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He who would be a great artist must not follow low models. The artist must have a perfect model to copy; if he does not reach to it, he will reach far further than if he had an inferior model to work by. When a man once realizes his own ideal, it is all over with him. A great painter once had finished…

The United Arab Emirates has accomplished some amazing feats of engineering, including having the world’s tallest building. Now, the country is considering something even more ambitious. The country is now considering building a mountain, which they hope, will increase rainfall in the country. The average…

One of the most complex machines in the world was completed disabled by a small animal. A spokesperson for the large Hadron Collider outside of Geneva, said they had to suspend operations because a weasel got inside a transformer that powers the machine and caused an electrical outage that disabled it…

The country of Sweden wants you to call one of its citizens if you have any interest in or questions about their beautiful country. Sweden has its own phone number that connects the caller to a random Swede—who could be anyone living anywhere around the country. "We are making Sweden the first country…

The technology world paused to honor Ray Tomlinson after he passed away in March 2016. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson worked for a Boston technology firm when he decided to devise a way for people to send messages to each other through a computer network. He thought the protocols available were too limited and…

Sunday School • Shaun Sipe

Superbugs that are resisting even the most powerful antibiotics, are infecting people and livestock in China. Some Microbiologists warn that it may only be a matter of time before universal drug resistance is widespread and existing antibiotics will become obsolete. “This isn’t going to happen overnight,…

Scientists have added four new elements to the periodic table, and now the researchers that discovered them will come up with names. Research on the elements had been going on since 2004, but research had been challenging because these elements decay quickly, with some remaining intact for only nanoseconds.…

Scientists are beginning to debate the necessity of giving robots rights. Denying the existence of a God in whose image man is made requires scientists to admit that consciousness is a result of completely material processes. Therefore, just as humans have rights because they are conscious beings, so…

A California company is offering clients interested in space travel, the opportunity to rest in peace on the moon. For a fee of $12,000, Elysium Space will privately transport a person’s cremated remains to the moon. They are currently taking orders, and the first batch of ashes will travel to the moon…

In October 2015, Sanmay Ved found a bargain. He saw that the domain “Google.com” was available for $12 and snagged the multi-billion dollar company’s URL. His quick thinking wound up benefitting a local nonprofit group. In less than a minute Google realized the mistake and cancelled the sale. Ved agreed…

Kynan Eng is president of a computer company that uses computers and brain research to help people live better lives. Eng wanted to use his expertise to respond to online questions about the intersection of neuroscience and human-computer interaction. When we went to Quora, he found himself distracted…

Professional illusionist Jackson Rayne took the stage at a Wildlife Park in Georgia and set a new world record by escaping from straightjackets 300 times in eight hours. Rayne was trying to beat the earlier record of 193 escapes which was set by a British man in 2003. Rayne said the feat was done by…

A ceramic specialist from a British auction house found a rare work of art hidden in a drawer in a country house near the Scottish border. The auction house said the pottery dish is a tin-glazed earthenware dish know as a mailoca and is extremely rare. The dish also had a scene of the biblical story…

The McCormick Spice company announced that it will soon pay a taco lover $100,000 over four months to innovate new seasoning mixes and recipes to make tacos better. The company will employ the person for four months at a salary of $25,000 per month. They asked for an availability to work remotely up…

Cloaking devices or covers that make objects invisible are common in science fiction. In the real world, it’s not so easy to do, but scientists say they have tested a device that could make invisibility a reality. Researchers said they successfully tested thin invisibility cloak made of microscopic rectangular…

Bob Ebeling spent 30 years of his life feeling guilty over his inability to avert the explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. In 1986, Ebeling was a booster rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol. He and several colleagues were worried that cold temperatures the night…

When Greg Carlson’s Las Vegas taco shop was burglarized, he deiced to turn the footage into a television commercial. Security footage shows three men breaking into the closed restaurant and ransacking it, looking for cash or other valuables. Carlson was alerted by an alarm system, and found the glass…

Michigan transportation officials are making 64-year-old pieces of the historic Mackinac Bridge available to the public. Officials said the pieces of steel grating from the bridge were replaced after safety inspections and they discovered many people were interested in owning a piece of the country’s…

Carnegie Mellon University accidentally told 800 applicants that they had won a place in one of the school’s computer science programs and then had to retract those letters. The letters were sent by email and retracted hours later, but not before many of the people had already told their family and friends…

Workers renovating a café In England made a discovery that may change the way the café does business. While pulling apart a section of ceiling, workers found a menu from the restaurant that occupied the building in 1913. The menu from the Yamen Café and Tea Rooms was dated January 1913. Workers also…

A twenty-three-year-old employee of Google is saving 90% of his income by living in a box truck parked inside the company’s headquarters. The engineer named Brandon, says he is only in the truck while sleeping or doing laundry. He confirmed that he uses perks provided by the company such as gourmet food,…

In his book, Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It, Brian Dumaine writes, “AIVA Technologies, a Luxembourg start-up, has created AI software that composes jazz, pop, and classical music that is being used in soundtracks for films, video…

A 1,400 square-foot home in New York state is billed as the first 3D printed home in the United States. The three-bedroom, 2 bath home with detached garage is listed at just under $300,000. It was built by a company called SQ4D and used a massive 3D printer on site to create each piece of the home using…