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The World’s Highest Water Slide Is A Heart-Stopping Thrill
I know there are some people who live for thrills like this, but there is no f-ing way I would ever get on this thing. I would be one of those people who would have a heart attack on the way down, and since this water slide is as tall as a 14-story building, well, I'd probably be dead before I got t ...
Happy Hour Nerd Mojitos At The Candy Cocktail Bar
Ever wondered where Wonka goes to get plastered with the wicked witch when Hansel and Gretel are licking the doors and eating the gingerbread ceiling? Well, I think he pulls up a peppermint barstool to get a little tipsy in Candyland.
Over the past year, fabled candy mecca Dylan's Candy Bar intro ...
A Spectre Of Utopia: A Marvel Of Modern Engineering
No, that is not some alien space craft. Unfortunately, we have not made contact with a benevolently advanced alien race, well, not any that our governments will admit anyway. Of course when I stumbled upon this, I clearly heard the line, "No. Mr. Bond, I expect you to DIE!" Sadly that quote is from ...
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Simplest Way To Know If You Should Check Your Email [Flowchart]
Have you ever found yourself in the predicament where you just didn't know if it was worth it checking your email? With all the spam that continuously litters our inboxes, it's sometimes just too much to handle. Sure, there a million spam filters that you could use, but then you suddenly find yourse ...
Cupcakes Made With Insects: Someday You’ll Love These
We've written many times about how in the future we'll have to eat different foods than we eat now. The world's population is simply growing too fast to sustain our current lifestyle when it comes to food. There are many theories about what exactly those future foods will be, and scientists around t ...
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Shit People Say: Slang From The 1990s Until Today [Infographic]
I think I have touched this subject briefly before in some of my articles, but I haven't really penetrated the subject to the core. It seems that the community of geeks and fans of various franchises have a need to come up with words that become the slang for a whole generation. It's been going on f ...
Creativity As Explained By John Cleese
If you have ever listened to someone try to explain what creativity is really all about and where it comes from, you will notice that pretty much every single person will tell you a different story and you might wonder why that is. It's not as weird as you might think actually. As a matter of fact, ...
THE Missing Voice On Your Business Board of Directors
Creating diversity in the board room has reached critical mass according to Bloomberg findings supported by Catalyst Census. According to Catalyst, a not-for-profit organization that advocates for women in the workplace, only 11% of corporate directors of Fortune 500 companies are women.
Over 25% ...
Bubble Hotel Lets You Sleep Under The Sky In A Plastic Ball
To continue on our "imaginary world" theme today, I decided to take a look at some rather inspiring ways to spend your vacation or weekends. We usually just book a hotel somewhere and then look at what activities are available around it. It's the kind of approach most of us take, but shouldn't the h ...
9 Epic & Playful Worlds Of Children’s Imagination
It is and always will be one of the most intriguing abilities humans will ever harness. It's the ability to dream and imagine things that never existed. It is what has gotten us to where we are today, and it is what will take us beyond our wildest dreams and even beyond that. It's been said that as ...
The Bird’s Nest Restaurant: Dine Peacefully While Sitting In A Tree
One of my favorite types of creativity is the kind that expresses itself in a way where lots of people from around the world can benefit from its inspiration. Whether that's a blog that a lot of people read, a resort that a lot of people visit or a food design that a lot of people eat, it's always a ...
Joe Soap… Yes You! Make Money From Your YouTube Content
Before now, making money from YouTube was reserved for a select few. You had to be approved by Google, and your content had to be popular. Well, Google has now announced that anyone on YouTube with a single piece of content can now monetize their uploaded videos.
As of 12 April 2012, YouTube upda ...
Bug Memorials: Paying Respect To Dead Bugs On The Street
Unless it's a mosquito or roach that's flying towards me (roaches fly here in the south), I don't kill bugs. I don't kill anything. I'm just not a fan of that. And yes, I eat meat, and lots of it, so maybe I'm a hypocrite, I don't know. All social graces aside, I don't like to see anything get kille ...
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How Beer Saved The World [Infographic]
It is Friday, and that automatically means I have to write an article about beer, right? Nah, not really, but when there is such an awesome headline, I just have to. So, what about beer? What can be so fricking awesome that I have to write about beer this particular Friday? I mean, it's Friday the 1 ...
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Ultimate Guide To Prevent Computer Vision Syndrome [Infographic]
It has long been known that staring at your computer screen for a long periods of time isn't exactly the healthiest of endeavors to undertake. However, there are of course ways to prevent long term damage that you might experience if you find yourself hard at work trying to finalize your work and hi ...