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Imagine a world without bikes. No really, imagine it. It’s pretty funny.

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It makes perfect sense. The sensors that capture images for a digital camera and the sensors that convert light into electricity for a solar cell rely on the same technology. So why not build a device with a sensor that does both, and create a self-powered video camera? Some Columbia University researchers did just that.

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Head over to Microsoft’s how-old.net, upload a photo of yourself, and the site will spit out a prediction for how old you are—as well as your gender. Did it guess right? Probably not. But that doesn’t mean it’s not fun.

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Last month, a microbiology lab in Nottingham, England made international headlines when it unearthed a substance that kills methicillin-resistant staph, one of the deadliest superbugs of modern times. The most astounding part about the find? It was a 1,000-year-old Viking potion.

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Researchers at the University of British Columbia have created an enzyme that could transform donated blood into a universal type suitable for anyone who is in need of a transfusion. Currently, only donors with the O-negative blood type can transfuse their blood to anyone in need, which is why the blood type is always in […]

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Do you think you could ride a bicycle that steers backwards...aka it turns left when you turn right and vice versa? It sounds easy but years of normal bike riding experience makes it almost impossible. Destin Sandlin of Smarter Everyday taught himself how to ride the backwards-steering bike; it took months. Then he tried riding a normal bicycle again...

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Amongst Banksy imitators, Hanksy ain’t got shit on Wanksy, an anonymous street art vigilante who draws pictures of dicks around potholes in Manchester, England, with the intention of attracting attention to the holes so they get fixed. As the English would say, it’s right bloody brilliant.

Photo: Facebook

It’s working, too. The dick holes are getting filled.

Photo: Facebook

He’s annoying “think of the children” pearl-clutchers, too, which makes this even funnier. Wire should change the lyrics to “In Manchester” to be about this once local, now international hero. He’s doing great work, using graffiti as a public service. God Save the Wanksy.

(Photo: Wanksy-Road Artist/Facebook)

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19990620: Hope, Fish, Despair

Two hungry cats saw a big fish on the frozen lake park. They excitedly jump straight to the frozen lake where the fish away, to the front paw is caught is flexible, persevering fish separated by a layer of ice, visible touch them, spent a long time effort, still to no avail. Finally, the only hope, fish sigh, the disappointing.

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For the past five years data artist Eric Fischer’s been working on something called the Geotaggers’ World Atlas, a project which hopes to discover the world’s most interesting places by examining beautiful Flickr photos. As it turns out, the maps showing the routes between them are just as beautiful.

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Every year, Nikon hosts a Small World Photomicrography competition, bringing together the neatest (and smallest) images from microscope slides across the world. The 2014 winners are in, and the results are as wonderful — and creepy — as ever.

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When you buy a bottle of water at Starbucks, five cents goes towards “improving the lives of people who lack vital resources,” according to the in-house brand named Ethos Water. That may be true, but there’s a catch: The water’s bottled in a part of California where people’s wells are running dry.

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Front launched a brand new series of abstract rugs for Moooi Carpets, an offshoot of the Moooi brand, that look like someone took a set of colored pencils out and went to town. Scribble Rugs are irregularly shaped and appear to be sketches that have been blown up.

The colorful hand-drawn scribbles seriously look just like drawings with each pencil line perfectly visible. Scribble rugs are available in seven colors.

If you live in a country with a lot of piracy, you probably enjoy lower monthly Netflix subscription fees. That’s according to Netflix CFO David Wells, who says that a country’s piracy rate is the primary factor determining the service’s local price.

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Beautiful. Breathtaking. Tragic. Saddening. Historic. The new One World Trade Center’s observatory has elevators that display a 515-year visual timeline of New York City’s skyline and it’s an incredible view. Like if you were in a glass elevator and watching history unfold right before your eyes.

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Evidence has been piling up that neonicotinoids, a class of ubiquitous pesticides, play a role the recent decline of bees. A new study adds worrying and unexpected evidence: Bees actually prefer food contaminated with neonicotinoids—probably because it’s getting them high.

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On April 23rd, 2005, YouTube co-founder Jawed Karim uploaded a masterpiece of mundanity to YouTube, his newly launched video portal. Behold.

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Today, Google announced that it is entering the mobile MVNO carrier field with a service called Project Fi. The service will use Sprint and T-Mobile’s network in conjunction with Wi-Fi to make one, big, seamless carrier.

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In Surrey, kids are shooting each other in a violent turf war over drugs, meanwhile in North Vancouver, teens are fighting each other with foam pool noodles. Believe it or not, an “altercation of sorts” involving high school students fighting with the foam pool toys sent one teenager to hospital with serious injuries. According to […]

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Iconic Canadian food staple Kraft Dinner will be eliminating all artificial colouring from its macaroni and cheese product by 2016. “Since 1937, Kraft Dinner macaroni and cheese has been part of Canadians’ lives, bringing smiles and offering Canadians simple, affordable meals,” says Kraft Food in a statement on their website. “While Kraft Dinner Original already […]

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Vancouver-based women’s fashion retailer Aritzia will add 6,500 sq. ft. to its Vancouver flagship, giving it a corner presence and creating one of its largest locations in the world, according to Retail Insider. Aritzia currently operates out of three adjacent Robson Street storefronts. When the expansion is completed in 2016, it will be Aritzia’s largest Canadian store […]

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An agreement between levels of government could shutdown the Lions Gate Bridge and Stanley Park Causeway to private vehicle traffic in 2030. Under the deal, car traffic would be removed from the bridge and causeway, which will be converted to either an exclusive route for cyclists, pedestrians and transit or an extension of the park’s green […]

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The actual car hasn’t been revealed to the public just yet—at least without its camo wrapping—but that hasn’t stopped BMW from announcing that its new 7 Series will be the first car that can be parked remotely using its key fob, without anyone actually having to be inside the vehicle.

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Vancouver-headquartered Kaneh Bosm (KBB-CNSX) will take delivery of two marijuana vending machines in late April 2015. “The BioCanna ADM is similar to the Best Buy kiosks that you see in airports,” explains Kaneh Bosm President and Director Michael Martinz. “They have back-end functionality that provides oversight to the machine operator as well as regulators.” The […]

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If you thought Vancouver had the most rebellious raccoons in the country, you could be wrong. A raccoon with no fears of heights is famous on social media after it climbed a 700-foot-tall (213 metre) construction crane on Yonge Street near Rogers Centre in downtown Toronto. On Thursday morning, crane operator Robert MacFarlane captured photos of the urbanized […]

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Get your towel power ready – the Vancouver Canucks will be hosting a pre-game festival for fans before every home game of this year’s playoffs. The Chevrolet Party on the Plaza will begin two hours before game time and feature live music, food trucks, face painting, alumni autograph signing and a Beer Garden open to […]

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