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Rents in San Francisco Are So Outrageous That Young Professionals Prefer Living in Shipping Containers

Posted: 23 Oct 2015 01:59 AM PDT

Unable to afford ridiculously expensive rental housing in San Francisco, young professionals are trying to find interesting alternative living arrangements. One of them literally involves living in a box – there's a whole village in Oakland where shipping containers are doubling up as tiny apartments!

Design Studio Creates Installation That Lets You Experience Nature Through the Eyes of Various Animals

Posted: 23 Oct 2015 01:32 AM PDT

Here's a chance for nature-lovers to experience the world from completely new and different perspectives. 'In the Eyes of an Animal' is an art installation in Grizedale Forest, UK, that lets people the woods through the eyes of its various animal inhabitants!

Japanese Monk Goes Nine Days Without Food, Drink and Sleep in Grueling Religious Ritual

Posted: 23 Oct 2015 01:09 AM PDT

Can you imagine going without food, drink and sleep for nine straight days and nights? It sounds impossible, but a Japanese Buddhist monk proved that it can be done, after recently completing a grueling ritual.

Last Wednesday, 41-year-old Kogen Kamahori, one of the “marathon monks” of Mount Hiei, a holy mountain that straddles Japan’s Kyoto and Shiga prefectures, became one of only 13 monks to have completed the endurance test since the end of World War 2. He emerged from a training facility, assisted by fellow monks, after spending nine days without eating, drinking, sleeping or even lying down. During this time, he was also required to chant sutras 100,000 times. Just keeping count under these conditions sounds like a superhuman task.

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