These are our ancestors

Elisabeth Daynès is an artist best-artist fascinated by paleontology-French girl who dedicated his last work to resurrect our ancestors â€" the furthest. Daynès used clay and silicon to make models and realistic sculptures, trying to imagine what they were like the faces of our most distant ancestors.

The creative process begins with the examination of the skull. Later, a computational model tells how artist should be their man, a muscular point of view. Elisabeth also AIDS the scientific literature to decide minor details like eye color, and uses a mixture of human and yak hair for the hominids.

According to the artist, each model is the "synthesis" of all knowledge about the origins of mankind.

Daynès began working with masks to get inside to his passion, the theater, but quickly turned to the evolution of man. In his career of 20 years, the French have recreated Lucy, the famous australopiteca who lived there are one or two million years, and other hominoids and homo erectus.

See some of the work of Daynès, in all phases of your project.

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YoungVolunTeam gets to ride the Rock In Rio and travels 93 Portuguese schools

Released in November 2012, the YoungVolunTeam is the educational program of the Caixa Geral de Depósitos directed students who attend secondary school. The program has the support of Out of the shell, Entrajuda, the General Directorate of education and the youth in action programme, the European Union, and this year with a special push: Rock In Rio (Laugh).

Thus, the CGD and Rock In Rio asked the students of all secondary schools covered organize an action for funds to support a social cause. This Union of social projects â€" Young VolunTeam and Laugh â€" enabled the first go further in its aim to raise funds for the creation or reinforcement of homerooms in IPSS (charities).

"We intend to equip homerooms, insofar as we believe that education is an essential vehicle to break cycles of poverty, thereby promoting social inclusion. We have the energy and determination of Secondary school students to help give back, "said Francisco Viana, director of communications and branding of the box.

Promoting the culture of volunteering in Portugal has been, moreover, one of the main commitments of action of CGD â€" in this case, with the groupings of secondary schools across the country, strengthening the recognition of the importance of the contribution of these to the development of fundamental skills for young people, in different axes: social inclusion, education, entrepreneurship, employment and citizenship.

This year's Edition, the Young VolunTeam featured the inscription of 93 high schools across the country, with a total of 185 teachers coordinators and 2,400 students ambassadors of the program in their schools and surrounding communities.

This action with the Rock In Rio is paradigmatic of the importance of the project â€" and how far he can go. In it, the groups of students from ten schools with better provision will be invited to continue the action of raising funds in Rock in Rio-Lisbon, where they can also enjoy and watch the concerts and entertainments of the Cidade do Rock.

This initiative will be extended to employees still in the box, which could help in fund raising, as well as the community as a whole, that can contribute directly through a sympathetic account. A real project of social inclusion.

Foto: 【Jã€'/Creative Commons

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New York: cruise ship collides with rare whale

A sei whale, the third largest species of whales in the world and who is at risk of extinction, washed up dead last Sunday, in Brooklyn, New York, after having collided with a Norweigan Cruise Line cruise.

The whale, of 13.7 meters, was hit by the 323-metre vessel, but New York authorities still do not know if she was alive or dead before this accident. The ship, which was returning from a seven-day trip through the Caribbean, had to stay several hours in the port of New York â€" just when the tug arrived, in fact, is that the authorities noticed in the presence of the whale.

According to Maggie Moone-Their National, Oceanica and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the whale's carcass was transported to the Army Corps of Engineers, in New Jersey, while the be autopsied by biologists of The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation.

"Our team of necropsy spent all day [with the whale] and noticed several traumatic injuries, broken ribs and a bruise on the right side of the animal," said the executive director of The Riverside Foundation, Robert DiGiovianni, at The Huffington Post.

Still, only within several weeks to know if the ship killed the sei whale, or if this was already dead when she was hit by a boat. According to The New York Post, the whale is now buried.

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Penguins are being affected by a new type of flu

There is a new strain of bird flu. However, this new mutation does not affect the usual suspects, nor to spread quickly. A team of scientists has discovered a new and unique strain of virus in Antarctica and that is affecting only the penguins.

According to the study published in the scientific journal Exchange, two large colonies of Adelie penguins, which inhabit the peninsula Antarctica, are carriers of bird flu but are not suffering the usual symptoms caused by the virus. In fact, the penguins don't appear to be sick. But the big question lies not in the fact that the Penguins are not to be affected by symptoms but how the animals were contaminated by the virus in the first place.

One of the researchers ' explanations for what happened is the presence of the virus in Antarctica, which probably was stashed on ice for years. However, other explanations are possible. The birds, including the Antarctic, tend to migrate thousands of miles each year, and during these migrations, the virus may have been transported to the region for over 50 years. It is also possible that the virus is transported by the whales and seals, the Dodo.

Regardless of how the virus ended up in Antarctica, experts are concerned, since the strain can spread even more. Even if the birds are not to be affected by the virus currently in future viral mutations may cause mass casualties.

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Wind turbine takes energy to places where itinerant she doesn't exist

According to the United Nations, about 1.3 billion people have no access to energy, in other words, one in every five global citizens have to do your day to day without electricity. Therefore, many engineers and innovators are finding infrastructures that respond effectively to this enormous challenge.

One of these projects, developed by start-up Altaeros, created a kind of floating wind turbine, the BAT-Buoyant Airborne Turbine. The turbine is filled with helium, being the technology linked to the monitoring of weather systems to align its position efficiently.

The turbine reaches 300 meters high, three times more than a conventional turbine, allowing the use of double winds in relation to current technology.

The first tests were conducted in the State of Maine, in the region of New England, in the United States, and the next prototype is seriously. The city of Fairbanks, Alaska, will receive the BAT due to €935 thousand (r $ 2.9 million) of investment made by the company that distributes energy in the region. The commercial demonstration phase should last 18 months.

After that, the goal is to expand and take the floating turbine to Africa or places using dirty sources, such as diesel. According to the MIT alumni who founded the startup and are responsible for technology, the BAT has sufficient capacity to supply 12 houses.

Ben Glass, CEO of Altaeros, said in an interview to the website Mother Nature Network access and the installation are much easier. "The BAT is transported and installed without the need for cranes, towers or underground foundations â€" factors that tied earlier drafts of wind farms".

The video presents the project says that the BAT is the next generation of wind energy, "cheaper, flexible and significantly more efficient". Cheap, apparently, will not be. But it's welcome.

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Gaming machines help to promote recycling in Dhaka, Bangladesh

A marketing action of Coca-Cola put several gaming machines in the city of Dhaka in Bangladesh, with a sole purpose: to promote the recycling of plastic bottles. These gaming machines have the particularity to only work with brand plastic bottles when they are empty, so the company can thereby remove much of their bottles of household waste or streets.

The action is called Happiness Arcade, is part of a campaign Where Will Happinness Strike Next and was developed by Grey agency Dhaka.

See the making of the campaign.

It is true that the city of Dhaka is going through serious difficulties in terms of sanitation, and that this will be a good idea to promote recycling, but this idea has one catch â€" the only accept American-branded bottles. Who knows if this cannot be a way to promote recycling in other countries and cities, but in a comprehensive way and not exclusive of a trademark?

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Port: a futuristic living laboratory to improve the quality of life in the city (with video)

Until 2016, the city of Porto will be transformed into a kind of laboratory for improving urban mobility, security and quality of life of its citizens. The project is called Future Cities, has the support of several entities, including the Câmara Municipal do Porto, and the unbeaten city is among the most innovative in Europe within two years.

"The project uses the city as a living laboratory to install a network of sensors to capture a series of information in terms of mobility, environmental data or noise. This allows us to have a monitoring several parameters online almost the quality of life, "explained to the green economy Filipe Araújo, innovation and environment Alderman of the Câmara Municipal do Porto.

Today there are more than 900 sensors that measure the quality of life of portuenses. "[This project] is important to the city because it will allow us to have a more efficient," explains Filipe Araújo. "To feel the city, we have more detailed information about parameters such as noise or other type of pollution, and that allows us to make choices in a more sustained. Neighbours summer harbour a camera more efficient and more concerned with streamline environmental everywhere, "continued Filipe Araújo.

According to the charge, the project also wants to draw more companies, especially multinationals, to the borders of invicta. Companies that want to come try their products and see how a smartcity if can position. "We are also supporting the economy," concluded the Mayor.

The Future Cities will cost almost € 2 million, divided between the European Union and the NSRF. One of the novelties is a social network of buses, whose performance can be monitored at the time.

"We can collect data as the quality of the floor, the air and the driver's driving style. Are very different but are georeferenced, "explained John Barros, of the Faculty of engineering of the University of Porto (FEUP).

According to researchers at FEUP, this monitoring of all data related to the well-being of citizens in their city will be common to all large and medium-sized cities in the future. To this end, the city of Porto will be the Guinea pig and, in the short term, will receive direct and indirect credit of this bet.

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