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How Used Bottles Are Recycled and Turned Into New Bottles
NPR’s Planet Money looks at how used bottles are recycled and turned into new bottles in “Secrets From The Recycling Plant,” and also explains the…
Tile, An iOS App That Syncs With Small Tags to Find Lost Keys, Wallets, and More
Tile is an iOS app that syncs with small tags that you can attach to important belongings like keys, laptops, purses, wallets, to help…
Massive Sexy Statue of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy Erected in London Lake
A 12-foot high fiberglass sculpture of Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice has been installed in the boating lake of Hyde Park…
How New Yorkers See the San Francisco Bay Area
“The San Francisco Bay for New Yorkers” is a fun infographic that imagines how New Yorkers see the San Francisco Bay Area. via SFist
How to Find Your Element, RSA Animation on Finding Your Talent & Passion in Life
In the RSA short animation “How to Find Your Element,” education expert Sir Ken Robinson argues that encouraging diversity in communities, education, and workplaces allows…
Everything Wrong With ‘Godzilla’ (1998) In 7 Minutes Or Less
“No debris hits these people mere feet away from the exploding Madison Square Garden?” For their ongoing series, CinemaSins has released a new video that…
Dwarf Car Museum Holds Man’s Fantastic Handmade Mini Replicas of Classic American Autos
In the mid 1960s, Ernie Adams (currently) of Maricopa, Arizona started “taking the design of early model cars and scaling them down to a smaller…
How Clothes Should Fit, A Helpful Guide to Men’s Clothing
How Clothes Should Fit is a useful website created by Ilias Ismanalijev based on a booklet written by Nick Taverna and designed by P. Altair.…
minus5° Ice Bar, A Bar Made Entirely of Ice Opens in New York Hilton Midtown Manhattan
Recently opened at the New York Hilton Midtown in New York City, the minus5° Ice Bar is an entire bar made of Canadian ice. Nearly…
A Map Showing How to Say ‘Beer’ in Different European Regions
Scotland-based Feòrag NicBhrìde has created “The Essential Map of Europe and Environs” (larger version), a handy map that shows the word for “beer” in each…