How to Travel Full-Time for $17,000 a Year (or Less!) Wise Bread Picks For the last five years, I've been traveling the world full-time, and for less money than I've ever spent (and I'd wager less money than most people would spend) to live in one place. My worldly possessions fit into one bag (just larger than carry-on size) and a backpack containing my laptop and computer gear. This small entourage (weighing less than 45 pounds in total) comes with me as I wander around the world, sometimes quickly, but mostly slowly. In 2011 alone, I traversed 13 countries and over 45,360 miles. What if I told you it wasn't? Believe it. How to Keep Your Travel Costs Low Of course, I could travel for way more than $17,000/year. Here are a few of my secrets. Don't Pay for Accommodations In the entire year of 2011, I paid $173 for accommodation. Work-Trade/Volunteer There are lots of creative opportunities to work in trade for your accommodation (and sometimes food) and enjoy a more immersive travel experience. Hospitality Exchange House/Pet-Sitting Travel Slowly
How to increase serotonin in the human brain without drugs How to Win an Argument With a Nutritionist or Registered Dietitian September 22, 2012 | By Kristjan | 56 Comments For reasons I have disclosed before, I prefer not to get in to online arguments with nutritionists. I used to enjoy it, but ended up becoming frustrated so I gave it up. But… I often observe these arguments online. It’s fun. Usually. There’s an annoying pattern I’ve noticed though. The people who are arguing with the nutritionists, who seem to have all the facts straight and are trying to make their point, don’t cite any studies. This is a problem! I get it… Not everyone has a ton of studies bookmarked on their computer and it can be quite a hazzle to start looking them up at the time of need. But citing studies is critical in an argument about science. So, with this article I decided to collect studies for the main arguments against some of the more foolish claims made by nutritionists, vegans and know-it-all low-fat zealots. All of them are in a copy-paste friendly format. Remember Kris’s Law: Nutritionist Says: Protein is Bad For Your Bones
Best Procrastination Tip Ever Post written by Leo Babauta. Your first thought as you look at this article will be, “I’ll read this later.” But don’t. Let the urge to switch to a new task pass. It’ll take you two minutes. I’ve written the book on ending procrastination, but I’ve since come up with a very simple technique for beating everyone’s favorite nemesis. Try it now: Identify the most important thing you have to do today. Clear away distractions. Sit there, and focus on getting started. Pay attention to your mind, as it starts to have urges to switch to another task. But don’t move. Notice also your mind trying to justify not doing the task. Now just take one small action to get started. Get started, and the rest will flow.
30 Books I'm Glad I Read Before 30 In various ways, these 30 books convey some of the philosophy of how Angel and I live our lives. I honestly credit a fraction of who I am today to each title. Thus, they have indirectly influenced much of what I write about on this site. A medley of both fiction and nonfiction, these great reads challenged my internal status quo, opening my mind to new ideas and opportunities, and together they gave me a basic framework for living, loving, learning and working successfully. If you haven’t read these books yet, I highly recommend doing so. They will enrich your library and your life. Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert – Gilbert, a Harvard professor of psychology has studied happiness for decades, and he shares scientific findings that just might change the way you look at the world. What are your favorite books? Photo by: Katie Harris
25 Amazing Electron Microscope Images All the common objects are kinda boring when you look at them, but the situation changes when an awesome Electron Microscope comes in the scene. I mean, take a look at the Salt and pepper image. Isn’t it cool? Computer hard disk read/write head Magnification: x20 at 6x7cm size. Salt and pepper 20.000x zoom-in on a CD The larva of a bluebottle fly Picture: EYE OF SCIENCE / SPL / BARCROFT MEDIA 1000x zoom-in on a vinyl disc The eye of a needle, threaded with red cotton. Magnification: x16 at 35mm size; x32 at 5x7cm size. Mascara brush Magnification: x4 at 5x7cm size. Coloured scanning electron micrograph of a cat flea Refined and raw sugar crystals Magnification x85 at 10cm wide. Guitar string Coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) of “superwound” guitar string (piano wire design). Common housefly Picture: EYE OF SCIENCE/SPL/BARCROFT MEDIA Toothbrush bristles Magnification: x40 when printed at 10 centimetres across. Velcro Magnification: x15 at 6x7cm size. The head of a human flea Used dental floss
How Things Work | Bozgo Posted by admin on Dec 28, 2012 in Entertainment | 27 comments For many thing that we all day see in our lives, we don’t know how some of that things work. Here you can see how things really work. How a Zipper Works Illustrating Pi: Unrolling a Circle’s Circumference How a Pill Press Works How Walschaerts Valve Gear in Steam Locomotives Works How a Caliper Works How a Radial Engine Works How the Geneva Drive Works How a Hypotrochoid is Made How an Alpha Stirling Engine Works How a Sewing Machine Works How to Draw a Yin Yang Symbol Using Circles
Anecdotes du film Le Seigneur des anneaux : la communauté de l'anneau Anecdotes, potins, actus, voire secrets inavouables autour de "Le Seigneur des anneaux : la communauté de l'anneau" et de son tournage ! Hugo Weaving : de la Matrice à l'Anneau Secret de tournage sur Le Seigneur des anneaux : la communauté de l'anneau Interprète de l'agent Smith, l'Australien Hugo Weaving a enchaîné avec une autre franchise fantastique d'envergure, Le Seigneur des anneaux où il incarne Le Seigneur elfe Elrond et où il a croisé de nouveau le producteur Barrie Osborne. Avant de retrouver les plateaux de The Matrix reloaded et The Matrix revolutions... "Le Seigneur des anneaux" sur grand écran Comme l'oeuvre littéraire de J.R.R. La saga des anneaux en chiffres Avant-propos de Peter Jackson Multiples retours en Terre du Milieu pour l'équipe du film "Approved P.J." Durant la pré-production, un tampon spécial "Approved P.J." Une distribution française onéreuse La distribution française de la trilogie réalisée par Peter Jackson a coûté très cher. La naissance du projet
Friendship Bracelets Macraméd friendship bracelets were all the rage when I was growing up in the eighties. All the girls at my school would obsessively make them for one another in a dizzying variety of colors, widths, and patterns. It's amazing, thinking back, that such young girls could make such beautifully intricate accessories. I, of course, tried my hand at making them as well. I would ride my bike down to the five-and-dime store and pick out the most sophisticated color combinations of embroidery floss I could find, but when it came to the actual macramé I never got beyond plain stripes. Fast forward 20 years: Purl Soho started carrying DMC Cotton Embroidery Floss in every conceivable color (including fluorescents! Making friendship bracelets is a surprisingly easy craft, and best of all, in the end you'll have a bunch of cute summer bracelets to give to your pals. Materials Since this is such a free form enterprise the amount of colors of DMC embroidery floss you get is really up to you. Beginning
30 Bizarre and Creative Packaging Design Examples Inspiration November 1, 2010 One of the things that identifies the image of a product is its packaging. Few elements like striking graphics, attractive colors, and unusual shapes are carefully thought of to come up with packaging design that catches the attention of the consumers. A packaging design is a critical component in marketing because it is the packaging that makes it stand from the rest when consumers choose a product from the shelf. This post presents the clever and innovative ideas of some of the company manufacturers around the world. Evian 2005 Limited Edition Bottle View Source Experimental Milk Carton View Source Tequila Gun Packaging View Source Salt & Pepper Cell View Source Lightbulb Box View Source Kleenex Packaging View Source 360 Paper Bottle View Source Wine in a Can View Source Doritos Packaging Concept View Source Hanger Tea View Source El Mil del Poaig Packaging View Source Wine Packaging View Source Egg Packaging Corrugated Card View Source Prism Eyewear View Source Pop-up Popcorn Dino Gum
5 DIY Chair Makeovers Before & After You can turn your old furniture into a trendy one with a little time and imagination. Here are a few chair renovations for your inspiration. #1 Before After via (styleathome) #2 Before via (designsponge) #3 Before & After via (darlingoctopus) #4 Before via (thesweetestdigs) #5 Before & After via (ds)
Le petit dictionnaire des métalleux (partie 1) - Actualités musicales et potins sur vos vedettes Comme on peut dire que le métal est une culture, et j’oserais même pousser la note plus loin en disant que ça peut être un mode de vie pour certains, j’ai décidé de rédiger un article à propos de notre jargon à nous, les amateurs de métal. Voici des termes, généralement anglais, que vous risquez d’entendre dans une discussion entre métalleux. Je tiendrais cette chronique sur plusieurs articles, car sur un seul ce serait beaucoup trop long. N’hésitez pas à nous faire part des suggestions de mots utilisés par les métalleux! Headbang : Une des expressions les plus rependues et vraiment propres au métal est sans doute celle du headbang. Pour quelqu’un qui n’est pas amateur de métal, voir quelqu’un headbanger c’est bizarre. Il est important de ne pas exagérer les mouvements puisque ceci peut avoir une mauvaise répercussion sur notre santé. Trash : Le trash désigne tout simplement la section parterre d’une salle. Pit/Circle Pit/Moshpit : Le pit c’est la section du trash qui brasse le plus.
Two Cuts Transform Old Wine Bottles Into 3 Useful Objects If you are an eco-minded person, the joy of drinking wine is effectively cancelled out when you look at the pile of wasted bottles that are left over. Barcelona-based studio Lucirmás has come up with an innovative way to upcycle empty wine bottles with no waste. The Pure-Bottle is a three-part set of objects made from a single wine bottle. The glass is sandblasted to remove any sharp edges, leaving surprisingly elegant objects that would be equally at home in a four-star restaurant or at your breakfast table. Enterprising DIYers with the right equipment could easily replicate these objects at home.