Tensions always run high between sports fans of rival teams on game day. But a new study shows that the rise of legalized sports betting in the US is turning those tensions into something far darker.

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Tags: gambling, Sports, Rice University, betting, Crime

Brazilian skateboarding legend Sandro Dias has broken two Guinness World Records after turning the curved facade of a 22-story high-rise into what Red Bull calls the world's largest skate ramp. The daring skater dropped from a height of 60 m (197 ft) and reached speeds of up to 103.8 km/h (64 mph) during his spectacular descent.

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Tags: Red Bull, World's Largest, Skateboard, Brazil

Phones can help with navigation on roadtrips, but they can also be dangerous distractions. A new study shows just how big that distraction is among teen drivers, and the number one reason the phones are used has nothing to do with directions.

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Tags: Driving, Cars, Teens, Accidents, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, smartphones

If you were the sort of kid who got an expensive Christmas present and spent the whole day playing with the box it came in, the Swiss clockmaker L’Epée 1839 has your dream package – and it doesn't even have anything in it, yet costs US$12,000.

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Tags: Watches, Luxury

Estonian daredevil Jaan Roose offers us a bird's eye view of Dubai with his latest death-defying stunt: a 330-ft stroll between two of its skyscrapers with a 700-ft drop beneath him.

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Tags: Red Bull, Stunts, Dubai, Skyscrapers

In the world of ugly shoes, we've had some real bangers.

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Tags: Shoes, 3D Printing, Creative AI

With climate change gaining prominence, there’s a concerted effort around ensuring eco-friendly, well, everything – including end-of-life processes. While traditional fire cremation burns fossil fuels, known pollutants that can emit harmful substances like carbon monoxide, heavy metals, and particulates, water cremation offers a cheaper, greener alternative.

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Tags: Deaths, Eco-Friendly, Green, Climate

The recognition of same-sex marriage across the European Union has had a negative impact on the US economy, causing the number of highly skilled foreign workers seeking visas to drop by about 21%, according to a new study.

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Taking his "cue" from an old Tom and Jerry cartoon, YouTube content creator Alex Apollonov from the 'I Did A Thing' channel has created an explosive billiards stick. Then he played his friend in a game. What could go wrong?

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Tags: Inventors, YouTube, Games, Oddball

Described as the world's largest kinetic art sculpture by New York City-based designer Breakfast, the Pearl is a remarkably intricate art installation that draws inspiration from the sea and consists of thousands of moving tiles.

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Tags: Art, Kinetic sculpture

The journey from having a neat idea to actually realizing it can be long and arduous, as shown by the + Pool. Some 13 years after we first saw it, the plan to creating a floating and self-filtering swimming pool that helps New Yorkers cool off is finally set to go ahead.

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Tags: Swimming, New York, Pool

Anyone who's been to karaoke night at a bar knows just how dramatically altered our voices get after throwing back a few drinks. Scientists have now shown that analyzing these vocal changes is a surprisingly good way to see just how drunk we are.

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Tags: Drinking, Alcohol, Smartphones, Stanford University, University of Toronto, Safety

Introducing the TiFlip, a sleek, versatile, lightweight precision flip knife that’s designed to handle all your cutting needs, from opening envelopes to cutting cords and zip ties. It even glows in the dark.

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Tags: Knife, Everyday Carry

Benetti Home specializes in interior vertical gardens and has partnered with Sky Valet, a brand associated with the "Aéroports de la Côte D'Azur" group, to enhance the well-being of travelers. The Italian design studio has introduced its distinctive green walls to the interior spaces of Sky Valet's network of Fixed-Base Operators located in Europe.

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Tags: Green Walls, Air purifying, Airports

Streamlight is well known for flashlights and other portable lighting solutions, but the Pennsylvania manufacturer is now throwing some weight into the everyday carry case segment, a seemingly rapidly growing chunk of market. Its all-new SpeedLocker keeps essentials like watches, passports, flashlights, and even small firearms safe inside eggshell-cradled high-impact polymer locked with an analog punch code set by the user.

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Tags: Everyday Carry, Security, Travel

Shaken or stirred? How about turbine-blasted at 150 rpm? Possibly the most British product of 2023, the all-new Martini Mixer from Callum was developed in collaboration with British Airways and British watchmaker Bremont and gives a quiet nod to everyone's favorite big-screen international (British) spy, James Bond. The muscular mixer flips the Bond script, offering a libation that's stirred, not shaken, whirling up a precisely mixed combination of gin and vermouth in a matter of seconds.

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Tags: Bars, Drink, Drinking, Alcohol, James Bond, Liquor, Beverages

With phone-based payment options coming on strong, the need to carry a wallet is slowly diminishing. Stympro Tech aims to make the wallet relevant again with four capabilities that are truly useful for iPhone users. Oh, and it holds cards too.

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Tags: Wallets, Item Finder, iPhone, Kickstarter

Slacklining enthusiast Jaan Roose recently took a vertigo-inducing walk across a thin line stretching from one of the amazing Katara Towers to the other. The Estonian completed the feat at a height of 185 m (606 ft) above the streets of the Qatari capital Doha.

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Tags: Skyscrapers, Hotel, Red Bull, Stunts, Qatar

Anyone who's ever gone on a vacation involving swimming knows how yucky it can be to pack up a wet bathing suit when it's over. The Guide bag, now on Kickstarter, aims to solve that issue and save you some space when packing dry clothes as well.

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Tags: Backpacks, Luggage, Camping, Waterproof, Kickstarter, Crowdfunding

Beer from a can just ain't the same as beer from a tap, and a lot of it's about the foam. The Japanese take their beer foam pretty seriously, it would seem, and a design team reckons it's worked out how to deliver the perfect pour using an extra tab.

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Tags: Beer, Japan, Alcohol, Food technology

A monastic brewery in East Germany says it's created the first powdered beer. Just add water, and it'll froth up, complete with a foamy head and full flavor. The result promises massive savings on transport, because it can be shipped at 10% of the weight.

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Pairing an evolutionary anthropologist with a child psychiatrist has produced a new study that provides interesting insights into how children’s mental well-being and education might be improved by adopting the hunter-gatherer childrearing practices those living in developed countries have lost.

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Tags: Africa, Children, Child, Hunting, Psychology, University of Cambridge

Pennywise, Twisty, Wrinkles, Bozo, Krusty and Ronald McDonald. What do these names have in common? They're all clowns, and, to some people, they're terrifying. A new study has examined the widespread phenomenon of clown phobia to determine how it begins.

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Tags: Phobia, University of South Wales, Fear

Israeli company Green Kinoko is preparing for the first public tests of a remarkable clean outdoor cooling system. The Kinsho system operates like the inverse of an outdoor cafe heater, cooling several tables per unit without using any electricity.

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Tags: Cooling, Air Conditioners, Outdoors and Camping, Temperature

It’s hard to beat a draft beer, but we usually have to make do with bottles and cans when away from the bar. Enter the Cooler Keg, a new design for a draft beer dispensing system built right into a cooler.

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Tags: Beer, Drinking, Drink, Bars, Camping, Outdoors and Camping, Home, Indiegogo, Coolers

Sustainable clothing brand Pangaia has launched its very first puffer jacket series that includes the use of dried flowers instead of traditional or synthetic downs. The Flwrdwn material has taken Pangaia scientists over 10 years to develop and the end result is a vegan, fully biodegradable filling made from natural wildflowers and an aerogel biopolymer. The material also promises to be warm, breathable and hypoallergenic, offering an animal-friendly alternative to traditional duck or goose down, and a plastic-free solution to the use of synthetic and polyester microfibers.

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Each year some 70,000 or so people descend on the plains of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada for a huge celebration of culture, community spirit and an endlessly surreal array of sculptural artwork and makeshift architecture. The 2019 edition of Burning Man has now drawn to a fiery close, but not before attendees snapped and shared a wondrous stream of images portraying the dusty playground in all its psychedelic glory.

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Rather than collect and treat the copious amount of pee produced by beer-swigging live music lovers, the organizers of last week's Roskilde Festival and the Danish Agriculture & Food Council opted to put all that liquid gold to good use. A beercycling project dubbed "From piss to pilsner" invited attendees to leave deposits for local farmers to use as fertilizer for barley crops grown to make beer.

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Tags: Beer, Urinals, Music festival, Toilet