13,000 Years Ago, These Ancient Builders Carved a Calendar into Stone to Mark Destructive Occasion
nnWhatever we learned in school about the earliest human civilizations, the discovery of Göbekli Tepe in southern Turkey has made it all null and void.nnThis sprawling, monolithic complex, of which over 90% remains unexcavated, dates back over 10,000 years—a date which is ascertained by the evidence of the entire complex being deliberately buried by whoever […]
YouTuber Rescues Senior Great Pyrenees Dog During Cross-Canada Canoe Trip
nnA Kiwi kayaker on a cross-country trip on Canada’s creeks and rivers took a brief detour to rescue a man’s dog who was trapped under a log.nnFor all her strength, Ivy, a 14-year-old Great Pyrenees had been wasted by the mud of a river in Manitoba, and after wandering too far beyond her owner’s property, […]
Female Entrepreneur Set to Revolutionize Transportation for All of Africa, After Transforming her Native Ghana
nnEarly this year, GNN reported on the woman behind the wheels of Wahu!, an electric bicycle company and the only native electric vehicle manufacturer in Ghana, Valerie Labi.nnFrom 100 bikes sold to delivery drivers on a pay-per-week basis, Wahu! has shifted another 200 units, driven down the cost of insurance, and is set in the […]
Student Dreams of Stadiums Harnessing Crowd Noise for Electricity–Inspired by Monsters Inc.
nnHave you ever been in a sports stadium when the crowd is so loud it shakes the concrete skeleton of the stands? What if you could harness that passion and energy into a power source?nnGyeongyun Lily Min, a high school senior in Lake Charles, Louisiana, was inspired by Pixar’s Monster’s Inc. to design a collection system […]
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credit – Tom Hudson Instagram
credit – University of Edinburgh
Göbekli Tepe excavations – Teomancimit CC 3.0. BY SA
NBA basketball crowd – Frankie Lopez, Unsplash
“Pollution is: the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.” – Buckminster Fuller
Quote of the Day: “Pollution is the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we have been ignorant of their value.” – Buckminster FullernnPhoto by: ©GWC 2017nnWith a new inspirational quote every day, atop the perfect photo—collected and archived on our Quote of the Day page—why not bookmark GNN.org for a daily uplift?nn