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Economy. Education and work. Life and body hacks. 6 Double Standards We're All Guilty Of. Every one of us has decried a double standard at some point. The double standard in the workplace when it comes to paying women, or among universities when it comes to letting in people who thought high school was boring. But while we're wondering how admissions departments sleep at night, there are some much more common double standards that we rarely complain about since we're too busy obliviously believing in them.

For instance ... PSAs Are About Other People, Not Us If you leave your house occasionally, even just through the magical portal of television, you'll be no stranger to PSAs (public service announcements) warning you about the dangers of drugs, drunk driving, texting while driving, not reading to your kids and not eating "the other white meat. " However, if a corny anti-drug commercial has ever made you want to shout at your TV "NOW I AM GOING TO GO DO EVEN MORE DRUGS! " Getty"I am going to do ALL THE DRUGS! And it's not just because the commercials are corny. Getty Getty"Asshole! 20 Mind-Blowing Then vs. Now Comparisons.

Abandoned Star Wars film sets in the tunisian desert | Coolplaces. The 6 Weirdest Cities People Actually Live In. Look, we're idiots: None of us knows what, exactly, goes into city planning, but we assume it's probably a lot of distinguished gentlemen emailing each other about math, statistics and blueprints. But somewhere along the line, somebody accidentally CC'ed the insane asylum, and we wound up with the following civilizations that simply should not be: #6. Neft Dashlari: A Hacked Together City in the Middle of the Sea Via Skyscraper.talkwhat.com Back in 1945, the USSR discovered oil just off the coast of Azerbaijan.

Via Skyscraper.talkwhat.com"If you find yourself plummeting into the sea, you've gone too far. " Five thousand people live and work on Neft Dashlari, right there in the face of logic and Poseidon alike. Via Skyscraper.talkwhat.comThey went a little crazy on the swimming pool, though. Via Skyscraper.talkwhat.comOur guess? #5. Via Acontecimientos2012 Manshiyat Naser is a city with zero unemployment, extremely cheap housing and a populace that mostly describe themselves as "happy. " #4. The 6 Best Towns To Live in (If You Have a Death Wish) Maybe the greatest thing about human beings is if you show us the most desolate, horrible place on Earth, at least one of us will scratch his chin and say, "I bet land is really cheap there. " Boom, a month later, there are apartments and a Waffle House. We're not kidding, there are people living and working right now in places where you wouldn't think a man could survive for even a day.

Places like... Where is it? Drive about five hours out of Ethiopia's population center until the ground gets too rugged to proceed, then get out and travel by camel-back into one of the cradles of human civilization in the Danakil Desert. If you survive somehow, you'll find a nightmare of salt flats, active volcanoes, regular ground-shattering earthquakes and a little town called Dallol--affectionately known by the local Afar people as "the Gateway to Hell. " This is the region of the world where human life began, and life has been comparatively smooth sailing for those of us who escaped this hellhole. 18 Facts That Will Make You Terrified of Everyday Objects Slideshow. 5 Reasons The Greatest Movie Villain Ever is a 'Good' Witch. When you think of The Wizard of Oz's cast of villains, you most likely think of the flying monkeys and the Wicked Witch of the West, and maybe the pissy apple trees and the green dudes guarding the WWotW's castle.

Also known as 'Winkies.' True story. If you've seen or read 'Wicked,' you might have a more sympathetic view of the Wicked Witch of the West. But 'Wicked' doesn't go far enough, since it ignores the fact that the movie features one of the most brilliantly conniving movie villains ever. It's her, right there. Glinda, not the Wicked Witch of the West, is the cause for everything that goes wrong for Dorothy and her new friends in the land of Oz, and she starts instigating the film's central conflict the second Dorothy shows up. You remember the story, right? And that's when Glinda the Good Witch floats down and merrily interrogates Dorothy to find out if she is a good witch or a bad witch. "And remember only bad people are disabled, Dorothy" You caught that, right?

What?! 4 Awful Things We're Now Considering Nerd Behavior. I'm not a pleasant person to be around. I mean, I'm mostly OK on the outside, but it sometimes seems like the person who lives in my brain and presses the buttons that make me do things is just trying to see how far he can push the envelope before society exiles me to a desert island with nothing but a few years' worth of snacks and a solar-powered laptop so I can play Fallout 2.

I'm basically just like any other sociopathic nerd, and I'm guilty of every one of the behaviors I'm about to explain. What's worse, I don't have even a suggestion of a solution for any of them. So we're going to have to figure it out together, because this whole "nerds are awesome" phase isn't going to last forever. . #4. Lucasfilm Here's an awful truth: We may love the stuff our favorite artists create, but we don't give two shits about them as people. There's no better example of this than the Star Wars prequels. LucasfilmFear leads to anger, anger leads to hastily typed forum posts and a meaningless life. #3. 5 Surprising Upsides of Horrible Natural Disasters. There's a reason natural disasters are called that, and not "natural fun times.

" It's a constant scourge on our development as a species that we are perpetually beaten down by the wrath of nature. But that's why it's so surprising to learn that occasionally, just occasionally, natural disasters can have surprising upsides. Here are a few cases where the universe's fury has actually worked out pretty well for some of the people involved. #5. Earthquakes Bring Two Rival Nations Together Stockbyte/Stockbyte/Getty Images Surprisingly for two peoples united in their shared love of rotating meat, for most of the 20th century, Turkey and Greece really, really hated each other. But when a huge earthquake hit Istanbul and northern Turkey in 1999, the Greeks reacted out of character. Goodshoot/Goodshoot/Getty Images"They're hoarding gold! Then, less than a month later, a separate earthquake hit Athens. This time the thaw stuck around. Digital Vision. #4. Jupiterimages/Photos.com/Getty Images #3.

6 Things Rich People Need to Stop Saying. All of a sudden, it's like you can't make huge amounts of money without people getting all pissed off about it. And it's only going to get worse -- with the election coming up and the weather getting warmer, this whole "Occupy" movement is probably going to come back strong. The 1 percent will feel even more besieged than before. "What the hell? " you're probably thinking, if you're somehow both rich and reading an article with this title, "I didn't crash the economy! " You might even be tempted to take to a microphone, to defend yourself and your wealthy friends. . #6. "The amount that I have to reinvest in my business and feed my family is more like $600,000 ... and so by the time I feed my family, I have maybe $400,000 left over ...

" -- Congressman John Fleming Pictured here with his poverty. "It is hard to ask more of households making $250,000 or $300,000 a year. -- Senator Chuck Schumer What They Think They're Saying: "Come on, we're all in this together! What We Hear: Getty"This stuff? It May Change Your Life. Login Memebase Channels Cheezburger Channels Upvoted Internet Meet Koyuki, Your New Frowny Cat Deadpool Fans Are Petitioning to Have Ryan Reynolds Host SNL in Character as Deadpool Pizza Hut is Trying to Troll Kanye by Suggesting He Work for Them to Address His Debt Issues This Guy's Got a Lot of Gull Will I Ever Become the Adventurer My Virtual Self Claims to Be?

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Newest | Oldest | Top Comments Powered by Livefyre Hot Today 101 Player Mario Kart is Organized Chaos If You're Looking to Make Serious Gains at the Gym, You've Got to Stand at Attention. 19 Things Old People Suspect About Modern Culture Slideshow. The seven most disturbing psychology experiments - Weird.Answers.com. In the annals of unnerving social science work, one name stands out in the pantheon of researchers, an unassuming Harvard professor who put together the experiment that bears his name.

In the early 1960s, Stanley Milgram found himself curious about the nature of obedience to authority, specifically the propensity of ordinary people to comply with orders to commit evil acts as happened in Nazi Germany. To test his ideas, Milgram devised an experiment in which subjects were situated in front of a board of switches and instructed to ask questions of a fellow volunteer who was restrained to a chair in the other room. When the restrained person got a question wrong, Milgram's experimenter instructed the student at the board to throw a switch and administer a shock.

As the shocks grew in intensity, the subject in the other room screamed in pain, begged to be let free, and finally fell into a chilling silence - apparently either unconscious or dead from the torture. The results were stunning. 4 Ways 'Futurama' Is Becoming a Reality. Millions of fans are shedding soggy Slurm-flavored tears over the news that Futurama has been cancelled (again), rendering the season that will premiere this June its very last. Once again, television audiences will be left with a dearth of quality Hypnotoad-related programming.

But good news, everyone! While the TV show may be gone, you are already living it. Well, some aspects of the show, anyway! One day, God willing. #4. Tube Transport One of Futurama's most iconic images is that of New New York's citizens zipping through the sky in pneumatic tubes. Meanwhile, in the Present: Meet the ET3. KurzweilaiFinally, public transit gets some dignity. The ET3 -- which stands for Evacuated Tube Transport, because its creators alarmingly don't understand how acronyms or numbers work -- is an experimental pressurized air system designed to carry passengers at a speed of 4,000 miles per hour. . #3. It's not that wacky at all: There are tons of fuel sources based on alcohol. . #2. . #1. 5 Depressing Realities Behind Popular Reality TV Shows. Television is full of reality shows starring real people just like us that are designed to make us feel better about our own shitty lives and inspire us to believe that we can accomplish anything.

If some random jackass can lose 200 pounds on The Biggest Loser or turn his restaurant around thanks to Gordon Ramsay, there may be some hope for us yet. Well, maybe not, because as it turns out, the truth behind most of those shows is more depressing than the Nirvana "reunion. " #5. No One from The Biggest Loser Can Keep the Weight Off Getty The Biggest Loser puts extremely overweight people through an intense diet and exercise regimen to see who can shed the most pounds by the end of the show's run. The first few episodes look like a bunch of circus bears doing jumping jacks, but gradually the contestants lose extra weight like car keys on a roller coaster. Why It's Depressing We'll tell you who wouldn't be motivated -- anyone who has met Ryan Benson in real life. "Come on! #4. . #3. 3 Reasons Real Heroes Tend to be Weirdos. Last week, Cleveland resident Charles Ramsey was propelled to national fame when he saved the lives of three kidnapping victims while enjoying some McDonald's for lunch.

And thanks to his subsequent freewheeling TV interview, the world also learned that Charles Ramsey is a total weirdo. Fox NewsWith the hair of a god. Yes, Ramsey follows in the footsteps of Antoine "bed intruder" Dodson and a hatchet-wielding drifter named Kai, who rose to Internet stardom this past February after saving a California utility worker from a rampaging motorist claiming to be the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. But why is it that these strange citizens keep swooping into the fray like so many bat-shaped men? #3. Mind you, Ramsey wasn't the only Clevelander interviewed about the kidnapping. Today In this situation, calling the cops was the rational response.

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Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us". Apart from dire warnings about biodiversity loss and climate change, the group challenges governments to think differently about economic "progress". "The perpetual growth myth ... promotes the impossible idea that indiscriminate economic growth is the cure for all the world's problems, while it is actually the disease that is at the root cause of our unsustainable global practices", they say. The paper urges governments to: