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Ice Snitches And Cocktails Alike With These Frozen Bullets

Long known in assassin circles as a means of offing targets without leaving evidence, ice bullets now serve a less-than-lethal function — cooling your drinks.

November 3, 2011
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This Future Iceberg Would Be Able To Sink A Thousand Titanics

You’re looking at Pine Island Glacier. It pushes more ice to the sea than any other glacier in the world. And that gigantic 18-mile-long canyon? That’s the birth point of a new gargantuan iceberg, larger than New York City.

October 4, 2011
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Barbuzzo Ice Straw Tray Makes My Head Hurt

Sometimes adding functionality makes things less useful. Do my lollies really need to be both sweet and tarty? No. Just like my drinking straw doesn’t need to also be an ice cube.

August 20, 2011
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How To Make Fire From Ice

Save this one for next winter or in case you get lost in the tundra without a lighter: Pick up some ice from a creek and polish it until you make a lens capable of igniting some foliage. [The Daily What]

July 28, 2011
Science

Fire-Ice Dug Could Fill Japan’s Fukushima-Shaped Hole

After the Fukushima disaster, Japan has obvious reasons for seeking out an energy alternative to replace one-third of its power. This so-called “fire-ice” could be drilled from the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, though it’s not the safest option around.

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These Beautiful Waterfalls Are Made Entirely Of Ice

Sisse Brimberg and Cotton Coulson — two veteran National Geographic photographers who have been married for 28 years — have captured this beautifully surreal image of waterfalls fully made of ice. I guess that those ice caps are really melting.

July 6, 2011
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Giant Ice Cubes From Greenland Are Not Art, You Lunatic

In a bid to remind the ignorant people of the world about the threat of global warming, artist Brian Goggin is setting out to drag a two-ton block of 100,000-year-old ice from Greenland to New York City. Because breathless confusion is the first step in advocacy.

Science

How Much Ice Do You Need For Your Drinks?

What goes with outdoor stuff? Drinks. Maybe beer, maybe soft drink – but either way, cold. So, you have your cooler and you have your drinks. How much ice do you need to get?

March 6, 2011
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A Man Made An Ice Castle Bigger Than His House

Apparently, there’s not much to do during Minnesota winters (I kid), because Roger Hanson has been making gigantic ice castles in his spare time. Seriously, they’re ginormous. We’re talking 20 metres high and 26 metres long humungous beasts of man made nature. How does he do it?

January 28, 2011
Gadgets

For The Love Of God, Make This Snow Scraper A Reality

Over at Quirky, the Snowdozer, a collapsible, double-bladed snow scraper, has 145 of 1200 preorders it needs to go into production. Is there any conceivable cause more important for you to get behind than this one?

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