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Metaverse Travel: How the Metaverse Will Change...

September 1, 2022

Metaverse travel could revolutionise the way that people engage with the travel industry. Picture a scenario where you can explore a hotel in virtual reality (VR) while you sit in your home on the other side of the world. By creating three-dimensional models of real locations, metaverse travel will create new experiences and new ways The post Metaverse Travel: How the Metaverse Will Change the Travel Industry appeared first on Revfine.com.

Meet the Bakers Giving Mooncakes a Modern...

August 31, 2022

Like many others around the world, Hong Kong college student Phoebe Chan found herself cooking at home a lot when the global pandemic hit in 2020. “One day, I was making individual beef Wellingtons, and thought they looked quite like a mooncake,” she says. “So I put them into a mooncake mold and it just worked.” She shared a photo of her invention on Instagram, where it went viral. With the blessing of her family, Chan paused her studies...

Génépi

August 25, 2022

In Corpus Christi, Texas, distiller Nathan Bitz has pulled off an unusual creative coup: researching and producing his own version of the fabled liqueur Chartreuse, whose notoriously top-secret recipe is reportedly known only to the two monks responsible for its distillation. Named Génépi, after the Chartreuse family of liqueurs, this Texan chartreuse is now being sold and mixed into cocktails at Bitz’s Aerodrome Distilling. A former navy helicopter pilot, Bitz’s love for Chartreuse began when he discovered the Last...

Upselling’s Role in Hotel Net Operating Income...

August 21, 2022

The hotel business is unique in many ways, as exemplified by the unique KPIs we use, from revenue per available room (RevPAR), to average daily rate (ADR), occupancy, and everything in between. We can thank the advent of yield and revenue management that came to our industry in the 1980s for much of these metrics. The post Upselling’s Role in Hotel Net Operating Income (NOI) Growth appeared first on Revfine.com.

Tunglubuk Chi

August 16, 2022

Cassava feeds people around the world, and the starch of the nutty tuber, known as tapioca, is made into breads, desserts, and the celebrated pearls in bubble tea. But in the Himalayan region of Dzongu, in Sikkim, India, the Indigenous Lepcha tribe ferments tapioca into alcohol. “There are around 7,000 Lepchas living in Dzongu,” says Tempa Lepcha, a Lepcha language teacher and curator of the community’s fast-fading traditional practices. “The community has been practicing this art of fermenting and...

Air Defense Early Warning Listening Ears in...

August 15, 2022

Sitting on the banks of the Danube is a wartime listening device that wouldn’t look out of place in a steampunk arsenal or a fantastical Studio Ghibli animation. The listening device, labeled “Air Defence Early Warning Listening Ears – 1917” on its short plinth, faces the Pest side of the river from its home at the foot of the Buda castle gardens. The device was used to amplify and monitor the sound of aircraft approaching the city during World...

Camp Hayden in Port Angeles, Washington

August 15, 2022

Part of the World War II coastal defense system, the remnants of Camp Hayden can be found at the end of a thickly forested road inside the Salt Creek Recreation Area west of Port Angeles, Washington. One of seven locations in Washington’s system, this bunker featured a fire control radar and harbor entrance radar, as well as 45-foot guns that covered the Strait of Juan de Fuca. Constructed of steel-shielded concrete, the structure was designed to withstand a direct hit....

Indiana Steam Clock in Indianapolis, Indiana

August 15, 2022

This steam-powered clock located outside the Indiana State Museum was designed by Raymond L. Saunders. At the top of the hour, its eight brass whistles play “Back Home Again in Indiana.” Though it uses older technology, the piece is not an antique—the 17-foot clock was built in 2002 when the museum moved to a new location. It’s one of just a few steam-powered clocks in the world, most of which were built by Saunders. Other clocks of his can be found in...

Statue of Frankenstein's Monster in Geneva,...

August 15, 2022

Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein is one of the best-known books in the world, not only because of its captivating plot, but also because it’s one of the first ever sci-fi novels. While the writer was English, the story was written and takes place in Geneva, Switzerland. A statue of the monster was placed in the spot where it goes on a rampage and kills his creator’s brother. The statue stands in the northeast corner of Frankenstein park, right next to...

The Wreck Bell in Queenscliff, Australia

August 15, 2022

The entrance into Melbourne’s Port Phillip bay between Point Nepean and Point Lonsdale is one of the most dangerous passages of water in the world. The distance between the two headlands is a little over a mile, with reefs that project from either side leaving only a small navigable channel for boats to pass through. The Wreck Bell was established by the Ports and Harbors Branch to summon the crew of the Queenscliff lifeboat located a short distance away...

How a High School Teacher Changed Early...

August 15, 2022

This story was originally published on The Conversation and appears here under a Creative Commons license. On a crisp autumn morning in 1908, an elegantly dressed African American man strode back and forth among the pin oaks, magnolias, and silver maples of O’Fallon Park in St. Louis, Missouri. After placing a dozen dishes filled with strawberry jam atop several picnic tables, biologist Charles Henry Turner retreated to a nearby bench, notebook and pencil at the ready. Following a midmorning...

Podcast: Grace Hopper’s Bug

August 15, 2022

Listen and subscribe on Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. In this episode of The Atlas Obscura Podcast, we visit the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., home to trailblazing computer scientist Grace Hopper’s actual computer bug. Our podcast is an audio guide to the world’s wondrous, awe-inspiring, strange places. In under 15 minutes, we’ll take you to an incredible site, and along the way you’ll meet some fascinating people and hear their stories....

Puzzle Monday: Charting a Path Between Day...

August 15, 2022

Among our crosswords and other puzzles, we’ll be featuring logic challenges from Puzzle Communication Nikoli, a cult-favorite puzzle publication from Japan. A PDF of the puzzle, as well as the solution, can be downloaded below. Sometimes the puzzles in Japan’s Puzzle Communication Nikoli, the most influential puzzle publication in history, are the result of true community collaboration. One puzzle inspires more as readers—and many of its puzzles are created by dedicated readers—tinker with a puzzle mechanic or put their...

Jackson M. Abbott Wetland Refuge in Alexandria,...

August 12, 2022

Driving along Pole Road on the outskirts of Alexandria, Virginia one might easily miss this obscure suburban wetland, named for the only person ever to be awarded both first and second place in the Federal Duck Stamp contest in the same year. Jackson Miles Abbott was a lieutenant colonel in the Army Corps of Engineers, and also an avid birdwatcher and wildlife painter. His orinthological interests blossomed at the age of six, and he learned to paint from his...

Chelyabinsk Meteorite in Chelyabinsk, Russia

August 12, 2022

On February 15, 2013, an asteroid was hurtling toward Earth. The celestial object measured an estimated 20 meters (65 feet) wide and weighed approximately 12,000 tons. When the asteroid reached our planet’s atmosphere, it was moving at a rate of about 19 kilometers per second (12 mi / sec). As it encountered the thick layer of air around our planet the asteroid exploded—for a short time, it shone brighter than the sun. The explosion occurred above the Chelyabinsk Oblast....

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