Amusing Planet: What happens to yellow school buses retired from commission in the United States? They start a new colorful life as Chicken Buses in Guatemala. When American school buses reach the age of ten years or 150,000 miles, they are sold at auction. Many of these buses are bought and driven down through Mexico […]
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Joyce Solomon felt it was time to find a charcoal alternative people could embrace. So, she discovered a new way to make it. The technology can transform waste materials and the remains of tree-made charcoal into something people can use, reports ippmedia. The entrepreneur, Joyce Solomon, who operates a plant of the newly introduced eco-friendly
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NY Times: Patrick Maignan, a robust gray-haired farmer, lives alone on his farm, surrounded only by the freshly plowed wheat fields of this lonely corner of northern France. The New York Times The lack of love in the countryside is a serious topic. Far from tourist routes and cellphone coverage, he works seven days a
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1846 – Elias Howe is granted a patent for the sewing machine. 1932 – The New York City Subway’s third competing subway system, the municipally-owned IND, is opened. The Independent Subway System (IND or ISS), formerly known as the Independent City-Owned Subway System (ICOS) or the Independent City-Owned Rapid Transit Railroad, was a rapid transit
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DigitalJournal.com: A Peruvian scientist invented a system based on a stationary bicycle that can produce enough power to light up a house for nearly a whole day. The invention may have wide application to provide electric power for lighting and heating in remote locations. The invention The device is called “Kallpa Runa”, which in Quechua
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Inquirer.net: Ingenuity and hard work, coupled with sheer luck, have spelled success for this man who has carved his niche in the electrical industry and helped aspiring entrepreneurs turn their business dreams into reality. As a boy, Bernard H. Morillo sold ice candy in his hometown in Oriental Mindoro. In college, he worked at a
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The Atlantic Cities (blog): Lorenzo Maggiore’s mission was to fund the production of a gun that kills bugs by shooting small amounts of table salt at them. Indiegogo users chose to accept it. With the looks of a nerf gun, the firing style of a shotgun, and the culinary instinct of a potato gun, the
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Forbes: In a scant four years, Hamdi Ulukaya has built something that even Silicon Valley types should covet: a $700 million business that’s profitable, dominant and growing at a furious clip. Even more incredible: Ulukaya makes yogurt. Photo by Timothy Valentine.
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HumansInvent: In places like Singapore, where fresh water is scarce, one method to obtain drinking water is to filter out the salt from seawater. The usual process for doing this is known as reverse osmosis. Using membrane filtration technology, the salt is filtered out and chucked back into the sea. But this is an expensive,
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