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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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An old boss of mine had this expression that I find myself repeating from time to time. “I cannot explain people’s stupidity. I can only capitalize on it.” The boss especially loved spitting this wisdom out during this specific time of year — the holiday season — since our website sold merchandise through affiliate marketing …
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This Halloween, we’ve seen 3-story tall AT-AT displays and a zombie car accident but this lawn light show might have won the holiday. It probably also drives the neighbor’s insane. Tom BetGeorge’s over-the-top Halloween light show, perfectly synced to the song, This Is Halloween, from The Nightmare Before Christmas is fun to watch but only …
Pumpkin carving sometimes takes hours, especially if the design is incredibly detailed. These carvers went through “dozens and dozens” of gourds for one purpose – a stop-motion video – that took YEARS to finish. Oh My Gourd is a Halloween stop-motion pumpkin carving experiment of epic proportions. The carving team found hundreds of pumpkins similar …
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In every single major city, space is at a premium. Still, people continue to build monster buildings that take up the little land still available. A company in Helsinki, Finland wants urban planners to rethink the way buildings are constructed and prove that a perfectly livable home can fit into a parking space. Yes, one …
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