Category Archives: What's going on

A Vacuum’s Best Friend

The other dust collector, 10 year-old Gregory Evans of Tuscola, Illinois isn’t fascinated with dust, but with the machines that collects it.
Collecting vacuum cleaners since he was three-years old, he has gotten to know the machines quite intimately differentiating the vacuum cleaners by sound. His unwavering excitement in finding a new model to add to his collection [...]

Got Goat?

Goats are one of the earliest domesticated animals that have had a big contribution to our dietary intake of protein from North Africa to Asia to South America.
Recent media reports state that goat meat consumption is on the rise in the United States. Most Americans are just catching up to the rest of the world. [...]

Happy Birthday Smokey!

 

How many of us know Smokey Bear?  The beloved icon of Americana that shaped our youth and captured our hearts with powerful commercials of the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s that sent home the message of how to properly care for putting out the flames and keeping the animals and forests alive. 
August 9, 1944, 65 years [...]

eRockit: The Hybrid Motorcycle

Want a new way to get around?  How about the eRockit?  The “highly emotional electric motorcycle” is the new green way to go. German inventor, Stefan Gulas, came up with the revolutionary concept based on the bicycle. Combining the exertion used on a bicycle with an electric propulsion system, it multiplies the pedaling effort by [...]