Snow, snow everywhere…almost.
After big snow and ice events in the Southeast, Plains, and Midwest this week, 49 out of the 50 states currently have snow on the ground – yes, even Hawaii, where snow falls in Mauna Loa and Mauna Kea all winter…
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Make a Motorcycle Out of Cigarette Lighters
I bet you didn’t know your cig lighters could do this!
In this series of images, Imgur user JoeDusk shows how cheap disposable cigarette lighters can be disassembled and re-configured as kick-ass little motorcycles. It’s pretty insanely clever…
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Payday Lender Association Spoof Site
Payday Lenders Suck Your Wealth Away
Christopher Maag of Credit dot com wrote about a spoof site called the redatory Lending Association, which makes fun of those payday lenders that make big profits gouging the working poor.
Create a World-Class Online Community for Your Business
Who knows what your business community will look like?
Name the companies that set the standards for social media use in business. Nothing coming to mind immediately? Me neither.
Telligent, an enterprise collaboration software company, believes that some day the same answer will immediately occur to both of us.
“We think that if you give [leaders in corporate social media use] a little more time, you won’t even have to do research,” says Cecilia Edwards, Telligent’s senior director of strategy. “This stuff is going to start rolling off of your tongue…some of these leaders will start being known as the definitive world-class leaders. They’re going to start setting the norms in industry for how to do this well.”
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British Artist Creates Stunning ‘Inksplosions’
This one is entitled Micromacrocosm
These incredible ‘inksploding’ liquid artworks are the brainchild of a British artist who blends her work with cutting-edge science. The images, which have been compared to visions of alien worlds, have been produced by Pery Burge.
She has devoted many hours to perfecting her technique, since she began exploring ink in water forms in 2006, having abandoned painting because she developed repetitive strain injury from traditional brushwork.
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Space Adventures to Offer Commercial Spaceflight Opportunities to the ISS with Three Seats Available in 2013
Space Adventures became world-renowned 10 years ago with the launch of Dennis Tito, the world’s first privately-funded space explorer.
Space Adventures, the only company that has provided human space mission opportunities to the world marketplace, announced today the conclusion of an agreement with the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation (FSA) and Rocket Space Corporation Energia (RSC Energia) to commercially offer three seats on the Soyuz spacecraft bound for the International Space Station (ISS), beginning in 2013.
Western Nations Matching China’s Financial Strategy to Win Contracts
Western nations matching China’s low-cost financing – below-market interest rates.
When General Electric approached the U.S. Export-Import Bank in 2009 wanting to sell 150 locomotives for $477 million to Pakistan, there was a sense of futility. GE had already lost an earlier bid to a Chinese firm. Why would Pakistan buy American-made locomotives this time?
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Top 10 Most Influential CEO’s Under 30 in 2010
Mark Zuckerberg – Facebook
The nominations and votes are in from the Under30CEO audience and below we have put together the 30 most influential Under30CEO’s from 2010. Influence was asked to be judged on how much the person’s ventures were impacting the world and the way we live everyday. This entire group is tremendous and together their ventures are valued near $100billion and reach millions if not billions of people across the world. While most of these companies are private, we’ve done our best to find as much financial information available about their companies.
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Austin, TX Most Popular Destination for Young People
Austin, Texas
Austin, Tex., drew the largest numbers of young Americans from 2007 through 2009, according to an analysis by a senior demographer at the Brookings Institution, replacing Riverside, Calif., which was the most popular destination for young people in the middle of the decade.
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High Blood Pressure in Kids Linked to Secondhand Smoke
Secondhand smoke linked to high blood pressure in kids.
Young kids who live with a parent who smokes face an increased risk for developing high blood pressure while still children, a new study has found. Warning that children with high blood pressure often become adults with the same problem, the researchers suggested that secondhand smoke poses a substantial and long-term risk to the cardiovascular welfare of young children.
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Alien Looking Baby Scares Mother in India
A face not even a mother could love?
A mother delivered an abnormal baby yesterday at Dr Hiren Thumer’s hospital in Gondal in Gujarat. Sonal Waghela who delivered the baby fell unconscious when she saw its face for the first time. She is not willing to look at its face, as it is deformed and looks like a baby from a different planet…
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Is Eating Insects the Answer to Reducing our Food Footprint?
Flickr user avlxyz tries an insect at Chiang Mai bazaar
Hungry for a grasshopper taco? Well, probably not. But the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) thinks it is time for an end to the “Eewww!” response to the thought of eating insects. The FAO reports that there are more than1000 edible insect species. Insects can provide protein in the diet at a much lower environmental cost than traditional livestock, such as cows, pigs, or sheep.
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