China Daily: On a hot July day in 2010, Wang and some of his fellow villagers went shopping downtown and bought some beverages from a vending machine. Suddenly they got the idea to sell vegetables with the machines, prompting Wang and six others to establish a company to do just that. Then Wang discovered that […]
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Post Gazette: Psychoanalysis, the treatment originated by Sigmund Freud more than a century ago that requires patients to lie on a couch and say whatever comes to mind, has been battered in recent years by everything from antidepressants to skepticism to managed care that doesn’t pay for such long-term therapy. So who in his right
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Is this the doorbell of the future? Click the image for a larger version.
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Did you know that if you live in the United States nearly every paperclip you’ve ever used has been manufactured domestically? Why? Do we make the best paperclips in the world? Not necessarily. According to the Wall Street Journal, paperclips are protected by a 127% tariff! The two main U.S. makers — ACCO and Officemate
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What do dairy farms generate a lot of? Besides milk, its safe to say what goes into a cow will come back out in the form of manure. One innovative man, Kevin Maas, has created a machine that will allow farmers to turn that mess into energy to run the whole farm, reports The Seattle
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The Winipeg Free Press, a newspaper in Canada, is moving some of their employees out of the newsroom and out into the world. They’ve opened a cafe called the News Cafe that in addition to serving coffee, the cafe hosts events, but also offers the public an opportunity to interact with journalists and editors who
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‘ WorldCrunch: Don’t bother going to Jan Bredack’s new Berlin (Germany) supermarket if you’re looking for any of the following items: meat, fish, milk, eggs, honey, leather or wool. Veganz, as the shop’s name would suggest, is a strictly, 360-degree animal-free zone. It is also the first of its kind, at least in Europe, according
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Think swimming with the dolphins is exciting? How about swimming like a dolphin?! Invented by French jet ski champion Franky Zapata, the Flyboard allows daredevils to leap in and out of the water like an aquatic mammal. It can even do backward-somersaults. Although it’s similar to the Jetlev released earlier this year, the Jetlev doesn’t
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1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone. 1900 – The German liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore. 1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the
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A prosthetic eye has gained clinical approval in Europe and is now available on the market in the UK, Switzerland, and France. The prosthetic is called the Argus II and is valued at $115,000. It functions to restore partial sight in those that suffer from degenerative eye disease. Though the Argus II now only restores
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