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Disco Shopping in Amsterdam – Dutch Group Turns Supermarkets into Discos

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 03:12 AM PDT

Shopping for groceries can be dreary, but a group of Dutch entrepreneurs is trying to change that. They've come up with a unique concept called 'Disco Boodschappen' (Disco Shopping) which basically involves throwing a disco dance party at an otherwise boring supermarket.

The organisers said they came up with the plan after they saw a tweet with a similar idea. "A friend of mine posted a tweet with a picture of a note from a supermarket where a student is proposing an hour of disco shopping," said entrepreneur Joost Aarsten. "I thought, 'Wow, we gotta do that!'"

So he got together with a few friends to formulate a simple event that would make shopping for food seem like a celebration. With a high quality sound system, a few decorations, and a DJ, they plan to convert the most mundane supermarkets into a hip place for a few hours.

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Semi-Nomadic Sea Gypsies Boast Superhuman Underwater Vision

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 03:00 AM PDT

The semi-nomadic Moken people, living along the coasts of Burma and Thailand, are hunter-gatherers who for centuries have harvested the sea's bounty. They use traditional diving methods to this day, instead of modern masks or scuba gear. And their underwater vision is so evolved that they are able to gather tiny shellfish and other food from the ocean floor at depths as low as 75 feet!

Diving for food sounds like a difficult way to survive, but scientists have discovered that young Moken children have underwater vision that's twice as good as European children of the same age. Scientist Anna Gislén, of Sweden's Lund University, studied the children's unique vision after hearing about them from a colleague.

"Another scientist, Erika Schagatay, was in the south of China working with sea nomads and their diving response," she said. "She noticed that the children were picking out small brown clams from among brown stones. To her, this was incomprehensible, as she could hardly see them with her goggles, and the children used no such thing. It was not her area of science, so eventually it ended up on my desk."

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Guy’s Girlfriend and Ex-Girlfriend Jump into a River to See Which One He Would Save

Posted: 20 Mar 2015 02:35 AM PDT

A Chinese man was recently presented with the ultimate test of love – he was forced to choose between saving his current and ex girlfriends! The two love-struck women jumped into a river to see which one he would save.

The poor man in question is 21-year-old Wu Hsia, who recently broke up with his long-time girlfriend Jun Tang, 20, after falling in love with 22-year-old  Rong Tsao. The ex-girlfriend took the split rather badly and began to harass Wu in the hope that he would leave Rong and come back to her.

Tired of the bickering women, Wu decided to meet with both of them and make his intentions clear. "I was sick of being nagged from both sides," he said. "Rong was moaning about Jun and Jun was moaning about her and it all got too much." Unfortunately, the meeting turned out to be a bad idea. Jun and Rong got into an argument, which ended with Jun throwing herself into the river. Rong quickly followed suit.

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