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Alma: spooky and exhilarating
It is likely that you will have a spare 6 minutes available today. Please spend it watching the above.
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5 hours per day on mobile devices
The time U.S. users are spending in mobile apps is continuing to grow; according to new data released this week by analytics firm Flurry, we’re up to 5 hours per day on our mobile devices. This follows on news from… Read More ›
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Watchmaker Announces the World’s Smallest Bluetooth Chip
Swiss watch conglomerate Swatch Group, owner of brands like Omega and Longines, has just premiered its latest product: a Bluetooth chip that’s the smallest ever, measuring just 5mm2, about a third the size of a grain of rice. Not only… Read More ›
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Texting and Driving…….It’s a killer…..
Such a powerful image. via Sgt Mark Gatien.
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The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild review
If there’s a better game out there than Breath of the Wild, I haven’t played it. Nintendo has created, for me, the greatest game of all time. It’s everything I want from a game and one of the most rewarding… Read More ›
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An Engineer, a Physicist, and a Mathematician Build a Fence
A farmer challenges an engineer, a physicist, and a mathematician to build him a fence that encloses the most area with the least amount of fencing. The engineer makes a circular fence, claiming that it is most efficient. The physicist… Read More ›
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Are You An Echo?
In 1966, while leafing through an obscure book, a 19-year-old Japanese aspiring poet by the name of Setsuo Yazaki discovered a poem that stopped him up short with its staggering generosity of empathy and existential truth conferred with great simplicity:… Read More ›
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George W Bush’s unlikely friendship with Michelle Obama
He is the former Republican president, mocked and vilified by the left throughout his presidency for his right wing policies and perceived ineptitude. She is the former First Lady, married to Democrat president Barack Obama, whose politics and personality seemingly… Read More ›
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A year of air traffic
In 2010, there were roughly 30 million commercial flights around the world, carrying a total of about 2.8 billion passengers. This air traffic is visualized here as 1.4 million flowing particles — one for every 2,000 air passengers… More here…. Read More ›
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Man turns himself into a Genderless Alien
Vinny Ohh, a makeup artist and part-time male model from Los Angeles, California, has so far invested over $50,000 into 110 cosmetic procedures in an effort to turn himself into an asexual alien. People have many reasons for turning to… Read More ›
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