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FUCKING HOMEPAGE - Useful Websites. Here is a list of websites we have featured in the past that might come in handy.

FUCKING HOMEPAGE - Useful Websites

Remember to set FuckingHomepage.com as your start page if you haven’t already. Educational/Learning favoriteandforget.com – Useful and educational links updated daily. The keeping of Lasius umbratus and other social-parasites in Keeping Ants Forum. So closes my first year as a born-again ant enthusiast.

The keeping of Lasius umbratus and other social-parasites in Keeping Ants Forum

I figure it's about time that I give a more informative opening to this thread, seeing as how my first entries here are from when I basically had no idea what I was doing. At the time that I wrote this, I had thought that L. umbratus absolutely required root aphids to survive, I thought that they needed very humid conditions, and I thought that every social parasite had a single host species. Preferred foods by genus/species in Keeping Ants Forum. Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Crafty (35 Pics) Click Here For More Amazing Ideas.

Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Crafty (35 Pics)

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Love is a Fallacy. Another 10 Fascinating Food Facts. Food In December last year, we wrote a list of Top 10 Incredible Food Facts which was very popular.

Another 10 Fascinating Food Facts

So we are now presenting you with a second list of even more fascinating food facts. If you want to add some interesting facts of your own to the comments, please feel free. Fascinating Fact: In Tibet, a common drink is butter tea – it is made from yak butter, salt, and tea. The average Tibetan can drink 50 – 60 cups of this tea in any one day! Fascinating Fact: The ancient Mayans made truly hot chocolate – they added chilies and corn to it! The first records of chocolate being used for drinking come from residue found in ancient Mayan pots – it dates back to the 5th century AD. Combine 3/4 cup whole milk, 1/4 cup heavy cream and 1 teaspoon confectioners’ sugar and heat over med-high till bubbles appear around edges.

Mysterious History of Donuts Fascinating Fact: No one really knows when donuts were invented or who invented them. Apple, Potato, or Onion? Trees Cocooned in Webs After Flood. Photograph courtesy Russell Watkins, U.K. Department for International Development Trees shrouded in ghostly cocoons line the edges of a submerged farm field in the Pakistani village of Sindh, where 2010's massive floods drove millions of spiders and possibly other insects into the trees to spin their webs. Beginning last July, unprecedented monsoons dropped nearly ten years' worth of rainfall on Pakistan in one week, swelling the country's rivers. Ideas, issues, knowledge, data - visualized! 10 Strange Things About The Universe. Space The universe can be a very strange place.

10 Strange Things About The Universe

While groundbreaking ideas such as quantum theory, relativity and even the Earth going around the Sun might be commonly accepted now, science still continues to show that the universe contains things you might find it difficult to believe, and even more difficult to get your head around. Theoretically, the lowest temperature that can be achieved is absolute zero, exactly ?

273.15°C, where the motion of all particles stops completely. However, you can never actually cool something to this temperature because, in quantum mechanics, every particle has a minimum energy, called “zero-point energy,” which you cannot get below. One of the properties of a negative-energy vacuum is that light actually travels faster in it than it does in a normal vacuum, something that may one day allow people to travel faster than the speed of light in a kind of negative-energy vacuum bubble. 100 Random Facts. Science & Nature - Human Body and Mind - Mind. 100 Very Cool Facts About The Human Body. The Brain The human brain is the most complex and least understood part of the human anatomy.

100 Very Cool Facts About The Human Body

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. Hair and Nails. Rock For Health - News. Science & Math. Corner Market From Martin Gardner, via Michael Stueben: Obtain a slab of gold measuring 10″ x 11″ x 1″.

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Divide it diagonally and then cut a triangular notch in two corners as shown. Remove these notches as profit, and slide the remaining halves together to produce a new 10″ x 11″ x 1″ slab. The process can be repeated to yield any amount of money you like! No Attraction Kepler’s second law holds that a line segment connecting an orbiting planet to its sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time: In the diagram above, if the time intervals t are equal, then so are the areas A. If gravity were turned off, would this still be true? Click for solution …