The remaining 14 is layered with terrigenous sediments.

Magnus Larsson Turning dunes into architecture

Eben Bayer Are mushrooms the new plastic?

Now the feast of unleavened bread, which is called the Passover, drew near.

Now the feast of unleavened bread drew nigh, which is called the Passover.

But as I watch the mushrooms grow and digest my body, I imagine the Infinity Mushroom as a symbol of a new way of thinking about death and the relationship between my body and the environment.

The overall color fades as the mushroom ages.

15. Bio sand filters for household water treatment

As the mushrooms grow, I pick the best feeders to become Infinity Mushrooms.

We work to teach people how to grow mushrooms for several reasons

The largest ants cut stalks, smaller workers chew the leaves and the smallest tend the fungus.

The fungus kills the ants, grows on their remains, and produces a fruiting body.

This is known as the angle of repose, and a prime example is the surface of sand dunes.

They love Namibia for its beautiful dunes, that are even taller than the Empire State Building.

I wanted to cultivate this perspective just like the mushrooms, so I formed the Decompiculture Society, a group of people called decompinauts who actively explore their postmortem options, seek death acceptance and cultivate decomposing organisms like the Infinity Mushroom.

The Infinity Burial Project, an alternative burial system that uses mushrooms to decompose and clean toxins in bodies.

Since the start of this project, and over a period of three months, they have distributed mushrooms across Eastern Ghouta free of charge.

Burundi is by constitution a secular state, although Eid ul Fitr is among several national holidays.

They took photographs, they fed the photographs into their computer program, and that computer program shaped a sand dune and then took that sand dune shape and turned it into at their instructions, using standard software with slight modifications a set of instructions for pieces of wood.

The land is mostly flat, and gently undulating covered with bush and grasses covering the sand dunes, and areas of larger trees.

Since that day, sexual harassment has become a regular part of Eid Al Fitr and Eid Al Adha in Egypt.

Gazans didn't celebrate Eid Al Fitr bc it was during th war, so we'll double celebrate Al Adha Eid Gaza Guess What ( Farah_Gazan) October 2, 2014

Another important point of these sand banks is that when it rains, the rainwater soaks down into the soil. So, it's gone.

The goal of the project is to end the recurring dust storms in Beijing, block desertification and protect the local ecosystem.

New orders for the independent tank battalion were to break off the attack and to attack from the north, through the sand dunes.

So I thought maybe I could train an army of toxin cleaning edible mushrooms to eat my body.

Dr. Leila told Global Voices that the project plans to teach 125 families to grow mushrooms.

It appears that the fungus alters the behaviour of the ant to help disperse its spores in a microhabitat that best suits the fungus.

Some fungi are hyperaccumulators, capable of absorbing and concentrating heavy metals in the mushroom fruit bodies.

Regardless of the heavy sand dust storm in Sanaa, dozens of thousands continue arriving at 60 St to commemorate the Karama Day. Yemen

This marked the first time that Nadal has lost twice on clay to the same player in a single season.

The site comprised a mosque, a minaret, (now demolished), and a maqam, as well as at least nine wells dispersed in the sand dunes nearby.

We turned to cultivating mushrooms because they're a food that has high nutritional value, similar to meat, and can be grown inside houses and basements.

This infantry attack was to occur under the cover of darkness, following a secondary approach to Um Katef through the sand dunes.

We want to return our country as Georgian citizens and to live in our lands from now on.

It's also more benignly known as the honey mushroom or the humongous fungus because it happens to be one of the world's largest organisms as well.

A group of around 300 Iraqis recently traveled from south and central Iraq to Mosul to celebrate the Eid al Fitr holiday with their newly liberated compatriots.

In 2011, a newly described species of mushroom, Spongiforma squarepantsii , was named after the cartoon's title character.

As Eid Al Fitr (the end of Ramadan) approaches, women in Egypt are bracing themselves for even more sexual harassment than what has already become a disturbing norm.

Once this has been done the sun god opens the doors of the tomb in hour 8 and then leaves the sandy island of Sokar by rowing vigorously back into the waters in hour 9.

Another sound short term policy choice is to use devices like bio sand filters to reduce the health risks associated with consumption of water contaminated with bacteria and viruses.

As the area behind the coast is a desert, these winds can develop into sand storms with sand deposits in the Atlantic Ocean visible on satellite images.

The Asian TPN 3 on rangeland management in arid areas, including the fixation of shifting sand dunes, was launched in 2001.

I'm also making a decompiculture kit, a cocktail of capsules that contain Infinity Mushroom spores and other elements that speed decomposition and toxin remediation.

Photojournalist Monirul Alam posts an amazing picture and a video of people traveling home in overcrowded trains to celebrate eid festival in Bangladesh.