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Summer’s Hottest Ice Cream Cone Topping Is…

...another Ice Cream Cone.  You heard me right.  As ridiculous as it sounds, it's taken off like a rocket cone, as teeny ice cream cones atop larger ice cream cones seem to have become the biggest foodie trend of the summer.   All over Instagram, ice creameries, apparently stocked with baby-sized ice cream cones, are adding the redundant topping to their scoops. The trend seems to have been around for […]

todayJuly 31, 2019

Tech Made Simple

Robot ‘Duck’ Aims to be a Weed Zoomba for Rice Fields

For centuries, rice farmers in Asia have used ducks as a natural alternative to pesticides. While paddling around in flooded rice paddy fields, ducks tear up weeds and snack on insects, with their manure even acting as additional fertilizer. In the 21st century, this practice is not widespread, but a new technological twist on the method could change that.   An engineer working for Japanese carmaker Nissan has built a […]

todayJune 27, 2019

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