Professor Egghead Science Academy, the educational franchise we first wrote about last month, is giving away a franchise. Here’s more info: Professor Egghead Science Academy, based in Los Angeles, CA, is the only Academy designed for scientists between the ages of 4-12. Founded by self-proclaimed “jocks turned scientistsâ€, brothers Shaun and Gary Tuch, the national […]
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CBC: An American start-up company has a solution for people who want to eat meat, but don’t want to harm animals either: 3D printed meat. 3D printing is already being used to create things from bike parts to chocolate to dental crowns and bridges. And scientists are working towards using 3D printing to make organs
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A business would not exist without a decent customer base. This infographic helps depict the different layers behind customer loyalty and why it’s important. Infographic after the jump.
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Austrian Times: You have to hand it to plucky Sun Jifa – who refused to let being left massively disabled by a freak explosion lose is grip on the family farm. Sun, 51, lost both his hands when a bomb he was creating for blast fishing in Guanmashan, Jilin province, northern China, exploded prematurely. “I
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1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest still intact amusement parks in the world, opens in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1914 – The Panama Canal opens to traffic with the transit of the cargo ship SS Ancon. 1939 – The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) premiered at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood California.
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When Charlie and Chocolate Factory premiered in theaters, Warner Bros. executives wanted to infuse the air outside the theater and inside the lobby with the rich fragrance of Wonka bars. They turned to a company called ScentEvents to do it. According to the company, they can scent any sized event, either inside or out. Two
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GB Tribune: Their Qube Shaker, an innovative percussion shaker, has been marketed successfully by Latin Percussion, the world leader in production and marketing of percussion instruments. LP has taken the technology used in its wildly successful and award-winning Qube Shaker and created a jingle version that sounds like nothing else you’ve ever played. Inside the
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In China, in the heart of panda country, a resourceful business has created “panda poo tea”. There’s no actual excrement in the tea, instead, the green tea is grown on a farm fertilized exclusively with panda manure. The Telegraph has more: “I have started growing the tea on around three acres of land,” said Mr
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Fast Company: As Memorial Day, the unofficial beginning of the summer grill season, looms, the industry remains red hot. Here’s a tasting platter of stats. More than 74 million American barbecued in 2007. Last year Americans bought roughly 900,000 tons of charcoal briquettes. Kingsford, a unit of Clorox, has about 80% market share. According to
Will we one day be living in houses made of mushrooms? Techcrunch profiled a company that thinks we might: Construction material manufacturing often produces hazardous byproducts that are either toxic or difficult to recycle, as are many of the materials themselves. Brooklyn based Planetary ONE is experimenting with the idea of grow-your-own construction materials by
