Marilyn Thipthorpe Know how long a plastic water bottle can take to decompose? Up to 1000 years. Know how many bottles of water America alone drinks in a single year? approximately 50 billion. Scared yet? You should be, because unless we start firing our garbage out of giant cannons and into the sun, it’s safe…
Marilyn Thipthorpe For those with a long commute to work, the hardest part can be the last mile between getting off of the subway or train and walking to the office. The Movpak is an electric skateboard built into a full-size backpack, designed to make that final stretch a bit less of a hassle without…
Marilyn Thipthorpe The Japanese have finally done it! Bourbon, a Japan-based company, has started to sell chocolate slices packaged like Kraft cheese singles. Each pack contains five two-millimeter thick slices. Bourbon’s online shop offers bulk orders consisting of twelve, five-slice packs for 3,240 yen (US$27). The “nama” chocolate used to make the slices is soft…
Marilyn Thipthorpe It started off as a bet. Tim Cranmore — a British recorder maker — was out at a pub with some friends. They wagered that he couldn’t possibly make a working recorder out of a carrot. He accepted the challenge. And that’s when he cooked up the idea for the London Vegetable Orchestra….
Tara Sattar It has been stated that the discussion of the cure of mental illness discussion is purely a myth. This becomes truer as the mental health situation keeps getting severe, according to an article printed in motherboard.com, it is said that many of the larger segments of the schizophrenic symptoms that are called negative…
Eshan Maitra You daily YouTube-users already noticed some advertising videos about YouTube Red contents YouTube. Left you wondering about the difference. Well here is everything you need to know about it – YouTube is one of the largest website both in data and user-wise. And no other video content sites have ever toped it. Source…
Myisha Nawar Oh, Grey’s Anatomy, you had me hooked at hello… and you lost me at Bailey’s OCD. I’ve stuck through Izzie’s ghost sex, the Alex/Ava saga, Intern fight club and even that god-awful, cringing musical episode. When people ask me why I’m still watching Grey’s, currently limping past its 10th season, my response has…
Samiul Bashar Samin In the past 15 years, the number of people searching for ‘delicious’ things has tripled, according to Google. It’s everywhere: from conformist public radio stations to the hippest of mass-media outlets, delicious has become the sine qua non of food. It wasn’t always this way. Julia Child would rarely even taste the…
Carrying the ancient tradition into the modern The tradition is that monks or nuns leave the monastery, or wherever they are dwelling (most ideally, the root of a tree or a cemetery), either singly or in a group. The robes are arranged formally, covering both shoulders. The monks walk barefooted into a village and then…
Myth: You may have read on online journals or a smart mouth friend to claim that human body replaces itself at the cellular level every seven years. It is amazing to hear that you will be starting afresh after a few years. But it is not true. Many cells do replace them over time but…