6 Real People With Mind-Blowing Mutant Superpowers If the insane, explosive popularity if superhero movies is any indication, we are fascinated by people who are insanely better than us at any given thing. Probably because, in real life, we're all such a bunch of incompetent boobs that we've been enslaved by blue paint, flashing lights and crying French babies. But it turns out, superpowers are real. We've all dreamed of having superpowers at some point (today), but the majority of us have to accept the sobering reality that preternatural abilities simply aren't possible. For instance ... #6. Ma Xiangang is a man capable of something not many others are or would have a practical reason to be -- he can touch live wires filled with scrotum-popcorning electricity and feel no pain whatsoever. As with most superpower discoveries, Xiangang found his by acting like a braying jackass. CRI English.com"I figured I'd either die or get superpowers. So What's Going on Here? #5. UltramarathonmanDean Karnazes, shutting Time magazine the hell up. #4.
ERUDITE CONCEPTS If you're not familiar with the work of Boswell D. Rabbitsmith, he's the famous erudite scientist who once said: "I woke up one morning, and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates." His mind sees things differently than most of us do, to our amazement and amusement. 1 - I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize. 2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back. 3 - Half the people you know are below average. 4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name. 5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot. 6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good. 7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory. 8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. 9 - All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand. 10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. 11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met. 12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
Simple Ideas That Are Borderline Genius - 43 Pics Click Here For More Genius Ideas 25 Clever Ideas to Make Life Easier Here are clever ideas to make life easier. To see the complete list of 25 go here. You can pin the pics directly to Pinterest by hovering your mouse over the pic then clicking the “pin it”! Via: amy-newnostalgia.blogspot.com Why didn’t I think of that?! Via: apartmenttherapy.com Rubbing a walnut over scratches in your furniture will disguise dings and scrapes. Via: unplggd.com Supposedly you can remove crayon masterpieces from your TV, computer screen, or walls with WD40 – I’m not going to try it though! Via: athomewithrealfood.blogspot.com Stop cut apples browning in your child’s lunch box by securing with a rubber band. Via: marthastewart.com Overhaul your linen cupboard – store bed linen sets inside one of their own pillowcases and there will be no more hunting through piles for a match. Via: iheartnaptime.net Add this item to your beach bag. Via: realsimple.com Attach a velcro strip to the wall to store soft toys. Via: flickr.com Look up! Via: instructables.com Gotcha! Via: stephmodo.com
Allegory of the Cave Plato realizes that the general run of humankind can think, and speak, etc., without (so far as they acknowledge) any awareness of his realm of Forms. The allegory of the cave is supposed to explain this. In the allegory, Plato likens people untutored in the Theory of Forms to prisoners chained in a cave, unable to turn their heads. All they can see is the wall of the cave. Behind them burns a fire. Between the fire and the prisoners there is a parapet, along which puppeteers can walk. From Great Dialogues of Plato (Warmington and Rouse, eds.) Here are some students’ illustrations of Plato’s Cave Go back to lecture on the Phaedo Go back to lecture on the “One Over Many” Argument Go to next lecture on Criticism of Forms Need a quick review of the Theory of Forms? Return to the PHIL 320 Home Page Copyright © 2006, S.
12 Universal Skills You Need to Succeed at Anything Email There are a lot of skills you don’t need. You can be happy and successful without knowing how to rebuild a car’s engine, program a web application, or replace drywall. Sure, these are useful skills to have, but they aren’t absolutely necessary. There are other skills, however, that can’t be avoided – skills that tie into various aspects of everyday life, that are not only useful, but totally indispensable. For instance, you can’t get far in today’s world without being able to read or write. In this article we’re going to skip the super basic skills like reading, driving, and using a computer, and discuss twelve slightly more advanced skills that are woefully under-taught, and universally applicable. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. What did we miss? Photo by: Zack Schnepf If you enjoyed this article, check out our new best-selling book. And get inspiring life tips and quotes in your inbox (it's free)...
Food For Thought The days grow and the stars cross over And my wild bed turns slowly among the stars. Muriel Rukeyser, “Darkness Music” (via awritersruminations) I taste her and realize I have been starving. Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home (via psych-quotes) (via lorenzmdumuk) Sometimes a person’s hands are the only words he knows. Bronwen Wallace, from: “Woman at the Next” (via learningfromthehands) If you listen closely to this poem, you can hear the ocean that’s living inside of you. Y.Z, It’s okay if you don’t know where you’re going (via rustyvoices)
100 Exquisite Adjectives By Mark Nichol Adjectives — descriptive words that modify nouns — often come under fire for their cluttering quality, but often it’s quality, not quantity, that is the issue. Plenty of tired adjectives are available to spoil a good sentence, but when you find just the right word for the job, enrichment ensues. Practice precision when you select words. Here’s a list of adjectives: Subscribe to Receive our Articles and Exercises via Email You will improve your English in only 5 minutes per day, guaranteed! 21 Responses to “100 Exquisite Adjectives” Rebecca Fantastic list!
The Alignment System - Chaotic Good A chaotic good character acts as his conscience directs him with little regard for what others expect of him. He makes his own way, but he's kind and benevolent. He believes in goodness and right but has little use for laws and regulations. Chaotic good is the best alignment you can be because it combines a good heart with a free spirit. Chaotic good can be a dangerous alignment when it disrupts the order of society and punishes those who do well for themselves. While creatures of this alignment view freedom and the randomness of actions as ultimate truths, they likewise place value on life and the welfare of each individual. Chaotic good characters are strong individualists marked by a streak of kindness and benevolence. These characters are basically good, but tend to be selfish and maybe a bit greedy. Chaotic goods believe that freedom is the only means by which each creature can achieve true satisfaction and happiness. The Ten Chaotic Good Commandments 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Cómo definir un problema Creado por Luís Miguel Armendáriz, Webster, Oscar Avila, WikiHow Foto Suele citarse a Einstein, diciendo que si tuviera una hora para salvar el mundo, se iba a gastar cincuenta y cinco minutos definiendo el problema, y sólo cinco minutos para encontrar la solución. Esta cita ilustra un punto importante: antes de ir directamente a resolver un problema, se debe hacer un alto, e invertir tiempo y esfuerzo en mejorar nuestra comprensión del mismo. Aquí hay algunas estrategias que puedes utilizar para ver los problemas desde diferentes perspectivas, y descubrir que el paso más importante en la solución de problemas, es ¡definir claramente el problema en primer lugar! Anuncio Pasos 1Reformula el problema. 9Reúne hechos. Consejos Lo que la mayoría de nosotros no se da cuenta, y a lo que supuestamente Einstein podría haber estado aludiendo, es que, la calidad de las soluciones, vendrán en proporción directa, a la calidad de la descripción del problema que estamos tratando de resolver.
Mechanical webpage hitcounter Page 1Intro Page 2Connecting it to a PC Page 3Building the device Page 4Software (+ discussion / remarks) Do you like my hacking? Or use Bitcoins: Donate7 Current contents: EUR181 (about $240.73) and a bunch of cool hardware. Follow Spritesmods on Twitter! In the starting years of the Internet, you saw them everywhere: small pictures of counters indicating how many people had visited the page. Recently, I got a bag of old electronics from a friend of mine, and in a box I was about to throw away, I could see a small black box with two wires sticking out. As soon as I saw the little device, I immediately thought of the hitcounters seen in the starting days of the Internet. 1 Next »
In Which We Get You Writing Something Dark And Very Disturbed Why and How To Write Ever since I began my full-length memoir Jesus Was A Pale Imitation of Myself I have been deluged with responses from fans asking me how I start writing. That's a great question, but I usually don't give writing advice for free, just the actual writing. Part One (Joyce Carol Oates, Gene Wolfe, Philip Levine, Thomas Pynchon, Gertrude Stein, Eudora Welty, Don DeLillo, Anton Chekhov, Mavis Gallant, Stanley Elkin) Part Two (James Baldwin, Henry Miller, Toni Morrison, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Margaret Atwood, Gertrude Stein, Vladimir Nabokov) Part Three (W. Part Four (Flannery O'Connor, Charles Baxter, Joan Didion, William Butler Yeats, Lyn Hejinian, Jean Cocteau, Francine du Plessix Gray, Roberto Bolano) Joyce Carol Oates Stories come to us as wraiths requiring precise embodiments. By the time I come to type out my writing formally, I've envisioned it repeatedly. The effort of memorable art is to evoke in the reader or spectator emotions appropriate to that effort. Gene Wolfe 1.
The Sexual Bucket List: 50 Things to Do Sexually Before You Die | Love + Sex Bucket What sexual things should everyone experience before they die? And how does someone who married young rank against those who didn't? I got married at 25 and started dating my husband seriously at 23. More from The Stir: Is He Too Small, Or Am I Too Picky? Prior to that, I was in two very serious relationships (both of which ended in engagements) over several years and those three men sum up the grand total of my sexual experience. I know I lucked out when I met Rob, so I would trade a few wild and crazy sexual experiences for the really good one of meeting my soul mate at 23 (actually, we met at 10) -- but this idea of "sexual bucket lists" does intrigue me. Ninety percent of these can be done in the context of a loving, safe marriage (like mine). 15. More from The Stir: How to Make a Sex Tape 36. How many have you done? Written by Sasha Brown-Worsham on CafeMom's blog, The Stir Image via Augapfel/Flickr
19 pictures which scream NO EXCUSES Probably one of the only times I think saying, “No” is alright, as in No Excuses. No Excuses must be one of the strongest things you can tell yourself, because it wakes you up and lets you know what you’re actually saying to yourself… … to hold yourself back. Nothing more, nothing less. However legitimate, reasonable, excusable, tired, bored, unmotivated, lazy, partied out, discouraged, listless, lethargic, stupid, slack or whatever the hell you are, guess what? There’s probably someone out there worse off and always willing to try anyway. Boom. No excuses to not smile and be happy Age is not an excuse bro! Jung Da Yeon: Age 43. No excuses to not make ART! No excuses to not make beautiful music No excuses to not coexist peacefully No excuses to not get along No excuses to get your ass to exercise No excuses to not be happy with all the shit you own No excuses to not be thankful No excuses to not move on with life No excuses for the life you own Being fat is not an excuse Support here on Patreon!