María Elena Velasco (La India Maria) was born in Puebla, Mexico’s 4th largest city. Let’s take a closer look. Puebla is a city in east-central Mexico, southeast of Mexico City. It’s known for its culinary history, colonial architecture and pottery. The painted Talavera tiles adorning numerous buildings are locally produced. The Renaissance-era Puebla Cathedral has […]
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WLBOTT: So, G. Are you familiar with the novel The Ministry for the Future, by Kim Stanley Robinson? Elder G: The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson: it’s a thought-provoking climate fiction novel that imagines a near future where a UN agency, the “Ministry for the Future,” is created to represent future generations […]
We are reporting on an internationally incident that, thankfully, WLBOTT was not involved in. We fired up the WLBOTT time machine to share with you: An incident happened in 2012 during an international shooting championship in Kuwait. The organizers mistakenly played a parody version of Kazakhstan’s national anthem from the movie Borat: Cultural Learnings of […]
Turns out there are many natural formations named “The Seven Sisters.” Let’s look at a few of them. Seven Sisters Mountain, Alberta Canada We couldn’t help but notice the proximity of Seven Sisters Mountain and Ma Butte. (Oh, grow up.) Seven Sisters Peaks, British Columbia Just down the road, in British Columbia, are the Seven […]
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Underground Cities
Derinkuyu Getting There Street View of the Underground City Early WLBOTT Presence in Derinkuyu The Underground World of Coober Pedy Climate Getting There Will There Be a Buffet? Glad you asked! Thanks to the Comfort Inn Coober Pedy Facebook page, we can enjoy a virtual underground buffet. The Underground City of A Boy and His […]
WLBOTT has been invited to participate in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. We will be flying the WLBOTT flag as an independent nation-state. But first, some random musings on WLBOTT: I was a bit concerned that I sometimes break the 4th wall and address my visitors directly. Then I began to feel bad that I […]
There is so much to talk about with Golden Rice that we have only seen the tip of the Rice-Berg™©®℗☮. Distrust of Corporate Producers One of the concerns of opponents of Golden Rice is a distrust of the GMO patent holders. In August of 2013, a group of protesters uprooted the golden rice plants in […]
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Face Zero
This South Korean artist has almost no web presence outside of this portfolio page: https://facezero.artstation.comand Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/seongjin_kim The WLBOTT Ministry of Truth and Beauty wanted to post some of their haunting images here to preserve their Internet presence and help spread their vision. All images were liberated from FaceZero’s portfolio page https://facezero.artstation.com
[We have UC#2 to thank/blame for today’s BLOTT] Time is precious. We all have a finite amount of this cherished gift that has been bestowed upon us. We should make the most of this treasure by doing good works, alleviating suffering, and…. when we need a moment of respite…. With great trepidation and against our […]
A few days ago we were talking about aqueducts and the very cool engineering associated with them. There are also some incredible aqueduct tunnels. Tunnels Aqueducts sometimes run for some or all of their path through tunnels constructed underground. A version of this common in North Africa and Central Asia that has vertical wells at […]