Dec 15
While it is odd that a school called the University of Southern California would claim to know anything about a traditional snowy winter, this video is chock full of information. Including the connection between Christmas cards and sheep.
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Dec 09
Is there anything more soul crushing than waking up and checking the weather on your phone, only to discover that there are inches of snow outside waiting to complicate your morning commute? Snow in the forecast doesn’t always have to be a letdown, though. With this steam-bent wooden toboggan from Lucky Bums, you’ll embrace every flake that falls.
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Dec 09
With the East Coast inundated with rain, sleet, and snow—and the West Coast not faring much better—now would be a good time to make sure your cold weather emergency kit is topped off with fresh supplies. Wait—you don’t have a cold weather go-bag? Here’s what you’ll need to make it through the winter without shivering in the dark every time a storm knocks out the power.
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Dec 09
How Ice Skating Rinks Are Made
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Dec 05
Google’s Auto-Awesome feature
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Nov 20
Life handed Wisconsin lemons, and Wisconsin has come right back with the cheesiest lemonade you ever did see. Instead of spending thousands of dollars to dispose of cheese brine every year, Wisconsin will be putting that liquid provolone gold right back to use by pouring it onto the roads—which, in turn, is making them safer than ever before.
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Nov 05
The Forbidden City in Beijing was at least partially constructed with the help of an "artificial ice path," a 70-kilometer frozen superhighway created and maintained by 16th-century construction crews to slide huge stones into Beijing.
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Aug 27
Whether you like it or not, sunburns from these balmy late summer days will soon give way to that dreadful dry skin of early winter mornings. It’s inevitable, and if you don’t prepare yourself now, it’ll be miserable. That’s right. It’s almost humidifier season.
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Aug 12
Shoveling your vehicle out of a mountain of fresh snow in the morning is not only a terrible way to start your day, it could be downright dangerous if you’re not in the best of shape. A snowblower is a far better alternative, but who wants to drop all that money when there’s the risk of a snow-free winter? Toro agrees, and is now offering a full refund to anyone who buys a new snowblower and never has the chance to use it.
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Jul 13
Yes,, the Lego Winter Village Market set is really cute. Yes, it has 1,261 pieces and includes minifigs. And yes, with its rotating carousel it has the potential of being the perfect setting for a stop motion murder movie. But Lego is trying my patience by releasing something related to Christmas in the summer.
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