May 2011
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What The Inside Of A Wave Looks Like
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What The Inside Of A Wave Looks Like
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Incredible Vampire Hunting Kit From The 1800's
Travelers in the 19th century would purchase ‘vampire hunting kits’ in preparation for their travels to Eastern Europe. The kits would contain a wooden stake, Bible, crucifix, pistol with lead bullets, gunpowder, garlic and glass vials that held various concoctions to ward off vampires. Interestingly, these kits predated Bram Stoker’s Dracula and other written accounts of...
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Incredible Vampire Hunting Kit From The 1800's
Travelers in the 19th century would purchase vampire hunting kits in preparation for their travels to Eastern Europe. The kits would contain a wooden stake, Bible, crucifix, pistol with lead bullets, gunpowder, garlic and glass vials that held various concoctions to ward off vampires. Interestingly, these kits predated Bram Stoker’s Dracula and other written accounts of vampires, pointing to...
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Next In Sustainable Living: Beer Bottle Houses
As people move to more sustainable ways of living, some innovative architects have begun using recycled materials to create more environmentally-friendly habitats. Incredibly, beer bottles have become a primary means of this style of building, with far-ranging benefits including cheap construction, recycling and up-cycling, pollution reduction, natural solar power lighting, and natural insulation....
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Next In Sustainable Living: Beer Bottle Houses
As people move to more sustainable ways of living, some innovative architects have begun using recycled materials to create more environmentally-friendly habitats. Incredibly, beer bottles have become a primary means of this style of building, with far-ranging benefits including cheap construction, recycling and up-cycling, pollution reduction, natural solar power lighting, and natural insulation....
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The First Underwater Hotel Suite
At the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island owned by Hilton Hotels, guests can spend the night 5 meters under the Indian Ocean in a private suite. The suite is encased in plexiglass and is accessible by descending a spiral staircase. Needless to say, the suite is quite breathtaking:
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The First Underwater Hotel Suite
At the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island owned by Hilton Hotels, guests can spend the night 5 meters under the Indian Ocean in a private suite. The suite is encased in plexiglass and is accessible by descending a spiral staircase. Needless to say, the suite is quite breathtaking:
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The Many Voices Of The Simpsons
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Medical Animals As The Future Of Health Care
Revital Cohen designed the Life Support project to show how animals could be transformed into alternative, low-cost medical assistant devices.
Cohen outlines a plan to use greyhounds that are retired from racing as a ventilation aid for humans with respiratory problems. The dog would replace a mechanical ventilator by running at an object it is trained to chase using the pressure of its...
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Medical Animals As The Future Of Health Care
Revital Cohen designed the Life Support project to show how animals could be transformed into alternative, low-cost medical assistant devices.
Cohen outlines a plan to use greyhounds that are retired from racing as a ventilation aid for humans with respiratory problems. The dog would replace a mechanical ventilator by running at an object it is trained to chase using the pressure of its...
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The Worlds 6 Most Bizarre Landscapes
Most of the time Mother Nature can be pretty boring: a hill here, a tree grove there, the occasional berry patch. Every once in a while the natural processes at work can meet at bizarre angles, forming landscapes that bewilder and beguile — Mother Nature’s believe-it-or-nots. With no further ado, we present the six most bizarre natural landscapes:
Rio Tinto River, Spain
The blood-red...
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The Worlds 6 Most Bizarre Landscapes
Most of the time Mother Nature can be pretty boring: a hill here, a tree grove there, the occasional berry patch. Every once in a while the natural processes at work can meet at bizarre angles, forming landscapes that bewilder and beguile — Mother Nature’s believe-it-or-nots. With no further ado, we present the six most bizarre natural landscapes:
Rio Tinto River, Spain
The...
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Incredible 3D Food Printer
It’s possible you’ve heard of a 3D printer - a printer that fabricates a concrete three-dimensional
object from adding successive layers of material in, say, the shape of a tea pot or a bracelet. It
can print an object with or without color, using polymer or plaster and can be bought online - if
you’re feeling breezy about $6k (used) to $14k (new). Sounds crazy, but it’s...
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The Incredible 3D Food Printer
It’s possible you’ve heard of a 3D printer - a printer that fabricates a concrete three-dimensional
object from adding successive layers of material in, say, the shape of a tea pot or a bracelet. It
can print an object with or without color, using polymer or plaster and can be bought online - if
you’re feeling breezy about $6k (used) to $14k (new). Sounds crazy, but it’s...
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The Eruption and Collapse of Hawaii's Volcanoes
On March 5, 2011, the floor of the Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater deflated, then collapsed; above is a video of the collapse – an occurrence that stunned the world as well as the residents of Hawaii, especially with its peripheral tremors across the state. After watching the resurgence of activity foil the volcano’s hollowed out center, it collapsed, as seen in this timelapse video.
Most Hawaii...
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The Eruption and Collapse of Hawaii's Volcanoes
On March 5, 2011, the floor of the Puʻu ʻŌʻō crater deflated, then collapsed; above is a video of the collapse – an occurrence that stunned the world as well as the residents of Hawaii, especially with its peripheral tremors across the state. After watching the resurgence of activity foil the volcano’s hollowed out center, it collapsed, as seen in this timelapse video
Most Hawaii residents...
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Behind A Frozen Waterfall
This photograph was taken behind a frozen waterfall at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Behind A Frozen Waterfall
This photograph was taken behind a frozen waterfall at Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
April 2011
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The Best Of The PBH Network In April
It’s been quite an April for the PBH Network: over 5 million visitors, our first (record-setting!) 500,000 visitor day, and over 3,600 fans on Facebook. With such a great month, we wanted to recap the best performing content from April from across the PBH Network:
5. What Happens When A Hippie Gives You 30 Hits Of Acid
Our unnamed protagonist — a worker at a local coffee shop — describes...
