Lucid Dreaming By lucid dreaming, you can gain complete control over the one place that no one will ever care about: your imagination. Just The Facts Lucid dreaming is a scientifically proven phenomenon. While some get into lucid dreaming in order to treat chronic nightmares, or to experience all facets of the human experience, approximately 99.8% of people use it as a tool for cheap and interactive 3D porn. A lucid dream is a dream in which the dreamer is aware that he or she is dreaming, and he or she can even choose to control and manipulate his or her dream. Dream, dream, dream. How to Take Control of Your Dreams: So, you've doubled your weight over the past five years, you own a record-shattering collection of greasy pizza boxes and broken aspirations, and you're beginning to consider installing a toilet bowl in the place of your computer chair? In order to even begin to get control over your dreams, there are a few preliminary tasks you must complete. The Tasks: 1. "What?" Calm down! 2.
Nerd Paradise : How to Write a 20 Page Research Paper in Under a Day Posted on: 10 Cado 7:0 - 5.27.29 So you've procrastinated again. You told yourself you wouldn't do this 2 months ago when your professor assigned you this. But you procrastinated anyway. Pick a Topic The more "legally-oriented" your topic is, the better. Make a list ...of every possible outcome that this issue could cause in...the near future...the far future...of every person that this topic affects....of any instances where this topic has come in the news....what you would do about this topic if you had the chance/power/enough-sugar...any little detail you can think ofThe important thing about this is to think of ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING, no matter how silly or far-fetched. Reorder everything Put your most obvious argument first. Then put weird off the wall stuff, regardless of importance. Put the strongest argument for your case next. Now list the incidents that will help argue for your point. It's best to keep all this in the form of an outline. Spaces Now print it out. Write Go Back Inside
Add some creepiness to your home with a meat-eating clock Looking to really creep out guests to your home? Decorate your living room with a clock that's powered by dead flies. Yep, we're talking about carnivorous furniture here. The carnivorous clock can run for about 12 days on a mere eight dead flies. Here's how it works, as explained by one of its creators: What we have here is a belt. Not too bad! Via NPR
Ogling Breasts Increases Men's Lifespans 'Medical study' supposedly published in the New England Journal of Medicine claims staring at women's breasts every day is good for men's health. Description: Satire / Email hoaxCirculating since: March / April 2000Status: FALSE (see details below) Example: Email text contributed by a reader in April 2000: This is not a joke. It came from the New England Journal of Medicine.Great news for girl watchers: Ogling over women's breasts is good for a man's health and can add years to his life, medical experts have discovered. Analysis: Don't get your hopes up, guys. A search of the thousands of peer-reviewed articles contained in the National Institutes of Health medical journal database turns up zero items documenting the health benefits of staring at women's breasts, and, for that matter, zero items authored by "Dr. If the story smacks of supermarket tabloid faux-journalism, well, that's precisely what it is. And it was published yet again by the Nigerian Tribune in April 2013.
Does your heart stop when you sneeze? (Everyday Mysteries: Fun Science Facts... A sneeze begins with a tickling sensation in the nerve endings that sends a message to your brain that it needs to rid itself of something irritating the lining of your nose. You first take a deep breath and hold it, which tightens your chest muscles. The pressure of air in your lungs increases, you close your eyes, your tongue presses against the roof of your mouth and suddenly your breath comes out fast through your nose. So where did the myth originate that your heart stops when you sneeze? The changing pressure in your chest due to sneezing also changes your blood flow, which may change the rhythm of your heartbeat. Dr. Why do people say, “God bless you,” after someone sneezes? There are varying accounts as to the origin of this response. The expression may have also originated from superstition. Sneeze responses from around the world: Interesting facts: Sneezes are an automatic reflex that can’t be stopped once sneezing starts. For more print resources... Hay fever. Nasal anatomy.
Bill Nye Boo'd In Texas For Saying The Moon Reflects The Sun - Think... Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun. As even most elementary-school graduates know, the moon reflects the light of the sun but produces no light of its own. But don't tell that to the good people of Waco, who were "visibly angered by what some perceived as irreverence," according to the Waco Tribune. Nye was in town to participate in McLennan Community College's Distinguished Lecture Series. He gave two lectures on such unfunny and adult topics as global warming, Mars exploration, and energy consumption. But nothing got people as riled as when he brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. The lesser light, he pointed out, is not a light at all, but only a reflector.
The Sakawa Boys - Motherboard | VBS.TV While Nigeria’s 401 scammers may have written the book on West African internet fraud, their shtick looks like Compuserve compared to what’s going on in Ghana. Unsatisfied with the meager winnings from emailing thousands of random Westerners in hopes of convincing one poor sap they’re the treasurer of the Ivory Coast, Ghana’s scammers decided to stack the odds in their favor the old-fashioned way—witchcraft. Taking a page from cyberpunk, traditional West African Juju priests adapted their services to the needs of the information age and started leading down-on-their-luck internet scammers through strange and costly rituals designed to increase their powers of persuasion and make their emails irresistible to greedy Americans. And so “Sakawa” was born. Now not only is Sakawa Ghana’s most popular youth activity and one of its biggest underground economies, it’s a full-blown national phenomenon. —Watch more at Motherboard.tv
The transparent battery: Is an invisible iPhone next? In the category of people making things you didn't know you need, researchers at Stanford University have just created a thin, flexible, totally transparent lithium-ion battery. It is about the size and shape of a Listerine breath mint strip, and as clear as Saran Wrap. According to an article on the university' website, researchers were inspired to make a see-through battery partially because they want transparent Apple products to be a reality in the future. "I want to talk to Steve Jobs about this. I want a transparent iPhone!" said Yi Cui, battery expert extraordinaire and an associate professor of materials science at Stanford who worked on the project. Cui created the battery with graduate student Yuan Yang, who is the first author of the paper "Transparent Lithium-ion Batteries," published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Here's how the Stanford story explains it: The battery is not strong enough to power a laptop yet, but it could power a camera.
THEYRE HERE! 2010 DARWIN AWARDS - Youve been waiting for them with bated... Eighth Place In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. Seventh Place A 49-year-old San Francisco stockbroker, who "totally zoned when he ran", accidentally jogged off a 100-foot high cliff on his daily run. Sixth Place While at the beach, Daniel Jones, 21, dug an 8 foot hole for protection from the wind and had been sitting in a beach chair at the bottom, when it collapsed, burying him beneath 5 feet of sand. Fifth Place Santiago Alvarado, 24, was killed as he fell through the ceiling of a bicycle shop he was burglarizing. Fourth Place Sylvester Briddell, Jr., 26, was killed as he won a bet with friends who said he would not put a revolver loaded with four bullets into his mouth and pull the trigger. Third Place After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store.
20 Alcoholic Beverages Inspired By The Harry Potter Series: Pics, Videos,... Kill Screen - Life After Death The list of deaths I’ve died reads like an obscene parody of a Broadway musical: I’ve been shot, stabbed, crushed, impaled, dismembered and decapitated!Sniped, nuked, beaten, poisoned, electrocuted, immolated!Drowned! Starved!Exploded and disintegrated! Trouble. Dying in games is a practicum in quantum immortality. Which is why the Karoshi series is such a curiosity. A recent version of Karoshi introduces a new feature. Character backstory isn’t really needed in a game like this. Unlike Five Minutes to Kill (Yourself), another Flash game in which workplace suicide is the goal, Karoshi requires dexterity both in the fingers and in the mind. It’s for this reason that Karoshi strikes a nerve. I never used to be scared of dying. A few years back my physical therapist wife had a man die in her arms. There is sometimes an identifiable moment, medical professionals will tell you, at which you can perceive life slide into death. Maybe that’s why I have such a hard time with Mrs.