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☆ Passenger uses AirTag to track the bike his airline lost
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-28 | by ( Julia Buckley | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

“I keep doing these epic bike trips [abroad] and with each one I think it’s probably the last I’m going to do. Inside he put an AirTag – Apple’s luggage tracker – which he’d bought a year earlier, after hearing other cyclists rave about them. Each day, he updated his location on the British Airways website, and each day, his bike failed to arrive – or move from Heathrow, according to the AirTag. The Twitter campaignSherry repeatedly tweeted a photo of his bike and its location to the airline. “And I had no problems with luggage.”So what was the key to reuniting Sherry with his bike?

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☆ There's a pig theme park in China and people are paying $1,200 a night for a hotel room so they may see — but not smell — the piggery
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A hotel room at a pig theme park costs over $1,200 a night, per local media. The room went viral after a Zhejiang media outlet, Tianmu News, posted a video clip on June 25 featuring the theme park on Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok. The theme park, which opened in August 2021, aims to promote this highly prized pig breed, which is used to make Jinhua dry-cured ham, a local specialty. Guests can get a panda pig or a year's worth of express-couriered pork upon checkout. —Zhejiang Normal University (@StudyatZJNU) December 1, 2021The theme park — which has a castle-like facade — includes a museum dedicated to the pig, a cafe, an amusement park, and a conference room, according to its website.

Persons: — Organizations: Service, China News Service, Zhejiang Normal University Locations: China, Jinhua, Zhejiang, Douyin

☆ Extraordinary close-up images show insects as you’ve never seen them before
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

Released on 22 November, “Extinct & Endangered: Insects in Peril” is a collaboration between Biss and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). Biss spent two years photographing the insects, capturing every extraordinary detail from strands of hair to the reflection in a wing. "Extinct & Endangered: Insects in Peril" is out now in hardcover. The insect specimens were couriered to the UK, where Levon Biss photographed them in his studio. He has photographed seeds and fruits in extraordinary detail, insect eggs, the human eye and even mold growing on tea bags.

Persons: Levon Biss, Biss, –, Abrams, ”, “, Elli Biss “, Lauri Halderman Organizations: CNN, American Museum of, of Locations: British, Biss, New York City

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