About three weeks ago Kilimanjaro Restaurant Café opened in the Lima district of Surco. Decorated like a rainforest, Kilimanjaro Restaurant Café is a thrill for kids. Its large interior features numerous life-size animatronic animals that periodically come to life and put on a show. My wife and I decided to take our 2 year old [...]
Author: Levi Novey
NBC News Does Excellent Segment on Peru, Climate Change, and Water
NBC News ran a fantastic 3.5 minute segment last week about Peru's emerging water crisis. As the country's Andean glaciers melt, this will mean less water and electricity for everyone. We lived in Huaraz last year near the ice formerly known as the Pastoruri Glacier (shown in the video). It's a serious issue that's getting [...]
Photos of a Christmas Tree Powered by Bicycles, Wind, & Solar Power in Peru
On Friday I wrote about how the Lima district of San Borja planned to light an eco-friendly Christmas Tree using LED lights, wind power, solar power, and bicycles. As promised, here are several photos of the beautiful tree. Click here to see the rest of the photos on Greenupgrader
Christmas Tree to be Lighted by Bicycles, Wind and Solar Power in Peru
Tonight the Lima district of San Borja plans to light an emissions-free Christmas tree in a popular park as part of event called "Magic, Light, and Color: the Energy You Generate." The 11 meter high tree will display LED Christmas lights powered by a combination 10 bicycles, a wind turbine, and two small solar panels [...]
Jennifer’s Body Tells Us that Being a Nerd is Better than Being Hot
Last night I watched the post-Transformers Megan Fox stardom vehicle known as Jennifer's Body. I had heard some interesting things about this horror-comedy movie wherein Megan Fox becomes a blood-drinking succubus. One of the things I had read about the movie was that Megan Fox proved that she was more than just eye candy. She [...]
Some Cool Photos of Subway Architecture
I'm always impressed by how rarely architecture seeks to inspire or influence us-- it's a shame. For that reason I really enjoyed finding Design Boom's photo article on subway architecture earlier this morning. When I lived in Boston I used to ride the subway (or "the T" as it is called there). Occasionally there were [...]
Is George Clooney Currently the Favorite Actor of Movie Buffs?
I was recently thinking about George Clooney. For the past few years he seems to have been in a movie almost every year that has been hailed by critics as "one of the best movies of the year." I write that facetiously as my wife and I often joke about this type of shameless marketing. [...]
Russell Crowe Upholds Myth that Newspapers have Journalistic Superiority in State of Play
State of Play, a political thriller starring Russell Crowe has a clear message: internet reporting sucks.
Do Ants Count Their Steps? Watch this Great 4 Minute Video to Find Out
On the day after Thanksgiving, NPR decided to strangely dump a fantastic piece of evergreen content on the internet. Why they would choose to do this on a day when more people weren't paying attention I don't know. It's an animated video that humorously illustrates an experiment that was designed to find out if ants have internal pedometers-- basically, if when they go back and forth to the nest they are counting their steps.
Will Paragliding Police Make Beaches Safer in Lima, Peru?
My friends over at the news source Living in Peru posted an interesting story last week about how Peru's police force is planning to conduct regular paragliding patrols over Lima's 90 beaches this year. My first thought-- "this is cool." My second thought-- "is it really going to work?" For those people who have never [...]
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