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Video: Man builds the thinnest street-legal car

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Human ingenuity never ceases to amaze me. I can’t even conceive of some of the creations people can come up with, let alone build them myself.

I really enjoy seeing someone take a normal, everyday object and transform it into something completely different.

Watch the short video below and you’ll see a man take a normal full-sized car and turn it into a vehicle that he can barely fit inside of. It’s different, it’s cute and it’s apparently street-legal! Check it out.  [Read more…]

Video: DIY Weed-Free Driveways and Sidewalks

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Do you have an asphalt or concrete driveway or sidewalk that has unsightly weeds growing in the cracks and expansion joints?

If you do I’m guessing that you find them quite irritating. I have that very situation going on right now in my own driveway so I recently went looking for an inexpensive solution.  [Read more…]

Guess what? It’s Spring!

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“Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Well, as it always does, spring has arrived to mark the end of another long winter. While most of the trees in my neck of the woods have yet to show any spring buds, a few here and there are already in full bloom.

The beautiful crocuses always get the ball rolling in late February by popping up through the snow to give us a preview of what the coming spring will bring, but for me it’s the greening of the grass in mid-March that’s the surest sign that spring is about ready to pop up on the calendar.  [Read more…]

Would a magnetic compass work on the moon?

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Have you ever used a magnetic compass to navigate from one place to another?

Or perhaps you remember playing around with one as a kid?

If so, have you ever wondered if such a compass would work on the moon?

Well I have, and the answer is somewhat surprising…

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Did you know lobster was once considered a “poor man’s food”?

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Do you crave lobster but consider it a rare treat due to its high cost?

Well, you were obviously born in the wrong century!

According to History.com and other reputable sources, when the Europeans first came to the new world lobsters were so plentiful (and therefore cheap) they were routinely fed to prisoners, apprentices, slaves and children.

The rich and powerful actually shunned lobster because it had a reputation for being “food for the poor”.

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