DailyMail: It is great news for anyone with a sweet tooth – chocolate with fruit juice instead of fat has been developed. The healthy alternative replaces up to 50 per cent of chocolate’s fat content with fruit juice. University of Warwick chemists claim the new bar will still appeal to chocaholics, after spending months perfecting […]
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1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days. 1910 – Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck
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Looking to spread the word about his french fry resturant, French Fry Heaven, Scott Nelowet created a mobile game app to educate the public about the store’s wide variety of french fry flavor toppings. Players match ingredients with characters like Big Tater. If you complete the game, you go on to the next character —
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Traveling around Japan requires money, energy, and days off work. If you can’t afford to spare those things, maybe sending a beloved stuffed bear in your stead is the next best thing? That’s the theory behind Unagi Travel, a tour agency for stuffed animals. For $35 to $55 a pop, your plush toy can visit
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Earlier this week Amazon introduced their Amazon Source program, which enables indie booksellers to sell Kindles and receive a cut of future Kindle book sales made on those devices. Retailers that are part of the program can use Amazon Source (http://source.amazon.com) to purchase Kindle devices and accessories for resale. Retailers can choose between two programs:
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I just discovered a great new site called Sportrepreneurship. It bills itself as “Your source for starting and running a business in the sports and recreation industry,” and although it’s basically brand new, I can see it really growing into something very useful. Here’s a post we wrote called 10 Sports Business Ideas, is a
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Carpe Diem: In another sign of housing market recovery, framing lumber prices have been rising lately and reached $347 per 1,000 board feet last week, which was the highest level since early May 2010 (see blue line in chart). And except for a sharp, temporary spike in lumber prices for about four weeks in April-May
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StudiosWine.com: The ‘Sea Chair’ is made entirely from plastic recovered from our oceans. Together, Studio Swine and Kieren Jones have created devices to collect and process marine debris into a series of stools. The United Nation estimates the world’s oceans to contain some 100 million tons of plastic. As our society’s consumption grows, the concentration
In 1948 Bernard Silver, a graduate student at Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA overheard the president of the local food chain, Food Fair, asking one of the deans to research a system to automatically read product information during checkout. Silver told his friend Norman Joseph Woodland about the request, and they started
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YourLocalGuardian.co.uk: A sixth-form student from Sutton Grammar School has been chosen to represent the UK in a European-wide young scientist competition. Andrew Cowan, 17, from South Park Road in Wimbledon, created a remote controlled search and recovery robot as part of his A-level coursework. The robot so impressed the competition judges, that he was chosen
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