Puyehue Volcano
A violent eruption of a volcano in the Caulle Cordon of southern Chile occurred on June 4th. The volcano was billowing smoke and ash high into the sky and prompting more than 3,500 people living nearby to evacuate and forcing cancellation of flights. Ash and gas continued to billow from the earth over the weekend. (Pics)
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People cannot develop close bonds with more than 150 friends.
Do you may boast of having an impressive list of friends on social networking sites like Facebook and Orkut? But a new study suggests that your brain can’t handle more than 150 friends.
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Now you can visually show who is the blabbermouth.
Talk-o-Meter is a new chat-monitoring iPhone app that shows when someone is dominating a conversation. After brief calibration, the app can recognize who is speaking and keeps track of each person’s talk time.”
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The jetpack is expected to be commercially available in the next 18 months.
New Zealand inventor Glenn Martin aims to have his “jetski for the skies” on the market within 18 months. He has created a jetpack suitable for everyday use by ordinary people with no specialist pilot training. (video)
The very first Hooters opened its doors on April 1, 1983.
The term used to describe restaurants that feature scantily-clad women as waitresses,”breastaurants,” are poised to become one of the fastest-growing restaurant categories, according to Entrepreneur magazine. Although it is hard to tell exactly how much these restaurants gross since they are lumped into the more general casual dining category, Hooters sales now net about $1 billion annually, after increasing from the past few years.
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Quantity of sunlight and eyesight have a direct correlation.
About two years ago, I was at a conference and one of the presenters brought up her idea that a significant cause of nearsightedness is the fact that so many of us spend most of the time indoors staring at computer screens, or in confined enough urban spaces that we don’t keep our eyes practiced at looking far into the distance. Turns out, she wasn’t too far off, though getting out in the open more is less about using our eyes for watching the distance and more about getting some sunlight. New research shows that if we want to prevent nearsightedness, we need to get outside into the sun.
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iTunes in the Cloud has one more good thing.
At WWDC 2011, Steve Jobs unveiled iTunes in the Cloud and “one more thing” goodie iTunes Match, a move that TuneCore CEO and founder Jeff Price believes will monetize piracy and reset the music industry.
iTunes in the Cloud will allow users to download any songs purchased in iTunes to all of their devices, at no extra charge (up to 5GB of music). Once the service is launched — likely Monday — any music purchased on iTunes from here will be synced automatically…
Danish residents have consistently rated themselves as the happiest in the world for years.
The question, which has been debated by philosophers for centuries, is “what makes people happy?” That question is now being tackled by international bureaucrats and the results are interesting, to say the least.
Styrofoam takes forever to biodegrade, it clogs up waterways, and wildlife mistake it for food and ingest it.
The state Senate in California just voted to ban the sale of Styrofoam containers. Restaurants and shops would be banned from distributing food in foam containers. Californian’s takeout and sodas will have to be sold in more sustainable, or ideally, reusable containers. Some 50 municipalities in the state have already enacted such bans. If the measure passes the state Assembly, it will make California the first in the nation to ban styrofoam.
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Four-year-old Aelita Andre welcomed art lovers to the opening of her first solo art exhibit called The Prodigy of Color at the Agora Gallery in Manhattan on Saturday.
Geophagy – dining on dirt
Parents who have watched in horror as their young children stuff a handful of mud into their mouths while playing in the garden can relax. It appears eating mud or clay could actually be good for the stomach.
Americans tighten belts as they are squeezed by rising prices and stagnant wages.
Consumers are being squeezed on both sides by wages that aren’t increasing and rising prices. According to survey data by Goldman Sachs, the number of people who believe they will bring home more money one year from now is at its lowest in 25 years.
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