…

Here in sunny Cornwall, England, is an absolutely fanastic-looking environmental complex – The Eden Project. Built inside an old china clay quarry, the complex includes two sets of giant interconnected transparent domes made of ETFE cushions1 (each emulating a natural…

Last week I started working in the nearby town of Swindon, where I asked my colleagues about the local sights. The unanimous answer to the best Swindon has to offer was “The Magic Roundabout“. It may be saying something negative…

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It would seem that someone has spent a lot of time and money to create this lake, in the shape of an extremely happy looking man! I’m not sure what he’s got to be so happy about though. I mean,…

Update: This image has now been removed by Google. I wonder if Kevin requested that it be removed, or if Google decided to do it themselves? Staff attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation Kevin Bankston has been caught by Google’s…