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The size of the global 3D printing market, including 3D printer sales, materials and associated services, is predicted to reach $16.2 billion by 2018, a growth by over 500 percent. […]
Does choosing a wine feel as if you’re closing your eyes and pointing on the menu? Want to order like an expert when it’s time to select a bottle for […]
A San Francisco City Attorney has told the creators of a new app to cease its use in his city. The app, Monkey Parking, creates a market for people to buy and sell public parking spots.
The brightest “planetary nebula” is actually a Sun-like star in its final death throes! “When he shall die,Take him and cut him out in little stars,And he will make the face […]
Crowdfunding has been a tool used to introduce new inventions and prototypes. Tech products specifically have benefitted by presenting a seemingly genius, fail-proof idea and crafting an all-or-nothing message: support […]
The marketplace of ideas would be a lot stodgier and less fluid—and more dangerously larded with lies—if it weren't for humor. As Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert show night after […]
PETA ruffled feathers last month with a misleading ad campaign that suggested consumption of dairy products led to autism. The organization, already widely derided for its sensationalism, has an uphill road to climb if it ever wants to be taken seriously again.
Newly designated World Heritage sites in France, Botswana, and the United States push UNESCO's list into the quadruple digits.
A popular football chant by Mexico supporters has drawn the ire of FIFA's governing board. The incident is one of many recent instances where one group's "tradition" is another group's slur.
Solstice might just be my new favourite (non-)holiday. As the sun peaks its highest excursion relative to the celestial equator, we experience the longest day and the shortest night. This […]
Xue Yifan And Her Cool Graduation ‘Group-Photo’ Inspire A Nation BEIJING – In China’s over-populated and ultra-competitive education system –the largest in the world with 200 million students in elementary […]
If your grandfather published a book about his dating habits, it might read something like Mansfield's prose. Reading the conservative professor is like listening to a juke box and sipping on malted milk.
Online advertising company Ultramercial is currently suing video streaming company Hulu, "alleging that Hulu violates its patent on forcing viewers to watch a commercial before playing copyrighted content."
From President Camacho to Old Spice and beyond, his muscled comedic brilliance will leave you in stitches! “I call myself the Amusement Park. That’s because I’m funny and scary at […]
Thanks to modern folklore, many of us believe that men think about sex every seven seconds, amounting to 514 sexual thoughts per hour, or 7,200 each day. If that seems high to you, you're not alone.
Corporations have become the arbiters of social well-being. Some, like Walmart, abuse the system, relying on government subsidies like food stamps to provide for their employees.
I've just discovered what might just be my new favorite lecture on Youtube. Pseudonymous philosopher Sisyphus Redeemed describes a sample of the many ways we have been wrong throughout history […]
Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy hopes her new animated film Three Braves will inspire Pakistani children by providing them with relevant, local heroes.