Uncovering Nottingham’s Hidden Medieval Sandstone Caves

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The very latest laser technology combined with old fashioned pedal power is being used to provide a unique insight into the layout of Nottingham’s sandstone caves — where the city’s renowned medieval ale was brewed and, where legend has it, the country’s most famous outlaw Robin Hood was imprisoned.

The Rain Drum Umbrella


There’s an array of unique umbrellas floating around the design industry, but none more entertaining than this concept.

The rain drum is an umbrella that has several different areas that are matched with a specific drum-like sound output. This means that whenever it rains, depending on where the rain lands on the umbrella, a unique sound will be played.

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Party of One

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“A man wrote to say that he accepted nothing but Solipsism, and added that he had often wondered it was not a more common philosophy. Now Solipsism simply means that a man believes in his own existence, but not in anybody or anything else. And it never struck this simple sophist, that if his philosophy was true, there obviously were no other philosophers to profess it.”

– G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas, 1933

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