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Exploring The Retreat at Blue Lagoon, Iceland's ultimate hideaway

The Mail on Sunday's Sarah Turner checked into The Retreat, which takes Iceland's most seminal experience - bathing in the milky waters of the Blue Lagoon - and raises it to new levels.




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Is Bitcoin an idea whose time has finally come or a crazy gamble?

This Tuesday, the Bitcoin is expected to undergo a 'halving'. Will it offer a new opportunity for investors to make a profit? Or as legendary investor Warren Buffett believes, is it no more than 'rat poison'?




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Mother’s Day 2020: 5 Easy DIY Gift Ideas to Make Your Mom Smile

Here are 5 easy Do-It-Yourself gift ideas to make your mom's day special on Mother's Day 2020 (May 10th) in the middle of a global pandemic.




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Falcons' Allen says idea of practice is 'nerve-racking'

Ricardo Allen didn't budge when Georgia was one of the first states to open businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. The Atlanta Falcons safety believes it is smart to stay home. The NFL has set protocols for reopening team facilities and has made a 2020 season seem more real by releasing schedules this week.




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Bone fragment is only Ice Age artwork from America to show a “proboscidean”

Researchers from the Smithsonian Institution and the University of Florida have announced the discovery of a bone fragment, approximately 13,000 years old, in Florida with an incised image of a mammoth or mastodon.

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Browsing suburbia: Virginia’s parceled-up farms and forests are ideal refuge for white-tailed deer

Forget the deep forest, “today the highest densities of deer in the state of Virginia are in suburbia,” says William McShea, ecologist and research scientist at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Va.

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Three Smithsonian scientists to participate in Aspen Ideas Festival

The Smithsonian is delighted to be included in this year’s Aspen Ideas Festival (June 26 – July 2 in Aspen, Colo.) which will gather some of […]

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Maybe it’s safer riding a rhino. Genet expert poses new ideas on the mammal’s hitchhiking behavior

When some of the world’s largest mammals come your way, most animals steer clear. Not the genet. The small cat-like carnivore was captured on film […]

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Fulcaldea stuessyi is newly discovered member of the Barnadesioideae, a subfamily of the Compositae, or sunflower family of flowering plants,

Fulcaldea stuessyi is a newly discovered member of the Barnadesioideae, a subfamily of the Compositae, or sunflower family of flowering plants. It was found in northeastern […]

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Doubt about Upgrading a lenovo ideacentre 300-20ish and GPU and CPU temeperature




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Vodafone Idea, Airtel to launch NB-IoT services

New standard can make communication between machines better and cheaper. “We'll be going with a pilot in a denser way rather than just a few trial sites…in a couple of months, we will be commercially rolling out,” Ajay Chitkara, CEO, Airtel Business, told ET. Vodafone Idea, on the other hand, has already conducted commercial pilots in eight cities.




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Ideas for leftover Valentine's Day candy

Here are some ways to help you get creative with your surplus holiday candy.




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Fun date ideas (for the eco-friendly couple)

Taking your sweetie out for romantic date can be challenging, stressful and expensive. But it definitely doesn’t have to be. Be a bit creative and have some f



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10 Valentine's Day gift ideas for school

Need to make valentines for the whole class? Here are 10 great ideas for gifts that kids can make for all of their classmates.




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7 DIY valentine ideas for science nerds

Do electrical circuits and chemical elements make your heart sing? Check out these fun Valentine's Day designs.




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Beach nourishment works, but is it a good idea?

Protecting private property by replenishing storm-damaged beaches may be an exercise in futility



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Taxing gas: A great idea, but can it fly?

A consensus is emerging in support of a price floor for gasoline, but getting it through Congress may be difficult. And will Obama expend capital on the idea?




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Who invented the idea of organic farming and organic food?

We can thank 3 important books published in the 1940s for the certified organic produce we see in stores today.




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Meet Tom Gage, the man who could have founded Tesla (but had other ideas)

Tom Gage was one of the creators of the high-performance electric TZero, the car that inspired the Tesla Roadster. But he didn't want to be a carmaker. Instead,




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Why listening to music while trying to do something creative is a terrible idea

New research suggests listening to music kills creativity.




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Egg-shaped hideaway gives whole new meaning to 'escape pod'

Powered by the wind and sun, Ecocapsule is the ultimate off-grid micro-home for vagabond vacationers.



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5 ideas for an easy Friendsgiving

There are no rules for Friendsgiving, but it still helps to plan ahead.




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Recycled Brazilian office warehouse has neat ideas for small living

In order to make its employees more comfortable when they want to take a break from work, a sports marketing company from Sao Paulo, Latin Sports, asked Brazili



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Crate expectations: 11 shipping container housing ideas

Shipping containers can be transformed into a variety of innovative homes and hotels.



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5 tiny home design ideas worth stealing

These fun designs will win over even the toughest of skeptics.



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Why bullet journaling is a genius idea

The basic organizing concept is flexible and creative yet specific enough to work for most people.



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This giant golden egg is a place for sweaty Swedes to get together and incubate new ideas

An eye-catching community sauna is a symbol of rebirth for the arctic mining town of Kiruna, which is being forced to move 2 miles to the east.



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Why big fridges are a bad idea

American-style refrigerators don't just waste energy, they can hurt your health and wallet too.




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Mother's Day gifts: 11 cheap and green ideas

MNN has assembled a 2010 guide to great, affordable green gifts that Mom will love.




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Queen of the castle: Mother's Day gift ideas for the home and garden

So that you don't wind up gifting an awesome mum something too sentimental and/or last minute, a few singular Mother's Day gift picks ...




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Laundry detergent eats smog (but is it a good idea?)

By adding tiny nanoparticles of titanium dioxide, our clothes could become air purifiers — or so they say.



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5 gift ideas for the mixologist in your life

Do you have friends who are always throwing parties? We've got the tools to make them happy.




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Is going 'off-grid' a good idea?

Many people want to go off grid and lose the electric bill, but does it make sense?




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Why insuring a coral reef is a good idea

Almost 40 miles of coral reef and beach around Cancun and Puerto Morelos are now insured against storms.



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Do you have any good eco-friendly gift ideas for Valentine's Day?

Trust Chanie Kirschner when she says you can't go wrong with flowers and chocolate -- organic or free trade, of course.




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Atlanta gets a fresh idea: Home-delivered organic produce

ColdLife organics grows its own food, keeps it cold, and delivers it to your door.



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5 ideas to green your all-white-attire affair

Ideas to green a white attire dinner that is all the rage.




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CFL bulbs with built-in armor: A bright idea?

ArmorLites are CFL bulbs with a special 'skin' that prevents mercury exposure if the bulb is broken. But is mercury exposure even something to worry about?




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12 ambitious space tech ideas funded by NASA

From fission and fusion to biomaterials, NASA hopes these innovations will benefit Earth and space science.



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6 visionary transit ideas that turned heads before Hyperloop

Elon Musk wasn't the first with a futuristic idea. The transportation industry has seen a mixed bag of game-changing technologies and utter failures.




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6 futuristic transit ideas that turned heads before Hyperloop

Elon Musk wasn't the first to come up with a visionary transportation scheme.




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Dad has no idea he brought the wrong dog home from the groomer

His sons had to let him know that the strange new dog wasn't theirs.




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7 'old-school' parenting ideas that would never fly today

Lots of old parenting ideas wouldn't work today, but there's at least one that most kids wish would come back.




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6 'Elf on the Shelf ideas' for your family

From the fitness fan to the overachiever, we've got you covered with ten fun 'Elf on the Shelf' ideas to please all of your little elves.




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10 elegant, inexpensive, homemade holiday gift ideas

Looking to make this holiday really special — without breaking the bank? Consider homemade gifts. Here are 10 ways to put a special glow into Christmas.




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7 billionaires and their crazy-ingenious ideas

It's worth keeping tabs on some of the world's most eccentric billionaires, especially if it was their wacky ideas that made them so rich to begin with.




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NASA wants your ideas to keep astronauts safe on Mars

To prepare for future colonies on Mars, NASA is asking for ideas on how to keep Red Planet astronauts safe that require minimal resupplies from Earth.




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NASA study throws cold water on idea of terraforming Mars

An in-depth study into the resources and tech needed to turn Mars into Earth finds we're not quite there yet.




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Stewart Brand's idea of a 'Whole Earth' changed our world (and he's not done yet)

Stewart Brand, creator of the Whole Earth Catalog, helped shape the future we live in now.



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Is meeting face-to-face with your Facebook friends really a smart idea?

One Australian is on a mission to have coffee, one-on-one, with each of his 1,088 Facebook friends. The question is, would you want to do that?