Recycled bottles can be turned into some pretty innovative things–World Cup jerseys or crude oil, for example. But what about bottles that roll around the sidewalk, destined to eventually end up in the trash bin?

One man from Quilmes, Argentina has gathered up 6 million of those stray glass bottles over the past 19 years to build a home.

According to artist Tito Ingenieri, La Casa de Botellas has proven useful in more ways than one. The bottles adorning the house whistle when southern winds blow in, so Ingenieri knows when the river is rising. But while the bottle house may be an excellent example of repurposing old materials, we have to wonder about its safety. In the event of a natural disaster, the house would literally shatter. And you know what they say about people in glass houses.

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Free rides to work, gourmet meals and massages are just a few of the benefits Google employees receive.

See the life of an Google employee on video…

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A chemistry professor at Harvard University is trying to shrink a medical laboratory onto a piece of paper that’s the size of a fingerprint and costs about a penny.

George Whitesides has developed a prototype for paper “chip” technology that could be used in the developing world to cheaply diagnose deadly diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and gastroenteritis.

The first products will be available in about a year, he said.

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An elderly Chinese woman has stunned her family and fellow villagers by growing from her forehead a horn than resembles a goat’s.

Grandmother Zhang Ruifang, 101, of Linlou village, Henan province, began developing the mysterious protrusion last year.

Since then it has grown 2.4in in length and another now appears to emerging on the other side of the mother of seven’s forehead.

The condition has left her family baffled and worried.
Her youngest of six sons, Zhang Guozheng, 60, said when a patch of rough skin formed on her forehead last year ‘we didn’t pay too much attention to it’.

‘But as time went on a horn grew out of her head and it is now 6cm long,’ added Mr Zhang, whose eldest brother and sibling is 82 years old.
‘Now something is also growing on the right side of her forehead. It’s quite possible that it’s another horn.’

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A tornado was confirmed near Elk City in Western Oklahoma. KSBI Thunder TV Storm Trackers followed the storm since before a funnel cloud formed, and say the tornado was on the ground before 5:30pm, Monday Night. At 5:55pm, it was in the town of Hammon and moving northeast at 30mph. The tornado moved into Custer County and lifted around 6:30pm.

The Oklahoma Emergency Management says that 3-4 homes have significant damage, and there’s significant damage to the County Barn. Power lines are also down throughout the Hammon area. KSBI Storm Trackers are reporting that Highway 34 coming in and out of Hammon is blocked off for a period of time. OEM says that mutual aid rushed to the town from throughout Custer County, and Roger Mills County. There were no initial reports of injuries.

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