Posted in General on Apr 28th, 2007
When someone is full of aggression and adrenalin they’re easily rendered useless with confusion.
Let us assume for whatever reason, you’ve found yourself being confronted by an aggressive guy who clearly wants to fight. If you run he’ll chase you, if you fight you’ll probably end up in hospital. What is the solution?
Relax your body […]
Posted in General on Apr 27th, 2007
This article at The Onion, ‘Unemployed Scientists Prove Dog Likes Beer’ had me laughing and I felt compelled to share it with those of you not familiar with said website.
The bit that gets me is the announcement of the next experiment; the effects of cannabis on his pet cat Schrödinger.
Are these people really scientists? I’ve […]
Vc – VISUAL constructed images
Ac – AUDITORY constructed sounds
K – KINAESTHETIC / feelings
Vr – VISUAL remembered images
Ar – AUDITORY remembered sounds
Ad – AUDITORY digital (interior dialogue)
As you can see, reading someones eyes is far more complicated than ‘if they look up and right it’s a lie’.
Constructed means made up instead […]
Posted in General on Apr 26th, 2007
In an attempt to further lower Aids, the French have launched a campaign designed to scare people into being more careful when partaking in such activities. Nothing seems out of the ordinary here until you see one of the adverts they’ve decided to go with. The first shot shows a women being mounted by a […]
Posted in General on Apr 25th, 2007
Astronomers have discovered a Super Earth like planet some 20.5 light years (18,000,000,000 miles) away. The 3.6m Chilean telescope Eso helped the scientists estimate the surface temperature to be between 0 and 40 centigrade, meaning any water on the planet is in liquid form. The planet is roughly 1.5 times the size of Earth but […]
Posted in General on Apr 25th, 2007
It’s time we stopped considering ourselves as the pinnacle of evolution, chimps have evolved more than you or me.
Evolutionary geneticist Jianzhi Zhang and his colleagues at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, have been comparing 13,888 human, chimp and rhesus macaque genes. 233 of chimp genes and only 154 human genes have changed since we […]
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2007
I’ve recently got into this idea of making money online through websites.
I was browsing Digital Point hoping to make some money. I was a poor student you see and often ate rice and pasta for weeks on end. Not finding any web coding jobs available I decided to learn a bit about Google Adsense. […]
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2007
Time was I would be ashamed to admit I like the Harry Potter series, but I can hide it no longer! When this movie comes out I think I might head to a cinema for it. I’m not a big movie fan in general, I see TV and Movies as entertainment so the ‘uncool’ factor […]
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2007
I quite enjoy doing these so I think I’ll keep it up until I run out.
1. The bubbles in your beer can reach 30 atmospheres in pressure. A bubble just 0.1 micrometers in size can have the same pressure as 30 of earths atmospheres. Slightly related, some manufacturers will purposely create glasses with imperfections […]
Posted in General on Apr 24th, 2007
1. It is not possible to catch a cold from being cold. It is associated with cold temperatures due to it being spread between people most successfully during winter, when houses are rarely aired and people stay in doors.
2. A sleeping bird would not fall from a branch. The leg tendons in a birds […]
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