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House Of The Future

VernissageTV | Posted 09.15.2011

Read More: House, 1960s, Matti Suuronen, Netherlands, Museums, Architecture, Design, Ufos, Boijmans Van Beuningen, Living, Future, Rotterdam, Utopia, Prototype, Futuro, Flying Saucer, Futuro House, Andy Warhol, Christo, Joseph Beuys, Arts News
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In 2007, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, Netherlands came into possession of the prototype of a quite spectacular piece of architecture: F...

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Dutch 'Iceman' Controls Body Through Meditation

AP | TOBY STERLING and ALEKSANDAR FURTULA | Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Iceman, Finnish, Cold, Freezing, Guiness World Records, Meditation, Kilimanjaro, Half-Marathon, Mt. Everest, Ice, Rotterdam, Frostbite, Dutch, Inner Thermostat, Wim Hof, Weird News News

ROTTERDAM, Netherlands — The sun beams down on a warm Dutch spring morning, and the Iceman's students look wary as they watch him dump bag after...

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Scratch N' Spliff: Dutch Use Odorized Stickers In Drug Campaign

The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rotterdam, Dutch, Smoking, Smoking Pot, Dutch Marijuana Use, Illegal Drugs, The Netherlands, Dutch Drug Use, Cannabis, Marijuana Use, Pot Use, Drug Use, World News

In a government effort to curb what is perhaps their nation's best-known vice, Dutch households will soon receive marijuana-scented scratch-and-sniff ...

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PHOTOGRAPHY: Nan Goldin's 'Poste Restante,' An Exhibit In Rotterdam

Phaidon, Agenda | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Photography, Photographers, Photography-Exhibit, Netherlands, Nan Goldin, Rotterdam, Nan Goldin Exhibit, Fotomuseum Netherlands, Arts News

Since the 1960's Nan Goldin's work has confronted social taboos, as she documents her life and the lives, relationships, and experiences of those arou...

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What Women Bring to the Table -- Designers, Artists, Thinkers & Inventors to Start the Week

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women, Rotterdam, National Science Foundation, Career Award, Design, Wieki Somers, Annalee Newitz, Sofia Lagerkvist, Charlotte Von Der Lancken, Swedish, Netherlands, Anna Lindgren, Vision of the Future, Polish Designer, Whatwomenmake, Frog Design, Innovation, Lynn Jackson, Cindy Van Den Bremen, Dutch, James Cameron, Steve Jobs, Foam Material, Swedish Designers, Yin Ziuzhen, Gawker Media, Afsaneh Rabiei, Edyta Cieloch, Healthy Living News
Chauncey Zalkin

Ideas and Design on my radar right now. An eclectic bunch. Cutaway vase by Polish designer Edyta Cieloch "Dr. Afsaneh Rabiei of Iran, awarded a CARE...

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More About Speculation and Manipulation In Oil Trading

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Wall Street Journal, Marc Rich, International Energy Agency, Cftc, Rotterdam, Business News
Raymond J. Learsy

It is good news that the CFTC is awakening from its reverie and beginning to deal with the core issues of oil trading. But it is still too much of a hit/miss operation with a degree of insouciance.

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