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10 GIFs Of Deep-Sea Creatures Encountering A Sub. For the past three weeks, we've been following an incredible livestream of the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, filmed from a submersible operated by researchers aboard the Okeanos Explorer.

10 GIFs Of Deep-Sea Creatures Encountering A Sub

The expedition, led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ended this week. Using the sub's high-def camera, the scientists captured footage of parts of the ocean floor never before seen by humans, including ancient shipwrecks, unidentified species, and rare geology. Ancient Egyptians transported pyramid stones over wet sand. Physicists from the FOM Foundation and the University of Amsterdam have discovered that the ancient Egyptians used a clever trick to make it easier to transport heavy pyramid stones by sledge.

Ancient Egyptians transported pyramid stones over wet sand

The Egyptians moistened the sand over which the sledge moved. By using the right quantity of water they could halve the number of workers needed. The researchers published this discovery online on 29 April 2014 in Physical Review Letters. For the construction of the pyramids, the ancient Egyptians had to transport heavy blocks of stone and large statues across the desert. The Egyptians therefore placed the heavy objects on a sledge that workers pulled over the sand. Firm sand. 77 Facts That Sound Like Huge Lies But Are Actually Completely True.

The Most Popular Drunk Foods Around The World. How the Moon’s phases affect all life on Earth – Cameron Walker. The eagle owls began to call at dusk, right around the time the full moon started to rise in the east.

How the Moon’s phases affect all life on Earth – Cameron Walker

Watching and listening were the ecologist Vincenzo Penteriani and his crew. They would be up all night, trying to learn more about the behaviour of these owls, Europe’s largest, with wings that could spread across a king-size bed. On this particular full-moon night, Penteriani realised that there would be a lunar eclipse. As soon as the shadow of the Earth covered the Moon, the owls fell silent. Popular now How did Albert Einstein become the poster boy for genius? If death comes for everything, does it matter what we kill? Www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2014/apr/23/great-poets-brawl-68/ The biggest and the most illustrious gathering of poets I have ever attended took place in June of 1968 at the Stony Brook World Poetry Conference.

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There were 108 poets present, according to Jim Harrison, who organized it together with Louis Simpson and others. Most were American, but there was also a sizeable foreign contingent. It was the only attempt in this country, as far as I know, to bring together such a wide range of poets, young and old, from mainstream to avant-garde and those who eluded classification. What that meant for anyone attending the conference was that every poet one admired or hated was likely to be there in person. Who Really Owns The Internet? Who Really Owns The Internet?

Who Really Owns The Internet?

By David Burr Gerrard Why are a tiny handful of people making so much money off of material produced for nothing or next-to-nothing by so many others? Why do we make it so easy for Internet moguls to avoid stepping on to what one called “the treadmill of paying for content”? Who owns the Internet? Beyond Tor: The 3 Darknets You Should Know. How to have an out of body experience – Greg Stevens. You can have an out of body experience right now, and it isn’t even that hard.

How to have an out of body experience – Greg Stevens

Some people can do it more easily than others, and it may take a little practice. But it is something that anybody can do, and it can be done scientifically. Senses and the self Let’s start with a question: Where do you feel like the center of your “self” is right now? Most people feel like the center of their consciousness—the vantage from which they are experiencing the world—is somewhere behind their eyes. Although both philosophers and scientists are still developing theories about exactly what our sense of self is really for, they all agree that it plays a key role in organizing all of the information that comes in through our senses. Here are the cheapest and most expensive places in the world to get your vice on. Swedish Pop Mafia. At some point over the last 15 years—sometime, say, between the 1999 release of “I Want It That Way” by the Backstreet Boys and last year’s “Roar” by Katy Perry—it became an inescapable fact that if you want to understand American pop music, you pretty much have to understand Sweden.

Swedish Pop Mafia

Songwriters and producers from Stockholm have buttressed the careers of Lady Gaga, Madonna, Usher, Avril Lavigne, Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, Pitbull, Taylor Swift, One Direction, Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, and any number of other artists you’ve probably listened to while dancing, shopping, making out, or waiting on hold over the past decade. Audio: A Brief History of Techno Music. The Social Construction of Sex. I keep running into smart people who seem to think I believe that sex “isn’t real” because it is all “socially constructed.”

The Social Construction of Sex

Allow me to correct this erroneous social construction of me by summarizing here what I think about sex and gender. I’m tempted to say “what I know about sex and gender” because there are few things I feel as sure about as this. Never Forget That 16-Year-Old Girls Run the Internet. You may have created a social startup that finds favor with the tech blogs and is so hot that it overtakes the 20-to-40-year-old social/tech hipsters.

Never Forget That 16-Year-Old Girls Run the Internet

But never, ever forget this cardinal rule: 16-year-old girls run the Internet. What does that mean? Imagine that you’re in your apartment, scrolling through the latest confession/messaging/social app, and it’s full of woes of teenage heartbreak. You realize that this app doesn’t speak to you. Your reaction: Next app, please!

10 Stubborn Sex Myths That Just Won't Die, Debunked. Wild Nights in the Big City: Tod Seelie's New York. A Comprehensive Guide Of What To Eat & What Not To Eat Before Sex. My Night at the NSFW Oscars (Things Get Weird at the AVN Awards) She was plucked from relative obscurity to star alongside Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman in the TV adaptation.

My Night at the NSFW Oscars (Things Get Weird at the AVN Awards)

And she’s brilliant, don’t ya know. You know that dream you have, where you own a fabulous pair of new shoes, or have an amazing job? And everything about the dream is so hyper-realistic that when you wake up it takes several seconds to remember that it wasn’t real life? The Six Things That Make Stories Go Viral Will Amaze, and Maybe Infuriate, You. When Jonah Berger was a graduate student at Stanford, in the early aughts, he would make a habit of reading page A2 of the Wall Street Journal, which included a list of the five most-read and the five most-shared articles of the day. A Running List of What We Know the NSA Can Do. So Far. Inside a Goa trance crack rave – Alex Wickham. The thick, oily smell of marijuana stagnating in the air was overpowered briefly but unmistakably by the acrid, chemical, yet almost chocolatey fumes of crack cocaine.

A dreadlocked man who had a face like Keith Richards might if he had stopped holding back passed a makeshift crack pipe to a teenage European girl. She choked as she inhaled, and once again that deliciously poisonous vapour filled the room. Goa’s infamous trance raves are an experience comparable to nothing you will find back home. Accosted by a smiling young nightclub promoter riding a scooter a few hours earlier, the easy availability of hard drugs soon became apparent. It's Really Easy to Create Your Very Own Legal High.

Image: via Flickr/CC Pick a banned drug, any banned drug. The Mysterious History Of 'Marijuana' : Code Switch. Hide captionOne of the many, many forms of cannabis. "it was 3 a.m. "/via Flickr. ​8 Basic Life-Saving Skills Everyone Should Know. Turn your beer bottles into glass cups! (5 easy steps) 14 Google Tools You Didn't Know Existed. Drawing the News with Digg November 6th. Comic Sutra: How an Animated Porn Star is Changing Indian Culture. Comic Sutra How an animated porn star is changing Indian views on female sexual liberation In a country that has long had a troubled relationship to female sexuality, animated Indian porn star Savita Bhabhi might seem like an unlikely heroine. But the erotic-comics character, created online in 2008 by the UK businessman Puneet Agrawal, known as Deshmukh, has gained a massive following: two million people visit the site monthly, and an English-language version of Deshmukh’s animated movie starring Savi comes out next month.

Her character is a tarty young housewife whose extramarital dalliances are nothing short of hardcore, with the same money shots and stock language you’d see in classic porn. Scrap or Die. The_dimka: codex seraphinianus. How Daydreams and Videogames Can Make Us Confident In Real Life (Yes)

Documenting a Pakistani Girl’s Transformation. Seal manages to escape Great White shark by balancing on beast's NOSE. These Journalists Spent Two Years and $750,000 Covering One Story - Peter Osnos. It costs a lot, but investigative reporting can save lives. And non-profits lead the way in producing high-quality, in-depth stories. The Craft Beer Movement. “Ever since man became sapient he has devised means of intoxicating himself”-Ian Spencer Hornsey’s A History of Beer and Brewing In 1990, Cambridge archaeologist Dr. Brain scans of porn addicts: what's wrong with this picture? The Cambridge University neuropsychiatrist Dr Valerie Voon has recently shown that men who describe themselves as addicted to porn (and who lost relationships because of it) develop changes in the same brain area – the reward centre – that changes in drug addicts.

The study, not yet published, is featured next week in the Channel 4 TV show Porn on the Brain. Take Two 'Normal' People, Add Money To Just One Of Them, And Watch What Happens Next. Homeless Coder. Looking back on the game 'Myst' on its 20th anniversary. Strange plants of Socotra Island. 25 Matangi - Mudra. Les 20 choses à ne jamais dire pendant un rapport sexuel. What Does Manhood Mean in 2013? How long can the Communist party survive in China? The Benefits of Negative Feedback - John Butman.

A Reading App Raises a Question: What Does It Mean to Own a Book? 20 Tips to Make the Most of Your 20s. Sex Advice from a 96-Year-Old. Follow A Queen Bee On Her Maiden Mating Flight. This Art Is Cool: Imagining a Dystopian Sweden Full of Robots and Dinosaurs. 50 Things That Will Make You Say 'Wow!' Un annuaire de liens pour supprimer vos comptes de sites webs. Good Luck Trying to Shoot Down a Drone. 24 Hours At Burning Man. The Mystery Of Flying Kicks. Give Yourself Vertigo Plunging Into Hitchcock's Cinematic Obsessions. Dan Dennett : les dangereux mèmes. Steve Jobs: Genius, or Just Obsessive?

Cracking suicide: hackers try to engineer a cure for depression. What It's Like to Be Tumblr Famous. Today's Coeds Are Having Less Sex Than Gen Xers Did. Meet the Hackers Who Want to Jailbreak the Internet. Lost Egyptian City Discovered Beneath The Sea After 1,200 Years. Your Guide to (Finally) Canceling Cable. What Does Your Handwriting Reveal About Your Personality? ‘It’s More Like a Suicide Than a Sport’ Wildcatting: A Stripper’s Guide to the Modern American Boomtown.

A New Chinese Threat: NetTraveller Malware Found in 40 Countries, Targets Oil, Weapons, Nukes & More. CIA Releases Analyst's Fascinating Tale of Cracking the Kryptos Sculpture. IAN BIRRELL: Does a shadowy clique of VIPs, politicians and billionaires (meeting today in Watford) secretly run the world? From The Inside. Apple's Subliminal Messages and Other News You Need to Know. Pentagon's Cybersecurity Woes and Other News You Need to Know.

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