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People

No More Tea for Two

George Clooney’s Breakup with Girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis: Relationship’s Red Flags The Daily Beast

Any speculation about George Clooney marrying Elisabetta Canalis is over. The reasons aren’t clear although Canalis recently went to far as to say that she was ‘the marrying type’ and that ‘I am a firm believer in marriage … In the future, I will be married.’

The two have been inseparable but they issued a joint statement saying ‘We are not together anymore. It’s difficult and very personal, and we hope everyone can respect our privacy.’

Living

Big Snoozers

Reading new research that 12 men went to sleep faster and surprisingly also went into a much deeper sleep in a hammock, we found a cocoon hammock that’s not your average vintage tied between two trees. The Coccon Hammock is a private getaway for the back yard.

For a mere $19,500 you can snooze the afternoon away — or all night if you’re adventurous. The cocoon also weights over 400 pounds, so you can’t take it camping.

Mathieu Lehanneur’s Once Upon a Dream Bed

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Miss Piggy & Joan Rivers Go to Bergdorf | Amused at Wunderland Kalkar

Design

Creativity Beyond Belief!

Abandoned German Nuclear Plant Transformed Into Wunderland Kalkar Amusement Park! Wunderland Kalkar Inhabitat

Digging into this story, in Kalkar in 1972, construction was started on the SNR-300, the first large breeding reactor in Germany.

The reactor was designed to use plutonium as fuel and be cooled by sodium, giving it a higher potential for disaster. Opposition built to the power plant, and the highly controversial was continually delayed.

Finally completed at enormous expense, the nuclear facility never opened. Besides community concerns, the reactor would have rendered the building contaminated and unusable, becoming both a political and environmental nightmare.

The building is essentially one of the most expensive, complicated pieces of trash in the world and lives a new life as an amusement park.

Functional Fair Tales

‘Charms & Disguises’ by Jenny Ekdahl Core77

Jenny Ekdahl is currently pursuing her Masters degree at Sweden’s Lund University School of Industrial Design. Her Spring 2011 project “Charms & Disguises,” which was recently exhibited at DMY Berlin, is an exploration of the deeper meaning of fairy tales.

Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club

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