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Obama Photo Reminds of Kennedy Moment
3, Sep 2009(bbcnews.com) The US White House has released a photograph of President Barack Obama’s daughter Sasha sneaking up on her father as he works in the Oval Office. The image has drawn comparisons with the famous 1963 image of John F Kennedy Jnr playing underneath the Oval Office desk as his father reads documents. That picture [...]
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- In: Lifestyle
(manolith.com) Science moves forward, and takes with it the human body. Over the centuries humans have adapted to live longer, healthier lives. And as the pace of scientific advancement continues, so with it does our ability to modify and improve ourselves to deal with the changing circumstances of our world. Some of these advancements [...]
Spectacular Dream Yachts To Set Sail
13, Jul 2009(wired.com) So often we’re teased with amazing renderings of things that could be but never will because they lack a bridge between blue sky and real world. The latest virtual tease, a pair of futuristic yachts rapidly rising in virtual visibility, breaks that convention. Designer Kevin Schöpfer plans to set sail in three years. Schöpfer Yachts’ [...]
Running Of The Bulls Starts – Pamplona
8, Jul 2009(nationalgeographic.com) About two thousand people took to the streets of Pamplona for the first of eight bull runs, finishing the course in a quick two-and-a-half minutes. © 2009 National Geographic (AP) Unedited Transcript Spanish television reports about two-thousand people took part in the first of eight traditional running of the bulls this week through the [...]
- In: Lifestyle
- Tags: pamploma, running of the bulls
(discovery.com) Your carbon footprint can be sort of a difficult thing to visualize — you can’t really see your carbon emissions trailing up into the atmosphere as you go about your life. You surely know that burning fossil fuels releases greenhouse gas emissions, and that it’s not just your car that contributes to your carbon footprint [...]
Tokyo is “Word’s Most Expensive Expat City”
7, Jul 2009(newslite.tv) Tokyo is the world’s most expensive city for expatriates to live in, a survey has found. The Japanese city topped a list of 143 places which looked at more than 200 factors, including the cost of housing, household goods, food and entertainment. Osaka came in second position, with Moscow in third, closely followed [...]
(Wired.com) You want to buy a camera? We can pit it against three others with nearly indistinguishable features, no problem. Blu-ray players? We’ll compile a three-axis matrix that triangulates the perfect combination of image quality, connected functionality and price. But if you’re considering the Bugatti Veyron 16.4 Grand Sport, we can’t do much [...]
- In: Auto|Lifestyle
- Tags: Auto, bugatti veyron, supercar
11 Reasons Why You Absolutely Need More Sleep
3, Jul 2009(dumblittleman.com) It’s funny how you can start to make just a little more time for something when you truly believe and understand how important it is. With that in mind, let’s take a look at some of the foremost reasons for a good night’s sleep. Read these and you’ll soon realize that not only can [...]
(wsj.com) For more than 200 years, buried deep within Thomas Jefferson’s correspondence and papers, there lay a mysterious cipher — a coded message that appears to have remained unsolved. Until now. The cryptic message was sent to President Jefferson in December 1801 by his friend and frequent correspondent, Robert Patterson, a mathematics professor at [...]
- In: Lifestyle|People
- Tags: cipher, president, thomas jefferson
(mocoloco.com) New lighting from Artemide this year includes the Altrove by Carlotta de Bevilacqua, a decorative wall or ceiling light that uses transparent wires to allow the light to flow. It’s the type of lighting that begs the question, “Is it really there?” More substantial is Ross Lovegrove’s Cosmic Leaf, available as a [...]
- In: Lifestyle|Technology
- Tags: altrove, inovative, lighting