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Dubai’s Lamborghini police cars and bikes are ecological opposites

A year after unveiling new Lamborghini patrol vehicles for lucky members of the force, Dubai police are rolling out an eco-friendly electric motorcycle.  As far...

The hazards of single serving coffee pods

Espresso machine single serving coffee pods – those fairly newfangled units of specialty grinds – let you be your own barrista.  Pop one in your...

Jewish artist’s “anti-Barbie” is a crowdfund-sation!

What if fashion dolls were made using standard human body proportions?  It’s a question that occurred to artist Nickolay Lamm while looking at a Barbie...

Japanese artist Hikaru Cho shows mutant food formed by climate change

Artist Hikaru Cho transforms ordinary foods into completely different foods, not by culinary skill, but with acrylic paint. She painstakingly camouflages veggies, fruits and even eggs...

Dead Sea tourism more tolerable with fly-eating trashcans?

Two designers devised a lid design for trash cans that lures in fruit flies, trapping them in a tiny death chamber – gruesome but, hey,...

Lady Gaga in a coffee filter dress

Lady Gaga – who refuses to be censored – was voluntarily “filtered” during her recent appearance on American TV talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live. Her...

Jordan moves ahead on its first solar PV project – worth 52MW

Jordan’s National Electric Power Company (NEPCO) has finally signed a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) with US-based First Solar Inc. and the Shams Ma’an Consortium...

A $9000 dome home for early retirement in Thailand

A former flight attendant has grounded himself in Thailand in a masonry dome-home he built in just six weeks. The 500 square foot structure is...

Travel on a day trip in Amman to beat the real rainy Arab Spring [Photos]

Springtime in Jordan means sandstorms, not downpours, but a solid week of rain just pummeled Amman – lashing, cold, complete with thunder!  Here’s how we locals...

The anti-fat fatwa is not a joke for buffet lovers in Saudi Arabia

Saudi cleric Saleh al Fawzan has decided that all-you-can-eat buffets are against Sharia (Islamic) law, unappetizing news for Muslims devoted to bargain dining deals! Facebook...
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