Wood Stick Sculptures By Gil Bruvel

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/09/gil-bruvel-mask-series/

Cardboard Sculptures By Greg Olijnyk

A Plant Overruns an Incredibly Intricate Cardboard Universe for Robots by Greg Olijnyk

Photography From Anna Devís and Daniel Rueda

http://www.fubiz.net/2020/05/31/amazing-architectural-photography-by-anna-devis-and-daniel-rueda

Glass Bottom Bridge In China

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/09/worlds-longest-glass-bridge/

Vases By Sandra Apperloo

Quirky Characters Anthropomorphize Patterned, Pastel Vases by Ceramicist Sandra Apperloo

A Transformed Lighthouse In Spain

Okuda San Miguel Transforms a Stark Lighthouse in Spain into a Technicolor Beacon

News Of The Week

Quebec is set to start enforcing use of French only

https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/analysis-walking-in-camille-laurins-footsteps-caq-minister-plans-to-reinforce-french-language/wcm/7e5a7b76-156d-41dc-bf8b-0314396e5f32/

Keeping trash out of the Ocean:

Technology

Karate grannies of Nairobi

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2020/0902/Karate-grannies-As-assaults-persist-Nairobi-s-women-fight-back

Burger King is called Hungy Jacks in Australia

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/undertheinfluence/why-it-s-hard-to-find-a-burger-king-in-australia-1.5469678

A supercomputer figures out COVID-19 nuances

https://elemental.medium.com/a-supercomputer-analyzed-covid-19-and-an-interesting-new-theory-has-emerged-31cb8eba9d63

Animation depicts gravitational lensing

Light from galaxies behind a powerful gravity source appear around the edges deformed

RIP Diana Rigg

News of the Week

UFO lands in Congo, turns out to be an Internet provider balloon
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-congo-balloon/ufo-in-congo-jungle-turns-out-to-be-internet-balloon-idUSKBN25L2GU

Iran cuts water to Kurdish Iraq areas
http://www.basnews.com/en/babat/627754

Woman sues husband to stop his medically assisted death
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/nova-scotia-medical-assistance-in-dying-supreme-court-injunction-1.5691456

Raging asshole puts metal shards in Babyfood for a blackmail scheme
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-53849726

Peace breaks out in Libya
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53863627

The UK is training the wrong militaries
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/uk-military-training-china-afghanistan-israel-iraq-human-rights-abusers-list-a9690206.html?__twitter_impression=true

I hate this new editor

I can’t post anything like I could a few weeks ago, so I think this blog is dead. If the site goes back to a simple way to publish I might check back in. What the hell are BLOCKS!!!!???? It’s not a thing in writing.

Still More News

Child Trafficing ring busted in Michigan
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/08/15/child-trafficking-flint-string-probe-arrests/113215026/

COVID-19 virus traveling on frozen Chinese food packaging
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3096934/coronavirus-found-frozen-seafood-packaging-chinese-port-city

There was a Military COUP in Mali this week
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mali-security/regions-presidents-plan-mali-visit-as-junta-opposition-close-ranks-idUKKBN25G0WM

Chicago slows crowding downtown by raising all the bridges at night

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-14/in-chicago-unrest-echoes-of-a-1855-beer-riot?srnd=citylab

USPS Ohio warns mail delivery delays, impacts Prescriptions and Ballots
https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200814/postal-service-reduces-mail-sorting-capacity-warns-ohio-some-absentee-ballots-may-not-be-delivered-in-time-to-count

Kyrgyzstan treating COVID-19 with Bloodletting
https://eurasianet.org/fighting-covid-in-kyrgyzstan-dog-fat-ginger-and-bloodletting

Libya is trading Oil for goods again
https://www.libyaherald.com/2020/08/13/benghazi-port-receives-398-containers-of-mixed-goods-25000-tons-of-wheat-28500-tons-of-barley-and-6000-tons-of-cement/