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The Illuminating Engineering Society (IES) Illumination Awards are in for 2010, and the lighting designs are truly magnificent.  Here is a selection of photos from the winning lighting designs (feel free to comment below on which is your favorite!):

Lightcatcher Museum: The Paul Waterbury Award for Outdoor Lighting Design

Izunome Tokyo: The Edwin F. Guth Memorial Award for Interior Lighting Design

I think my personal favorite is the Hard Rock Café, which received its award specifically for the guitar chandelier.  

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Researchers studying an organic coffee farm in Mexico may have stumbled on a clue explaining how organic and integrated farming techniques work so well—and keep pests under control naturally.

On the coffee farm, the key players that keep the ecosystem thriving are a few ant species, coffee pests, and beetles. Their interactions and interdependence on each other are essential to the health of the farm in subtle ways that can be—and have been—easily overlooked.

Intricate relationships Read the study summary for the full explanation, but it essentially works like this:

Ants live in about three percent of shade trees on the farm, but only in clusters of trees, and not scattered about randomly. Ants

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Living in California is all about sun, sand and sexiness. And that’s what the newly renovated Pasinetti House— originally designed in 1958 by Romanian architect Haralamb Georgescu, is all about. Redone by Aaron Torrence of Design Plus Construction, the new look of the home comes due to extensive use of glass and wooden add-ons that bring in better ventilation while still keeping in line with the original design. Comprising of a series of 20-foot cubes, including an open-framed deck in the back overlooking the cityscape, some unique modern artwork and a large storage space for books, this is seems like the perfect hub in the sunshine state. Read full post…

Teenage motorists are included in additional vehicle accidents than every other segment with the generating population, and as a outcome have the highest vehicle insurance policies prices. Teenage Roadhogs, initially published in 1997 has been up to date and republished along with useful as well as applicable advice intended for brand-new as well as youthful drivers. Teen motorists are more costly to insure.

Teenage individuals drove more rapidly than the basic visitors and allowed smaller headways, particularly from the existence of a male teenage passenger.

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One of the best ways to buy less stuff is to buy fewer, but higher quality items, and to keep them in good repair. This is very true for clothing, and by learning a few simple skills, you can keep your clothes looking and fitting great, longer. These skills are also important to learn if you have kids — the things they manage to do to clothes are just amazing sometimes. Save money, save your clothes — here are nine simple skills to learn.

9 Essential Clothing Repair Skills

1. How to Sew a Button

This is probably the most common clothing repair people need to make, and it’s really pretty simple.

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