The 7 Types of Friend Everyone Needs. Just like a superhero team or jewel thief gang needs each member to specialize in a different skill set, a good circle of friends also needs a wide range of useful skills.
6 Bullshit Facts About Psychology That Everyone Believes. Psychology is one of those subjects that everybody likes to think they know something about.
We love to go around diagnosing our friends and co-workers, both to make sense of the world and to make ourselves feel like we're smarter than they are. 5 Ways You Know It's Time to Get Married. I've talked about my often-disastrous relationships in a number of my columns, and every time I do, I get dozens of messages from people asking me to elaborate.
Not that I'm an expert -- it's more like how you see a guy come screaming out of the woods covered in bees and you ask him where he found the hive, so you can avoid it. So, the most common question I get (besides "Will you please stop sending me pictures of your penis? ") is "How do I know if this is the one? " which I think is a stealth way of asking me, "How can I avoid the hellish divorce that haunts your memories?
" Well, if you want to avoid the bees, I say you should always keep in mind ... #5. Photos.com. 5 Seemingly Random Factors That Control Your Memory. We have all experienced zone-out moments when we know we totally should remember something that has apparently been deleted from our brain's hard drive against our will. That's because the human brain is a haphazard, messy machine that glitches at the slightest, strangest provocation. However, our old friend science has tracked down some of the completely random things that decide whether or not your memory will choose to function at that particular moment. 8 Simple Questions You Won't Believe Science Can't Answer. The field of science is capable of some amazing things, mostly because it's filled with all the Albert Einsteins and Doogie Howsers the world has produced over the centuries.
But it may shock you that some of the most mundane, everyday concepts are as big a mystery to scientists as they are to the average toddler. Things like ... #8. 5 Clearly Fake News Stories That Fooled the Media. Technology hasn't made journalism any easier.
Or rather, it hasn't made good journalism any easier. When every news outlet feels like it has to break stories before Twitter has the chance, a lot of corners get cut. Specifically, the corner called "fact checking. " 5 Baffling Discoveries That Prove History Books Are Wrong. A generation of students found out the hard way that archaeology isn't anywhere near as much fun as Indiana Jones made it look.
Still, experts in the field do have their exciting, and even shocking, days at the office. 5 Things That Are Way Easier Than They Look in Movies. When we debunk movie myths, it's usually bad news for lazy people.
We've found that movies often undersell the difficulty of activities like saving lives, fighting crime, seducing women and even shooting people. And I've verified through independent research that doing all four at once is not a realistic career goal. The dream will never die. 6 Animals That Kill Nature's Scariest Creatures For Fun. We have made it our mission to celebrate the underrated badasses of the animal kingdom because in general, Hollywood has taught us to be afraid of the wrong creatures.
For instance, for every animal you'd be terrified to run across in the wild, the odds are there is at least one other beast who sees it as a tasty snack. 6 Things You Won't Believe Animals Do Just Like Us. Being a human is a pretty sweet gig, all things considered.
We've got opposable thumbs so dexterous they could start their own Cirque du Soleil troupe and brains so ripped our skulls can barely contain them. But before you grab your dog and give him a triumphant "IN YOUR (FAITHFUL, ADORABLE) FACE! " you should know that some of the traits and behaviors that make us human are also demonstrated by other animals. Animals that apparently think they're people. #6. What to name a baby is one of the first things that expecting parents obsess about. GettyAll babies look alike, even Theobold Pimpmeister here. And more than that, individual names also make humans special. "Never mind, Christine. Except the talking animals depicted in Disney movies aren't so far off the mark, at least when it comes to a few select species. 5 Reasons Immortality Would be Worse than Death.
6 Random Things (Other Than Drugs) That Reduce Pain. Your nearest drugstore is full of completely fake pain remedies, from shoe magnets to magical ground-up shark bones.
But while these new age medicines are little more than placebos, science has found a whole lot of unexpected -- and downright weird -- ways you can control pain without ever swallowing a pill. Things like ... There is more to life than money. Money is the root of all evil. The 6 Most Insane True Tales of Survival. There's so much death in the news that we don't really stop to appreciate the fact that humans are actually really hard to kill. Nature and man conspire to do it every day, and every day there are untold stories of people making it through via luck, training or just the power of will. Even when it seems utterly impossible. #6.
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Thankfully, there are ways to have your children pay you back, often without them even knowing it and--like icing on the cake--you can do it all without technically breaking the law! Well, man's law anyways; you'll be breaking the shit out of several moral and spiritual laws. Fonts. If graphic design was a religion, fonts are its priests - some are brilliant and enhance your understanding of the text and others are, well ... best avoided.
&&(navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Trident') ! Just The Facts A true graphic designer will be able to tell you the names of all the fonts used in the above image. 5 Mind Blowing Things Crowds Do Better Than Experts. 5 Terrible Life Lessons Hollywood Loves to Teach You. Hollywood goes with what works and, let's face it, there are a few things audiences like to see again and again in their movies. The underdog wins big, the loser gets his dream girl, Batman is awesome, etc. The 6 Most Frequently Quoted Bullshit Animal Facts. 5 Physical Details That Reveal Highly Personal Information. As we mentioned here, with just a pair of eyeballs, a ruler and a negligent sense of propriety or fear, you can learn a whole mess of intimate details about any person at any given time. But why stop there?
7 Things 'Good Parents' Do (That Screw Up Kids For Life) It seems like it's close to impossible to raise a normal child these days, what with the violent video games and the 4chan and the childhood obesity. But if the latest research is to be believed, even the good stuff we thought we were doing for our kids is ruining them. Yes, as it turns out the most innocent things we do to our kids every day can fuck them up worse than having the Joker shoot their parents in front of them. 5 Bad Ideas for Dealing With Bullies You Learned in Movies. Recently, I've had several people ask if I could talk about bullying. I'll be perfectly honest here, I had no idea what I could possibly say about the subject. When I was in school, we just kind of had to deal with it as best we could, any advice coming from sitcoms and movies about nerds overcoming jocks by recording their girlfriends naked in the bathroom. 7 Items You Won't Believe Are Actually Legal.
Drugs, artillery emplacements, napalm, prostitution - sometimes it seems like the best things in life are illegal. 6 Misleading Assumptions You Make About Quiet People. People out there have a lot of funny ideas about quiet people, the worst one being that all quiet people are alike. There are about 10 million reasons why someone might not talk very much, running the gamut from being shy, to hating you, to having sold their voice to a witch in return for legs. The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space. 5 Lovable Animals You Didn't Know Are Secretly Terrifying. 8 Historic Symbols That Mean The Opposite of What You Think. The 4 Kinds of People (And What You Can Learn From Them)