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Clothes you cannot wear “wrong”

Someone’s been thinking. About a big problem affecting a lot of us. That turns out to have a brilliantly simple solution. Meet the woman...

New Jersey kids doing hydroponics? forghedaboudit!

There are green things growing in a New Jersey public school, a small shift from the traditional farming that gives the "Garden State" its...

Organic ink grows 3D printed gardens (and then what?)

Students at Slovenia's second largest university adapted a computer numerical control (CNC) machine to act as a 3D printer, substituting the usual printing materials...

Israeli Fashion Designer Prints World’s First 3D Couture

An Israeli fashion designer has created a new line of women’s clothing without a bolt of cloth. This summer, Danit Peleg released the world’s...

Submerge yourself in nature in a Getaway tiny home

Collaboration between business, law and design students from one of the world’s top universities is producing tiny houses that could revolutionize how we approach...

Drone spots hobbit home on Mediterranean shore

Amateur drone pilot Jesse Peters flew an aerial quadcopter over Israel’s Apollonia National Park to capture a bird's-eye perspective of its historical ruins and...

How crowd-sourcing works in the mad world of ants

Apparently in the ant world it's a few brains and a lot of braun, according to new research that can teach us about the...

Artist Ilan Ashkenazi gives spirituality shape

Israeli rabbi and kabbalah teacher Ilan Ashkenazi can intellectually explain the workings of faith and religious practice, but it is in his role as...

Solar Impulse 2 journey suspended until 2016!

Solar Impulse 2, the aircraft attempting to circumnavigate the world fueled only by sun power, will be grounded in Hawaii until next April for...

Gorgeous resort proposed for Wadi Rum: sensitive beauty or eco-beast?

If I had a head's up that the world was ending, I'd pack up a decent book and head to Jordan's Wadi Rum where...

Restored Galilee home adaptive reuse in mystical setting

The design team of Henkin Irit and Shavit Zohar have converted a centuries-old building in Safed into a thoroughly modern home, strategically introducing new...

Solar Impulse flying longest leg of round-the-world-journey

As of posting time for this story, pilot André Borschberg had been flying for over 24 hours on Leg 7 (of 12) of...

Floating farms may soon feed the world!

World population will balloon from 7 billion today to more than 9 billion in 2050, with associated food demand predicted to increase by 70% in...

CoeLux skylights shed “sunlight” on windowless spaces

What if you could turn on the sun when and where you wanted?  Lighting pioneers at a company called CoeLux developed an artificial light...

Underwater tennis and floating villas, #OnlyInDubai

Want to sink some money into the latest Dubai folly? A Polish architect has served up a scheme for an underwater tennis center off the coast of...

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Key Rules Recreational Cannabis Users Must Follow in Pittsburgh

Adults who are 21 or older can carry up to 30 grams. This amount applies to personal use within Pittsburgh’s limits. Carrying more could lead to confiscation or legal action. Staying under the limit avoids problems during any public stop.

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Jujube, the sidr tree of medicine and magic

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Ancient Roman strategy game figured out with AI

Two thousand years ago, someone scratched a web of lines into stone in a Roman settlement on the empire’s northern edge. Soldiers, traders, or locals passing time in Coriovallum—now Heerlen in the Netherlands, moved small counters across those lines in a tactical duel of blockade and entrapment.
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