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Finding Doppelgänger From Another Side Of The World

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Canadian photographer François Brunelle is on a mission to find 200 doppelgängers around the world. “It is not about looking like famous people,” his website explains. “The fact that two persons, totally unrelated to each other, sometimes born in different countries, share the same physical appearance is really the essence of the project.”

He’s been at it for a while, but I just found the project on Visual News, via David Pogue. You can see plenty more lookalikes on Brunnelle’s website. Here’s a taste!

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18 Breathtaking Architectural Lookouts

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People have been building up for as long as they’ve been building at all, but structures made solely for the purpose of leisurely looking around at things—“purpose-free architecture”—are a relatively recent phenomenon. Lookout: Architecture With a View, a new show at the Swiss Architecture Museum (and accompanying book), offers an almost-like-being-there glimpse into some of the most amazing places to appreciate stunning vistas.

The earliest examples have been around since the Renaissance, but those first towers had a military vibe that matched the heavy, battlement-style surveillance lookouts of yore, like castle turrets or information posts. As the tourism industry developed in the 19th century, so did a range of new vernaculars: from super-basic wooden or steel staircases, whose sole purpose was simply to give your eye-level a bit of a boost, to incredible creations designed as architectural highlights at World’s Fairs and major international exhibitions.

The modern emergence of outdoor-loving eco-movements in the last few decades have shifted the focus toward new (even sometimes terrifying) ways to appreciate Mother Nature doing her thang—think treetop paths and glass walkways cantilevered way out over sublime scenery—but tourism remains one of the driving forces behind adding one of these super-structures to a skyline, be it rural, urban, or somewhere in between. Which is perhaps why some of the built environment’s biggest names have gotten in on the “architectural intervention” action, and really upped the ante on how to enhance our appreciation for surroundings as-yet unspoiled by, well, ourselves.

It’s an interesting tension, really. Are we sullying these spots? Or will these thoughtful, sometimes wild additions help draw attention to landscapes that deserve preserving, localizing visitors in a way that does the least amount of harm? Take a minute to look while imagining yourself transported to each of these locales, and post any of your own favorite places to enjoy epic visuals. [Design Curial]

Landmarke Lausitzer Seenland by Architektur und Landschaft, Germany

18 Breathtaking Architectural Lookouts You'll Wish You Could Visit

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10 Healthy Eating Habits Around The World

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Over one-third of US adults are currently obese, and that number isn’t dropping. It’s a pretty eye-opening statistic, especially when compared with data from countries like Japan and India, where obesity rates fall below five percent.

Why the difference? While national obesity rates depend on many factors, they probably have a lot to do with lifestyle and culture, including what people eat and how they eat it. The good news is that everyone can borrow healthy eating habits from countries around the world — and leave some less-wholesome practices on foreign soil. Keep in mind that these habits come from traditional diets found in these countries — with globalization, some foods and eating habits have migrated around the world (for better or for worse). For example, les steaks hachés sounds like a typical French food, but it’s actually the meaty part of Le Big Mac (and hardly part of traditional cuisine).

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  • Set the stage: It’s all in the presentation. We all know about the health benefits of seafood (omega-3s!) and veggies. One unexpected habit to steal from Japanese eating culture is the emphasis placed on food’s appearance. Small portions and colorful, seasonal vegetables make for a visually appealing — and healthy — plate. The small portions may help to keep calories in check, while bright veggies provide a range of healthy vitamins and minerals.

  • Skip: Fish high in heavy metals. Mercury, an element that can cause nervous system damage, is particularly prevalent in predatory species like tuna, king mackerel, and swordfish. Avoid sushi such as maguro (tuna) and nama-saba(mackerel) and go for safer options like sake (salmon), ebi (shrimp), and ika(squid) instead. Check out this list before stepping up to the sushi bar.

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A Taste Of Creativity And Humor

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If you want a daily dose of creativity and humor, start following the Instagram account (@cintascotch) of art director Javier Pérez. The Ecuador-based artist regularly posts simple and quirky photographs that consist of only a small object and a simple sketch.

Pérez has a knack for seeing the objects as something different in a tiny imaginary world. A cluster of grapes become helium balloons in the hands of a young boy. A flower becomes part of a record player. The cream and cookie of an Oreo are seen as a spinning globe on a stand.

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The Real Lost World Is Found

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For the past few millennia, the dewy rainforests of Australia’s Cape Melville have remained totally isolated from human interference. That is, until a team of scientists from James Cook University took humanity’s first steps into a land untouched by time. What they found there was almost beyond belief.

Calling the unprecedented discovery a “lost world,” the scientists were only able to reach the roughly two-square-mile patch of land by helicopter thanks to the “monstrous wall” of “millions of giant, piled up boulders the size of houses and cars.” And if that’s not enough of a challenge for you, this impassable monument to nature’s prehistoric processes extends for a grand total of nine miles. How, then, did Dr. Conrad Hoskin, one of the leaders expedition, find this discovery of a lifetime? The same way we find anything these days: Google.

Dr. Hoskin had known about the range for more than a decade, but the seemingly insurmountable obstacles to reaching it had limited scientists to doing research in the range’s lowlands. With the advent of Google Earth, though, and its revelation of the lush tiny patch of green atop piles of monstrous black granite boulders, he was inspired to take a second look. But no satellite imagery could prepare him for what he was about to see.

Incredible Remote Lost World Discovered With Never-Before-Seen Species

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What Personality Type Earn The Highest Income?

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This is how much money people with your personality make

It’s important whenever presented with a theory like Carl Jung’s theory of personality types (which Myers and Briggs formalized into a personality test) to remember that you are in possession of a unique set of neurons whose synapses fire in unique patterns that cannot easily be slotted into one of sixteen “types” from which one can draw conclusions about your destiny.

That said, tests are fun! As an INTP (or so the Internet just told me) it appears that I need to get better at talking to people and planning if I am to have any hope of making the Big Bucks. Of course that’s only true if Myers-Briggs types have causal income effects which they very well might not but whatever, tests are fun!

Hat-tip to Jessica Roy for the chart; here’s the full infographic. Click “Know More” to read about the Myers-Briggs test’s many shortcomings. Among other problems, peoples’ types tend to vary based on test-taking sessions (which they shouldn’t if the test measures an immutable personality type) and the explanatory power of personality types as determined by the test is limited.

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Technology in Globalization

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Technology is a tool that can help us in this era. As we know that in globalization, we have to keep ourselves up-to-date and also looking forward in technology, so we can survive. In this era, technology has become more and more important to human life. But don’t forget that there are a lot of positive and negative impacts in technology so we can learn what we are supposed to do to survive with many kinds of technology.

For the positive impact first, it makes life more wonderful and easier. With the help of technology, a lot of jobs from the easy to the hard can be done just in an hour. We can learn everything with technology, and also the works which need humans to do can be done such as household chores. And also about what I said before we can make everything become effective and use our time efficiently. And the second is that technology influences entertainment. As we know, people are very busy with their own activities, and with technology they can use it to entertain themselves everyday so that they can survive their busy day with a smile. This makes us realize that with technology, our life can have an enormous source of entertainment.

Technology also has negative effects on the world, particularly for human health, relationships, and their habits. Since technology can help us for many different situations, people will tend to live a static life, and can make them lazy and not care about living a healthy and active lifestyle. If we just play with our technology, we can’t socialize directly with other people and become anti social. It can be very dangerous if this happens since we were children because it will be hard to change. And last but not least is habit. We should make sure we aren’t being bullied by technology and that we are the one in control of our technology. Maybe we don’t realize it, but day by day, technology can slowly control us so we need to be aware and know for what purpose is the technology that we are going to use.

In conclusion, technology has several positive and negative impacts in our world today like making it easier and also making life more convenient. However, it can affect people’s health relationships, and also habit. We have to relax and think again what we are supposed to do in our complicated life so we can survive in our own way. “life is more easier because technology but technology just make people life more complicated” -Abraham Timothy-

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So Easy and Funny Learning English With Mobile Devices.

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We live in the era globlalisation that changed human activities in the world. So many people has smart mobile devices, because it is so easy to find, and it is so easy to get. The most human in the world understand about the functional of smart mobile devices because that is have already habit to use. We can do anything with our smart mobile devices such as browsing to the internet.

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The smartest mobile devices has connected to the internet so we can easly to get more information about anything that we couldn’t know before. For example, if you get a hardest thing about lesson of english and you don’t understand at all neither with your friend, don’t worry! Because you can browsing to the internet by your smart mobile devices about your problem. You can get more information about english, you can easyly learning online in the internet. Because all of you want, that there is. You can download any document from internet about english, and it will help you to learn english. Now smart mobile devices is used by students to help their knowledge. With its simply and small size smart mobile device is easy for people to bring and take everywhere.

The other problems, if you need a dictionary but there is none, you can download the application of dictionary on your phone so your problem has solved. Like this guys

726ce28c612c938f47aa57e013314ec4805aff8e201e960cdf4230c165f32116But if you need a dictionary as soon as possible you just only open your browse and write in google translate on google coloumn then you pick the language that you want and then your smart mobile devices already helped you again. Like this;)

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Next, when your english book lost whereas tomorrow you have an english test you just have to searching about the material that you need on smart mobile device. So… smart mobile devices helped you again, it will show you about the material that you want to know.

The smart mobile devices will be working so well, if you use the phone with a good way. Don’t underestimate your phone and the internet, because it will help you, soon so well.

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