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15 Different Ways To Tie Your Sneakers Pictures. Psychoactive Vaults : Effects - StumbleUpon. Pack a Backpack for Camping - Wired How-To Wiki - StumbleUpon. From Wired How-To Wiki A well-packed sack will save your back. Photo by The Glasshalffull via Flickr. It's happened to everyone before. You start out in the comfort of your living room, with a cavernous empty backpack and all your gear spread out before you. Then, six miles out, you realize: Despite stuffing your pack to the brim, you've forgotten your rain shell and soaked your food in fuel.

Here are a few tips to avoid mid-trip debacles and maximize the success of your adventure. This article is part of a wiki anyone can edit. Outside In Especially with a lightweight backpack, you should put your sleeping pad in first. Sleeping bag next Pack in the reverse order of stuff you'll need. Distribute your supplies Tent: Heaviest items go in the middle and closest to your back. Cooking Gear: If you're planning on hot meals along the side of the trail, your portable stove is up next. Water for cooking food: Dried food is good if you're near water, and canned is good if you're not. Balance it out. How to Make Your PC as Fast as the Day You Bought it.

The Psychology of Color [Infographic] | Louisville Painters. Download the infographic as a PDF Embed this image on your site: Self Publish a Book - Lulu.com. Creative Scan-and-Draw Color-Changing Pen Design | Designs &Ideas on Dornob - StumbleUpon. Any artist or designer who works with color knows that the best inspiration and perfect coloration can often be found in real-life objects all around us. What if you could take your trusty drawing pen and simply scan any color you want and then turn around and draw with it? This innovative pen design by Jin Sun Park allows you to do just that. Next step? A complete texture selector and replicator? A color sensor on the top of the pen registers the color of the object you select, which in turn is displayed digitally on the back of the device for verification.

Red, green and blue inks are then mixed – much like in a traditional printer – to create your desired color. Of course, such an invention has its limitations: space for ink and batteries are challenges to be sure, but presumably you would only use this periodically and would also transfer the color data in some cases directly to another electronic advice, thus saving ink. - StumbleUpon. When I began as a film critic, Jean-Luc Godard was widely thought to have reinvented the cinema with "Breathless" (1960).

Now he is almost 80 and has made what is said to be his last film, and he's still at the job, reinventing. If only he had stopped while he was ahead. That would have been sometime in the 1970s. Maybe the 1980s. For sure, the 1990s. The thousands of seats in the Auditorium Debussy were jammed, and many were turned away. Continue reading → An article reflecting on 25 years at the movies by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. Continue reading → An essay about Rod Blagojevich by Roger Ebert. Continue reading → Roger Ebert's essay on film in the 1978 edition of the Britannica publication, "The Great Ideas Today.

" Continue reading → Thank you. Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → Continue reading → 49 Fascinating YouTube Videos to Learn About the Human Body. As any doctor, nurse practitioner or other health care professional knows, the body is an interesting system. In many ways, it’s like a machine, with many complex parts. There is a lot to learn about the body and how it works, as well as how its different systems interact to create a larger system. Here are 49 interesting YouTube videos that can help you learn about the human body: Brain Your brain directs the rest of the body’s functions. How the Body Works: The Regions of the Brain: An interesting look at the different regions of the brain, and what they are responsible for.Brain Anatomy Function: How brain works? Nervous System The nervous system brings messages from the brain to all over the body. How the Body Works: The Anatomy of the Central Nervous System: Find out how the nervous system is set up, and how it works.How the Body Works: Anatomy of Nerve: The nervous system is made up of thousands of nerves.

Muscles Skeleton Circulatory and Respiratory Systems Other Systems. Street Acrobats - Union Square, New York City. Suspending Water Without a Cup Trick - CollegeHumor Video - StumbleUpon. 11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks | DVICE - StumbleUpon. Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries. We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek. Click on any image to see it enlarged. 1. Aerogel Also known as frozen smoke, Aerogel is the world's lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. It's basically just a gel made from silicon, except all the liquid has been taken out and replaced with gas instead.

Aerogel isn't just neat, it's useful. Price: $35 2. Inside these sealed glass balls live shrimp, algae, and bacteria, all swimming around in filtered seawater. EcoSpheres came out of research looking at ways to develop self-contained ecosystems for long duration space travel. Price: $80 3. NASA has been trying to figure out how to get a sample of rock back from Mars for a while now. Price: $70+ 4. Price: $150 5. Price: $110 6. Price: $80 7. Price: $15 8. Spin The Black Circle - Weebls Stuff.

17 Fun Cat Facts. Trippy Paint-Spill Painting. How to turn "water" into marbles - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. How To Build A Fireball You Can Hold&Video. 100 Very Cool Facts About The Human Body - Global One TV. The Brain The human brain is the most complex and least understood part of the human anatomy. There may be a lot we don’t know, but here are a few interesting facts that we’ve got covered. Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles per hour.

Ever wonder how you can react so fast to things around you or why that stubbed toe hurts right away? It’s due to the super-speedy movement of nerve impulses from your brain to the rest of your body and vice versa, bringing reactions at the speed of a high powered luxury sports car.The brain operates on the same amount of power as 10-watt light bulb. The cartoon image of a light bulb over your head when a great thought occurs isn’t too far off the mark. Hair and Nails While they’re not a living part of your body, most people spend a good amount of time caring for their hair and nails.

Facial hair grows faster than any other hair on the body. Internal Organs The largest internal organ is the small intestine. Bodily Functions Senses. Learn languages for free online | Learn English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese | busuu.com. Top 10 Cool Places in New Zealand ~ Travelphant Travel Blog - StumbleUpon. As scenic places go, New Zealand's has epic scenery in abundance! Lord of the Rings was filmed here and The Hobbit for this very reason. New Zealand has spectacularly diverse and beautiful landscape with vast mountain ranges, steaming volcanoes, stunning coastlines, deeply indented fiords and lush rainforests.

Comparable in size or shape to Great Britain, Colorado or Japan, New Zealand has a population of only 4 million - making it one of the world's least crowded countries. New Zealand is a haven for those seeking peace and relaxation and also its a well known playground for thrill seekers and adventurers. A temperate climate with relatively small seasonal variation makes it an ideal year-round holiday destination. So here's travelphant's top 10 cool places to visit in New Zealand... Fiordland National Park Here in the Fiordlands you will find a place where glaciers have carved many deep fiords the most famous of which is Milford Sound.

The Ark In Space: Heterochromia - The Eyes Have It. Pages This Blog Saturday, 9 April 2011 Heterochromia – The Eyes Have It Image Credit Flickr User Jason Farmer There are a number of reasons why animals can have one eye of one color and the second of another, but the term for the most likely cause is heterochromia. It is more often than not to do with melanin.

This is a pigment that is found almost everywhere in nature (spiders being a notable exception) and it dictates such things are skin and eye color. Image Credit Flickr User Carinemiley Image Credit Flickr User Ellohir Heterochromia occurs when there is either an excess or a lack of melanin. Image Credit Flickr User qchen Image Credit Flickr User ihasb33r Image Credit Flickr User clunkygirl Complete heterochromia is seen often in animals such as cats and dogs. Image Credit Flickr User Gini~ Image Credit Flickr User Photones Among dogs the husky is often seen to have heterochromia and also the Australian Shepherd and the Catahoula Leopard dog. Image Credit Flickr User Chris Yarzab Login RSS Feed. The 7 Weirdest Drugs in World History | Fun Lists - Top 10 Lists. Throughout history people have turned to some very weird sources to get high. From a 6050 BC cave painting in Algeria that depicts a “mushroom-man” to the 2009 phenomenon of getting high on mp3s, it appears that man has tried everything.

Here are 7 of the weirdest: 1. Ayahuasca In her book, “Wild,” Jay Griffiths takes ayahuasca while staying with an indigenous tribe in the Amazon. 2. Datura, also known as jimson weed, is not only strange, but it is very dangerous. 3. The only way I am getting near a poisonous cobra is if my name is Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, but ancients in the past had other ideas. 4. This drug makes the list because no one seems to know what it actually was. 5. Yep. 6. This is a psychedelic African plant that also functions as an aphrodisiac. DMT is one of the central ingredients of ayahuasca, but I included it here anyway to creep you out. Article by Robyn Schelenz of the home drug test company Home Health Testing. Shortlink: Do you see it now. Interactive 3D model of Solar System Planets and Night Sky - StumbleUpon. Mind-Blowing Origami Based on Comics, Manga, Anime and Video Games - ComicsAlliance | Comic book culture, news, humor, commentary, and reviews.

As an origami admirer with extremely limited skills (and even more limited patience), I’m always impressed by the artists who pull off works of art from paper. In the case of Brian Chan, however, I’m beyond impressed – I’m absolutely floored. The artist accomplishes beautiful creatures from across the animal kingdom, but takes his work one step further by folding likeness of some of the most celebrated characters from the four corners of fandom. From comic books to anime and video games, Chan’s work on both his Web site and Flickr account demonstrates a talent worth celebrating.

After the jump, feast your eyes on a gallery of some of his raddest pop culture origami (or origami period) that you have ever seen. 100 Abandoned Houses. Mouse Party - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Latin Mottos, Latin Phrases, Latin Quotes and Latin Sayings - StumbleUpon. A bene placito - At one's pleasureA capite ad calcem - From head to heelA cappella - In church [style] - i.e.

Vocal music onlyA contrario - From a contrary positionA cruce salus - From the cross comes salvationA Deo et Rege - From God and the KingA fortiori - With yet stronger reasonA fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi - A precipice in front, wolves behind (between a rock and a hard place)A mari usque ad mare - From sea to sea (Motto of Canada)A mensa et thoro - From board and bed (legal separation)A pedibus usque ad caput - From feet to headA posse ad esse - From possibility to actualityA posteriori - From what comes after. PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. - une vidéo Arts - StumbleUpon. Create solid ball water - une vidéo Funny. Dance - une vidéo Arts - StumbleUpon.

Chinese ballet acrobatics - een Sports &Extreme video. Amazing Trick. Potassium Chlorate and Gummy Bear.