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How to quickly peel the skin off of a potato

I’ve used a similar techinque (hot and cold water) with getting hard-boiled egg shells off of an egg cleanly. Thanks Joyce!

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Ice Ball Mold ice machine

Damn! How neat is this?! I just came across this machine called the Ice Ball Mold that makes perfect spheres of ice that are completely clear and transparent. If you’ve got $216 to spend on a single-serving ice machine that … Continue reading

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How to polish ice so that you can use it to start a fire

Surviving in the wilderness 101. [via]

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Sprite

This was just a random video made by SkiBackwardProductions (Durand Dixon) and while it may not be of anything in particular except Sprite being poured into a cup of ice, it’s actually filmed rather beautifully.

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ICEBREAKER by Mark Power

Photographer Mark Power’s series entitled ICEBREAKER is a wonderful collection of stark-white landscapes in a minimal ice-cold world. The photos were taken in 2002 at the request of German magazine Mare aboard the Finnish icebreaking ships Kontio and Fennica. Check … Continue reading

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Melting ice water creates a canyon in Greenland

National Geographic posted this amazing photo of melting ice water carving a canyon 150 feet deep. Look at that water. So damn blue!

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