Placebo Buttons
The Misconception: All buttons placed around you do your bidding. The Truth: Many public buttons are only there to comfort you. You press the doorbell button, you hear the doorbell ring. You press the elevator button, it lights up. You press the button on the vending machine, a soft drink comes rattling down the chute. Your whole life, you’ve pressed buttons and been rewarded.
Interesting Facts About Nuclear Weapons
Nuclear weapons are and always will be a big topic of discussion. Here are some interesting facts about nuclear weapons. Via: OnlineSchools.org <div align="center"><a href=" src=" alt="Nuclear Weapons" width="500" border="0" /></a><br />Via: <a href=" Infographic</a></div><p>
Jevons' Paradox and the Perils of Efficient Energy Use
It's a given among Peak Oilers and New Urbanists alike that the imminent and permanent return of high oil prices will send convulsions through the suburban American landscape. But it's one thing when professional Jeremiahs like James Howard Kunstler preach this to the converted week after week, and something else when the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers advise commercial real estate investors to "shy away from fringe places in the exurbs and places with long car commutes or where getting a quart of milk takes a 15-minute drive." Oil shocks will do what urban planners can't seem to and the government won't (through sharply higher gas taxes or putting a price on carbon): force people to live at greater densities.
Ocean Rescue by Seol-Hee Sohn, Seung-Hyun Yoon & Cheol-Yeon Cho &...
Always Thirsty in the Ocean? So you’re lost in the ocean, right? You need a boat probably. You also need to get saved. But most importantly, you need water. What!?
Occupations
Remarkably adaptable to changing conditions in different countries, Gypsies are vesatile and earn their living by various means. Generally, there have been two conditions that a job must meet before it will be of interest to a gypsy. The first is it must allow the gypsy free travel. The second is for it to cause as little direct contact with non-gypsy, gaje, as possible. Services that cater to occasional needs and an ever-changing clientele are well suited to the Gypsy way of life. Most Gypsies are peddlers selling what they have bought cheaply or selling what they have made themselves.
Propaganda Posters of World War Two
"QUANTUM SHOT" #650Link - article by Simon Rose and Avi Abrams Warped, Twisted "Hall of Mirrors" vs. Actual Truth During World War Two, propaganda posters became something of an art form and some examples are very well known even today. It’s been claimed that truth is often the first casualty of war, and it is very interesting to see how the events of the time were depicted in this selection of posters and leaflets from both sides of the conflict.
True Facts
Facts - interesting, provocative, well-seasoned One out of ten children in Europe are conceived on an IKEA bed. Antarctica is the only continent without reptiles or snakes. An eagle can kill a young deer and fly away with it. In the Caribbean there are oysters that can climb trees.
Bart's Blinky? Three-eyed Fish Raises Nuke Fears
¡Ay, caramba! A three-eyed fish was caught in a reservoir in Argentina, reported Cadena 3, an Argentine news service. The fishing hole where the mutant fish was caught may be more of a fission hole. The reservoir, named “Chorro de Agua Caliente,” receives water from a nuclear plant in the province of Córdoba. "Simpsons" fans will remember the same thing happened in Springfield.
What You Can Learn From My Hurricane Katrina Survival Experience
My Katrina Story: Written by user ‘raptor’ from ZombieHunters.com Source: Zombie Hunters Forum Thread on March 5 2007
How To&8230; - StumbleUpon
Embed This Infographic <a href= "><img src=" title="10 How Tos" alt="How To Infographic" border="0" class="nopin" /></a><br />Source: <a href=' title='Interesting Facts'><a href=' title='Interesting Facts'>Today I Found Out</a></a> 1) How to drastically increase the life of your shaving razor Before or after you shave (I prefer before so that the blades are dry), place your jeans on a hard flat surface; then run the razor up the pant legs about 10-15 times quickly; then repeat running it down the pant legs 10-15 times quickly. No need to press that hard, but a little pressure is necessary. necessary.
Starting over: Ultimate democracy - life - 31 March 2011
Didn't vote for the bozos who are running the country? Join the club. Thanks to the competitive nature of electoral democracies, many - often most - citizens end up being governed by a party they didn't vote for. But there is a way to ensure that every single voter is satisfied by the results of an election: simply have each voter governed by the political party he or she picked at the polls. The idea is not as far-fetched as it might sound, says Olivier Ledoit, an economist at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, who proposes this so-called "choice democracy".
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