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25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer. It’s easy to forget that we have access to a virtually limitless resource of information, i.e. the Internet.

25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer

For a lot of us, this is even true at our fingertips, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and an ever-increasing push for online greatness by tech engineers all over the world. As a result, there are countless websites out there that are geared to make you smarter and more brilliant for either a low or no cost.

Here are just 25 killer websites that may just make you more clever than ever before. 1. Duolingo This isn’t the first time I’ve recommended this language-teaching website (and app), and it certainly won’t be the last. 25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer. Kurt Wenner. This amazing street painting, called Dies Irae, was created by Kurt Wenner in a medieval town square in Italy.

Kurt Wenner

Again, note that it is an anamorphic image - it only works from this viewpoint. If you walked around to the other side of the painting, it just would not work at all. Here, the human figure gives a sense of scale, as he peers into the abyss. Allard Energy - Ethanol. About Us Located in Farmersville, Texas, on the outskirts of the Dallas/Ft.Worth Metro Area, Allard Enegy is a dynamic, growing company focused primarily on ethanol fuel production refinery operations, selling ethanol refineries, self-fueling electrical generators, automation systems, hydroponics and aquaponics, and the intersection of their systems.

Allard Energy - Ethanol

Allard Energy is first and ONLY company in the world offering automated commercial-grade ethanol production systems in medium-sized capacities, and the only company to offer those in standard product model offerings manufactured in production-line approach with extensive quality control and standards. Our products and their features compete with full-scale refineries costing into the millions of dollars, yet ours cost a fraction of the competition's price. Our ethanol fuel systems are like the Personal Computers of the commercial ethanol systems marketplace. Rope Knots - Best Knots Animated and Illustrated. How to build shelves. This article also available in Russian and Spanish (help with translations) You can buy simple garage shelving kits at places like Home Depot or Ikea for about as much as it would cost to buy the lumber.

How to build shelves

But these shelves are typically not overly sturdy. This page describes how to build these cantilevered shelves of my design. Properly built, the shelves are strong enough one can climb up the front of them. The basic design uses two boards nailed to either side of a 2x4, with a smaller diagonal piece to brace the shelf. All the joints are glued to give it the necessary stiffness. If you have a table saw handy, the parts for one shelf support can be cut from one short piece of 2x4 as shown at left.

People have on occasion asked me about what angle to cut the wood at. I cut the taper of the boards with simple jig consisting of a piece of lumber cut at an angle on my table saw sled. The next step was to nail one half of each bracket together. Rare Historical Photos Pt. 4 [18 Pics] Rare Historical Photos Pt. 4 [18 Pics] Oct 29 2012 Another roundup of the popular historical series of posts that we do.

Rare Historical Photos Pt. 4 [18 Pics]

Watch free documentary films &videos. Drive-By Road Rage Signs - Mental Discharge. The Simple Dollar & Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance on the Back of Five Business Cards. A few days ago, I had lunch with an individual who is considering hiring me to give a multi-hour seminar to a business convention on personal finance.

The Simple Dollar & Everything You Ever Really Needed to Know About Personal Finance on the Back of Five Business Cards

This person knows me from the local community and is a reader of The Simple Dollar and he felt that I might be the right person to give such a presentation. During the lunch, out of the blue, he asked me to give a five minute nutshell version of what I would present to the group. I thought for a minute, pulled a pen out of my pocket, and asked him for five business cards. In those next five minutes, I summarized everything I know about personal finance in a pocket-friendly presentation.

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Books / reading. General info. Space etc. Maps etc. Geographic.org home page - Geography, climate, countries, Maps, Flags, Population. Pictures. Wood working How to. Humor. History. Food. Material Science Madness: Crazy Metal Melts in Your Hand. There is an incredible metal that shatters like glass, melts in a human hand, attacks other metals but is non-toxic to humans, and acts like an alien life form when exposed to sulfuric acid and dichromate solution.

Material Science Madness: Crazy Metal Melts in Your Hand

It sounds too amazing to be true, but gallium is an absolutely real chemical element that’s found in some of the gadgets we use every day. Aerogel: See-Through, Strong as Steel & Ligher than Air.

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