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  • 250,000 Dominoes

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    250,000 Dominoes were toppled at Zeal Credit Union’s Incredible Science Machine: Game On! This event features 3 new US domino records: largest domino field, largest domino structure, and largest overall domino project in America. 19 builders from 5 countries spent… Read More ›

  • An Alternate Future for the Mall

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    Reforma 222 is one of dozens of urban malls in the largest city in North America. It is a stop on the Turibus circuit, and a popular weekend family destination. Malls may be dying north of the border, but in… Read More ›

  • Clocks

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    Many of your favorite watch companies also dabble in clocks. But with a few exceptions, the best-known Swiss or German watchmakers reserve branded clocks as promotion items for retailers and a few lucky customers. Only a few firms whose wares… Read More ›

  • So Much for So Little

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    The cartoon states that, annually, 118,481 babies out of 2 million will die before reaching their first birthday. Thus, the cartoon shows John E. Jones, a baby that may add to this statistic if not given proper healthcare. The cartoon… Read More ›

  • A Pet Bottle

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    Simple and elegant, the Leaf transforms any plastic bottle you may have lying around into a doggy drinking apparatus. Perfect for those dog walks, the Leaf retrofits onto any regular PET (PolyEthylene Terephthalate) bottle with the standard 28mm diameter threaded… Read More ›

  • Total Eclipse

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    A slope’s worth of snow blocked the road; traffic backed up. Had the avalanche buried any cars that morning? We could not learn. This highway was the only winter road over the mountains. We waited as highway crews bulldozed a… Read More ›

  • The 1939 Pro-Nazi Rally

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    In 1933, deputy fuhrer Rudolf Hess ordered Heinz Spanknobel, a German immigrant, to form Friends of New Germany, a group based in NYC, with the goal of spreading National Socialism throughout the United States. Though Spanknobel was eventually forced to… Read More ›

  • The U.S. Navy’s Ghost Blimp

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    On Aug. 16, 1942, U.S. Navy blimp set out to patrol for Japanese submarines off the coast of California. Hours later the blimp crashed on residential street miles inland with the crew gone without a trace.

  • So many world records still stand from the early 1990’s

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    Happened upon the above video and was surprised to see how many world records still stand from the early 1990’s. In a time where there have been improvements in the way athletes train, in how they eat and drink and… Read More ›

  • A human dash cam

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    More at kickstarter. I don’t like that idea.