New York’s famous City Hall subway station, one of the most gorgeous gems in the world of mass transit, has been closed for decades. Now it can be viewed again by in-the-know riders of the 6 train — via Jalopnik
Our pal, Bonnie Burton, over at StarWars.com proves that banthas can be quite cuddly with this fun felt plush bantha project.
Every Tusken Raider needs a trusty bantha to ride around Tatooine. These elephant-sized creatures with long ram-like horns first showed up in A New Hope. It’s easy to make your own cuddly bantha with some felt, stuffing, thread and a lot of love.
— via CRAFT
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At least seven people have been charged with participating in an international organ-trafficking network based in Kosovo that sold kidneys and other organs from impoverished victims for up to $200,000 to patients from as far away as Israel and Canada, police and senior European Union officials said Monday — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A campaign has launched aimed at improving the online experience for people with disabilities — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Levels of spam have fallen by almost 50% since August 2010, suggest figures — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Caterpillar, the world’s largest construction and mining equipment maker, has agreed to buy Bucyrus International for $7.6bn (£4.75bn) — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A search for frogs believed to be extinct has instead led scientists to discover some new ones.
Three species hitherto unknown to science have been found in Colombia — via redwolf.newsvine.com
India has lost more than $460bn since Independence because of companies and the rich illegally funnelling their wealth overseas, a new report says — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Victoria’s paramedics will begin a world-first study into reducing the number disabilities caused by brain trauma — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A dog credited with saving her owner’s life in Afghanistan, by barking at a suicide bomber, has been put down by mistake in Arizona after straying and ending up in a pound — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The family of a soldier who died in the Battle of the Somme 94 years ago has finally received his war medals — via redwolf.newsvine.com
May beer have helped lead to the rise of civilization? It’s a possibility, some archaeologists say. Signs that people went to great lengths to obtain grains despite the hard work needed to make them edible, plus the knowledge that feasts were important community-building gatherings, support the idea that cereal grains were being turned into beer, said archaeologist Brian Hayden at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Beer is sacred stuff in most traditional societies,
said Hayden — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Arizona drivers were warned of the undead roaming a desert highway near Tucson over the weekend, after a suspected prankster tampered with an electronic road sign, police and news media said — via redwolf.newsvine.com
The best green building innovation in Sweden, and winner of this year’s Nordbygg Gold Medal – these SolTech Energy tiles are engineered to turn the entire roof space into a solar heat farm, renewably harvesting the heat needed for the home heating system from sunshine — via Home Design Find
A 25-year-old Adelaide man chopped a cat with a shovel and then set it on fire, a court has heard.
Adrian Pomorski, 25, of suburban Brahma Lodge, was granted bail in the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Tuesday after appearing on one count of ill-treating an animal to cause death — via redwolf.newsvine.com
Australia will move on Wednesday to restrict internet tobacco advertising, preventing retailers from promoting cheap or tax free cigarettes, as part of a campaign to cut smoking rates by 10 percent by 2018 — via redwolf.newsvine.com
A German court has ruled that tattooing a pony with the Rolling Stones’ famous tongue logo would infringe animal rights law — via redwolf.newsvine.com
For 18 minutes in April, China’s state-controlled telecommunications company hijacked 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic, including data from US military, civilian organizations and those of other US allies — via redwolf.newsvine.com
An analyst at Swiss bank UBS has sent an accidental email that caused the bank to be dropped by a major client, General Motors — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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