Wunderland Kalkar amusement park
Nothing says fun for all ages like an abandoned nuclear power plant cooling tower! That’s the sentiment behind Wunderland Kalkar amusement park in Germany. Wunderland was formerly known as the Schneller Bruter cooperative energy project–where you’re more likely to encounter cotton candy and motion sickness than Geiger counters and radiation poisoning. (Pics)
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Yes, I knew coffee would get me wired, but not like this
“Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.” – – Charles Schulz
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Little Rohan Ajit Kokane whizzed into the Guinness Book of World Records
after performing the furthest ever roller-skating limbo.
He managed to fly under an incredible 20 cars while performing the splits during the stunt in Mumbai, India. Rohan picked up speed before bending down and making his chest parallel to the ground…
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Paris is innovating again.
When Paris’ now famous bike share system Velib’ in 2007, it was a pioneer in the field. Now similar programs are popping up in major cities all over the world, and Paris is looking to break the mold again. This week the City launched Autolib’ – a car sharing system that works the same way…
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Totally trippy!
Milan design group Carnovsky created what is probably the most psychedelic fun wallpaper you’ll ever see today (without having to ingest anything)…
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Is a spork the best of both worlds?
The Spork is a confusing utensil that in theory has the scooping and liquid-holding properties of a spoon combined with the food-stabbing features of a fork. However, with the spoon part too shallow to hold an acceptable amount of soup, and tines too short and stubby to properly penetrate anything firmer than a canned peach, the spork has become one of the longest standing jokes in culinary history…
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Majority of Americans are still at an unhealthy weight.
Some people in America are losing weight resulting in more people of “normal weight,” according to a new study, but it is not clear if the trend will last
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Every visually impaired child tested was ‘enthralled’ by the device, say scientists.
According to researchers from the University of Kansas, children living with severe vision problems could transform the way they communicate simply by using an iPad.
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Seton Hall University is offering discounts up to 66% on tuition.
Discounted programs and other ways to save are being offered by a growing number of private colleges and universities. Students and families have been turned off by the potential six-figure tuition bills from private colleges. So some are cutting their prices.
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Futurist Thomas Frey: Over that past week I’ve had the great honor of working with both the good people at the North Dakota Bankers Association in Bismarck, ND and the good people at Rabobank in Napa, CA on the rapidly evolving topic of the future of agriculture.
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Featured invention at the DaVinci Inventor Showcase 2011
Patent Pending Simplinge is simply a hinge for poles…any poles! But it is more than that. It is a revolutionary new way of thinking about how to make and assemble any collapsable structure.
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A growing problem.
Reclamations, a journal published by University of California students, has published a special, timely pamphlet called “Generation of Debt,” on the trap of student debt in America. Young people in America are bombarded with the message that they won’t find meaningful employment without a degree (and sometimes a graduate degree).
Meanwhile, universities have increased their fees to astronomical levels, far ahead of inflation, and lenders (including the universities themselves) offer easy credit to students as a means of paying these sums (for all the money they’re charging, universities are also slashing wages for their staff, mostly by sticking grad students and desperate “adjuncts” into positions that used to pay professorial wages; naturally, the austerity doesn’t extend to the CEO-class administrators, who draw CEO-grade pay).
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