1. Sex can be good to lose or maintain your weight. Why torture yourself at the gym every week while having sex you can lose an easy 200 calories? Sex not only makes your muscles stronger, you get more flexible and you?ll have a better condition. Doesn’t that sound great? But if you really want [...]
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. Is it true that no two snowflakes are alike? . Up in the winter sky, water vapor in a cloud condenses into a droplet and freezes into a tiny bit of ice, with the water molecules bonding together as a hexagonal crystalline lattice with a six-fold symmetry. As water vapor condenses on its [...]
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An optical illusion is always characterized by visually perceived images that, at least in common sense terms, are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. This [...]
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We are in the middle of our own logo competition so I thought it apt to demonstrate a few that went seriously wrong. Whatever was in the mind of the designers at the time is anyone?s guess. Top 10 worst logos - and I really mean worst. Top 10 Worst Logos.
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I can not tell a lie: I love misconceptions lists - I love writing them almost as much as I love reading them. Therefore, I have put together a third list on the topic! Regular readers will know that we have already presented two such lists. They can be found here and here. Enjoy the [...]
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There’s nothing fun about your computer dying, especially when you’re a writer and you haven’t backed up files in. well, never. That, as you may have guessed, is exactly what happened to me last weekend. First things started to move sluggishly. Then my laptop wouldn’t shut down. When it finally did, it wouldn’t turn back [...]
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By Chris Anderson. e were recently given a board game called Jakbo, . which looked like a fun combination of Tetris and checkers. On the box it showed a rich dark wooden playing board and neatly interlocking pieces. Then we opened it up, and discovered that misdirected environmentalism seems to have ruined the game. Sometime [...]
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by Christine Lepisto, Berlin . Jeeps Race Climate Change to Set Bering Strait Record. Adventurer Matthias Jeschke intends to drive from Paris to New York. Of course, since the Atlantic presents a serious obstacle to wheeled transportation, Jeschke has plotted a route inspired by early human migration — across the Bering Strait. If he [...]
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There isn’t the taboo there was in years past. Just make sure you go into it with your eyes open, with these tips. 1. Try to be objective. Is it your boss that you want or a power trip? Sex with management can be a huge ego boost, not to mention the chance to max [...]
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. The most famous smile of all time is a small masterpiece painting by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), of a young Florentine (Italy) woman, Mona Lisa. There has been endless debate as to whether she is actually smiling. Let’s apply what we know about body language rules and determine how the young woman is feeling [...]
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By Graeme McMillan . . What movie would you rather see? There?s more in the next generation than the junior versions of the very first group, now that you already have movies where they?re established as adults. Do a sequel, not a prequel. First Class comic writer Jeff Parker doesn’t think that it’s really [...]
