If you are not ready to get your hands dirty in the soil or spend time in nature, then moving to this town in the Netherlands will not be possible for you. In the country where urban planning is considered almost “too perfect,” there is a new town Oosterworld built entirely on reclaimed land.Here, nature…
Photo credit: Facebook/Dendermonde Local Police For a student with a summer job working on a Belgian building site, “money down the drain” has taken on a whole new meaning. Excavating the trenches for a sewage system, 18-year-old Kobe stumbled across a hidden trove of gold worth an estimated €9 million (£8 million). According to a…
Cuban responded to one of Herres’ posts on LinkedIn Payton Herres was 11 when she received a donated heart in 2012. Fifteen years later, at 26, she was fighting to access the anti-rejection medicine that helps keep her donor heart working, with her case eventually reaching billionaire Mark Cuban.Herres, now 26, was born with Ebstein’s…
Since 1997, Year 9 students have returned four times a year to plant native shrubs and trees (Photo: Facebook/Buller school) A coastal area in New Zealand that was once bare pasture and windswept grassland has been transformed after 29 years of planting by school students. Since 1997, generations of Buller High School students led by…
An 18-year-old Belgian student working a summer construction job made an extraordinary discovery while helping excavate a sewer at a former brewery site in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, about 30km north-west of Brussels. What initially looked like ordinary €1 coins turned out to be part of a hidden gold hoard estimated at around €9 million. The stash included…
Pic courtesy: LinkedIn/ James Strawn After building a robust career in tech, including 25 years at Adobe, a software engineer found himself facing a difficult job search after being laid off. He struggled to find a job for a year, and then left the industry and now works as a bus driver. His new job…
Olivia Shekou, a senior at The Branson School in Marin County, California, has raised more than $90,000 through a sports-based philanthropy platform. Now, she is preparing for her latest fundraiser, this time benefiting women and children in Uganda. She is partnering with San Rafael resident and longtime Marin philanthropist Melissa Prandi to host Paddles for…
Local police shared images of the hoard, PC: Lokale Politie Dendermonde An 18-year-old named Kobe was spending his summer break working construction in Sint-Gillis-Dendermonde, a small community in East Flanders, Belgium, when an ordinary day of demolition work turned into the find of a lifetime. His crew had been renovating a former brewery building, once…
A California-based startup, JetZero, is all set to move closer to a real-world test of a ‘manta ray’ aircraft that could change the future of the airline industry forever. According to the startup, its planned Z4 will carry about 250 passengers, fly roughly 5,750 miles and use 30% to 50% less fuel than the aircraft…
Jim Stevenson (left) and Tara Tanaka (right) at their wildlife sanctuary in Florida. A Florida couple made an unusual decision more than a decade ago when they bought a 45-acre cypress swamp beside their home in Tallahassee, Florida, rather than allowing the land to be cleared or developed. Jim Stevenson and Tara Tanaka purchased the…