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Research Shows that Airbnb Is, In Fact, Cheaper than a Hotel...Usually

One of our favorite travel tips is to use a service like Airbnb to rent apartmenta instead of book hotel rooms. You get more for your money, can stay in locations you'd never be able to otherwise, and enjoy the luxuries of a home. Now, a new study from Priceonomics points out that it's almost always cheaper, too. Read more...

Say It With Manga – Manga Named After Places Edition

  Sometimes, it’s good to look at a topic that is only a topic by happenstance.  These series have nothing in common aside from the fact they share names with locations.  Often, they have nothing to do with those places.  That doesn’t make them any less fun to read. Enjoy the cover of Animerica Extra, [...]

Living and Working Social--Good or bad medicine for healthcare?

Last week I attended a medical life sciences tech conference in San Diego. I stayed at the conference hotel.  The hotel was located, in fact connected to, the baseball stadium that is home to the San Diego Padres. That same side of the hotel was...(read more)

Smartphone usage in the world's most populous region

Did you know that most of the world's population is located within a small part of Southeast Asia? This remarkable fact was pointed out by a user of Reddit and fact checked in a Washington Post blog. Within this circle, small in comparison...Show More Summary

Site of Mons Graupius Claimed, to Minor Eyebrow Raising

Given that there are some people who doubt that the Battle of Mons Graupius, a fight between Romans and Caledonians in the north of Britain, even took place, and the fact that people claim all the time to have found new locations for...Show More Summary

"Is Murder in a State Without the Death Penalty a Mitigating Factor in a Federal Death Penalty Case?"

A 6th Circuit panel said yes, in a case where a man was convicted — under federal law, in federal court — of a murder in a national forest in Michigan. From the opinion (PDF): The question is whether the fact of the location of the body...Show More Summary

Evan's Garden Apartment — Small Cool Contest

Like this Small Cool 2013 contest entry? Favorite it below! Name: Evan Location: Brooklyn, NY Square Feet: 900 Division: Small What I Love About My Small Home: The fact that we only have 1 bedroom is made up for with the original details throughout. Show More Summary

TV: Newswire: Turns out The Simpsons’ Springfield is in Florida—and part of Universal Orlando 

Two and a half decades of speculating about the geographic location of the Simpsons’ hometown will come to rest sometime this summer, when Universal Orlando definitively proves that Springfield can in fact be found within an amusement park in Central Florida. Show More Summary

Pass the loofah: Huvafen Fushi contains the world's only submarine spa

4 weeks agoTechnology / Gadgets : Gizmag

Though at first glance Huvafen Fushi may resemble a James Bond villain’s undersea lair, it is in fact the world's only submarine spa. First opened in 2004, the über-exclusive spa, located in the Maldives' North Male Atoll, was recently...Show More Summary

3 Reasons to Buy Starbucks Stock

Americans love their coffee, and there's no company that's made that fact more apparent than Starbucks. The company operates or licenses 1,300 stores in the Americas region, with a total operation of almost 19,000 locations worldwide. Show More Summary

Get Ready For Apple Inc. (AAPL) South Australia!

Some people take for granted the fact that they have had an Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) Store located in close proximity to their home for many years. Believe it or not, there are millions upon millions of people, spanning a variety of countries, who are not nearly as lucky. Fortunately for South Australia, things are about [...]

Why I Started Creating My Own Locations

I guess none of you'd be surprised if we start this post by saying that location matters. In fact it is probably one of the more dominant elements of a photograph. This is pretty much what most photographers gather after a few months of shooting. Show More Summary

How can I identify a Facebook photograph?

I saw the most gorgeous hotel posted on Facebook, but the comment associated with it didn't identify what hotel it was or where it was located in the world. I want to know. In fact, I sent you a link to the post. Can you figure out where...Show More Summary

The Twittering World

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The Atlantic Cities on the evolution of Twitter, the nervous system of the emerging global consciousness...We wrote in late 2011 about some early research suggesting that many Twitter users in fact follow other people located withinShow More Summary

San Francisco Apple Store Moving Soon

Apple is on the move up, and I am not referring to their stock price, but rather, the fact that their flagship retail store in San Francisco is set to shift a few blocks away from its present location. Obviously, [...] Like It, +1, Tweet It, Pin It Original content from Ubergizmo.

Business Leaders To Policymakers: Public Lands Create A Competitive Advantage For Us

A healthy environment is obviously important for outdoor industry companies like Patagonia and L.L. Bean.  But a lesser-known fact is that the outdoors is also a significant resource to companies who choose to locate near great places in order to lure employees to work for them. That was the message delivered by a group of [...]

Eerie Pics Show Tunisia's Abandoned 'Star Wars' Sets

Little known fact: Tatooine isn't actually located in a galaxy far, far away. It's right here on Earth — Tunisia, to be precise The North African country was where many of the most iconic Stars Wars scenes were shot decades ago. ItsShow More Summary

Discovery Producer Bit By Deadly Snake While Location Scouting

There might be emergency personnel on site when survival reality shows are being filmed, but that doesn?t mean they?re not extremely dangerous. We got a reminder of that sad fact a few months ago when a contestant on France?s version of Survivor died, and now, we?ve been given another reminder in the form of a producer?s run-in with a deadly snake.

New UK Act May Allow Free Commercial Usage Of Orphan Works

Here is a fact that you should know by now. Images on the net are not up for grabs, even if you don't know who they belong to. This means for example that if a newspaper found a photograph online, it has to located its copyright owner...Show More Summary

Britain's most expensive house: Five facts about £250m mansion

Located a stone's throw from Buckingham Palace, 18 Carlton House Terrace is the ultimate 'des res'. Briefing LAST UPDATED AT 15:58 ON Tue 23 Apr 2013 A MANSION less than a mile from Buckingham Palace is set to become Britain's most expensive...Show More Summary

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