Europeans down the equivalent of 12.5 litres of pure alcohol a year or almost three glasses of wine a day.
People in Europe drink more alcohol than in any other part of the world. They down the equivalent of 12.5 liters of pure alcohol a year or almost three glasses of wine a day, according to report by the World Health Organization and the European Commission.
More than 55 million homes have at least one Apple product.
According to CNBC’s All-America Economic survey, half of all U.S. households own at least one Apple product. That’s more than 55 million homes with at least one iPhone, iPad, iPod or Mac computer. And one-in-10 homes that aren’t currently in that group plan to join it in the next year.
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Opana is the hot new prescription drug of abuse.
C.J. Coomer got good grades and played football back in high school in Houston, Texas. He was dark-haired and handsome, popular with his friends and doted on by his family.
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A flexible, transparent memory chip created by researchers at Rice University.
New memory chips that are transparent, flexible enough to be folded like a sheet of paper, shrug off 1,000-degree Fahrenheit temperatures — twice as hot as the max in a kitchen oven — and survive other hostile conditions could usher in the development of next-generation flash-competitive memory for tomorrow’s keychain drives, cell phones and computers, a scientist reported March 27…
The most extensive face transplant ever gives a man a new jaw, teeth, tongue, muscle, tissue, bone and skin.
Thirty seven year old Richard Lee Norris from Virginia was so severely disfigured by a 1997 gun accident, he has received the most extensive full-face transplant in medical history, according to University of Maryland Medical Center surgeons.
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What if oil company executives were only allowed to drink fracked water?
Toxic fracking chemicals that leached into the ground making you sick? Why that’s bad press for the oil industry!
That’s why they came up with this ingenious (in an evil way) to deal with the problem: “gag” doctors from telling their patients what is making them sick. See, problem solved!
The demand and popularity of coding keeps increasing.
There was a time when people used to go to night classes or buy DIY guides to learn foreign languages in their spare time. But theNew York Times is to have us believe that French and Spanish are out of the window, to be replaced by Python and Java.
It’s an interesting concept. There’s certainly no denying the fact that as a nation we’re becoming more tech savvy—you only need to look around a coffee shop to tell you that—and with that is bound to come an increased shift to learning how to make devices work better. This is giving rise to new fast coder training programs like DaVinci Coders. From the New York Times…
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VenusAngelic, a prominent, 15-year-old member of online ball-jointed-doll fandom, describes how she uses cosmetics to make herself look like a doll, narrating it in a kind of whispering, Asian-inflected voice. I confess that this isn’t my subculture or interest, and VenusAngelic’s opening remarks, “Hello my dolly molly inky pinky cotton candy clouds!” are not the sort of thing that I’d be likely to say to other people. But VenusAngelic’s cultural identity seems to me to have the kind of deeply transgressive edge that characterizes the best teenaged subcultures, the kind of thing that evokes panicked, hostile, knee-jerk reactions from grownups. The YouTube comments on her video are a kind of pure, distilled youtubidity — vile, misogynist, patronizing, incoherent — which suggests that she’s touching a nerve…
Tacocopter
Could Tacocopter be the next great startup out of Silicon Valley? The Internet is certainly going wild for it. Tacocopter boasts a business plan that combines four of the most prominent touchstones of modern America: tacos, helicopters, robots and laziness.
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EnemyGraph
You can love it or hate it but Facebook is a positive place – you can ‘Like’ things, but not dislike them, and you can have Friends, but not enemies… until now.
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Bosco Verticale
A forest will soon be planted in the sky in Milan, Italy. Construction is underway for a pair of skyscrapers that will become home to the world’s first vertical forest. (Pics)
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Fandango
“The Hunger Games” set the highest opening weekend for a non-sequel over this past weekend, raking in an estimated $155 million at the box office. That’s a ton of tickets and a chunk of them were sold online and on smartphones. Fandango, one of the first movie ticket sales sites, shared data from the weekend as “The Hunger Games” pushed its platform to new heights.
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By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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