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A lifelike baby sculpture in a New York City store window is not only creating a stir among passerby but it’s also turning into a pseudo-experiment studying human reaction to sympathy. A Park Avenue store is the temporary home to “Baby in Carriage, 1983”. Created by sculptor and artist Duane Hanson, and modeled after his …
Every day, the world takes one step toward real-life superheroes roaming the Earth. Granted, these humans need a little help from technology, but last week we didn’t have a real Iron Man hanging around and now ZOOOM! Richard Browning jet packed his way around a park in the city of Reading in the UK, hitting a …
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Art dealer and host of the BBC One show Fake or Fortune, Philip Mould, live-tweeted his latest art restoration project. He’s tasked with removing over 200 years of yellowing varnish from a 400-year-old painting. Watch the first fascinating moments of the project. A remarkable Jacobean re-emergence after 200 years of yellowing varnish 1/2 pic.twitter.com/yBGNGDcNd7 — …
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There’s something to be said for people that dedicate their time and life to perfecting a craft. It’s especially impressive if the person is completely self-taught. Justyna Sosnowska – also known as Sosenka – earned a Landscape Architecture degree. Her real interest and passion, however, is special effects makeup. She couldn’t afford to go back …
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The Beam Center is a New York City nonprofit dedicated to youth development and learning through creation, collaboration, and educator professional development. Every summer for the last 12 years, the group has hosted Camp Beam in the woods of New Hampshire. Over the course of two months, children ages 10-18 work with an artist to …
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For the second time in the past month, a high school in Ireland was visited by an angry ghost or possibly a couple powerful gusts of wind. The original released video from Deerpark C.B.S hit the Internet in early October. The footage shows lockers shaking, papers flying, and random doors slamming at 3 a.m. without …
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An 81-year-old man from Bretten, Germany contacted police in a panic last week. He thought he’d stumbled upon a decades-old bomb in his vegetable garden. It turns out the weapon of mass destruction was a huge dud. According to experts on the scene, it was a zucchini. But an incredibly dangerous looking summer squash. It could …
Earlier this year, I had the chance to once again visit the Coral Reef restaurant in Disney’s Epcot Center. It was exactly how I remembered it as a kid, right down to the odd carpeting and 1970s-inspired decor. It was just a restaurant with a giant fish tank for a while. Sure, it’s fun for …
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The punishment usually always fits the crime. In this case, the punishment probably felt like torture for a Hawaii man who broke a protective order and contacted his ex-girlfriend. “For every nasty thing you said about her, you’re going to say a nice thing,” explained 2nd Circuit Judge Rhonda Loo to defendant Daren Young. Young, …
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Here’s a story that’s close to my heart, not just because it’s fascinating, but because messages in a bottle and I have a weird connection. For the past 34 years, Wim Kruiswijk has been combing the coasts of Zandvoort, Netherlands, in search of messages-in-bottles. One wonders how many times can one person come across such …
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