Tokyo, Japan-based mother Aya Sakai has been charting the adventures of her young son and his best friend, which just happens to be a French Bulldog, using the popular photo sharing app. Whether they’re cuddling on the couch or watching tv on a cushion, the two just can’t seem to get enough of each other.
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Why look at a painting of a historical figure when you can come face to face with one? Forensic facial reconstruction using scans of skeletal remains allows researchers to create 3D models of the face through a combination of science, history, and artistic interpretation.
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Breaking the Guinness World Record for the “world’s largest shoe” is Italian shoe brand Superga. Unveiled in Hong Kong earlier this year at the official opening of the brand’s new flagship store, the gargantuan replica of its iconic Superga 2750 measures 20ft x 8ft x 11ft.
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Google Glass is, at least currently, associated with the technologically-forward, savvy adult. Who’d have thought that it could also help us see the world from the perspective of a toddler? Here’s a video of a two-year-old, showing and telling us about the ‘world of a toddler’. It’s sure to leave you cooing in your seat:
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If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to be eaten by a grizzly, a new video shot by a biologist in Alaska should help satisfy your curiosity.
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Advertising creatives Andy Leek and Lisa Morgenthau have created a funny compilation video of the different types of people who run after trains. The funny video was filmed at London’s Kings Cross Station and it features a situation of something only too true to life.
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A new leaked video believed to be from Microsoft has emerged. The video is a parody of Google’s ‘Chrome: Now Everywhere’ ad, and it criticizes Google for watching and tracking “everything you do” and using that information to profit.
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From June 2013, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines will be offering hookah (also known as ‘shisha’) onboard to its business- and first-class passengers. Emirates says that this special service will allow its Middle Eastern customers to get a ‘taste of home’ up in the air.
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The King has “instructed” that Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s fast-growing capital city, build its new six-line Metro system in just four years. To compare: it took New York’s MTA four years to renovate one station.
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Ethnicity, like race, is a social construct, but it’s still a construct with significant implications for the world. How people perceive ethnicity, both their own and that of others, can be tough to measure, particularly given that it’s so subjective. So how do you study it?
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Renting a movie goes well with getting a takeout pizza. In partnership with video rental stores, Domino’s Pizza—together with the help of agency Brazil-based Artplan—created a DVD that releases the smell of a pizza and changes to look like a pizza, when the disc ‘heats up’ in the DVD player.
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