This is another case of time winning against – well whatever you want to call this.
Some 900 years of male-dominated gondola history may be at an end with a court’s ruling that a woman can be a gondolier on Venice’s canals.
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Good news – just act your age
The sweetest success is in this story about a lady who has begun acting in her 90s.
Starmakers always are on the lookout for a fresh new face and they found one in Mae Laborde, albeit of the wrinkled variety. The 97-year-old Laborde is just four years into her acting career and hotter than ever. Standing 4-feet-10, with snow-white hair, rosy-red cheeks and a sweet-as-peaches-and-cream smile, she’s becoming TV’s ubiquitous grandma.
Oscar the Grouch gets dream home
Everyone’s gotta have a dream. If you were Oscar you’d likely want something like this.
Last year’s trash could become next year’s model home, thanks to the invention of a new type of construction material made entirely from waste products.
“Bitublocks,†created by engineer John Forth of the University of Leeds in England, are composed of recycled glass, sewage sludge, incinerator ash, the by-products of metal purification and pulverized fuel ash from power stations.
“Bitublocks use up to 100 percent waste materials and avoid sending them to landfill, which is quite unheard of in the building industry,†Forth said. …
… Plans also are now under way to develop a “Vegeblock†using waste vegetable oil.
Only the Cool Survive, er Care
Cool People Care is a site that tries to get people doing small good acts everyday because everyone has the time to do it. They have a feature called “5 minutes of caring” that is just that, take five minutes and show you care about the world.
If people are told how they can make a difference in less than 5 minutes a day, they just might do it. And, just like tiny water droplets make a tidal wave, if you get enough people to care for 5 minutes a day, you’ll change the world.
A good site indeed!
Tinman smiles….ethics for robots
You’ve seen/read I, Robot …well everyone talks about doing it, but now someone’s actually doing something about it. Our robots, in the future, are going to have ethics! There’s something very “Star Trek” about this story – very “Data”. Or in this case Alex Hubo.
” South Korea is drawing up a code of ethics to stop humans misusing robots — or vice versa.”