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👉 Article Isreali artist Zygo is known for using the shape of a clothespin in his paintings and sculptures. Now, he wants to make a building in the shape of the everyday item. Zygo and his team plan to build the 50-floor Clothespin Tower in the city of Dubai in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). One side of it will be a hotel with 1,200 rooms, and the other side will have 300 apartments. Plans for t...

✋ Article Doctors are now using electric bicycles designed for emergencies on the streets of Paris. The Emergency Bike offers medical workers a quick way to travel the city's congested streets and get to people who need help. Technology and marketing company Wunderman Thompson Paris worked with French bicycle store Ecox and bike maker Urban Arrow to create the bike, getting advice from the Paris...

🍰🍰 Article 🍰🍰 The UK has announced plans to ban "buy one, get one free" deals and other special offers for unhealthy food. The ban affects food and drinks with high levels of sugar, salt and fat, and will start in April 2022. As part of the new rules, restaurants in the UK will also no longer be allowed to offer free refills of sugary drinks. The ban will also stop unhealthy food and drinks —...

☕☕ Article ☕☕ Disposable coffee cups have become a huge problem for the environment. But one Ireland-based company thinks it has a solution. Disposable coffee cups are made of paper, but they have a plastic lining to allow them to hold liquid. This lining means they can't be recycled easily, and most are not recycled at all. ButterflyCup has made what it says is the world's first 100% plastic-...

✋ Article Have you ever wanted a job where you get paid to do nothing? A Japanese man is renting himself out to do just that 一 and thousands of people are paying for his services. Shoji Morimoto, 37, from Tokyo, has been offering himself as someone who will "eat, drink and give very simple responses, but do nothing more," since June 2018. He has received over 3,000 requests since then. Morimoto...

❄❄ Article ❄❄ People in Amsterdam aren't complaining about the recent cold temperatures in the city. In fact, many are hoping it gets even colder so that the canals freeze over. The city has even banned boats on some parts of the canals to give the water a better chance of freezing over. In other parts of the Netherlands, people are already ice skating on frozen lakes and rivers. And companies tha...

👽 Article 👽 The photo of Bernie Sanders in his brown coat and wool mittens at the presidential inauguration has inspired hundreds of memes, but it has also helped raise $1.8 million for charity. The money came from the sale of items with the original photo on them. According to Sanders, he put the first products, including T-shirts and sweatshirts, on his website January 21 and they sold out in...

📚📖 Article 📚📖 Like mukbang eating videos, gongbang videos began as a South Korean trend but now have fans all around the world. The word gongbang comes from the Korean for "study broadcast": gongbu bangsong. The videos show people studying for anywhere between a few minutes and 12 hours. They're also called "Study with Me" videos and some have several million views.   A search on YouTube...

✋ Article Michelle Obama is making a food show for children with a pair of puppets that will be released on Netflix. The new show, called Waffles + Mochi, will be released March 16, and will be "all about good food: discovering it, cooking it, and of course, eating it," the former first lady wrote on Instagram. The show will tell the story of two puppets who want to become chefs and travel the wo...

留言告訴我你對這一集的想法： https://open.firstory.me/user/ckojhirwu55w50998k5xprspo/comments ✋ Article Airbnb is having a competition for couples to win a night in "Juliet's House" on Valentine's Day in Verona, Italy. The couple that wins will get a meal from a two Michelin star chef and a tour of the city with a photographer. They can also sleep in the bed used in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 movie...

💏 Article William Shakespeare is probably the best known English writer in the world. But how much do you know about him? Shakespeare was born in 1564 in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon. The writer's exact birthday is not known, but it is usually celebrated on April 23. He also died on April 23 in 1616, when he was 52. The house that Shakespeare was born in is now a museum. Shakespeare wrote at l...

❤ Article ❤ A study has found that couples who met using dating apps like Tinder want serious relationships. Dating apps have completely changed how people meet, and new research by Dr. Gina Potarca from the University of Geneva in Switzerland disagrees with the popular idea that people only use them to look for casual relationships. Using a 2018 national survey, Potarca studied 3,235 adults in re...

🐷 Article 🐷 Video games have been used to test the thinking and movement skills of animals such as monkeys, apes, pigeons and rats for a long time. But now, researchers have also taught pigs how to play a simple video game. In research conducted at Pennsylvania State University, four pigs learned to use a joystick to move a white circle from the center of a screen to hit a "wall" at the top, bot...

🧑‍🚀👩‍🚀 Article 🧑‍🚀👩‍🚀 The first private space crew to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) will pay $55 million each for the trip. The crew includes American entrepreneur Larry Connor, Canadian businessman Mark Pathy, and Israeli businessman Eytan Stibbe. They will be led by Michael Lopez-Alegria, who used to be a NASA astronaut and now works for Axiom Space, the Houston company th...

🐦 Article 🐦 Do you enjoy bird-watching? Then this bird feeder may be for you! A Slovenian company has raised over $5 million to create a bird feeder that tells owners when birds come to visit and takes photographs of the animals. The company set up a Kickstarter page to help create the product, called Bird Buddy, and raised more than $60,000 for it in just 20 minutes. The company says the feeder...

✋ Article A Chinese restaurant in Canada has gone viral for its honest menu. The owner of Aunt Dai restaurant in Montreal, Feigang Fei, has written comments on the menu that tell customers what he really thinks of everything he serves. Writer Kim Belair posted on Twitter that Aunt Dai is her favorite Chinese restaurant in Montreal, but what she enjoys most is what the owner writes about the dishe...

💰 Article 💰 A new study has found that not only can money buy happiness, but the more money a person makes, the happier they may be. The results conflict with a study from 2010 which found that the more money people make, the happier they feel, but only up to about $75,000 a year. Another study from 2018 found that, across all countries, the ideal average income for life satisfaction is $95,000...

❄🌨 Article ❄🌨 An Icelandic company has created a small camper that gives people the chance to add a little luxury to their camping trips. The teardrop-shaped Mink 2.0 sports camper was created by Mink Campers and is big enough to sleep two adults and one child. Above its queen-size bed it has a large window in the roof, while the back opens to become a kitchen with a stove and space for personal i...

❄ Article ❄ As Americans look for ways to get outside safely during the coronavirus pandemic, snowmobiles have become hugely popular. Much like the market for boats, bicycles and outdoor furniture, the snowmobile industry is going through its biggest boom in decades, making it difficult to find a new one for sale, or even one for rent. "We've had some good years and some bad years, but we've never...

🚗 Article The Toyota Motor Corporation can once again call itself the biggest car company in the world, after selling over 9.5 million vehicles in 2020. German car company Volkswagen, which had been the biggest car company since 2016, sold just over 9.3 million vehicles in 2020. Toyota first became the biggest car company in the world in 2008, taking the title from General Motors (GM). The US com...

🎸🎸 Article A band from the US has found a creative way of having concerts during the coronavirus pandemic using plastic bubbles. The Flaming Lips played concerts on January 22 and 23 in Oklahoma City where each audience member watched from inside a bubble, either alone or with up to two others. Members of the band were inside bubbles, too. Inside each bubble, audience members were given a water...

🐶 Article 🐶 A new collar from a South Korean company can tell dog owners how their pets are feeling. The Petpuls collar records the sounds a dog makes and compares them to more than 10,000 bark recordings from 50 different types of dog. The collar uses that information to tell owners if their dog is happy, relaxed, anxious, angry or sad. The company says that testing at Seoul National University...

🏆 Article 🏆 A small town in Finland has announced a bid to host the 2032 Summer Olympics as part of its campaign to raise awareness about the effects of climate change. Salla, which claims to be the coldest town in Finland, admitted that the idea was "crazy," but said that it has an important message. "We want to keep Salla as it is, and our winters cold and full of snow," Erkki Parkkinen, mayor...

🍎🥦🌶🍆 Article 🍎🥦🌶🍆 A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that most teenagers in the US don't eat enough fruits and vegetables. According to the nation's 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, girls aged 14 to 18 should have at least 2.5 cups of vegetables and 1.5 cups of fruit every day. Boys aged 14 to 18 should have 3 cups of vegetables and 2 cups of...

✋ Article There's a lot of advice out there about how to write work emails. But what are some things you should never do? 1. Send When You're Angry Even though it can be tempting, it's not often a good idea to send an email when you're angry with someone or something at work. Taking a short break before typing will help you avoid saying anything you might regret later. 2. Forget to Say "Hello" Ev...