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Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 15 Comments: 0 Raw: Police Find Millions in Gold Hidden in Car Raw: Police Find Millions in Gold Hidden in Car Italian border police intercepted a ton of gold bullion worth 7.5 million dollars at Ponte Chiasso on the border with Switzerland on Easter Sunday. Video silent from source. (April 4) Apr 4, 2013 5:01 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Television Rating: Ok Hits: 60 Comments: 1 Chip Implant Breakthrough in Medicine Chip Implant Breakthrough in Medicine Scientists in Switzerland have developed a tiny electronic implant that has been hailed as an important step towards personalising medicine. The idea is to give patients the right drugs, at the right time, to make their treatment more effective. Al Jazeera's Tarek Bazley reports. User: Curtius Mar 20, 2013 3:42 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Music Rating: No Votes Hits: 112 Comments: 0 Boy: Boy: "Little Numbers": Sxsw 2013 Showcasing Artist BOY - a contagious confection that has spread across the internet like wildfire. The Hamburg-based duo gets your toes tapping, mind playing, feet moving, emotions travelling, head thinking, hips jerking. But above all, they make music that brings a smile to your face. Imagine a mix of the art school elegance of Phoenix, the lively melodics of Feist and the emotional depth of Bon Iver. But to draw such comparisons is superficial and not especially helpful because what you miss is the originality of the BOY concept and the charisma of its two performers. The BOY phenomenon began this summer with their first single \'Little Numbers\'. Now, having conquered their native Germany and Switzerland, they are shipping their sharp brand of pop to the rest of Europe. BOY are both girls. Valeska Steiner sang in several bands in her native Switzerland before moving to Germany, where Sonja Glass grew up, playing the cello in classical orchestras as a child, and later working as a bass player for several pop bands. The duo met when Valeska won a place at a prestigious summer holiday music workshop in Hamburg. There she met Sonja, who had recently returned from a spell studying bass guitar in Holland. BOY\'s debut album, "Mutual Friends", is an autobiographical affair. "It\'s about arrivals and new beginnings," says Valeska, whose songs are written and sung in English. "About hopes and dreams and aspirations. We want to make music that\'s positive and hopeful," explains Valeska,. "There is more to music than heartbreak and loss," agrees Sonja. "This is the Beginning" provides the springboard into the album. "Drive Darling" is inspired by Valeska leaving behind friends and family in Zurich. "And no rear view could picture what we leave behind. Drive, darling, drive." As the tempo rises and the driving sound of guitars push to the fore, the future seems to begin with a smile as a feeling of optimism prevails. In complete contrast however, "Waitress" explores the melancholy story of a barmaid stuck in time and wondering when her life is going to start: "While daylight is fading, while traders are trading, while the jukebox is playing, while lovers are dating, the waitress is waiting." You can hear the empathy in Valeska's voice on the album's last track, "July", a fitting end to the album, it closes the circle of venturing out into the world by bringing you, at last, back home. The dozen songs on "Mutual Friends", painstakingly recorded over a two-and-a-half year period at the 12 square meter home studio of producer and multi-instrumentalist Philipp Steinke in Berlin, have gone through many transformations since they were written. "We made about 10 versions of most of the songs," says Sonja. "So they have evolved over the course of time. And some of them have ended up sounding completely different from the way they began." BOY played most instruments on the record themselves. Only in some cases, such as drumming duties, a rotating roster of friends jumped in to play, among them Phoenix's live drummer Thomas Hedlund. Their irresistible debut single "Little Numbers", which has sparked countless YouTube tributes, is something of a straggler, being the last recorded from the sessions. But this is arguably precisely why the track is imbued with such a rambunctious drive and dizzying joyousness; it is the product of studio playtime, the long-awaited period where musicians can relax and have fun knowing -- wrongly as the case may be -- that all the work is done. The colourful video, shot on the streets of Barcelona last summer, has already clocked up nearly two millions YouTube hits since it was uploaded in July. And the song swiftly spawned countless tributes from fans posting their own versions. BOY's "Mutual Friends" is an intoxicating mixture to lift even the dullest day out of the doldrums and the direct result of the refreshingly lively and humorous personalities of Valeska and Sonja. BOY sing smart, sharply-observed songs with hooks you can\'t get out of your head and lyrics that come from the heart. With its irresistibly breezy optimism, it\'s one of those out-of-nowhere pop hits that gets into your head and won\'t go away. BOY's songs reveal inventive twists, adding subtle experimental touches to a conventional pop palette of guitar, piano drums and bass. User: TheNextDylan Feb 13, 2013 11:47 PM
Headline Tag: Politics Rating: Good Hits: 655 Comments: 0 Animated Tower (HESAV s'anime!) Animated Tower (HESAV s'anime!) An architectural performance realized by artist Guillaume Reymond and Trivial Mass Production. The performance was done to celebrate the ten-year anniversary of HESAV, the University of Health Sciences in Lausanne, Switzerland. User: spam_vigilante Sep 22, 2012 10:57 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Short Films Rating: Ok Hits: 158 Comments: 0 Human Led Matrix Human Led Matrix This performance of NOTsoNOISY Guillaume Reymond was performed in the courtyard of the secondary school of Béthusy (Lausanne - Switzerland) with over 900 students and teachers, to start the celebrations of 75 years in the construction of the college. User: spam_vigilante Jul 15, 2012 12:31 PM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 121 Comments: 0 Arafat to Be Exhumed, Body Tested for Radiation Arafat to Be Exhumed, Body Tested for Radiation The widow of Yasser Arafat is planning to file a legal complaint in France asking authorities to investigate the death of her husband. A lab in Switzerland detected elevated traces of polonium-210 on some of Arafat's belongings. (July 10) Jul 10, 2012 7:03 PM
Unmoderated Tag: Politics Rating: No Votes Hits: 223 Comments: 0 The Moment: Cern Scientist Announces Higgs Boson 'God Particle' Discovery The Moment: Cern Scientist Announces Higgs Boson 'God Particle' Discovery Scientists at the CERN research centre in Switzerland welcome the news that a new subatomic particle could be the Higgs boson, the basic building block of the universe. Spokesman for one of the two teams hunting for the Higgs particle, Joe Incandela, makes the announcement. Footage courtesy of Reuters. Jul 4, 2012 9:08 AM
Headline Tag: Japan Rating: Amazing Hits: 2070 Comments: 4 Where the Hell is Matt? 2012 Where the Hell is Matt? 2012 The cities that didn't make it into the final cut will be in the outtakes video that we're putting up soon! Jun 20, 2012 11:33 PM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 138 Comments: 0 Raw Video: Suu Kyi Falls Ill during Press Event Raw Video: Suu Kyi Falls Ill during Press Event Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi fell ill during a news conference in Switzerland on Thursday, shortly after saying how exhausted she was after a long trip from Asia to Europe, her first in 24 years. (June 14) Subscribe to the Associated Press: http://bit.ly/APYouTube Download AP Mobile: http://www.ap.org/mobile/ Associated Press on Facebook: http://apne.ws/c7lQTV Associated Press on Twitter: http://apne.ws/bTquhb Associated Press on Google+: http://bit.ly/zuTKBL Jun 15, 2012 8:03 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Animals Rating: Amazing Hits: 234 Comments: 1 Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes evolved. Also fruit flies with eyes on their legs and chickens with teeth! User: IAmDeK May 22, 2012 8:31 AM
Permanent Tag: Tech Geeks Rating: Good Hits: 492 Comments: 1 Eccerobot: Human Designed Robot Eccerobot: Human Designed Robot Robot built as a human body: bones, tendons, muscles... You can see that moves are closely realistic to human ones Presented by Hugo Gravato Marques Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Switzerland ECCE Robot - www.eccerobot.org From FET11 Budapest Apr 9, 2012 4:26 PM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 211 Comments: 0 Raw Video: Deadly Bus Crash in Switzerland Raw Video: Deadly Bus Crash in Switzerland A tour bus slammed into a tunnel wall in the Swiss Alps in a horrific accident that killed at least 22 school children and six adults returning to Belgium from a joyous ski vacation, police said Wednesday. (March 14) Mar 14, 2012 9:03 AM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 230 Comments: 0 Raw Video: North, South Korean Diplomats Scuffle Raw Video: North, South Korean Diplomats Scuffle North and South Korean Diplomats scuffled at the United Nations building in Geneva, Switzerland. (March 13) Mar 13, 2012 7:03 AM
Unmoderated Tag: Image Galleries Rating: Stinker Hits: 269 Comments: 0 20 Amazing Photos of the Harsh European Wi 20 Amazing Photos of the Harsh European Wi While the U.S. continues to bask in the warmth of an unusually mild winter, strong winter on the European Continent, has claimed almost 300 lives from Switzerland to Rome as temperatures plumet up to -22 Fahrenheit (-30°C)... User: Bole982 Feb 11, 2012 3:00 AM
Unmoderated Tag: News Rating: No Votes Hits: 204 Comments: 0 Raw Video: Davos Protesters Build Igloos Raw Video: Davos Protesters Build Igloos The Occupy movement appears at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Protesters built igloos outside the meeting site. The event starts on Wednesday, with 2,600 decision-makers from nearly 100 countries expected to be in attendance. (Jan 23) Jan 23, 2012 3:02 AM
 
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