When people want to garden, at times they need to get creative if they don't have a back yard. Thus flowers and lettuce are grown on balconies or windowsills, and in front yards as well. Those with flat rooftop can also turn this unused space into a gardener's dream.

A dog is not only man's best friend, a dog can also be a dog's best friend. And such is the case with the Husky Isaac who happens to be blind, and his best buddy, the little dog Isabella, who has taken it upon herself to be his seeing eye dog.

The Power of One: One man in India transformed 1,360-acres (approx. 2 square miles) of barren sand into a lush jungle which harbors not only birds, butterflies, and miscellaneous flora, also provides a home for rhinos, tigers and elephants.

Some things are so sad that we might like to bypass and ignore them completely. But can we do so when lives are being affected and our ignorance causes more and more deaths? Especially when those lives are of innocent beings who have no way of protecting themselves?

The exclusion of children from the natural environment translates into a sizable tranche of the adult population with no experience of tree climbing. In a single generation, the "home habitat" of a typical eight-year-old – the area in which the child was able to travel without adult supervision – had shrunk to one ninth of its former size...

We all contribute to global warming, climate change, the greenhouse effect, etc. by whatever name you choose to call the climate's trajectory these days. And for those of us who are aware of the issues and do our best to live sustainably, we might think that our carbon footprint is tiny compared to our neighbors or co-workers. But is it, really?

by Tony Schwartz. During the day we move from a state of alertness progressively into physiological fatigue approximately every 90 minutes. Our bodies regularly tell us to take a break, but we often override these signals and instead stoke ourselves up with caffeine, sugar and our own emergency reserves. Working in 90-minute intervals turns out to be a prescription for maximizing productivity...

City life requires a lot of attention. Navigating a busy sidewalk while avoiding rogue pigeons may feel like second-nature at times, but it's actually quite a bit of work for the human brain. Psychologists are still getting a handle on just what urbanization means for human cognition...

While we don't think of beer as being useful out of the drinking and/or culinary fields, there are actually other uses for beer. Some uses have to do with house cleaning (!), plant health, and even tired feet...

Glen Berian, a 400 pound black bear, pays a visit to North Los Angeles.

http://youtu.be/peDy2st2XpQ

The day the heat record for March was set, Toronto was preoccupied with matters in Berlin.

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Lego Space Shuttle Launched

18-year-old Raul Oaida has taken his love of Lego's to new heights.

The Romanian teenager teamed up with Australian space buff Steven Sammartino to send a Lego replica of the iconic shuttle back into space; the original idea of using a Buzz Light Year figure had to be scrapped because it was too heavy.

The next issue was keeping the lego pieces together in the unpredictable weather that many miles above earth; Oaida relied on superglue to keep the 180-piece vessel intact.

The team launched the giant helium balloon, camera, GPS and lego shuttle from a field in Lauda-Königshofen, Germany. The craft made it 22 miles into space, capturing the incredible video above; it was aloft for a total of 6 hours and landed about 150 miles from its launching point.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/08/lego-space-shuttle_n_1332497.html

National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence and Filmmaker James Cameron has announced he will soon operate a one-man submarine 7 miles deep to the Pacific's Mariana Trench, the deepest point on earth. Cameron plans to spend as much as 6 hours on the ocean floor and will film and take specimens for scientific study.

by David Streitfeld. In a wooden warehouse in this industrial suburb, the 20th century is being stored in case of digital disaster. Forty-foot shipping containers stacked two by two are stuffed with the most enduring, as well as some of the most...