VIA “pulptastic.com” California-based company Reduce.Reuse.Grow has just discovered a new way to recycle effectively, and it involves reusing one of the most commonly thrown away items out there. The company has succesfully created organic coffee cups that contain embedded seeds — allowing them to grow into trees. Each “coffee cup tree” can eliminate a ton […]
VIA “educateinspirechange.org” When you listen to music, multiple areas of your brain become engaged and active. But when you actually play an instrument, that activity becomes more like a full-body brain workout. What’s going on? This video explains the fireworks that go off in musicians’ brains when they play, and examines some of the long-term positive […]
VIA “pulptastic.com” This is the “Swirl Faucet”, created by Simin Qiu, a student at London’s Royal College of Art. The faucet can be turned on or off at the touch of a button. The water moves through a mechanism which makes it come out of the faucet in a beautiful pattern. While aesthetically pleasing, the […]
VIA “flyer.viralnova.com” Whenever you lose a pet or want to sell furniture, the most simplistic and old-school way to get your message across is to hang up a flyer on a street post. It’s easy to do because all you need is paper and a few staples to make people aware of your cause. However, […]
VIA “counterculturenews.com” By now we’ve all seen the racist emails from the Ferguson, Missouri Police Department. The Department of Justice report on the rampant abuses and racism emanating from the Ferguson PD noted a few of the most egregious examples of racism found in emails sent from officers in the FPD, including a “joke” about […]
VIA “countercurrentnews.com” The City of New Carlisle completely eliminated their police department several years ago. Many warned that crime would soar, but the exact opposite has happened. Since the city just outside of Dayton, Ohio canned their cops, they had been contracting with the sheriff’s department for any absolute emergency policing. But now they have […]
VIA “nypost.com”, New York Post, by Larry Getlen On Feb. 15, in the year 44 BC, Julius Caesar, the all-powerful ruler of Rome, visited a soothsayer named Spurinna, who “predicted the future by examining the internal organs of sacrificial animals,” among other omens. As per the ritual, Caesar “sacrificed a bull,” and Spurinna “made the […]
VIA “the-open-mind.com” by Jade Small What If Animals treated us how we treat them? These powerful cartoons of animal/human role reversal may make you cringe a little when you consider yourself in the same position. Would YOU like to be a rug on someones floor? How about a leather bag, after all, it is ‘fashion’ ? […]
VIA “YummyChaSiuPork” youtube channel Recognition of reality is always an important part of life and progression. From “The Newsroom”.
VIA “buynongmoseeds.com” Sure, we’ve all read about the Pyramids and the Pharaoh’s tombs in egypt, but some of the most interesting archeological finds in history are seldom mentioned in history books. It’s doubtful that all archeology is as interesting as Indiana Jones or Robert Brown makes it seem. In fact, I’d venture a guess that […]
