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Australian Aborigines Were Prime Impact Crater-Hunters : Discove
What do you get when you cross aboriginal wisdom with Google Maps?
What You'll Wish You'd Known
When I said I was speaking at a high school, my friends were curious. What will you say to high school students?
mental_floss Blog » Extreme Weirdness: Antarctica’s “Blood Falls
There is a glacier in Antarctica that seems to be weeping a river of blood. It’s one of the continent’s strangest features, and it’s located in one of the continent’s strangest places — the McMurdo Dry Valleys, a huge, ice-free zone and one of the world’s harshest deserts. So imagine you’re hiking through this –
Some years ago, I (GLS) was snooping around in the cabinets that housed the MIT AI Lab's PDP-10, and noticed a little switch glued to the frame of one cabinet.
A Story About ‘Magic'
Intelligent people have 'unnatural' preferences and values that
The study, published in the March 2010 issue of the peer-reviewed scientific journal Social Psychology Quarterly , advances a new theory to explain why people form particular preferences and values. The theory suggests that more intelligent people are more likely than less intelligent people to adopt evolutionarily novel preferences and values, but intelligence does not correlate with preferences and values that are old enough to have been shaped by evolution over millions of years."
Two years ago we highlighted how to crack a Master combination padlock for those of you who may have lost the combination to your bulletproof lock; now designer Mark Campos has turned the tried-and-true instructions into an easier-to-follow visual guide.
Crack a Master Combination Padlock Redux - Illustration - Lifeha
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The other night my friend had some pot and wanted me to smoke it with him, but we had nowhere to smoke it because both our parents were home.
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Excel tutorial and other stuff
Excel TutorialsPreviously, we investigated the strongest possible Jell-O shot and showed that a Jell-O shot can, in fact, be lit on fire . The reader response to these investigations was overwhelming, we received hundreds of methods and recipes for producing the "best" Jell-O shot. Equipped with this reader input, a minibar’s worth of booze, a grocery cart full of Jell-O, and the spirit of scientific investigation, we embarked on a grueling series of further Jell-O shot trials, and here we present our findings.