40 websites that will make you cleverer right now The indexed web contains an incredible 14 billion pages. But only a tiny fraction help you improve your brain power. Here are 40 of the best. whizzpast.com – Learn about our awe inspiring past all in one wonderful place. khanacademy.org – Watch thousands of micro-lectures on topics ranging from history and medicine to chemistry and computer science. freerice.com – Help end world hunger by correctly answering multiple-choice quizzes on a wide variety of subjects. artofmanliness.com – Blog/site dedicated to all things manly, great for learning life skills and good insights. unplugthetv.com – Randomly selects an educational video for you to watch. coursera.org – An educational site that works with universities to get their courses on the Internet, free for you to use. mentalfloss.com – Interesting articles guaranteed to make you smile and get you thinking. feelgoodwardrobe.com – Find out how the world of fashion really works and what you can do to combat it. lifehacker.com – Learn to hack life!
100 Websites You Should Know and Use In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” Six years later, it remains one of the most viewed TED blog posts ever. Time for an update? We think so. Below, the 2013 edition of the 100 websites to put on your radar and in your browser. To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH. In the spring of 2007, Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH, gave a legendary TED University talk: an ultra-fast-moving ride through the “100 websites you should know and use.” To see the original list, click here. And now, the original list from 2007, created by Julius Wiedemann, editor in charge at Taschen GmbH.
Ab Exercise Don't underestimate the tame-looking side bridge. "Men think a good ab exercise has to make your abs burn," says Michael Boyle, M.A., ATC. Here's the truth: Side bridges improve the stability of all the muscles surrounding your spine and stomach. In fact, Canadian researchers found that men who can perform the side bridge effectively are less likely to encounter back trouble. Add these ab exercises to your workout to bolster your core and help carve a six-pack. The Moves Hold for the time specified below, then switch sides. Kneeling Side BridgeLie on your side with your forearm on the floor and your elbow under your shoulder, your knees bent 90 degrees. Side BridgeLie on your side with your forearm on the floor under your shoulder, and your feet stacked together. Elevated Side BridgeSame setup as you use for the side bridge, but stack your feet on a bench. The WorkoutDo this routine two or three times a week. Transform Your Body!
100 Documentaries To Expand Your Consciousness Free your mind & expand your awareness. Here is a list of over 100 documentaries you can watch for free online. They are about Science, Consciousness, ETs, you name it. “If you find a video wrongly linked please let us know and we will find another to replace it. 1. This list will never be complete!
instaGrok | A new way to learn The Culture The Culture is a fictional interstellar anarchist utopian[1] society created by the Scottish writer Iain M. Banks which features in a number of science fiction novels and works of short fiction by him, collectively called the Culture series. Overview[edit] The Culture is characterized as being a post-scarcity society, having overcome most physical constraints on life and being an egalitarian, individualistic, stable society without the use of any form of force or compulsion, except where necessary to protect others. In vesting all power in his individualistic, sometime eccentric, but always benign, AI Minds, Banks knew what he was doing; this is the only way a liberal anarchy could be achieved, by taking what is best in humans and placing it beyond corruption, which means out of human control. Fictional history[edit] Society and culture[edit] Capability[edit] Language[edit] Marain is the Culture's shared constructed language. Laws[edit] Citizens[edit] Biological[edit] Physiology[edit]
Self Improvement | Use a Journal For Self-Discovery and Self-Expression By Garrett Coan – As a therapist, I often suggest to clients that they explore their feelings and thoughts by keeping a journal. Sometimes clients ask for a bit of direction with this process. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Here are some examples: a. b. c. d. e. f. g. h. i. j. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. a. b. c. d. e. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. a. b. c. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. Garrett Coan, MSW, LCSW is Founder and Director of the Center for Creative Counseling, a team of expert and licensed therapists and coaches providing phone and internet counseling services to clients throughout the United States and worldwide. Article Source:
60 of the world's happiest facts 1. A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance. 2. If you fake laugh long enough you’ll start to really laugh, really, really hard. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32.The kingdom of Bhutan use ‘gross national happiness’ as a key national indicator. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 2013 is the first year since 1987 that consists for four different digits. 59. 60.
WebGL Water Loading... Made by Evan Wallace This demo requires a decent graphics card and up-to-date drivers. If you can't run the demo, you can still see it on YouTube. Interactions: Draw on the water to make ripples Drag the background to rotate the camera Press SPACEBAR to pause and unpause Drag the sphere to move it around Press the L key to set the light direction Press the G key to toggle gravity Features: Raytraced reflections and refractions Analytic ambient occlusion Heightfield water simulation * Soft shadows Caustics (see this for details) ** * requires the OES_texture_float extension** requires the OES_standard_derivatives extension Tile texture from zooboing on Flickr
Cool French Startups, Powered by Analytics The first ever SAP Startup Forum Paris was held earlier this month. The event brought together the best and brightest of France’s enterprise startups to show off their products and expertise. The different companies outlined their innovations in short, focused presentations and shared reactions and ideas with SAP developers in a warm, club-like atmosphere. Flush with the success of HANA, the company’s innovative in-memory database, SAP has expanded the offer into a complete, real-time data management platform, and is aggressively courting developers and investing millions in startups to create new “game-changing” business applications – especially in the enterprise. Venture capitalist Jim Goetz recently expressed his shock and frustration that startups were ignoring a $500 billion market, and SAP’s position as the clear leader in enterprise software applications makes it an obvious partner for success. The day kicked off with presentations from SAP representatives. And The Prizes Go To…
Fifth grader suspended at nature camp for Swiss Army knife A fifth-grader in Cupertino, California was suspended and threatened with expulsion for bringing a small Swiss Army knife on a school-sponsored, science-oriented camping trip. In early April, Braden Bandermann’s class set off on Garden Gate Elementary School’s annual, week-long pilgrimage for fifth-graders to the Marin Headlands, just north of San Francisco. Before leaving, Braden did what any Silicon Valley 10-year-old faced with the perils of nature might do: He packed his trusty Swiss Army knife. The little blade landed the boy in big trouble. “They called me,” explained Tony Bandermann, Braden’s father. At the time, the elder Bandermann was on a business trip in Sacramento, roughly 100 miles away. The school principal, Brandi Hucko, allegedly wanted Bandermann to rush to the site of the science camp, pick Braden up for a one-day suspension and then deliver him back to camp. The multi-tool instrument did not present a threat, Bandermann believes. Principal Hucko disagreed.
22 Killer Personal Development Resources You're Missing Out On You’ve got the personal development itch once again. You know the feeling. Maybe you want to be more productive, finally tackle that goal of yours, or start waking up earlier. So you go to Google or your favorite personal development blogs. And that’s it. Sometimes you find what you need, but you still have a sense that there’s got to be more. And that’s where you get stuck. Today I hope to change that by sharing with you 22 of the killer personal development resources you’re missing out on. 1. I know, you thought Reddit was just for gamers, atheists, and students – but that’s a misconception. 2. Mindbloom.com is a nifty personal development web application. 3. Lately, it seems there have been hundreds of eLearning websites popping up across the web. 4. There are plenty of ways to motivate you to work out, but the app Gympact does something quite clever and unique. Okay, so plenty of you know Ted already, but do you remember the first day you discovered it? 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 13. 14.
Move Over Beer Pong: A Dozen Alternative Drinking Games That'll Get You Hammered What’s more fun than hanging out with your friends, getting plastered, and making an ass of yourself? Playing drinking games, hanging out with your friends, getting plastered, and making an ass of yourself, of course! I’m sure in your years of wisdom and experience, you’ve come across a few drinking games as literally hundreds of them exist; and as long as there is beer to drink and women to, ahem, converse with, there will be hundreds more. Here are some of our favorite games here at AMOG that are great alternates to beer pong (psst, were playing them right now!) 1. This is my all time favorite drinking game. Shake one of the beers up and when you think it’s shaken enough, shake it some more. If your beer doesn’t go all over your face, you lose and have to drink the beer. 2. This drinking game is best if played with at least ten people, but the important thing is that you at least have an even number. When they’re done, they put their glass, can, or bottle down. 3. Don’t worry. 4. 5. 6.