Monday, March 17, 2014

Video: Drones in the USA deliver ice cold beers to thirsty fishermen


Drones in the USA are making some ice fishermen very happy by delivering crates of BEER to remote locations.

A tantalising video posted on YouTube in January showed Lakemaid Beer delivering a crate of cold brews to ice fishers in Minnesota.

After co-ordinates were programmed in by an employee at The Bait & Tackle near the frozen Lake Mille Lacs the drone took off with its cargo.



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Sunday, March 16, 2014

Man sings Let it Go in voices of Disney and Pixar characters

Disney's Frozen has been a huge hit in cinemas and it's main song Let it Go has been covered hundreds of times on YouTube. But Brian Hull's very unique version of the song is now going viral online. Hull shows off impressive acting talents by singing the song in the voices of some of Disney and Pixar's most famous characters. He can sing like Scar, Timon and Pumba, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, Mickey, Minnie and Goofy, amongst many others. See how many more characters you recognise! Read More

Saturday, March 15, 2014

Economics Explains Why You Resemble Your Mate

Editor’s Note: Could our own dating habits be to blame for the economic mobility that, according to a recent study, has been stagnant for three decades? In this adaptation of his recent book, “Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Economics I Learned from Online Dating,” Stanford economist Paul Oyer explains how our preferences to be around other people perpetuate our own socioeconomic positions. Oyer’s first post for Making Sen$e – a compelling read for anyone reentering the dating market or trying to understand economics – is about how the separated economist gets discriminated against online. Read More

Friday, March 14, 2014

Upstate NY girl, 5, spends day at wrong school

SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) — Officials at an upstate New York school district say a kindergartner spent a day at the wrong school after getting on the wrong bus. Schenectady (skeh-NEHK'-ta-dee) city school district officials say the series of mistakes began Wednesday morning when the 5-year-old girl boarded the wrong bus, which was driven by a substitute driver. Read More

Woman in India gives birth to 'two-headed baby'

A woman in India who was too poor to afford an ultrasound has given birth to what initially appeared to be a baby with two heads. The infant is in fact conjoined twins, who have separate spinal cords, necks and heads, but share limbs and vital organs. Read More

First Kiss Video: Filmmaker Gets 20 Strangers to Make Out on YouTube with Awkward Results

Amateur filmmaker Tatia Pilieva has captured that most transient of human interactions on YouTube - the first kiss - in a touching video that reveals the wave of nerves and laughter it seems to bring us. Scroll down for the video Strangers were paired off and given no instruction other than to lock lips, with the seconds proceeding the kiss proving as interesting as the kiss itself. Read More

Rampaging elephant smashes up house but then 'saves crying baby trapped under debris'

A rampaging elephant smashed a house to bits in an Indian village, but turned back and rescued a baby trapped in the rubble, a couple have claimed. Dipak Mahato and his wife Lalita say a male elephant attacked their house in a village in West Bengal's Purulia district, but saved their ten-month-old daughter from beneath the debris. Read More