Sarah Biren
Freelance Writer
A gardening expert experiments with an unorthodox fertilizer for his tomato plants: a whole egg and a banana. First, he buries the food then buries the plant on top of them. He explains that the egg and banana will rot over time, providing nutrients to the growing tomato plants. No further fertilizer is needed. Whether […]
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Leslie Howe inadvertently saved her children from a painful sting. They was sitting on a bench at Gwinnet County Park when they noticed a strange creature beside them. “I’ve never seen anything like that before,” said Howe. “It looked like a cross between a rodent and a caterpillar.” However, it was a venomous puss caterpillar. […]
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Passive House is a concept for an energy efficient building. The design is structured to maintain room temperature inside with little to no energy used for heating or cooling. Patrick McCunney owns one of these houses in Maine, and he shares the in-and-outs of his 1,500-square-foot, two-story New England farmhouse-style home. He and his wife, […]
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Aerophobia is the name for flight anxiety, and it’s fairly common. Even those who don’t have this phobia can still experience fear while flying. It’s easy — but not recommended — to start imagining all the ways the flight could end in disaster. All it takes is a little turbulence for the imagination to run […]
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The crash of Aeroflot Flight 593 is chilling. It resulted in the deaths of all of the passengers and crew members on board — and it was so preventable. This 1994 flight from Moscow to Hong Kong spun off course and crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain range, and for some time, no one understood […]
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AI can make art now. Tools like Dall-E Mini, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion allow users to write a prompt for the artificial intelligence program to interpret into an image. Within a few minutes, an idea for a picture can appear on a computer screen. The AI uses an algorithm to generate images based on real […]
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A man in the English countryside achieved every metal detectorist’s dream. He discovered a medieval diamond wedding ring. The valuable artifact is expected to fetch £30,000 and £40,000 ($35,500 and $47,300) when it goes on auction. David Board, 69, used to be a metal detectorist in the 1970s but found nothing of consequence. But during […]
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Gabriela Peralta and Victor Hugo Peralta have won the Guinness World Record for “couple with most body modifications”. The married couple has a total of 84 tattoos and body modifications, as verified in 2014 on the set of the Show Dei Record in Milan, Italy. At that point, they had 50 piercings, 14 body implants, […]
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For centuries, clay was used to cool and store water. This tradition continues today, and it’s especially popular in areas with limited access to electric refrigeration. Clay is naturally porous, and in a cool and dry climate, a clay pot can keep its contents cold for extended periods of time. But it can do more […]
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According to the CDC’s 2022 National Diabetes Statistics Report, over 11% of the U.S. population has diabetes. (That’s about 37.3 million people.) Plus, 96 million people aged 18 or older (38% of the the U.S. population) have prediabetes. [1] These numbers are alarming next to a new press release from Prevent Blindness: Diabetes is the […]
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In 1963, a man in the Nevşehir Province of Turkey knocked down a wall in his basement and accidentally stumbled into an ancient underground city. The man, who was not named in reports, was renovating his home when his chickens started disappearing into a small crevasse. He investigated the wall with a sledgehammer — only […]
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A dog is truly a human’s best friend, and Donald Dickerson is willing to sacrifice to keep his canine companion. The two became closer over the past several months when they faced homelessness together. “Every day he looks at me — I know I am loved. I named him Duude because that’s my dude. We […]
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