Every year, the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine, in Ithaca, New York, holds an open house that is both entertaining and educational. There are many exhibits, seminars and hands on activities that will delight, amaze and amuse people of all ages. Even if you are not interested in pursuing a veterinary medicine

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In this day and age, recycling is hot and what better way is there to recycle an old iMac monitor then removing it's contents and making it into a luxurious and cozy cat bed! Your local landfill and feline friend will thank you, and it's a responsible way to recycle that monitor. If you are handy with computer stuff, remove t

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Salads can get pretty boring, and this time of year is when we try and grow as much of our salad bowl as we can, right here in our back yard. So we have salad every night with dinner. Even though the garden timing doesn't always go according to plan we have ways to spruce up a salad and give it that extra zing to ease the sala

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I am an avid supporter of recycling and eco-friendly products so this recycled wooden spool chair caught my eye. We used to play on these things as kids and make neat stackable forts. A furniture designer has taken what would ordinarily be resigned to the dump heap and made an attractive piece of furniture out of these spools.

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These innovative paper plates made from recycled material contain no chemical fillers or additives and are made from leaves and water. Unlike traditional paper plates, these plates do not leech chemicals into hot food and can be tossed into the compost pile, as they are biodegradable and will compost in about three months. Not

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Being green is easy with this eco-cooker. It allows you to cook as much as three dishes at the same time using the same pot, the same water and the same electricity that you would have otherwise done separately, at three times the cost and use of water. It also saves you a little time which is an added bonus. Go green with this

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Want to win a free digital photo keychian? I am giving away three digital photo keychains over at Today's Gizmos, so head on over and enter my contest. The keychains are nice. I put 50 photos on mine and have already shown them off to my friends and family. The quality is great and it's a nice easy way to carry a lot of photo

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This new Polaroid mobile POGO printer is a snap to use. Believe it or not printing photos with this printer requires no ink! The high tech printer paper has the dyes embedded in it and the printer activates the dye by heat pulse. You connect to your camera via USB or to your Bluetooth enabled wireless phone and print away. The

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I was fortunate enough to get a birds eye view (pun intended) of the construction of an Orioles nest. The odd thing about this nest was the placement of it. It was precariously perched on the outermost limb of a tree that was thrashing about in the wind and was overhanging a precipitous drop to the lake below. The literature sa

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USB microphones are a popular item because they can be hot connected and are plug and play. But the awkward stick like microphones are a pain to transport and the small discs that stick to your computer are of low quality and are generally not easy to detach and reattach. This compact yet stylish USB microphone is convenient to

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Awhile ago I wrote about terabyte hard drives, amazingly huge drives that were becoming affordable. Not to be outdone, a researcher at the University of Arizona has developed a technology that will enable consumers to have terabyte storage in a tiny thumb drive! Not only is this new technology a thousand times more efficient,

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I love an innovative company especially when it's a small one with a handful of employees. Afro cafe is one such company with African themed products consisting of coffees, teas and other African themed merchandise. Their wine box radio is a novel way of promoting African Music and is really quite ingenious. And yes the radio

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IBS or irritable bowel syndrome has often been brushed off by doctors as a figment of a sufferer's imagination, yet if you do suffer from IBS this is obviously not the case. Because there are no medically measurable obvious symptoms of IBS, it can't exist they feel. As an IBS sufferer who has overcome this awful condition I t

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For those of us that won't type text messages on a tiny keypad, this digital fountain pen designed by a student and not yet in production, will be the answer. Unlike other digital pens, this pen can write on any surface including potentially in mid air! All you need is the pen and a bluetooth enabled cell phone to send text me

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Like most people nowadays, I try to save money where I can and I am a big fan of Swifter type mops. But the refills are very expensive, so apart from devising our own cheaper cleaning solution I think this knit mop refill pattern over at The Fickle Knitter will be perfect! Those refills are not cheap either. The bumps in the st

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