90-Year-old Woodcutter Built his Own Hobbit House Where He Lives in Charming Comfort (LOOK)
A woodcutter who built his own Hobbit house revealed he has never watched Lord of the Rings, but nevertheless lives in it almost off-grid despite being nearly 90. Great-grandad Stuart Grant moved into the cottage he bought as a wreck with no roof and no doors in 1984 while he was renovating a house, but […]
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Ms. Shackleton’s Café Boat Becomes First in 100 Years to be Christened ‘Endurance’ After Government Heard Her Surname
The great-great niece of legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton has been granted permission to name her café boat Endurance, after the ship Ernest sailed and lost during an expedition to Antarctica. Be it salty or fresh, no English water has moored a boat by the name Endurance for more than a 100 years, but when the […]
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Brightest Jupiter in 70 Years Appears in the East Two Hours After Sundown Thanks to Near-Perfect “Opposition”
Stargazing typically demands that people pry themselves out of bed at 4:30 AM, as the conditions tend to be better. But in this period anyone can witness a once in 70-year phenomenon merely two hours after sunset. Jupiter, the solar system’s largest planet, is now the brightest light in the eastern night sky by a […]
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Study Shows Duolingo Learning Outcomes Are Comparable to University Classes
A study found that, despite being a 1-week wonder-kind-of-habit, people who study languages on Duolingo perform as well as University students with years under their belts. The most popular language-learning platform on Earth, Duolingo offers courses on more than 20 languages, but whether or not they materialize as useful is difficult to ascertain. The experiment, […]
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Morel Mushrooms Have Finally Been Reliably Cultivated Indoors For the First Time
Spring is fully waking up the woodlands of the Northern Hemisphere, which means under apple, elm, and sycamore trees—one might find themselves a tasty treat. Black morel mushrooms, in the world of edible fungus, are highly prized and are for North Americans what the boletus is for the Europeans. However, before long one might be […]
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Spectacular Aquariid Meteor Shower Next Week â See Dozens of Shooting Stars Per Hour
There’s an excellent chance to watch a meteor shower in the pre-dawn hours next week. From May 4th, 5th, and 6th, at a few hours past midnight in the Northern Hemisphere, go outside in a dark area away from artificial lights and look to the south. The Eta Aquariid meteor shower could reveal as many […]
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Two-Thirds of Brits Love The Mood Boost They Get When Doing Something Eco-Friendly
Two-thirds of Brits admit to loving the mood boost they get when doing something environmentally conscious, according to a new survey. A poll of 2,000 adults found they take pride when buying products that reduce their impact on the environment, and when washing out tubs to reuse them—as well as disposing of food waste in […]
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Couple Buys Real Life Cottage From ‘The Holiday’ Without Realizing – Now Tourists Are Showing Up to Share in the Joy
A couple bought the real-life cottage from Christmas romcom The Holiday without realizing —and now have tourists turning up taking photos. 57-year-old Jon Bromley and his 5-year-old wife Cressida live in the house which inspired Cameron Diaz’s rural retreat in the 2006 festive flick. They had no idea it was the quintessential cottage from the […]
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It Started With 5 Families, Now Hundreds are Biking to School Together With The Bike-bus
Every Friday morning in Barcelona, a special kind of bus collects kids on their way to school in the Eixample district. Dubbed the “Bicibus” or Bike Bus, it’s more like a caravan or an escort, one which started when five families decided to ride their bikes to school to advocate for bike lanes and safer, […]
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Want to Learn to Code? This Nintendo-Style Video Game Will Teach You – And It’s Free
Writing code is a skill almost anyone can make use of, and now there’s a video game that will teach you how. Set in an old school, Super Nintendo-like, 16-bit world, TwilioQuest teaches common coding languages like Python, JavaScript, and Open Source and combines the satisfying sense of progression inherent in role-playing games, with actual […]
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