69 Awesome Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers. Remember when Neo got to choose between the red pill and the blue pill? The blue pill would have put him back to sleep in the fake world of cubicles and steaks in the Matrix, where the red pill would wake him up to the real world and its industrial womb factory. You probably just chalked that scene up to another case of Hollywood turning a complicated situation into a simplistic metaphor, but what you probably didn't realize is that you're living out your own little Matrix scenario every time you go to the pharmacy.
"I really hope being swallowed by a mirror is covered by my insurance. " What? How? Did you notice how the red pill would let Neo "wake up" to the real world, but the blue pill would let him stay "asleep" in the dream world? Blue, blue and blue -- if not the package, then the pill itself. What the hell? So, in a different experiment, subjects were told they were going to get a sedative or a stimulant, when in fact they were getting neither -- all of the pills were placebos.
ErezMarom.com. Just south of the Arctic circle lies a magical island - the land of fire and ice, the ever mesmerizing Iceland. Iceland in winter is a very different place to Iceland in summer. Sub-zero temperatures, bone-chilling winds and harsh conditions are prevalent, but the photographic rewards are accordingly immense. From ice fields as far as the eye can see, through glaciers and blue ice caves to the mind boggling northern lights, winter is THE season for photography in Iceland, for those who dare. Join professional nature photographers Erez Marom and Arnar Bergur Guðjónsson for the photographic journey of a lifetime. This photo workshop is scheduled right next to the 'Winter Paradise' and 'Northern Spirits' workshops, to make it comfortable for participants to join two or even three workshops, while still getting some much-needed rest between them.
Day 1 Reykjavík area Day 2 Seljalandsfoss, Skógafoss, Vík í Mýrdal Day 3 Super-Jeep Ride to Mýrdalsjökull Glacier Day 4 Skaftafell - Jökulsárlón. 20 Pain Killers in your Kitchen - Murli's Insanity ;-) My Photo Blog... Trampa casera para mosquitos. Facts: Water. Water 1 in 10 people lack access to safe water Sanitation 1 in 3 people lack access to a toilet Women & Children Women and children spend 125 million hours each day collecting water Disease Every 90 seconds a child dies from a water-related disease Economics Every $1 invested in water and sanitation provides a $4 economic return Facts About Water & Sanitation Share 663 million people - 1 in 10 - lack access to safe water.1 2.4 billion people - 1 in 3 - lack access to a toilet.1 Twice the population of the United States lives without access to safe water.1,2 1/3 of the global population lives without access to a toilet.1,2 More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.1,3 The water crisis is the #1 global risk based on impact to society (as a measure of devastation), as announced by the World Economic Forum in January 2015. 4 Resource Links Look for more facts in our collection of Water Resource Links.
References Donate now Get involved chevron_right Enewsletter sign-up. The spider sensory organs and legs. 15 Animals You Won’t Believe Aren't Photoshopped. At Cracked, we're no strangers to the weird and terrifying creations Mother Nature's animal development team comes up with. We consider it our scientific duty to keep the world informed about the continuing freak show that is the animal (and sometimes plant and fungus) kingdom. Sometimes the results of evolution look like Mother Nature sat down with Salvador Dali and sketched out whatever Hunter S. Thompson was screaming about, things like ... #15. The Snub-Nosed Monkey Thomas Geissmann Quick: What looks like someone mixed a skull monster with a clown and gave it hair? GettyNot all of the monsters in the world come from the deep sea.
But thanks to photographs of the snub-nosed monkeys, we now have evidence that evolution occasionally looks like botched plastic surgery. €鸣 œ"Why doesn't anyone respect me? " Snub-nosed monkeys, native to China, are what happens when God runs out of ideas. Facts and DetailsRidiculous .... Primate InfoAnd this one looks like AH! #14. Alexei Orlov #13. Getty #12. H. Aquagenic urticaria. Aquagenic urticaria, also known as 'water allergy' and 'water urticaria', is a rarely diagnosed form of physical urticaria. It is sometimes described as an allergy, although it is not a true histamine-releasing allergic reaction like other forms of urticaria. The defining symptom is a painful skin reaction resulting from contact with water. This may also be the effect of different temperatures of water, such as cold or hot, and can flare with chemicals such as fluorine and chlorine.
Symptoms[edit] Aquagenic urticaria causes the skin to itch extremely and occasionally burn after being exposed to water of any kind. Contact with any form of water can cause symptoms to appear. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] About.com Dermatology Article. An Ominous Warning on the Effects of Ocean Acidification by Carl Zimmer.
15 Feb 2010: Analysis by carl zimmer The JOIDES Resolution looks like a bizarre hybrid of an oil rig and a cargo ship. It is, in fact, a research vessel that ocean scientists use to dig up sediment from the sea floor. In 2003, on a voyage to the southeastern Atlantic, scientists aboard the JOIDES Resolution brought up a particularly striking haul. They had drilled down into sediment that had formed on the sea floor over the course of millions of years. “In the middle of this white sediment, there’s this big plug of red clay,” says Andy Ridgwell, an earth scientist at the University of Bristol. In other words, the vast clouds of shelled creatures in the deep oceans had virtually disappeared. The clay that the crew of the JOIDES Resolution dredged up may be an ominous warning of what the future has in store.
Storing CO2 in the oceans comes at a steep cost: It changes the chemistry of seawater. experiencing today. “This is an almost unprecedented geological event,” says Ridgwell. time. 5 Creepy Ways Video Games Are Trying to Get You Addicted. Keeping You Pressing It... Forever Now, the big difference between our Skinner box hamster and a real human is that we humans can get our pellets elsewhere. If a game really was just nothing but clicking a box for random rewards, we'd eventually drop it to play some other game. Humans need a long-term goal to keep us going, and the world of addictive gaming has got this down to a science. Easing Them In: First, set up the "pellets" so that they come fast at first, and then slower and slower as time goes on. Eliminating Stopping Points: The easiest way is to just put save points far apart, or engage the player in long missions (like WoW raids) that, once started, are difficult to get out of without losing progress.
But that can be frustrating for gamers, so you can take the opposite approach of a game like New Super Mario Bros. Somewhere in that bag is an angry dinosaur and a kidnapped princess. Play It Or Lose It: This is the real dick move. Behaviorists call this "avoidance. " Autonomy: Ultima Hora : Chinchorro. Misterio LAS ÚLTIMAS NOTICIAS (SANTIAGO, CHILE) - miércoles 30 de noviembre de 2005, pg. 13 Por Kathya Alegría Foto: Iván Alvarado / Reuters Se han encontrado casi 30 mini momias. A simple vista parecen diminutos duplicados humanos para magia vudú. El por qué del ritual en fetos y recién nacidos fue la incógnita desde 1909, cuando fueron descubiertos en la Primera Región del país. "Llevaba años analizando el tema, hasta que leí en un diario que el alto grado de arsénico en el agua del norte estaba produciendo abortos. LA CULTURA CHINCHORRO Bernardo Arriaza y Vicki Cassman Universidad de Nevada La gente Chinchorro habitaba la costa del desierto de Atacama desde llo, en el Perú, hasta Antofagasta en el norte de Chile.
Cerca de 9.000 años atrás los primeros exploradores descubrieron la abundancia de vida a lo largo del litoral y, a medida que estos cazadores recolectores comenzaron a asentarse, se fueron transformando en pescadores expertos. Making the Dead Beautiful: Mummies as Art. November is the Month of the Dead. The deceased were removed from their graves, redressed with rich garments and feathers. They gave the dead food and drink. The people danced and sang with the dead, parading them around the streets. --Guamán Poma de AyalaNueva Corónica y Buen Gobierno (1615) Missionaries working in Peru following the Spanish conquest were disgusted by the Inka's worshiping the mummified remains of their ancestors.
During religious festivals the preserved bodies of Inka lords would be lavishly dressed, publicly displayed, and even given cups of chicha, or corn beer, to toast each other and the living. The Inka were the last in a long line of Andean peoples to preserve and display the remains of their forebears that began with the Chinchorro, a little known fisherfolk who inhabited a 400-mile stretch of South American coast--from Ilo in southern Peru to Antofagasta in northern Chile--more than 7,000 years ago. Bernardo T. Further Reading Arriaza, B. Allison, M. Standen, V. The 7 Most Terrifyingly Huge Things in the History of Nature. We may be the undisputed kings of the food chain, but when it comes to being pant-soilingly huge, we come up a bit short.
We can hang out with tiny dogs and house cats until we feel like the T-Rex of our home -- but in the back of our mind, we know. Nature has produced terrifyingly huge and horrific organisms that could kill us without noticing, either by stepping on us, accidentally swallowing us the way we might swallow a fly or simply stopping our heart with sheer terror. A Crab as Big as Your Car They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Via Wikimedia CommonsIn this case, almost all of them are some variation of AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Japanese spider crabs, in what we can only assume is a cruel joke from God, possess all the most terrifying qualities of each of its namesakes. Long spindly legs to help it creep through your nightmares.A terrifyingly disproportionate body just to freak you out.The ability to trigger the primal arachnophobe inside us all. Via NHM And from crabs it has: Aproximación al Estudio de los Restos Momificados. * Estudiante de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Ciencias Antropológicas - Orientación Arqueológica. ** Estudiante de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Ciencias Antropológicas - Orientación Sociocultural. ÁREA TEMÁTICA: BIOARQUEOLOGIA Palabras Clave: Momificación - Estudio - Conservación - Metodología Introducción: Se entiende por MOMIA a todo cadáver bien conservado, en el cual se observan presentes tejidos blandos, músculos, cabellos, piel, etc.
La palabra Momia es originaria de Persia y deriva de la palabra MUMMEIA o MUM, que significa asfalto o piche, sustancia empleada para tratar los cuerpos. Con el transcurso del tiempo la palabra Momia paso a designar a los cuerpos tratados con dichas sustancias, perdiendo su significado original. Grand prismatic spring. (8 votes, average: 4.50 out of 5) Loading ... Posted in Images on August 1st, 2008 by egosumnemo | Report This Post | Add to favoritesTags: Nature, Science! , Wallpaper The vivid colors in the spring are the result of pigmented bacteria in the microbial mats that grow around the edges of the mineral-rich water. The deep blue color of the water in the center of the pool results from a light-absorbing overtone of the hydroxy stretch of water.[6] Though this effect is responsible for making all large bodies of water blue, it is particularly intense in Grand Prismatic Spring because of the high purity and depth of the water in the middle of the spring. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Prismatic_Spring.
The 8 Most Wildly Irresponsible Vintage Toys. These days, if a stuffed animal's plastic eye so much as wiggles, that toy is recalled faster than you can say "class action lawsuit. " Back in the day, though, child safety consisted of just getting out of the way and letting natural selection do its thing. If a kid was too dumb to play with a toy the right way, well, he'd just have to learn to get along with one less eye. That meant molten glass, molten metal, hazardous chemicals -- all were included in toys back then ... on purpose. #8.
Gilbert Glass Blowing Set jitterbuzzThat kid behind him is eagerly waiting for a bong. Glass blowing, if you didn't know, is the art of working with molten fucking glass to make your very own glass containers. JitterbuzzThey'll be fine if they don't inhale. Keep in mind that in order to be able to change the shape of the glass, first it has to reach its softening point, which is around 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. ArchiveWe did find that when the glass becomes red hot it removes all the skin from our hands. The 6 Weirdest Things That Are Ruining Your Memory. #3. Birth Control and Sex Your sexual activity, it turns out, affects your memory in a number of unexpected ways. And we're not just talking about when you can't remember the name of the person sleeping next to you. That's an altogether separate issue. Photos.com"I was going to be offended, but you know, I have no clue who I am, either. " But that's an uncommon case.
The results backed up something that the researchers suspected about how the pill messes with the female body. Photos.com"What color was the bow? But birth control pills alter a woman's hormones, specifically by lowering the ones associated with reproduction. But there are other contraception options out there, right? Photos.comStay out of this, Google! #2. Aside from the lack of sex, remaining single has a number of other disadvantages, most of which are dwarfed by the no-sex thing, but still rate some kind of mention. Photos.com"I'm about 40 percent sure I have gills. " Photos.com"I love y -- the kitchen counter! Why? #1. Smoking Cessation - WHAT SMOKING DOES TO YOUR BODY. Smoking is a major health hazard. There is now an exhaustive body of evidence—including hundreds of epidemiological, experimental, pathological, and clinical studies—to demonstrate that smoking increases the smoker’s risk of death and illness from a wide variety of diseases.
The U.S. Surgeon General has called cigarette smoking “the chief preventable cause of death in our society.” The National Institute on Drug Abuse has estimated that in the U.S. alone, smoking is responsible for approximately 350,000 deaths per year. Most smokers accept the fact that smoking is harmful, but many think of this risk as something like a game of roulette: They believe that each cigarette they smoke is like placing a bet. This is a serious misconception. Suppose you lived near a chemical plant that emitted a number of toxic wastes that had seeped into the town’s drinking water, so that every time you took a drink of water, it did a small amount of damage to your body. {*style:<b> Eyes, Nose, Throat </b>*} La UNC en Tecnópolis: arte, dinosaurios, máquinas del tiempo y energías renovables — Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.
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