burning man
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Burning Man Riddled With Brutal Pest Infestation
Burning Man, favourite summertime gathering place for Silicon Valley’s VC-funded shirtless mollybros, is combatting a large-scale pest infestation at its popup city, Blackrock City, Nevada. Crawling over every surface, biting, sowing mayhem and discontent, the scourge of pestilence has proven damn near impossible to banish from the once-peaceful windswept playa.
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Burning Man Ends Like A Scene From Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Video: This could be a scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind with all those flashing lights and colours, but it’s actually the highlight of the Burning Man: The moment when the man burns and the last night of the festival.
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What Burning Man Has In Common With A South Pacific Islander Cult
This week is Burning Man, when your quiet downstairs neighbour with the amber-lensed glasses takes off for the Nevada desert wearing less clothing than Miley Cyrus at the VMAs (but surrounded by the same ratio of plushies). Each year Burning Man has a theme beyond the overarching Will-Trade-Glowsticks-for-Molly, and this year the focus is on…
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This Drone Aircraft Could Save Lives
We generally hear about drone aircraft killing people in war zones. But there’s a reverse side to that narrative — an autonomous copter can drop medicine and supplies to people stranded after a natural disaster even when roads have been demolished. A humanitarian group called Ideate recently tested drones’ viability as a real-world delivery vehicle…