Most schools looks pretty bland, with safe homogeneous colors and uninspired designs, but one hundred graffiti artists have just turned the boring walls of a dormitory in Paris into a stunning celebration of art and creativity.

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Museums and libraries around the world participate in the Color Our Collections campaign. For it, they create free adult coloring books with free printable coloring pages, based on items from their collections. There's something for everyone, depending on your interests.

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Cost could also be a factor. The head of the Norwegian Association for Retirement and Nursing Medicine, said that medicating patients is cheaper than hiring caregivers to take on extra shifts. Even though antipsychotics aren’t approved for dementia patients, one third of those with dementia who spend more than 100 days in nursing homes are given the drugs, which raise their risk of mortality and cause problems like movement disorders and low blood pressure. This, in turn, prompts them to take ...

Spanish street art duo Pichi & Avo collaborated in 2007, for an intriguing blend of traditional graffiti and renderings of mythological figures( influenced by ancient Greek sculpture). The precise shading and color is painted only with spray paint.

English rock band of the 1970s–1980s.

If it works in humans, the compound could help reverse memory decline in patients.

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A documentary examining the widespread practice of prescribing psychiatric drugs to millions of children and teens. In Generation Rx, things like Adderall and Xanax are available at any time almost anywhere. The most abundant drug rather than weed, coke or dope are prescription pills.

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Standing on the site where Nazis burned 2,000 books by Jewish and Marxist writers, this Parthenon is not made of marble, but of 100,000 books that have been or remain banned by various governmental entities around the world. The Parthenon of Books by Argentine artist Marta Minujin faithfully recreates the historic Athens landmark in Kassel, Germany with various editions of 170 banned books, all wrapped in plastic and donated by the public. The artist will keep accepting copies of the banned book...

Artist Okuda San Miguel recently transformed a 19th-century castle in Château, France in a work titled Skull in the Mirror. After stints as a school and holiday center for children, the castle was abandoned for nearly 30 years.

The world’s largest solar power-producing nation is showing off its record-setting green energy production through an adorable new array shaped like a giant panda bear. The whole panda figure is part of the power production process: darker parts of the animal shape (like legs and arms) are made up of monocrystalline silicone solar cells — gray areas (face and torso) are thin-film solar cells.

It’s difficult to come by new colors these days, as the earth’s naturally-occurring colors have been thoroughly researched and new ones created in scientific settings are dwindling in occurrence. The last shade of blue to be discovered and named was Cobalt Blue back in 1802. Since cobalt has been found to be toxic when inhaled or ingested, its use in science has been limited and almost non-existent, though it is still used as a coloring agent for fashion items. The final name for the color ...

It may be the most palatable advice you will ever get from a doctor: Have a glass of wine, a beer or a cocktail every day, and you just might prevent a heart attack and live longer. Five companies that are among the world’s largest alcoholic beverage manufacturers, have so far pledged $67.7 million to a foundation that raises money for the National Institutes of Health.

Is seeing graphic, violent content onstage different from watching it on a screen? The Royal Shakespeare Company is using science to find out. The Royal Shakespeare Company will monitor audience members to find out if Shakespeare still shocks in the age of ‘Game of Thrones.’The British theater troupe is currently performing Titus Andronicus in Stratford-upon-Avon. Considered Shakespeare’s goriest play, Titus includes scenes where characters are raped and mutilated, or have their hands chop...

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The Vintage Patterns Wiki boasts over 83,500 vintage sewing patterns from the 1920s to 1992. It's possible to browse by year or ornament type.

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The Crystal Ship, a contemporary art festival which encouraged artists to adorn the walls of this town.

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Once dull and gray, the attractively painted towers are the biggest works of public art in Soweto and they play different roles as exhibition and advertising platforms with one of them working as an advertising signboard another exhibiting the largest mural painting in South Africa.

Hemp oil extracts containing CBDs (cannibidiols) are such a threat to the pharmaceutical industry that the FDA is now invoking totally insane justifications for outlawing them.