Articles tagged with: Interesting
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The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, …
This is too true to be funny. It was forwarded to me via email. I wanted to pass it along. I understand how many zeros in 1,000,000,000. Many who don’t wish to type or show …
Take a look around the world at what $1.5 million buys in 20 of the world’s most expensive housing markets.
1. London
Price: $6,191 per sq. ft.
What you get for $1.5 million: …
1. Technically, the prize awarded in Economics is not a Nobel Prize, as it was not specified in Alfred Nobel’s will. It has been nicknamed the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, and is selected by …
It’s actually been done too, in October 2007, a German cathedral, first mentioned in documents in 1297, was moved using a huge trailer platform from its original emplacement by a mining company. The village it …
A popular e-mail going around features a spinning dancer that has been touted as a test of whether you are right-brained and creative or left-brained and logical. If you see the dancer spinning clockwise, the …
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Skin painted bright red, heads partially shaved, arrows drawn back in the longbows and aimed square at the aircraft buzzing overhead. The gesture is unmistakable: Stay Away.
Behind the two men stands another figure, possibly a …
The whole mess started on a regular workday—computer, phone, cubicle, all that. I had a new employee, “Tiff,” who I had to start training that morning. “Whoopee!” I thought sarcastically, leaning back my chair. Then …
The next time you are dozing offduring a meeting Imagine that your boss as Hitler, that should keep you going for a while…
You have seen a Snow Man, you probably made one, but this snow man is the papa of all snowman’s ever.
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Their darkest dealings often go unreported and unnoticed. But from Nairobi to São Paulo, many urban gangs are becoming more sophisticated, more brutal, and more powerful than ever.
The Mungiki, Kenya
Membership: as many as 100,000 men …
In spite of real progress around the globe, the bedrock problems that have dogged women for centuries remain
The image of the 21st century woman is confident, prosperous, glowing with health and beauty.
But for many of the 3.3 billion female occupants of our planet, the perks of the cyber age never arrived. As International Women’s Day is celebrated today, they continue to feel the age-old lash of violence, repression, isolation, enforced ignorance and discrimination.
A historical look at the stuff that gets us hammered. Who’s ready for the first round?
1. Get married
2. Unwind with a few friends
3. Tour the globe as a scandalous work of art
4. Fuel a city
5. Get sold, chop shop-style
6. Become a Soviet tourist attraction
7. Snuggle up with your stalker
8. Don’t …
“The ball is put into a slightly protruding base to keep it in place when stirring and drinking. “Users gently move the cup, like you would when swirling a glass of cognac, and the action …
