A $42 million ‘10,000 year clock’ is being installed on Jeff Bezos’ property
The new $10,000 college degree has everyone talking
Students leave college with an average $29,400 in loans.
The appeal of a $10,000 college degree is impossible to deny. Average tuition for a public university is more than $35,000 for four years. Students leave college with an average $29,400 in loans. Who wouldn’t get behind an effort to offer bachelor’s degrees that won’t shackle young people to debt for decades after they graduate?
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The Secret Behind the 10,000 Foam Blocks
The attack of the alien blocks?
When people first see an image like this they may think it is some new extreme sport, or perhaps a new form of Tetras designed for grade schoolers. The real story, however, is after the jump. (Pics)
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Bob the Fly could spot bad motor skills from a mile away. He would be safe now.
With Halloween fast approaching, even the odd kids will want to become a little odder. The spooks want to become spookier, the ghosts, ghostlier, and the water, wetter. We’re pretty sure we don’t care about any of that. Just take a look at these images and you’ll quickly learn not to care as well. (Pics)
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10 Crazy Houses From Around the World
Car House (Salzburg, Austria)
The compact Volkswagen Beetle has always been a fuel-efficient car, but what about applying that conservationist model to a house? German architect Mark Voglreiter took up the challenge and nailed it with the “Auto Residence.” Its thermal insulation makes it very energy-efficient. The house was rented in 2004 for a pricey $2,500 euros a month-and we thought people living in their cars were trying to save money!
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
“Call me a pecker one more time and you’ll be wearing that yacht”
This week we sent a new team into that far distant land of “left field” and asked them to capture only the best possible photos for this weeks fully grilled, half-salted, oven-roasted photo smorgasborg. Not sure they were all that successful. (Pics)
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
The artwork was intended to compensate for this otherwise tone-deaf community
Once upon a time there was a pile of crazy photos wanting to get married to a pile of one-liners. So, working with glue and scissors and a few surgical tools, the Impact Lab’s Top 10 Photos of the Week, was born. (Pics)
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English is a Tough Language – 10 Crazy Examples
Surprisingly, few English-speaking people used this machine
It’s easy to make fun of foreign people who don’t understand English very well. But probably the worst offenders are us peoples. Yeah you, sitting on that green shag couch. We couldn’t sorta say anything greatly correctly if’n we tried. (Pics)
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UK Scientists Make Transistor One Atom Long, 10 Atoms Wide
Chunks of this atom-thick material just one nanometer across can function as transistor
A leading contender to replace silicon as the basis for computing has made another step forward.
Transistors one atom thick and ten atoms wide have been made by UK researchers. They were carved from graphene, predicted by some to one day oust silicon as the basis of future computing.
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One in Ten Americans Are Chronically Sleep Deprived
A U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) research study, released February 28, 2008, states that ten percent of adults are not getting sufficient rest or sleep every night. Chronic sleep loss and sleep disorders also raise the risk for additional health problems.
Further, the study found that 38 percent of the people surveyed did not get enough sleep in seven or more days during the month.
The CDC researchers took data from adults living in Delaware, Hawaii, New York, and Rhode Island and from information of a National Health Interview Study.
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Top 10 Photos of the Week
Urgency! It’s a concept so few people grasp any more.
The following images are intended to insult your intelligence, again, and again, and again.
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Top 14 Email Marketing Services
For those of you who are more on the sending than receiving end of the email equation, here is a review of the top 14 email marketing services. Leading the pack this year is iContact, followed by Constant Contact, and Benchmark.
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