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11 Ways I'm Trying to Achieve a Sane Relationship With the Internet. Top 40 Useful Sites To Learn New Skills. The web is a powerful resource that can easily help you learn new skills. You just have to know where to look. Sure, you can use Google, Yahoo, or Bing to search for sites where you can learn new skills , but I figured I’d save you some time.

Here are the top 40 sites I have personally used over the last few years when I want to learn something new. Hack a Day - Hack a Day serves up fresh hacks (short tutorials) every day from around the web and one in-depth ‘How-To hack’ guide each week.eHow - eHow is an online community dedicated to providing visitors the ability to research, share, and discuss solutions and tips for completing day-to-day tasks and projects.Wired How-To Wiki - Collaborate with Wired editors and help them build their extensive library of projects, hacks, tricks and tips.

Browse through hundreds how-to articles and then add to them, or start a new one.MAKE Magazine - Brings the do-it-yourself (DIY) mindset to all of the technology in your life. Six - Pen.io. Why the mantis shrimp is awesome. They all look the same to me SCORE 109 That escalated quickly SCORE 111 Weird Al Magic Trick SCORE 116 Mexican proverb SCORE 110 Completely unnecessary SCORE 123 Universal Animal Truth SCORE 108 uh, heh.... After graduating top of my class SCORE 192 Plot Twist! Lick, lick, lick, lick... Proceed With Caution SCORE 135 walked into work and saw this on the message board SCORE 145. Most Beautiful And Unusual Beach | Posted by admin on Jul 7, 2013 in Nature Photos | 0 comments Glass Beach, which is located in California, is a unique beach in the world. This beach is no “miracle of nature”, it is unique for the fact that the tide and sea power are managed to correct a mistake made long ago by people.

At the beginning in 1949. Glass Beach area today has officially become a city dump for residents of California town of Fort Bragg. Fortunately, in 1967. throwing trash in this area is prohibited by law. Waste is removed but piles of broken glass was everywhere. Water, sun, wind and time are to thank for, on the shore of the ocean, exists this most beautiful unusual beach with polished pieces of colored glass. Alex K. - 45 Life Lessons, written by a 90 year old.

Moons of Uranus: Facts About the Tilted Planet's Satellites. The planet Uranus has 27 known moons, most of which we didn't discover until the space age. They range from Titania, 981 miles (1,579 kilometers) in diameter, to tiny Cupid, only 11 miles (18 km) in diameter. All satellites of Uranus are named for characters in William Shakespeare plays or characters from Alexander Pope's "Rape of the Lock," according to International Astronomical Union guidelines. Astronomers knew of five moons before the Voyager 2 spacecraft launched in 1977. The probe found an additional 10 when it swung by the system in 1986. No spacecraft has gone to Uranus since then, but astronomers have found new moons with the aid of generally improving telescope technology and techniques.

The latest discoveries — Mab, Cupid and Margaret — were confirmed in 2003. Early moon discoveries The discovery of Uranus and its first two moons came from the same astronomer: William Herschel. English astronomer William Lassell spotted Umbriel, the darkest of Uranus' big moons, in 1851. Spray On Shirt. Spanish fashion designer Manel Torres invented the world's first clothes-spray, which after application to the body can be removed, washed and worn again. Photo by Adam Parker. 8 New and Necessary Punctuation Marks.

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History. Science. Books and Comics. Useless. Coggle. Print - 110 Predictions For the Next 110 Years. · People will be fluent in every language. With DARPA and Google racing to perfect instant translation, it won't be long until your cellphone speaks Swahili on your behalf. · Software will predict traffic jams before they occur. Using archived data, roadside sensors, and GPS, IBM has come up with a modeling program that anticipates bumper-to-bumper congestion a full hour before it begins. Better yet, the idea proved successful in early tests—even on the Jersey Turnpike. · Climate-controlled jackets will protect soldiers from extreme heat and cold.

. · Nanoparticles will make chemotherapy far more effective. . · Electric cars will roam (some) highways. . · Athletes will employ robotic trainers. . · Bridges will repair themselves with self-healing concrete. . · Digital "ants" will protect the U.S. power grid from cyber attacks. . · Scrolls will replace tablets. Your Car Will Be Truly Connected · Your genome will be sequenced before you are born. 10 Things That Will Remain the Same. 10 Mind-Blowing Theories That Will Change Your Perception of the World.

Reality is not as obvious and simple as we like to think. Some of the things that we accept as true at face value are notoriously wrong. Scientists and philosophers have made every effort to change our common perceptions of it. The 10 examples below will show you what I mean. 1. Great glaciation. Great glaciation is the theory of the final state that our universe is heading toward. 2. Solipsism is a philosophical theory, which asserts that nothing exists but the individual’s consciousness. Don’t you believe me? As a result, which parts of existence can we not doubt?

3. George Berkeley, the father of Idealism, argued that everything exists as an idea in someone’s mind. The idea being that if the stone really only exists in his imagination, he could not have kicked it with his eyes closed. 4. Everybody has heard of Plato. In addition to this stunning statement, Plato, being a monist, said that everything is made of a single substance. 5. 6. Enternalism is the exact opposite of presentism.