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Dubai Resort Prevents Scorched Feet with Refrigerated Sand

Ever walk onto the beach on a sunny day, only to have to hip hop your way to your towel or risk burned tootsies? It's part of a day at the beach, right? Not so, according to the designers of a new luxury hotel in Dubai, the Palazzo Versace, which will weave pipes of coolant through the sand in order to keep it cool on those hot desert days of days. The luxury hotel is set to open sometime in ...

Castles Made of Sand... In a Box

Everybody loves sandcastles. It's in our nature. Humans are predisposed to eat, sleep, spread our seed, and build sandcastles. The gene that separates us from chimpanzees? The sandcastle gene. Unfortunately, some of us don't have what one would call "beach-ready" bodies. So how does one fulfill his or her genetic predisposition to build fortresses of silica? You could get some sand, some water ...