Everyone Believes These 16 "Facts" But Unfortunately They're Complete Lies
1. Chameleons change their color to blend into their surroundings. The color changing skill that chameleons have is actually to express their mood and mating behavior. Instead of a camouflage technique, it's a way to communicate. 2. Multiple studies have shown there is no increased risk for arthritis among people who constantly crack their knuckles compared to those who don't. 3. Actually, every part of your tongue can sense all types of flavors. 4. In reality, the fruit was named first, and then the color. 5. Yes, penguins will stay with one mate for a season, and usually be with that mate the following season. 6. Bulls are actually color blind, it's simply the movement of the cape that makes them so angry. 7. A recent study from Yale proves that the hyperactivity that comes from sugar is all in our heads. 8. While we may call them beans, coffee actually comes from the seeds of a berry. 9. 10. 11. Your favorite aquatic pets actually have the ability to remember things for up to five months.
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The five strangest habits of the Swedes
The Local's Oliver Gee has just left Sweden after four years, and reflects on what he found to be the five oddest habits of Swedish people. Swedes are an interesting bunch. They're efficient but they love a good coffee-break, they're humble but they hang flags on their front porches, and they can appear cold at a glance but are as warm as an Arctic sauna when you really, really get to know them. And to me, they're also quite odd. After my four years in the country, I've collected what I found to be their most unusual habits. It is customary to stand at least one arm's length from another Swede at a bus stop. This is one of the first things I noticed about the Swedes. Photo: Shutterstock I like this obscure little obsession. 3. It is customary in Sweden to take at least four "fika" breaks each day. I'm a self-proclaimed word nerd but I always found this weird. But come on Swedes, you've got better unique words than that. "En kaffe, tack," says the customer. Tack och hej då. Oliver Gee
Stockholm håller andan
Stockholm håller andan av Elin Barkström Karumo Stockholm håller andan den här morgonen. Det är i alla fall vad jag inbillar mig när jag går på min trottoar. Jag svänger in på den stora gatan. Jag kämpar emot impulsen att gå fram till den hemlösa kvinnan som alltid ler. Någonting som visar att hennes leenden har betytt någonting för mig. Fast hon kanske inte ens kan svenska. Hon fortsätter le när jag går förbi henne och det får mina skuldkänslor att jäsa. I ett försök att släppa tankarna på den leende kvinnan låter jag mina ögon vandra över de närmaste balkongerna istället. Den gråtande gubben. När jag var liten ägde han ett café och brukade bjuda på gratis bullar och dåliga skämt varje gång jag kom dit. Tydligen hände något mellan preteritum och presens eftersom han nu för tiden sitter och gråter ut själen på sin balkong varje morgon. Ännu en gång får jag den där impulsen. Fast jag har inte samtalat med honom på massor och massor av år. Så det är nu eller aldrig. Det borde det vara.
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She Was Called The World's Ugliest Woman, Now She's An Inspiration
by Kase Wickman 3/17/2015 Imagine you’re 17 years old. You’re surfing the web, procrastinating. You’re just passing the time on YouTube, watching inane videos and knowingly letting yourself rappel down into the rabbit hole of the internet. It’s nothing out of the ordinary, thousands of people are doing the exact same thing you are right at this exact second. Except, in all likelihood, when you click a video plainly titled “THE WORLD’S UGLIEST WOMAN,” you won’t see your own face looking back at you. This is what happened to Lizzie Velasquez, now 26 years old. While she’s been bullied by forces seen and unseen — cruel playground taunts, strangers sneering on the sidewalk, commenters on that YouTube video telling her to do unspeakable things and calling her unrepeatable names — instead of retreating into herself, Velasquez has taken full ownership of her own story and turned it into a force for good. Embedded from www.youtube.com. Embedded from www.youtube.com. Be yourself.
Getting The Least Motivated Students More Motivated By Working With The Most Motivated
I’ve been doing an “extra” project with my English Language Learner students the past few weeks that has been going very well, and I thought readers might find it useful/interesting. As regular readers know, one of the classes I teach is a two hour combination English class for Beginning and Intermediate ELLs (actually, one of those two periods is a Geography class for the Intermediates — I teach two separate classes simultaneously in practically all of my periods). At the beginning of each of those two periods, students do independent reading for ten-to-fifteen minutes. A few weeks ago, I invited three Intermediate students to participate in a special group that would meet with me daily during that time during the second period to work on their reading and writing. I would assign extra homework that wouldn’t take them more than fifteen minutes to do each night, and we would review it during our time together. It’s working quite while. And that’s exactly what has been happening.
16 Funny Swedish Insults
28Jun 2013 Swedes have a colorful way of insulting one another. And most of our insults hail from the pre-industrialization time, when most of the population were farmers or worked outside. This means, Swedes love insults relating to dumb geese, stupid donkeys, and gossiping sheep. I split the list of insults into phrases and words. Insulting Swedish PhrasesSkita i det blå skåpet – To shit in the blue cupboard. The phrase originates from the comedy film, Göta Kanal, when the actor Janne Loffe Carlsson says, “Nu har de skitit i det blå skåpet, nu är det krig!” Gå och dra något gammalt över dig – Go and hide yourself under something old – Not only you should get lost, but put an old blanket over your head. Dra åt skogen – Go to the forest – Sweden is full of trees and when you want someone to ‘get lost’ you tell them to ‘go to the forest.’ Ditt jävla ålahuvud – You damn eel head – Seriously, that is the literal translation, eel head. Dum som en gås Skitstövel – Poop boot – A bastard.
