A Laotian man has told police he murdered his pregnant wife with an axe because he wanted the foetus to make a lucky charm which might help him win the lottery, a report said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A new study suggests sharks may be colour blind, challenging the long-held belief they were mainly attracted to yellow — via redwolf.newsvine.com
JR keeps introducing new timepieces built around their JR1000 automatic base caliber. The new JeanRichard Highlands Sand, for example, features a nice desert look and even sports a simple GMT function — via World Watch Review
As the most significant event in advertising grows nearer, it will be interesting to see how many brands enlist the endorsement services of celebrities during the Super Bowl. After all, popular wisdom asserts that getting a celebrity endorsement is a tried-and-true, simple-to-implement way to maximize advertising effectiveness. Sure, it’s expensive, but celebrities always yield stronger ties with viewers and, ultimately, greater sales, right?
Wrong. Over the course of last year, time and time again we observed incredibly low effectiveness scores of TV ads starring celebrities. From Tiger Woods to Donald Trump, we found that with rare exception, celebrity endorsements were largely ineffective and failed to yield the benefits popular wisdom promises — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Children play and draw with crayons practically every day, so why not make the experience more educational? While children are coloring, they are also exposed to the names of chemicals that will make those colors! So instead of thinking I want green
they will think I want Barium Nitrate Ba(NO3)2 Flame
and then when they take chemistry in high school and their teacher sets some gas on fire and it makes a green color and they ask the class what chemical it was your student will know it was Barium! Genius! — via Etsy
The recurring ritual that plays out in the journey to the holiday home is integral to the conception of this house: the car and its contained interior; the stop off for provisions in the last town before arrival; getting out and unchaining the entry gate before driving onto the site; the wall that confronts them, the view denied; the welcoming gesture of the front portal wedge; and the final release to the view as one enters the main living spaces.
Beached House continues BKK Architects interest in the curation of the domestic as a sequence of unfolding spaces that deny, and then release views. The journey through the house is through a series of subtly shifting spaces that alter one’s orientation to climate and terrain — via ArchDaily
Benny came to the birthday party because his mom had volunteered him to help supervise the children. He must have felt out of place being the lone teenage boy amidst a flock of over-excited six-year-old girls, but we welcomed his presence. We saw him as a sort of prop that we could manipulate in our imaginary games – a living, breathing human that would submit to pretending to be whatever we wanted it to pretend to be. On that particular day, we wanted to play a game called wolf pack
which we had invented after watching a documentary about the hunting tactics of wolves — via Hyperbole and a Half
Chaser, a border collie who lives in Spartanburg, SC, has the largest vocabulary of any known dog. She knows 1,022 nouns, a record that displays unexpected depths of the canine mind and may help explain how children acquire language — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Internal US government reviews have determined that a mass leak of diplomatic cables caused only limited damage to US interests abroad, despite the Obama administration’s public statements to the contrary — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Cindy of Skip to My Lou guest blogs on Alphamom with this great homemade heart-shaped bird feeder project. These birdfeeders not only help our feathered friends, but making them is a fun and easy family activity perfect for cold winter days — via CRAFT
A skilled butcher slit the throat of a man who was in a relationship with his wife, stabbed him six times and left him dead in an alley, a court heard — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australian vintage guitar specialist Neil Rote has an enviable stable of motorcycles. We featured his lovely BMW R100/7 nearly a year ago, so it’s now time to show the Norton Commando Fastback — via Bike EXIF
A Cypriot monk caught at a Greek airport with the skeletal remains of a nun in his baggage on the weekend told authorities he was taking the relics of a saint back to his monastery — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An owl that had evidently drunk too much Schnapps from two discarded bottles was so inebriated that it got picked up by police. The bird will be released once it has sobered up — via josh-rosenroth.newsvine.com
The 20m x 30m plot of land in the coastal Mar Azul forest in Buenos Aires, Argentina is the site for BAK Architects‘ JD House, a residence designed in concrete, wood and glass and blended into the topography and vegetation on the site. The preliminary specifications for the house required two bedrooms, two bathrooms and a large, flexible social area, integrated into the kitchen, that could accommodate different activities for the guests that are expected to visit. The client also specified that generous outdoor expansions were available on the site — via ArchDaily
For 2011 Lange is redsigning the Saxonia family, and the new Saxonia Thin offers discrete luxury and classic elegance in a case that measures only 5.9m thick. And at 40mm in diameter, the Saxonia Thin makes a stylish statement on the wrist — via WatchTime
The architect purchased this property and decided to move into the house while phasing construction projects. The intention is for the project to be a laboratory for architectural experiments.
The site is in the country in a partially wooded area with rolling hills with views to the west and south. The existing house is located on the highest ground of the site on the edge of where the trees meet the native prairie grass meadow — via ArchDaily
Amy has some seriously awesome friends. They created this knitting basket birthday cake for her, and hand placed every strand of yarn and created a true woven basket for the base. It would be hard to eat this beautiful creation — via CRAFT
Calibre 9909 MC is the first multiple time zone movement to feature in Cartier’s Fine Watchmaking Collection, housed in a Calibre de Cartier watch. It features a caliber 9909 MC movement, entirely developed and produced within the Cartier Manufacture — via WatchTime
Silk screen printed cushions / pillows with single co-ordinating colour on reverse — via notonthehighstreet.com
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