California drought: How officials are innovating in water conservation

Very fascinating to learn how California officials are trying to conserve water using black plastic 'shade' balls. These balls are used to cut down on water evaporation from the Los Angeles reservoirs just by floating atop of the water. Each ball cost .36cents - total cost said to be around $34M!!...

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OMG. Those Belgian Blue Cattles Though…

Here's a bull we don't see every day in these parts, the big butt or 'dikbil' bulls as the Dutch and Belgians like to call them. We’ve heard about them before and have even seen photos, but we’ve never seen one live like this 'live'.

It's amazing how they carry all that weight. Very interesting, this breed. These bulls are the results of 100 years of natural breeding...

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This Hulking Bull Was Bred For Its Meat, But When It Tries To Move The Controversy Becomes Clear

The farmer had bred Belgian Blue cattle for a while, but even to him they still looked striking. After all, not only are they huge in size, but their muscle mass is off the charts. What’s more, despite the profit that they brought through the door, the farmer couldn’t help wondering whether he was doing the right thing.


Belgian Blue cattle are a species renowned for their rippling muscles. It’s not surprising, then, that these bovine behemoths are also known by another name: “super cows.” Indeed, just by looking at them, it’s easy to see why: they’re huge.

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Bill Nye Reading Mean Tweets-- The Bill Nye Film

“Bill Nye the Science Guy is trippy as f,” reads one mean tweet which Bill replies, “Now I don’t know exactly how trippy f is…”

Lol. At least Bill Nye knows how to handle some of these awful mean messages from Twitter users with a sense of humour, in his version of Mean Tweets in this viralling vid of over 1.5M views…

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