Plant City plays role in new X-Men movie
Hollywood does a lot with high-tech smoke and mirrors when making action films, but part of the illusion happens to be made out of the same foam material you might find in a coffee cup.
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Healthy lawn needs good soil
Paving stones, shrubs, perennials and ground covers are all great alternatives to a lawn.
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Liquid glass used to plug leak at crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant
Engineers have used liquid glass to stem the leaks of highly radioactive water leaking into the sea from a crippled Japanese nuclear power plant, the facility’s operator said on Wednesday, in a breakthrough in the battle to contain the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl.
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From Kitchen to Classroom: The New Pencil Made from Recycled Refrigerator Parts
The last great leap forward in pencil technology was reshaping them into a hexagon so they wouldn’t roll off an angled draftsman’s desk. (I cannot count the mechanical pencil as a leap forward. I just can’t.) Now, French pen and razor company, Bic, is taking the wood out of a “wooden” pencil to make it more sustainable, and the secret ingredient is old refrigerator parts. According to Waste and …
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