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800 Floating Porcelain Bowls Turn Water Into Music in Immersive Installation in NYC

800 Floating Porcelain Bowls Turn Water Into Music in Immersive Installation in NYC Sometimes, the most captivating works of art ask visitors not to look closer, but to listen more carefully. Tranquility is the focal point of French artist, musician, and composer Céleste...

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Good News in History, July 23

Happy 55th Birthday to the amazing musician and singer Alison Krauss, who has won more Grammys than almost anyone. A teenage prodigy in Decatur, Illinois, she was attracted to bluegrass music and was winning contests at age 10—and at 16 showed off her extraordinary fiddle playing on a debut album with a major label. Her

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Panoramic self-motorized EREV camping trailer axes smart RV pricing

For at least three years now, Silicon Valley and its global tech-futurist counterparts have been crafting a new vision for the future of RVing: long, sleek, luxurious glamping trailers that deliver their own motive power, sensor-based assistance and smart home conveniences. That vision invariably includes one other characteristic: a six-figure price tag. But the new T4 trailer from Southern California startup Aboard Mobility looks to squeeze all the high-tech convenience and glamping comfort into a much smaller base price. Whether Aboard is successful at doing so remains to be seen. Continue Reading Category: Camping Trailers , Adventure Vehicles , Outdoors Tags: Caravan , electric-camper , smart RV , trailers , Trailer , RV , Self-Driving , Outdoors and Camping , Glamping , Camping , PHEV

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Kids Can Try Out the 'Oliver Twist' Lifestyle at This English Museum Revealing Conditions for Poor People in a Victorian Workhouse

After a restoration, the Ripon Workhouse Museum reopened to the public, showcasing the sights, sounds and rules of England’s 19th-century “solution to poverty”

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Man Spends His Own Time and Money to Offer Illiterate Adults Free Literacy Lessons

Man Spends His Own Time and Money to Offer Illiterate Adults Free Literacy Lessons Vietnam boasts a high literacy rate, at 90.3% for adults and 94% for youths (15- to 24-year-olds). However, illiteracy still affects marginalized and remote communities, such as ethnic minority populations and older adults in mountainous areas. Hoping to turn this around, a police officer named Lê Tuấn Thành has taken on the unique side quest […] READ: Man Spends His Own Time and Money to Offer Illiterate Adults Free Literacy Lessons

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