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Art, Breakthrough Thinking, Historical Perspectives

The Swimming Pool that Turned into a Museum

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Have you ever been to a museum swimming pool?

The city of Lille, France had a beautiful municipal swimming pool. It was an Art Deco masterpiece built between 1927 and 1932 by the architect Albert Baert. But over the years, the support underneath the pool was weakened, and it was declared unsafe in 1985. Instead of abandoning the building, the city undertook an extensive renovation project, turning the facility into a museum called the La Piscine-Musée d’Art et d’Industrie André Diligent. The locals just call it La Piscine…

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New Discoveries, Science & Technology News

Scientists discover protein to restore grey hair to it’s original color

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The discovery raises the prospects of drugs, lotions or shampoos that raise levels of wnt – and restore white or grey hair to its natural color.

Scientists have got to the root of grey hair – paving the way for locks that retain the luster of their youth well into old age.

 

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Architecture, Photo Perspectives, Science & Technology News

The Wing House – an amazing recycled 747 airplane house

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The guts of a retired Boeing 747 jumbo jet rests in the hills of Malibu, California.  These parts aren’t just strewn around in the hills of Malibu. They have been constructed into the “Wing House,” which, as you can see, is aptly named: the roofs used to be wings. (Pics)

 

 

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Breakthrough Thinking, Current Events, Green Friendly, Historical Perspectives

Honeywell Schedules first Non-Stop Trans-Atlantic Biofuels flight

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Will biofuels replace standard jet fuel one day?

An important milestone in aviation biofuels: Honeywell has scheduled for today the world’s first trans-Atlantic non-stop jet flight powered by biofuel. Flying between Morristown, New Jersey and Paris will be a Gulfstream corporate jet carrying company executives and powered by a 50-50 blend of aviation biofuel and petroleum.

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Analysis, Human Behavior, New Discoveries, Twitter

U.S. City Names according to Twitter

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What you Tweet is not always what you get.

I must be the only person on Twitter who calls their location by its real name. A recent study by InboxQ revealed that 66% of Tweeters have either made up a location entirely (“John Malkovich’s brain”) or use clever nicknames for their cities. The latter is what you’ll find represented in this “America According to Twitter” map…

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Health & Fitness, Historical Perspectives, Latest News, Medical Breakthrough

Magic mushrooms could have medical benefits, researchers say

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Magic Mushrooms can induce transcendental states.

The hallucinogen in magic mushrooms may no longer just be for hippies seeking a trippy high.
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have been studying the effects of psilocybin, a chemical found in some psychedelic mushrooms, that’s credited with inducing transcendental states. Now, they say, they’ve zeroed in on the perfect dosage level to produce transformative mystical and spiritual experiences that offer long-lasting life-changing benefits, while carrying little risk of negative reactions.

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Analysis, Breakthrough Thinking, Current Events

An Entire Power Grid on a 4mm Chip Could Be Solution to Aging Grid

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A powerful solution in a tiny package.

As a national smart grid lumbers forward, researchers are still searching for more immediate solutions to upgrading our aging power grid. A research team from Switzerland’s EPFL Electronics Lab has come up with a chip that can manage power grid network issues as much as 1000x faster than current software. The tiny chip costs just a few dollars to make, but can take in real time information and make subtle changes in energy consumption that can save money and spare electricity big time.

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Insects, New Discoveries, Science & Technology News, Sealife

‘Laughing’ cicadas among 75 new species discovered

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Experts say a new species of ‘laughing’ cicada abounds in the mountains of Batangas.

Laughing cicadas and small “cat sharks” are among scores of species believed new to science discovered by US and Filipino researchers in waters and islands of the Philippines, the team said Wednesday.

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