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Chinese Man Buried In Snow Breaks Guinness World Record

March 8, 2011

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A 54-year-old man from Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province has broken the Guinness World Record of spending more time buried in the snow than anyone else in the world.

Jin Songhao was buried in the snow for a total of 46 minutes and ten seconds, wearing only a pair of swimming trucks. News reports declared 36-degree temperatures on this day and yet Jin showed no indications of shivering or discomfort during the entire time he was submerged in the snow…

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Japan to Build 10,000 EV Charging Station/Vending Machine Hybrids by 2012

March 8, 2011

Japan has a fascination with vending machines.

Japan is notorious for its fascination with vending machines — as of 2008, there were 5.5 million of them across the nation. And these aren’t merely the candy bar and soda variety, either — Japan has vending machines that sell live crabs, grow lettuce, are covered in moss, and dispense smart cars. And by this time next year, it will have 10,000 vending machines that charge electric cars.

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Report Says Women’s Body Shape Be Called Da Vinci, Rembrandt or Rubens

March 8, 2011

Women have never been happy about it, but now comparing female bodies to pieces of fruit has really gone pear-shaped.

Health experts are calling for an end to the labelling of bodies as apples and pears saying it dehumanises women and puts pressure on young girls to look a certain way.

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New Dating Website Helps You Find Someone Who Looks Just Like You

March 8, 2011

Lookin’ good!

Because that’s what we’re all looking for, right? Christina Bloom is the founder of FindYourFacemate.com, which will open for business later this month. She says that she was inspired to build the website after people kept telling her that she and her ex-husband look a lot alike. So this website will use facial mapping software to match you up with someone like you..

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Ensuring the Authenticity of Your Programming… With Paid, Planted Callers

March 7, 2011

Well, here’s a shocker: Some of the people who phone in to talk radio shows (that caller with the pitch-perfect rant, provocative comment or burning question) may actually be hired actors reading from scripts. I’m not an angry listener, but I play one on radio!

If [the actor] passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio. He would never be identified as an actor, and his scenarios would never be identified as fabricated—which they always were…

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The World’s Greatest Gypsum Cave In Russia

March 7, 2011

An amazing cave all around.

Mystic caves continues to impress us all, but there are just some few of us that dares to go experience them. We have earlier represented you amazing caves, like the amazing crystal cave under the Mexico Desert or the beautiful underwater caves in Bahamas Blue Holes. But this one is amazing as well, and it is the Ordynskaya Cave near Orda village in Russia. More precise it is situated in the Perm Region…

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‘Tweet Viewer’ Virus Spreads On Twitter

March 6, 2011

This Twitter virus is a quick one.

There is something amazing about how desperately humans want to see who has viewed their online profiles. This desire has been taken advantage of (again) by Twitter spammers as tweets like “WOW! You can see WHO VISITS your TWITTER profile. That’s cool! 🙂 – http://bit.ly/tweetviewer” and “I just viewed my TOP20 Profile STALKERS. I can’t believe my EX is still checking me every day” are proliferating this morning, at about 159 tweets a minute.

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$424 Million NASA Satellite Launch Fails

March 5, 2011

NASA’s Glory satellite ended up at the bottom of the southern Pacific Ocean early Friday morning, the victim of a failed launch that almost got the $424 million weather spacecraft into orbit.

All seemed to be going as planned at the 2:10 a.m. PT launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, until the final stage of the launch, when a fairing covering the satellite was supposed to be ejected. Because that protective cover stayed on, the configuration was too heavy and too slow to make it to orbit, said NASA launch commentator George Diller…

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California Libraries Targeted for Takeover by Private Equity Firms

March 5, 2011

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Public libraries in Camarillo, Santa Clarita and Ventura have all been targeted for a takeover by Library Systems and Services (LSSI), a private company headquartered in Maryland and majority-owned by the private equity firm Islington Capital Partners. Privatizing public libraries means libraries will be de-professionalized and residents will pay more and receive less, while LSSI makes a profit for its investors and shareholders. Instead of listening to residents, the City Council created a ‘Citizen’s Advisory Committee’ to review Santa Clarita’s library system and its needs and make recommendations for moving forward with LSSI. The committee had no decision-making power, and was widely criticized as a thinly veiled attempt to silence critics.

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Why Credit Cards Are Not the Future of Online Payment

March 3, 2011

The future of credit cards online is changing quickly.

The concept of credit has been around for centuries. Starting in the early 1800s, local merchants allowed trusted customers to make purchases without paying the total cost upfront. This intuitive concept allowed sellers to reach a larger base of customers who could then pay their debt over time. The idea of enabling purchases by extending credit spread quickly, and in the early 1950s, a seminal moment occurred: the invention of the credit card.

Over the next half century, the credit card and buying on credit concept became entrenched in countries across the globe, particularly so in the United States. Today, we’re beginning to see signs of changing consumer behavior when it comes to making purchases, particularly in the online world…

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Kepler Spacecraft Finds 2 Planets Sharing Same Orbit

March 2, 2011

A new planetary anomaly has been spotted.

To date, the telescope on the Kepler spacecraft has detected 1,235 planet candidates, and while Earth-bound telescopes are trying to determine if 54 of those planets may have conditions that could harbor life, one unique planetary system may have been uncovered.

Unique because it’s the first time scientists have discovered what may be two planets sharing the same orbit of their home sun, New Scientist reports…

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Psychologists: People with Full Bladders Make Wiser Decisions

March 2, 2011

To pee or not to pee. That is the question.

Researchers at the University of Twente in the Netherlands found a positive correlation between the need to pee and impulse control:

Their findings contradict previous research which found people who are forced to “restrain themselves” put more pressure on their brain and found it difficult exerting self-control…

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