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A Cardboard Skateboard Is Surprisingly Durable
Signal Snowboards has a long history of making custom boards using unorthodox materials. But lately it’s been fixated on using cardboard, and after building both a rideable surfboard and snowboard, the company has now gone and built a surprisingly tough cardboard skateboard.
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Two Iconic Banksy Murals Expected to Fetch Over $1 Million at Auction
Two more Banksy murals are headed to auction and their combined sales are estimated to reach over $1 million, Reuters reports.
One mural featuring a boy with a paintbrush standing next to the words, “I remember when all this was trees,” was painted during Banksy’s time in Detroit. The other, entitled Donkey Documents, comes from the street artist’s visit to Isreal in 2007.
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Alexander Wang Is Reportedly Leaving Balenciaga
Alexander Wang’s tenure as creative director at Balenciaga is over, WWD reports.
Rumors that contract discussions between the designer and French fashion house were not going well began earlier this month. Now, Balenciaga, and its parent company Kering, have decided not to renew Wang’s contract, according to WWD‘s sources. The Balenciaga Spring/Summer 2016 show, scheduled to take place sometime between Sept. 29 and Oct. 7, will be Wang’s last for the brand.
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Baby Elephant Takes On Swallows In World’s Cutest Battle
In this adorable video, watch as a baby elephant living in Kruger National Park in South Africa chases after a flock of low-flying swallows.
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Windows 10, On a Mac
Tentatively wondering whether it’s worth setting up Windows 10 as an alternate boot option on your Mac? I’ve taken the plunge for you—here’s what I found.
NEW SUN-BLOCKING MATERIAL USES COMPOUNDS FROM ALGAE AND FISH
Researchers have used compounds found in algae and reef fish mucus to create a material that naturally blocks harmful UV rays, according to a paperpublished recently in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces.
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