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mental_floss Blog » 10 Ways to Learn Stuff While Procrastinating Online It's Monday. You've had a nice, long, idle weekend, and—what's this? Someone who says they're your boss wants you to do work?! Frittering away hours in front of mental_floss' Amazing Fact Generator is always an option. 1. I wish I were better able to speak and read Spanish, but that takes a good bit of time to master — on the other hand, learning to write in Elvish takes all of ten minutes, according to this website. Did I get it right? 2. You've probably heard about the man who delivered his baby son after watching a how-to on YouTube. Of course, you shouldn't limit yourself to YouTube for these sorts of how-tos. 3. This one's a no-brainer: HowStuffWorks is a great complement to mental_floss, covering pretty much every topic of inquiry you can think of. 4. This one's for the math nerds: at this website, you can read what makes any number special, from 0 all the way up to 9999 (Spoiler alert! 5. 6. The Ancient Greeks looked to the sky at night and saw little blips of light. 7. 8. 9.
Big Photography Photo by: Dmitry Dubikovskiy Photo by: Erik Seo,National Geographic Photo by: Michail Vorobyev Photo by: Mark Bridger,National Geographic Photo by: Dominick Marino Einsteins Puzzle # Copyright (C) 2004 Lauri Karttunen # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. Einstein's Puzzle Variations of this riddle appear on the net from time to time. It is sometimes attributed to Albert Einstein and it is claimed that 98% of the people are incapable of solving it. Some commentators suggest that Einstein created such puzzles not to test out intelligence but to get rid of all the students who wanted him as an advisor. Let us assume that there are five houses of different colors next to each other on the same road.
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Top 50 Photography Tips: Digital Camera Tips for Better Photography Here are the top 50 photography tips to get the most out of your digital camera and become the best photographer you can be. Digital cameras and camera phones have totally transformed the way in which we take photos. Not only are we free from concerns about wasting film, but the screen on the back means we can easily check whether we’ve got the shot in the bag. We can also easily and inexpensively produce and share photos with anyone with access to the Internet. Image Credit: Mia Rose Top 50 Photography Tips: Camera Basics 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Top 50 Photography Tips: Basic Techniques 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Top 50 Photography Tips: Better Photography 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Close-up photography allows you to produce pictures that have an abstract quality and are not simply a record of an identifiable subject. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. Top 50 Photography Tips: Digital Darkroom 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. Top 50 Photography Tips: Sharing Photos 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45.
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