Illinois blogger Brooke Birmingham shed 172 pounds. The blogger, understandably proud of her feat, happily responded to Shape magazine’s request to feature Birmingham’s story. The Illinois woman was not happy, however, when the magazine refused to print a picture of her in a bikini, reportedly owing to her excess skin.“When Birmingham sent them an ‘after’ bikini photo…
Super Bugs Winning War Against Antibiotics Could Bring Plague
Antibiotics have saved countless lives and improved the overall quality of life across the world, but they may very well be responsible for an impending catastrophe of a global scale. Researchers warn that the prevalence of antibiotics has forced bacteria to adapt, which means, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warns, that certain treatments are…
New Sunglasses Add Instagram Filters to Sunglasses, Putting the Fun in Functionality
Instagram has quickly become one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. At last glance, the photo-sharing service had 200-million active users. Altogether, these users have uploaded more than 20-billion photos to the service. One of Instagram‘s biggest draws is the ease with which users can apply tweaks in the form of…
Wearable Technologies Boost Employee Productivity Levels, According to New Research
According to new research, wearable technologies increased workplace efficiency by nearly 10%. “Participants in the study wore Neurosky MindWave brain activity sensors, GENEActiv motion monitors and the Lumo Back posture coach to assess employee behaviour and allow them to improve upon it,” The International Business Times reports. In addition to improving productivity levels, strapping…
7 Signs You May Have a Vitamin D Deficiency
Presence of vitamin D in our body is really important for bones, mental health and skin. But, most of the people take this vitamin D deficiency very likely. Dr. Michael F. Holick, M.D., Ph.D says that 80 to 90 percent of vitamin D comes from the exposure of Sun. Though, there are plenty of other products that…
Rush Limbaugh Randomly Attacks Don Lemon for Being Gay
The CNN’s news anchor Don Lemon has blatantly called Rush Limbaugh a “stunt king”. Actually, the anchor used this title due to pathetic comments of Limbaugh. It is said that Limbaugh once told that “Donald Sterling did not have enough money to beckon the Obama”. After reading this remark, Limbaugh did not tolerate the insult…
Can you see the electric assist motor on this bike?
When we reported on TreeHugger about an electric assist motor that converts a bicycle into stealth electric bike, a commenter wrote that “Does it really exist”? To convince our commenter, we thought to write another article on the same subject. Whether you believe on us or not, but it is the truth that it’s there. Actually,…
Transit Oriented Development is the key to better cities
Since years, the builders of city have been demanding for transit adjustment development for coping with the growing population density. Today, after many years, the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy has announced a new TOD (Transit Oriented Development) concept. Actually, TOD is meant to design the land for prioritizing different modes of transportation. In simple words,…
9 storey eco-friendly Melbourne apartment building goes up in 5 days
While writing on what will be the world’s tallest modular building, I received a tweet from Australia: “Whilst progress stalls on NYC modular tower, 9-storey Melbourne building goes up in 5 days”. Basically, this building comprises 34 one bedrooms and 2 bedrooms over 9 level. It was being constructed through Unitized Building system of Hickory Group…
Times sets goals for city-wide yard sale
The officials of Bowling Green Times are glad to announce that we are going to sale the Bowling Green city-wide yard. The annual event is supposed to be held on 7th June along with the Chamber of Commerce’s Park Day. In the past few years, both events had been colliding with each other. But, this time,…