150 Street Artists Covered an Old Tunisian Village in Beautiful Murals

For the past two months, 150 artists from 30 nations have been busy in the village of Erriadh, one of the oldest in Tunisia. They have been covering its buildings, gates, windows — almost any flat surface — in murals, in hopes of enticing tourists and infusing the area with new life. Their graffiti is part of a street art project called Djerbahood, an open-air museum curated by the artist Mehdi Ben Cheikh and Galerie Itinerrance. A Tunisian woman walks past a mural by Spanish artist Btoy as part of the street art...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 24 September 2014

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Belgian City to Build Underground Pipeline for Beer

In an effort to eliminate disruptive delivery trucks driving through its picturesque streets, the Belgian city of Bruges approved plans Tuesday to create an underground pipeline for transporting beer. Agence France-Presse reported the pipeline is set to connect the historic De Halve Maan brewery to a bottling factory two miles away, eliminating the 500 trucks that drive down the city's small streets each year. De Halve Maan, a major fixture in Bruges, is a UNESCO World Heritage site that hosts 100,000 tourists each year....

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The 10 Types of World Cup Fans Everyone Knows

World Cup fever is sweeping the globe, which of course means that otherwise sane people are now raging lunatics. Whether you're a soccer fan or not, there's no way you could miss the crazed fans taking over your local bars, restaurants and living rooms. Because we here at Mashable understand the human condition on such a deep level, we've been able to condense the millions of World Cup fans into their ten most common forms. Check out our findings below. IMAGE: MASHABLE ILLUSTRATION MAX KNOBLAUCH IMAGE:...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Thursday, 26 June 2014

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Oh, Never Mind: Top 5 Retracted Science Studies of 2013

In the publish-or-perish world of academia, the pressure can be intense for scientists to get their work out in front of peers and to secure more funding for further research — so much so that, well, let's just say mistakes can happen. Some mistakes are innocent, such as an accidental mislabeling of data or images that leads the researchers to an erroneous conclusion. Other mistakes reflect a serious lapse in ethics or common sense. Mistakes often result in a scientific retraction, a public removal of the flawed paper...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 1 January 2014

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12 Things You Forgot Happened in 2013

1. Paula Deen's Career Melts After Deposition Paula Deen, the celebrity cook known best for her affinity for adding extra butter, faced career chaos this summer over details of a leaked deposition. The paperwork included Deen's admissions to using the N-word and plans for a Southern plantation-style wedding, among others. In the wake of the deposition, Deen was booted from pork-producing company Smithfield Foods and her television home, the Food Network. Both noted an intolerance to racial slurs as the cause. Deen later appeared...

Posted By: Pawan Lubana on Wednesday, 25 December 2013

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