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18 Make-Ahead Meals And Snacks To Eat Healthy Without Even Trying. A Brief History Of Everything, With Neil deGrasse Tyson. First Close-Up Photograph Of Pluto's Surface Released. Just 24 hours after receiving confirmation that the New Horizons spacecraft survived its encounter with the Pluto system, NASA released the first close-up view of Pluto’s surface.

First Close-Up Photograph Of Pluto's Surface Released

The high-resolution image is just one segment of a larger mosaic of the lower left portion of Pluto’s “heart.” The region – now officially dubbed Tombaugh Regio after the man who discovered the icy world – features a mountain range similar to the Rocky Mountains with peaks towering as high as 3,500 meters (11,000 feet) above the surface and composed of water ice. The mountains are young and thought to have formed no more than 100 million years ago – which makes them very young when compared to the age of the Solar System.

Mountains on an isolated small body in the far reaches of the Solar System was a surprise, and it’s still too early to determine how they formed. What the team does know is that they are not the product of tidal heating. How To Clean Enameled Cast Iron Stove Grates — Cleaning Lessons from The Kitchn. The Habits Of Supremely Happy People. Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, theorizes that while 60 percent of happiness is determined by our genetics and environment, the remaining 40 percent is up to us.

The Habits Of Supremely Happy People

In his 2004 Ted Talk, Seligman describes three different kinds of happy lives: The pleasant life, in which you fill your life with as many pleasures as you can, the life of engagement, where you find a life in your work, parenting, love and leisure and the meaningful life, which “consists of knowing what your highest strengths are, and using them to belong to and in the service of something larger than you are.” After exploring what accounts for ultimate satisfaction, Seligman says he was surprised.

The pursuit of pleasure, research determined, has hardly any contribution to a lasting fulfillment. Instead, pleasure is “the whipped cream and the cherry” that adds a certain sweetness to satisfactory lives founded by the simultaneous pursuit of meaning and engagement. The Ultimate Guide to Worldwide Etiquette. 30 of my favorite Science GIFs. (The last 3 are long but super nerd-awesome) Notdondraper's simple guide to suits. Life Hacks Part 2. Life Hacks. My inner child is grinning from ear to ear. Essential Movies for all!

40 unwanted Mistakes Men Make While Having Sex With Women. 1) NOT KISSING FIRST.

40 unwanted Mistakes Men Make While Having Sex With Women

Avoiding her lips and diving straight for the erogenous zones makes her feel like you're paying by the hour and trying to get your money's worth by cutting out nonessentials. A proper passionate kiss is the ultimate form of foreplay. And then. Fascinating Photos of Abandoned Olympic Sites Around the World. [Editor's note: It's Labor Day, so your devoted Flavorwire team is taking a break.

Fascinating Photos of Abandoned Olympic Sites Around the World

To keep you entertained, we're leaving you with our most popular features of the summer months. This post originally ran August 13th.] The Storefront for Art & Architecture, our favorite Little Italy-adjacent nonprofit organization, has organized a photo exhibition exploring the post-Olympic city. Answering the question, what happens to a city after the Olympics are gone, the show features The Olympic City project, an ongoing collaboration between photographer Jon Pack and indie filmmaker Gary Hustwit of Helvetica design docu fame. As the show’s catalog states, “some former Olympic sites are retrofitted and used in ways that belie their grand beginnings; turned into prisons, housing, malls, gyms, churches. 2008 Beach Volleyball Stadium — Beijing, China Image credit: David Gray via The Atlantic. It's Time To Get Classy.

Things My Father Didn’t Teach Me. ABOUT ARCHIVE FOLLOW Facebook Twitter Instagram Google+ Ads Via The Deck Things My Father Didn’t Teach Me share it happyfathersday 4,393 notes.

Things My Father Didn’t Teach Me

TrickedOutTimeline - Create the coolest Facebook Timelines, Cover Photos and Profile Photos, and wow your friends! Transforming a Nintendo 64 into a Handheld Console. 2012-02-10-WILLIAM-ERNEST-HENLEY-invictus.jpg (JPEG Image, 980x5631 pixels) Awesome Dad Draws Cartoons on Lunch Bags for His Kids (34 Pics. 20 Things No One Ever Told You About Sex. How-to-smoke-a-cigar-infographic.jpg (JPEG Image, 794x5198 pixels) Animal did you knows. Life Hacks. Great Ideas. Smart tips to make life easier. Posted on February 24, 2012 in Humor If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Facebook or Twitter .

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Thanks for visiting! Rate this Post (16 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5) The War Against Counterfeit Money. Kristen Wolfe: Dear Customer Who Stuck Up For His Little Brother. You thought I didn't really notice.

Kristen Wolfe: Dear Customer Who Stuck Up For His Little Brother

But I did. I wanted to high-five you. Yesterday I had a pair of brothers in my store. One was maybe between 15 and 17. What happened in my birth year? Click the picture for more lols!