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Overhaul Your Brain While most exercise is focused on strengthening and improving your physical body and muscles, there is very little focus on keeping your brain sharp and healthy. This is interesting because the brain is obviously the most important organ in your body, not only controlling the muscles people spend hours working to build up, but also your memory, thought process, attitude, etc. Don’t get me wrong, abs are great, but the brain needs to be supplemented too. It is far more important to your overall well-being. Here are the best exercises/activities that you can do to keep your brain in tip-top condition:

Top 10 Worst Live Performances Things that don’t go with live performances: Auto-Tune, lip syncing, and arrogance. 10. Whitney Houston Song: I Will Always Love you Venue: Grammy Awards 1994 Lots of Jokes - Anger Management When you occasionally have a really bad day, and you just need to take it out on someone, don't take it out on someone you know, take it out on someone you don't know, but you know deserves it... I was sitting at my desk when I remembered a phone call I'd forgotten to make. I found the number and dialed it. A man answered, saying 'Hello.' I politely said, 'This is Chris. 5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online Since May 2007, we've been bringing you resources and tools to be more productive on the web. Due to popular demand, we've brought all these lists together into one gigantic meta-list: 5000+ Resources to Do Just About Anything Online. Enjoy! And don't forget to subscribe to Mashable for the latest web news and resources. 6 Key Ways to Measure Your Blog’s Success - Six essential tools for measuring how your blog is performing. 30+ AJAX-Powered WordPress Plugins - AJAX provides a way to have pages auto-update to reflect new data without page reloads.

ly and All-Time Best & Worst Lists The 13 Sassiest Brands on Twitter Friday, Feb. 07, 2014 We enlisted social media and marketing experts to help rank the brands that tweet the best quips, digs and smackdowns 10 Famous Folklore Skin-walkers (Shape-Shifting Monsters) Metamorphism or Shapeshifting (also known as Skin walking) is a common theme in mythology and folklore as well as in science fiction and fantasy. In its broadest sense, it is when a being has the ability to alter its physical appearance. The transformation may be purposeful or not depending on whether it has been the subject of a curse or spell. It enables the creature to trick, deceive, hunt, and kill humans. In some folklore, once the shapeshifter has become transformed, it becomes progressively more difficult for it to return to its original form.

5 Gender Stereotypes That Used To Be the Exact Opposite #2. Gay Stereotypes Change More Often Than a Gay Man's Clothing If there's one thing really bad sitcom writers have taught us, it's that making gay people and straight people interact will have waaaaacky consequences! The reason for this is clearly because gay men actually have a lot in common with straight women, and gay women who aren't "lipstick lesbians" are, of course, motorcycle-riding tattooed badasses. GettyWomen can't even hold a wrench until they've been issued their Lesbian Card. Of course, anyone who has actually met (or is) a gay person knows that these things aren't necessarily true, but it's hard to break stereotypes that are centuries old.

64 Things Every Geek Should Know « Caintech.co.uk If you consider yourself a geek, or aspire to the honor of geekhood, here’s an essential checklist of must-have geek skills. The term ‘geek’, once used to label a circus freak, has morphed in meaning over the years. What was once an unusual profession transferred into a word indicating social awkwardness.

Top 6 Sites that Inspire and Educate If you’re a professional who likes to be intellectually stimulated and you enjoy keeping up with the latest news and breaking trends, the internet provides you with an endless choice of carefully curated sites to visit. Today, we bring you six of them that we believe are leaps and bounds above the rest. These sites will not only educate you on topics ranging from business and technology to art and design, they’ll motivate you to find your own, original ideas and see them through. They’re culturally relevant, they’re idea driven and most of all, they’re deeply inspirational. TED is short for three incredibly important subjects in our modern world; technology, entertainment and design. Started in 1984, TED brings together the most brilliant minds to teach us about issues that matter.

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