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This summer’s wetter conditions have created great conditions for flowering plants. Flowers provide sweet nectar and protein-rich pollen, attracting many insects, including bees.
Commercial honey bees are also thriving: the New South Wales population has reportedly bounced back after the drought and bushfires
While you may have seen a lot of bees around lately, there’s no reason to be afraid. Most bees are only aggressive when provoked, and some don’t sting at all. And some bee-like insects are actually flies.
Dubai: Residents and businesses in Dubai’s Hatta region involved in the creative and cultural sectors will get support for upskilling and turning projects into reality, under a new plan announced on Tuesday.
Dubai Culture and Arts Authority (Dubai Culture) has partnered with Dubai Holding in the initiatives, which includes ‘in5’, a platform for entrepreneurs and start-ups that is part of Dubai Holding. The collaboration is aimed at supporting businesses and emerging companies in Dubai and the UAE through programmes and training courses in design, media, and technology. In5 will provide a system to enable the local Hatta community to develop talent and create commercial projects.
Only a train would think that s a cool city layout says commenter
The crown prince of Saudi Arabia Mohammed bin Salman has unveiled plans for a 100-mile belt of zero-energy communities for a million people.
Residents would live within a five-minute walk of essential facilities and the city would have no cars or streets. This is a terrible idea
Readers aren t sold. Imagine if your relatives live on the other end, said Stefanos S. Silly idea. Only a train would think that s a cool city layout, added Zea Newland. The idiotic idea of linear cities comes up probably every decade – it needs to be reiterated that this is a terrible idea, continued Gudjon Thor Erlendsson. The transport length is extremely inefficient and this can be proven with simple modelling or mathematics. It looks cool from 10,000 feet up but it s all form, no function.
A collective led by author and Living Architecture founder Alain de Botton has attacked the dispiriting, chaotic and distasteful architecture of urban environments in an essay titled Why is the Modern World So Ugly?
The article published on The School of Life organisation s website states that our ancestors would be shocked at the horrors of modern architecture. One of the great generalisations we can make about the modern world is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, an ugly world, said the essay, which was anonymously written by a member of De Botton s The School of Life collective. If we were to show an ancestor from 250 years ago around our cities and suburbs, they would be amazed at our technology, impressed by our wealth, stunned by our medical advances – and shocked and disbelieving at the horrors we had managed to build, continued the article.