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The name Katherine Moennig may not sound very familiar to most people and one might wonder why they can’t associate the name with the beautiful face. That is because Kate is best known as Shane McCutcheon, her most famous character till date. Born and raised in Philadelphia, Kate’s German, Scottish and Irish ancestry make her an exceptional beauty, [...]

Beauty may only be skin deep but there is no reason not to take pride in one’s beauty. Until now, eunuchs of India have been unable to participate in beauty competitions but that is going to change come February. Filmmaker Ganesh Kharwar is organising a beauty competition especially for eunuchs. Nazakat Queen 2010 would be held in Goa in the month [...]

Christmas is here and people are busy shopping, decorating their Christmas trees, or making snow angels and throwing snowballs at nosy neighbours. At this time, Sandia Labs is busy creating something just as fascinating as the first snow flake, something that would help the environment as well. The snowflake shaped photovoltaic cells developed by researchers [...]

No matter how many times I ask myself, and listen to words of wisdom offered by others, I cannot begin to understand the difference between marriage and “marriage”. Yet, that is what the world has reduced the LGBT community to; anything related to homosexuality is placed under ugly quotes giving readers the impression that the topic in discussion [...]

Very many decades ago, fortune hunters looking for treasure went on a mad rampage knocking off the tips of beautiful pyramids that had been a remnant of ancient Egypt. You’re probably all decent folk who wouldn’t dare to do something so horrid for some treasure going to tell you how to get your very own pyramid, from Japan! The 1984 PyramidTalk [...]

Our attempt to stay healthy and ingest only the cleanest of substances has led to the point where people insist on drinking only bottled water. Though there are other means of getting clean water, this dependence on bottled water has led to an increase in the amount of waste making up of discarded bottles. KOR isn’t just involved with creating products [...]

Designer Yves Behar has come up with a new concept tablet, the XO-3, which looks so good that consumers may be temporarily fooled into buying one just because of the beauty of the piece. The XO-3 has an 8.5×11 inch touchscreen which practically makes up the complete gadget. The ultra slim and uber cool XO-3 may be OLPC’s tablet that would come [...]

Having a house that looks great is a such a very important thing for a large number of people. However, for most people, the a great looking house is a way to show off to the neighbours and gain bragging rights to owning the best looking piece of property. Synn Architekten have designed a house in Vienna and the house surprisingly faces he garden instead [...]

Climate change and the attempt to resolve the problems that have come up because of drastic changes in the environment have been topmost in people’s mind for quite some time now. Many people had thought that a definite solution would turn up at the recent conference on global climate change at Copenhagen but it ended quite disappointingly. Something [...]

Guitarists and all music lovers would have heard of Les Paul at sometime in their life. The Gibson Les Paul was named after the designer, revolutionary guitarist Lester Polsfuss (whose stage name was Les Paul). One of Paul’s passions was tinkering around with materials in the hope of creating the ultimate perfection with a guitar and after decades [...]