It happens at night, while you’re tucked up in bed, roaring through your office corridors and beating down your workplace walls. A fire is loose, and it’s destroying everything you’ve ever worked for. It’s only when you drive up to it in the morning that you see the horrific aftermath – crowds of people gathered […]
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1829 – In the United States, William Austin Burt patents the typographer, a precursor to the typewriter. 1903 – The Ford Motor Company sells its first car. 1926 – Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film. 1962 – Telstar relays the first publicly transmitted, live trans-Atlantic television
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Dvice: Lithium, the element that is often used as a medication to battle bi-polar disorder and to power most laptop and phone batteries, is not the most ubiquitous element on the planet. Hence the price of our batteries. Japanese researchers, though, may have discovered a way to use sugar to power batteries. Photo by ubiquity_zh.
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From Vermont, in an interview with a prepper: Try as I might to stump the Prepper during our conversation, he seemed ready for anything — almost. “Do you have dog food?” I asked idly, eyeing his terrier. He paused. There’s a business opportunity, he said finally: long-term storage for dog food. He scooped up his
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Sometimes the ups and downs of life get’s in the way of our real passions. Retirement can be a chance to start over. What will you do in chapter two? Americans are now looking beyond the idea of relaxing post their retirements! Hanging one’s boots past the retirement age is not the only option; studies
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I thought that Oompa-Loompas made candy, but I was wrong. Real candy is made by these charming old-timers. Watch the video here.
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There are so many good reasons to jump on your bike to work, rather than jumping in the car. We have seen around a 40% rise in the numbers of commuters travelling by bicycle to work in the US. However, the numbers are still below 1 million per day. This is stark in comparison compared
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If you’re running a small business one of the most important things to think about is the health and safety of your employees. Completing a risk assessment is the best way to protect your employees and your business as it helps you to identify the potential dangers to your employees and put measures in place
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A mechanical engineering student has won third prize at a competition in Barcelona for an invention that takes the hassle out of changing tires. His invention uses compressed air cylinders in a car’s air-conditioner to lift the side of the car without having to use a manual jack. While it is good news for drivers,
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A team of students at MIT have developed a 3D printer for ice cream. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gsecqz4qWw] According to one of the stuents: We were inspired to design this printer because we wanted to make something fun with this up and coming technology in a way that we could grab the attention of kids. We felt
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