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The Vika+ foldable electric bike delivers both performance & style (Review) : TreeHugger
The Blix Bike Vika+ e-bike comes through on both form and function, and offers a well-designed electric assist bicycle that can fold down into a small footprint for transport and storage. Over the last few years, the electric bike scene has gone from being a fringe element to serious contender, and the combination of both […]
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Ticklish Lab Rats Giggle for Science
A rat hard at work discovering the neural basis of tickling. (Credit: Shimpei Ishiyama & Michael Brecht) For social animals, living and working together is all about building and shoring up the bonds that tie our lives together. Animals that live and work in concert with one another rely on complex rituals to affirm their […]
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British Squirrels Are Suffering from Leprosy
A red squirrel. (Credit: Shutterstock) For many people, leprosy brings to mind Biblical stories of diseased people cast out from society. It’s a condition that today is largely found in developing countries, whereas in other, mostly Western nations it’s a pestilence of the past that was eradicated decades ago. But recent research has shown the […]
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Spain’s Prime Minister wants to ban internet memes. No, really • The Register
Pics Spain’s ruling Popular Party has proposed banning internet memes. No word of a lie. Right-wing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has put forward legislation that would make it a crime to “spread images that infringe the honor of a person”, noting that a similar law from the 1980s is out of date because it doesn’t […]
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Versatile live/work space for father has secret play room for son : TreeHugger
It’s the perennial dilemma: how to make a cramped apartment feel bigger, especially for a father with a rambunctious six-year-old son? In creating a multifunctional live/work furniture unit to help expand the space, Polish architects from Mode:lina Studio also concealed a secret play room for the young boy. Dornob shows us this wonderful design for […]
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Things To Do In London This Weekend: 12-13 November 2016
This is a sponsored competition on behalf of Hilton Hotels & Resorts. All weekend Get your Christmas shopping done early at Liberty. Photo: Name102. LONDON DRUM SHOW: Have a *banging* time at The London Drum Show… See Stereophonics’ Jamie Morrison and Rudimental’s Beanie behind the kit, take masterclasses from the industry’s best and peruse […]
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Snapchat Spectacles hands-on: Spectacles are (sorta) available, and we tried them on
What would it take to get you to wear something on your face? Snapchat is making sunglasses now, if you haven’t heard. A $130 pair of glasses with a camera inside, which takes snaps of the world without ever removing them from your face, have started descended like magic from strange pop-up vending machines. What […]
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Brick house rises on on jacks during floods : TreeHugger
The great American architect Louis Sullivan wrote: It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form […]