The ancient (and largely forgotten) secret to super-orgasms. This article originally appeared on AlterNet. Most of us know how to have sex. There’s not much to “get,” right? In hetero sex, penis goes in vagina, penis goes out, repeat, then (hopefully) climax. But there’s a female-centered technique you’ve probably never heard of. Those who master it walk away armed with strong sexual skillsets, and even stronger vaginas.
The art of pompoir involves extensive training and control of the vaginal and pubococcygeus (PC) muscles. Pompoir is best practiced with the woman on top. It’s said the tradition was born in India and dates back more than 3,000 years. The site Pompoir Book claims the technique is “The Ultimate Sexercise of All Time.” Those familiar with Kegel exercises know that flexing the vaginal muscles during sex can enhance the experience for both partners. Costa walked me through the different “abilities” women can achieve through pompoir. Perhaps the most intriguing is the extrude ability, which Costa likened to “milking” the penis.
How Big Are The Biggest Squid, Whales, Sharks, Jellyfish? A few years ago, Carl Zimmer and I ran a workshop on science writing, where we talked, among other things, about explaining science without talking down to your audience. It apparently left an impression on Craig McClain, a marine biologist and blogger who was in the audience. “I made a comment about how I always wanted to write a post on how giant squid sizes are bullsh*t,” he recalls,” but that those always come off as an arrogant scientist telling the world that it’s wrong. And you said: You should write it, but you just need to find the right tone. That kicked me off.” Rather than an angry blog post, McClain decided to put together a scientific paper that would accurately answer a simple yet slippery question: How big do the biggest animals in the ocean get? The oceans are home to giants: blue whales and great white sharks; giant squids and giant clams; elephant seals and Japanese spider crabs.
Take the giant squid. For some species, widely quoted figures were outrageously wrong. Uk.businessinsider. The Alien and Eerie Beauty of the Year's Best Microscopic Photos. Page. The Entire History Of Human Culture... In 5 Minutes. If you could compress 2,600 years of cultural history into one moment, it'd look something like this. The stunning visualization created by Maximilian Schich, an art historian at the University of Texas at Dallas, depicts the birth and death locations of history's most influential people. Schich's team pulled information from Freebase, a database of historical figures. The mapping starts in 600 B.C., around the dawn of the Roman Empire, and ends in 2012. The blue dots represent birth locations, and the red dots show death locations.
Over time, as migration and population booms shift around the world, the map lights up in a web of red and blue. The graphic reveals "human mobility patterns and cultural attraction dynamics," according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The map is highly Eurocentric, with most of its 150,000 "notable individuals" hailing from Western countries. You can read more about the study behind the video here. h/t Nature. 20 Amazing Scientific Reasons Behind Hindu Traditions. 1. Joining Both Palms together to Greet In Hindu culture, people greet each other by joining their palms – termed as “Namaskar.” The general reason behind this tradition is that greeting by joining both the palms means respect.
However, scientifically speaking, joining both hands ensures joining the tips of all the fingers together; which are denoted to the pressure points of eyes, ears, and mind. Pressing them together is said to activate the pressure points which helps us remember that person for a long time. 2. Image courtesy Wearing toe rings is not just the significance of married women but there is science behind it. 3. The general reasoning given for this act is that it brings Good Luck. 4.
On the forehead, between the two eyebrows, is a spot that is considered as a major nerve point in human body since ancient times. 5. 6. Our ancestors have stressed on the fact that our meals should be started off with something spicy and sweet dishes should be taken towards the end. 7. 8. 9. Are these the world's sexiest accents? The bad news: she finds your bad breath and dirty elbows repulsive.
The good news: it sounded totally hot when she told you in "Argentinian. " When the Thais smile like this, we'll listen to whatever they've got to say. If their Trinidadian accents don't seduce you, their mon boobs will. Even braying nationalism sounds hot when it's wrapped in a Brazilian accent. Y'all, we love it when y'all call us y'all. Especially when y'all are wearing orange chaps. You know nothing ... until you've heard it spoken by a Scot. Just lay off the Irish leprechaun jokes and you'll be fine.
Dignified, with just a hint of willful naivete, Nigeria's Naija dialect bends the English language without breaking it. "Down to your last pair of socks then, what? " Smoky eyes? "¿Numero tres? Even when they pout the French sound good. Ah, Italian. 13. 12. 11. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1. That's because we like how the Scots talk. Not necessarily what they say -- just the way they say it. The Scottish accent is like no other. 9. We Are What We Eat: Documenting Dinners Around the World. These days, documenting our dinners for the Internet is a universal pastime: sharing your food means that you don’t dig into your plate until you’ve taken a picture of it with your phone and posted it to your social networks. We embraced this form of photography for our story, “The Evolution of Diet” in the September issue of National Geographic magazine. Photographed by Matthieu Paley and written by Ann Gibbons, the story traces the food our ancestors ate to see what we could learn from them for feeding two billion more people by 2050.
What Matthieu and I learned in our story research is that early humans adapted to live off the land regardless of how harsh the environment they found themselves in. In our quest to find some of the oldest human diets that still exist today, Matthieu traveled through ice, jungle, savannah, mountains, sea and valley in order to show the inextricable link between the unique places we live, the resulting food we eat, and how diet shapes our culture. Watch The Largest Robotic Swarm In History Take Shape. What's really interesting here is the software, not the hardware. What we learn in writing the control programs for these collectives, we can map to all kinds of situations. Robots on the human scale or microscopic. The hardware, though, is pretty damned creative, if you ask me. So it follows that the software is even more amazing! These Typefaces Are Tiny Math Puzzles Made by MIT Scientists.
Who’s Doing Common-Sense Reasoning And Why It Matters. Editor’s note: Catherine Havasi is CEO and co-founder of Luminoso, an artificial intelligence-based text analytics company in Cambridge. Luminoso was founded on nearly a decade of research at the MIT Media Lab on how NLP and machine learning could be applied to text analytics. Catherine also directs the Open Mind Common Sense Project, one of the largest common sense knowledge bases in the world, which she co-founded alongside Marvin Minsky and Push Singh in 1999. Imagine for a moment that you run into a friend on the street after you return from a vacation in Mexico. “How was your vacation?” Your friend asks. “It was wonderful. No surprises there, right? Now imagine you try to have that same conversation with a computer. Part of the problem is that when we humans communicate, we rely on a vast background of unspoken assumptions. As advanced as technology is today, its main shortcoming as it becomes a large part of daily life in society is that it does not share these assumptions.
How You Fold This Origami Measuring Spoon Determines Its Capacity. This Animation Video Explains Everything You Need to Know About Earth. The Entire History Of Human Culture... In 5 Minutes. Physicist says he's solved the tangled-headphones problem. There are those who think it takes a village. This can't be true. Villagers enjoy endless squabbling. They rarely solve anything. No, for the important problems in the world, it takes a scientist. Which is why I'm delighted that Professor Robert Matthews of Aston University in England, a physicist, claims to have solved a problem that may have caused more enervation than any other. It's as if they've a mind of their own. ABC US News | ABC Sports News Matthews, however, took one look at all this and thought: "Oh, I can make the world a better place.
" As ABC News reports, his solution seems simple. Matthews insists that by creating this loop, you will lead a much happier life. ABC News quoted him as explaining: "By forming the loop you've effectively reduced the length of string able to explore the 3D space by 50 per cent, which makes a big difference. But, professor, this requires effort. You might still be colored a touch skeptical. Now, professor, about Congress. News.distractify. 10,000 Falling Dominoes That Actually Work As a Simple Computer. Io9. Professional Juggler Creates Crazy Hinge System. Sweden-based Erik Åberg has created a rather crazy system of hinging cubes together. Even more interesting is his background: Åberg is a professional juggler. There's a subset of juggling done with not balls, but boxes: "Cigar box manipulation," as it's called, dates all the way back to the days of vaudeville, and we surmise it has led Åberg to his creation. Before we get there, we'll show you what cigar box juggling looks like.
The following video is of juggling legend Kris Kremo, and scanning through the video should give you the idea. (Don't miss what he starts doing at 2:34!) As for what Åberg's come up with, take a look at what he calls his "Ghostcubes:" The mind-wheels have undoubtedly started turning in the furniture designers among you. Random Tie Tying Generator.