Taking a deep breath in that new sports car might not be such a good idea. The new car smell many drivers love actually comes from the off-gassing of chemicals in your car’s interior. And some of the compounds might be toxic.
The 2012 Pacific Northwest Yo-Yo Championships took place on Friday and Saturday at Seattle Center, where the competition is hosted annually. Contestants were given one or two minutes to perform, based on their division, and were judged on the difficulty of their tricks as well as their technique, style, and creativity.
Stairwells strewn with debris and walls crumbling slowly to dust, it is the island that New York forgot for 50 years.
Now, in a series of extraordinarily eerie pictures, the lost world of North Brother – quarantine zone, leper colony and centre for drug addicts – has been brought back to life.
It is hard to believe that these echoing corridors and abandoned halls were home to hundreds of patients – or that a criss-cross of tree-lined avenues were once roads.
But the haunting quality of these pictures makes it easy to imagine that it was a place of indescribable misery, which one inmate compared to the notorious black hole of Calcutta.
Looks like finally someone found a good use for the ipad.
