The Photo-Like Pencil Drawings of Emanuele Dascanio
Emanuele Dascanio is a super-talented artist whose graphite and charcoal pencil drawings look like high-resolution black-and-white photographs. Looking at some of 37-year-old Emanuele Dascanio’s masterpieces, it’s easy to see why he sometimes takes hundreds of hours to complete a single piece. He often works 12 to 14 hours a day, often sacrificing his private life […]
Thailand’s ‘Pesticide Ducks’ Clean Rice Fields of Pests and Stubble
Every year, flocks of thousands of hungry ducks are released into vast rice paddies to clean the fields of unwanted pests and rice stubble left over from last harvest. Humanity has witnessed unprecedented technological advancements over the last few decades, but in Thailand, the world’s second largest rice exporter, farmers still use a centuries old […]
African Country Turns Off Mobile Internet to Discourage Cheating on University Exams
During the month of September, over 500,000 high-school graduates in Sudan will be taking their university admission exams, and to discourage applicants from cheating mobile internet will be turned off nationwide for three hours every day. Sudan has a long history of turning off its internet during protests in order to disrupt the coordination of […]