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In Ireland, Cheese-and-Onion Chocolate Bars are All the Rage

In Ireland, Cheese-and-Onion Chocolate Bars are All the Rage

Taste Ireland/Facebook If you're a world traveler, then you know very well that people have different taste buds in different parts of the world. Even when it comes to common products offered by food companies. For example, caviar and crab-flavored Lay's potato chips are popular in Russia. In China, Oreos are stuffed with mango and orange cream. And in Spain, Kellogg's All-Bran cereal is… [Read more]

Make Facebook Friends with Budweiser’s Buddy Cup

Make Facebook Friends with Budweiser’s Buddy Cup

Budweiser is working on a technology that would make it easier for their consumers to make Facebook Friends while drinking beer. The company’s Brazilian development team came up with the Buddy Cup, a beer glass with embedded chip. How Budweiser Buddy Cup Works When two Buddy Cups are… [Read more]

Study Shows That Tweeters are Happier When They Travel

Study Shows That Tweeters are Happier When They Travel

Who doesn’t love packing up and heading out for a vacation? I’d think that pretty much all of us. But, with technology at our fingertips 24/7, scientists can now track exactly how people feel when on the move. And, it turns out that traveling seems to make Twitter users really happy. In 2011, Morgan Frank and his colleagues at the University of Vermont began to analyze millions of Tweets… [Read more]

California Lawmaker Wants Last Call to be at 4 A.M.

California Lawmaker Wants Last Call to be at 4 A.M.

Unless you live in a state like Alaska, where bars are allowed to be open from 8 a.m. to 5 a.m., or a city like Vegas, where you can party all night, many places in the U.S. have relatively conservative times when a bar must close for the night. For California, along with many other states across the country,… [Read more]

Japanese Guy Dreams of Travelling the World to Take Pictures of Beautiful Women

Japanese Guy Dreams of Travelling the World to Take Pictures of Beautiful Women

You have to admire someone who puts everything on the line to pursue their dream. But you have to be envious of a guy whose dream it is to travel the world and snap pictures of beautiful women. The Tokyo Times recently featured a report on one such dreamer named Kei Akatsu. The Tokyo University of Science student,… [Read more]