Raubdruckerin uses drain covers as a printing module for textiles and paper. By pressing a garment on a drain cover coated with paint, the surface is beeing transfered as a graphical pattern onto the desired object. After first experiments in 2006 Raubdruckerin is meanwhile printing in streets all over the world. Currently the collection shows objects from more than 20 cities…to be continued.

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Russian transhumanist Alexey Turchin records audio, video, and EEG brain scans in a bid for digital immortality.

Source: This Transhumanist Records Everything Around Him So His Mind Will Live Forever | Motherboard

When drug kingpin Pablo Escobar was killed by the Colombian National Police in 1993, he left a vast and bloody legacy in his wake. The Medellín Cartel boss is regarded as one of the most prolific criminals in history, and is notorious for having built a cocaine-fueled empire on the bodies of thousands of murdered individuals.But El Patrón is also remembered by more than 50 hippopotamuses (Hippopotamus amphibius) that currently roam free near his palatial estate, Hacienda Nápoles. Escobar’s captive hippos were never meant for the rivers and estuaries of northern Colombia, yet since his death they’ve behaved as wild animals are wont to: by vigorously breeding and multiplying, slowly establishing themselves as the largest invasive species in the world.

Source: Pablo Escobar’s Hippos Keep Having Sex and No One Is Sure How to Stop Them | Motherboard

Plastic pollution clogs our oceans and landfills. According to the Earth Policy Institute, Americans use about one plastic bag every day for just a few minutes before discarding it. Those bags end…

Source: Scientists develop way to efficiently degrade plastics into diesel fuel | Inhabitat – Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building

24 scientists from top universities around the world say they have hard evidence that humans have irrevocably altered Earth’s geology.

Source: All of the Reasons Scientists Are Certain We Are Now Living in the Anthropocene | Motherboard