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Clever 3D-Printed Widget Turns A Balloon Into A Flower Vase
How often do you actually get flowers and need a vase to put them in? On your birthday, maybe? When a family member passes? So why bother storing a rarely-used fancy vase when this clever 3D-printable plastic widget turns a party balloon into a decent place to keep a few flowers alive?
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Sneaky Trick Uses Maths Magic To Guess Your Cards
Maths is basically magic. So it’s no surprise that a clever use of the Fibonacci numbers — a series of numbers (1, 2, 3, 5, 8, etc.) where each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers — and a super-slick shuffling method can combine for a card trick that makes it impossibly easy…
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Watch A 24 Metre Tall Boat Somehow Clear A Bridge That’s Way Too Low
Video: It’s the classic dilemma of being on a sailboat that has a 24m tall mast but needing to get under a bridge that only has a 20m clearance. The answer is obvious, right? Just strap some heavy bags to the mast so you bend the boat diagonal so it shortens the height of the…
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What If Classic Paintings Were Photoshopped Like Today’s Magazines?
Lauren Wade at TakePart re-imagined famous classic paintings to fit today’s “standards” by Photoshopping the subjects in the paintings to look like magazine cover models. That basically means: impossibly skinny waists, thinner arms, basically no joy of fat whatsoever but still have bigger breasts somehow. It’s quite embarrassing to see how starved our definition of…