Monday, August 11, 2014

19 Things You Should Never, Ever Throw In the Trash


When something is used or broken (or we just don't want to deal with it) it usually ends up in the trash can. What most of us don't realize is that lots of these things are classified as "hazardous household waste," meaning it's actually dangerous to throw them away. 


Monday, August 4, 2014

7 Positive Things You Can Gain From Forgiving Someone


Mahatma Gandhi once said, “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”


Monday, July 28, 2014

9 Ways To Stop Overthinking


If you’re someone who spends a lot of time “in your own head” mulling over things ad nauseam, you may think you’re alone. You’re not… Not by a long shot!

Sunday, July 27, 2014

How to Forgive Someone When It’s Hard Fogiving




“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” ~Mahatma Gandhi
Up until my early twenties, I carried around a lot of anger toward someone in my life. I’d been hurt by a person I trusted, and for a long time in my adolescence I wanted to hurt them back.

Saturday, July 26, 2014

10 Invaluable Things Money Can Never Buy


Money creeps into many of our conversations. We talk about how much we have or don’t have, how to spend it and how to save it.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

17 Things Emotionally Strong People Don't Do


Once you believe you are strong emotionally, you will unconsciously act stronger than before and begin to take control over your emotional whims.
– Senora Roy

Thursday, July 17, 2014

10 Tips for Public Speaking


Feeling some nervousness before giving a speech is natural and even beneficial, but too much nervousness can be detrimental. Here are some proven tips on how to control your butterflies and give better presentations:

Wednesday, July 16, 2014

Happy Life vs Meaningful Life


A scientific controversy about the relationship between meaning and happiness raises fundamental questions about how to live a good life.

Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Are You in Love or in Lust?


Love or Lust? Or both? Is your relationship headed for long-term success, or is it more of a short-term fling? Here are 10 ways to find out.

Monday, July 14, 2014

60 Rare Photos Will Destroy Everything You Knew About The Past



These stunning photos reveal relationships and sides of famous people you've never seen before and capture the essence of eras that have come and gone. I'm sure more than a few of these will surprise you...and some might even make you laugh.


Saturday, July 12, 2014

30 Simple Things You Do That Impress Everyone Around You


One the biggest mistakes people make when they’re trying to impress someone is that they assume people only pay attention to the important or “big” things they do. But the reality is that the little things are what matter most. 

Friday, July 4, 2014

12 Reasons to Really Quit Smoking


We'll spare you the lecture. (Seriously, though. Stamp out that butt and flush the pack, already.) Tobacco use, namely cigarette smoking, is the chief cause of preventable death in the United States. Left unbridled, smoking could kill more than a billion people this century, according to the World Health Organization. That equals the number who would die if a Titanic sank every 24 minutes for the next 100 years, as former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop so starkly put it at a March press conference.

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Safety and Health of Ramadan Fasting Tips


The fast of Ramadan is rigorous, particularly during long summer days when it may be required to resist all food and drink for as many as sixteen hours at a time. This strain may be too much for people with certain health conditions.

Monday, June 30, 2014

10 Times You Need to Press the Pause Button in Life

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Top 10 Ways to Make Yourself Look (and Be) Smarter


Whether you're trying to survive an intensive college schedule or just want to seem smarter in front of your friends, you can do a lot of things to both look and be smarter. Here are ten simple tricks for boosting your real (and perceived) brain power. 


Wednesday, June 25, 2014

73 Kitchen Hacks to Save Time, Get Organized, and Stay Sane


So maybe you think you’ve got it all figured out. You’re the MacGyver of the kitchen — spatula in one hand two eggs in the other. Crack, separate, and plop goes the egg in the bowl. with a bit of shell. The horror! So what do you do? Hint: using a spoon or your fingers isn’t the answer. 


Sunday, June 22, 2014

7 Things Only Chronic Overthinkers Will Understand


Being an indecisive person in day-to-day life may not sound like the greatest of burdens in this troubled world, but it certainly presents its challenges -- challenges that people who are not chronic over-thinkers don't even know exist in their la-de-dah, it'll-all-work-out, easy-go-lucky state of mind (lucky them).

Saturday, June 21, 2014

The Real Reasons College Is a Bad Investment

Hating on universities and the uselessness of their degrees is trendy. A quick Google search will offer you hundreds of rants detailing the pointlessness of secondary education. Yet while college has become a bad investment, it's likely not for the reasons you have in mind.

7 Ways Saying ‘Thank You’ Can Transform Your Life



We hear it constantly: “Successful people engage in the practice of daily gratitude.” We’ve likely also heard it constantly from our parents during our adolescent years: “Be appreciative and grateful!”

But how many of us truly understand what appreciation is? Furthermore, how many of us truly understand how beneficial gratitude can be to our lives?

Here are the seven ways the simple practice of saying “thank you” to the universe can transform your life… in ways you never thought imaginable.




Friday, June 20, 2014

22 Things To Remember After Making A Mistake


Mistakes are inevitable. It’s basically written into our biology that we will make them. If you claim that you never make mistakes, it seems likely that you don’t do very much of anything.

How To Survive Your First Year Living On Your Own


Moving out and on your own is overwhelming, to say the least. For so many of us, it’s the first time we’d strayed from the comforts of mom and dad’s place, the warm beds with the sheets we’ve been sleeping on since we were preteens.

Monday, June 9, 2014

Top 10 Underrated Badasses of the Ancient World

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Hercules, Beowulf, King Arthur, and Thor are all pretty badass ancient warriors, except they never existed. Real life heroes from the olden times sadly do not get the exposure and recognition they rightfully deserve. Lucky for you, you’re going to introduce and honor a bunch of them right now.

11 The Best Horror Movie Masks Ever


If horror movies have taught us anything, it's that nothing terrifies quite like a great mask — a fact confirmed once again by the lunatic fiends of the Ethan Hawke-headlined home-invasion thriller The Purge, which came out this past weekend. But the art of a truly malevolent getup is hard to pull off. It comes down to simplicity of design, often mixed with a distinctly ragged, made-in-a-basement-by-filthy-hands appearance. These aren't superhero costumes; they're functional headgear for murderous boogeymen. Herewith, a selection of the genre's finest masks.

Top 10 First Uses of Technology in Battle

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Some of our greatest research and development goes into creating better and more efficient ways of killing people. Things like microwaves, the Internet, and nuclear power can find their origins in military research conducted across the globe. With that in mind, here are ten technologies and their first uses in battle.

Top 10 Idiotic Things That Started a War

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The consequences of a war have long been established, but the reasons the war starts in the first place interests us the most. Here are ten stupid reasons, combined with the egos of those in charge that resulted in some of the bloodiest wars ever fought.

Wednesday, June 4, 2014

9 Reasons Why Japanese Men Hesitate To Say 'I love you'

9 reasons why Japanese men hesitate to say 'I love you'

Whenever someone asks me, “How do you say ‘I love you’ in Japanese?” I’m always at a loss for what to say. In short, there is no good Japanese equivalent. Textbooks and other resources will tell you to say “ai shiteru,” but in reality this phrase is used very rarely due to cultural and linguistic differences. 

Monday, June 2, 2014

25 Gadgets That Will Improve Your Life

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With the recent advances in technology, their has been a deluge of new gadgets flooding the markets. From new smartphones to new robots that complete your daily tasks in an orderly and efficient manner, we cannot imagine our lives without the presence of these gadgets.

Saturday, May 31, 2014

Top 10 Science Hoaxes

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Not even science can get it right all the time, and sometimes even scientists can get tricked – or do the tricking. Here are the top 10 science hoaxes ever!


Top 10 Human Jobs Replaced By Machines

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It is the rise of the machines! Or at least it is the rise in automated job replacement by machines for “low-skilled jobs,” such as telemarketing, typists, and other jobs. Here are some of the top 10 human jobs at risk of being replaced by machines.



Top 10 Fascinating Facts You Might Not Know About Phone Numbers

 Top 10 Fascinating Facts You Might Not Know About Phone Numbers
You may have heard some interesting and already common facts about mobile phones on occasion. But what about the phone numbers that give you that unique mobile identity and make using your phone possible. Here’s ten great facts that you may have never heard before:

Thursday, May 29, 2014

5 Creative Ideas to Reuse Plastic Bottles


Don’t throw away used plastic bottles! Here are 5 creative ideas on how you can reuse them. Compiled by Bobo Chang.

Monday, May 26, 2014

10 Modern Inventions That Will Change Our Lives



According to many people, we are transitioning into a High-Tech Age, where new tech will make older versions extinct. We are in the midst of an intense technological revolution that is sure to change the world for good. Below are some gadgets that have been or will be released in the near future, and all of them are sure to change our lives.

Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Top 10 Video Games That Should be Turned into Movies

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It’s not exactly news that video game movies almost never work. Movies like Need for Speed, Tomb Raider, and Silent Hill just don’t seem to work when brought from the console to the silver screen, for whatever reason (Tomb Raider only made money because of Angelina Jolie’s chest, and we all know it.)

Thursday, May 1, 2014

When Your Kitchen Sponge Dirtier Than The Toilet


Did you know that the kitchen is one of the dirtiest places in the home, and the title of the dirtiest caused by Sponge Wash your dishes in the kitchen. The dishwashing sponge made from cellulose fibers, and this is a suitable habitat of the germ, plus appearance is porous so that the germ is increasingly easy to make sneak and multiply in it.

There are two professional microbiology collecting thousands of samples of the sponge in America, and surprisingly, 2/3 of the samples they contain a lot of dangerous bacteries such as E. coli, salmonella, campylobacter and staphylococcus.

Tuesday, April 22, 2014

The Actual Size of Greenland

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In 1973, Arno Peters, a German filmmaker and journalist, called a press conference to denounce the widely accepted map of the world known as the "Mercator Map":

Which Perspective You Look The Trees?


What do you think of when seeing the tree as shown above ? For me personally , it became a source of inspiration and memories of my childhood . Forests play 've finished my day-to- day with local children . I think a lot of people who are less concerned and considers eye a tree . The tree is only used as a shelter or even actually do not care about the existence of the tree or not . I was sad to see the large -scale felling of trees in the forests of Borneo , Sumatra and Indonesia in the other place , even around the world


So many benefits for life on Earth . Starting from the root to the fruit can be used to function on the environment that is so dominant . Of course according to the classification of each tree . May also function in the eyes of our different tree . This time I want to invite you to take a closer look from the side where we see the tree . Not from the front, back , right or left but our view of the tree .

Wednesday, April 9, 2014

15 Beautiful Objects We Don’t Use Anymore

The beauty of an object can’t guarantee its usefulness. Some of these beauties were left behind by improved technology or changing fashions. Some were odd novelties that were hardly even used in their own day. But all are exquisite samples of the culture they existed in.


Monday, March 31, 2014

Why Did People Wear Powdered Wigs?

For nearly two centuries, powdered wigs—called perukes—were all the rage. The chic hairpiece would have never become popular, however, if it weren’t for a venereal disease, a pair of self-conscious kings, and poor hair hygiene.

Friday, March 7, 2014

10 Famous Logos That Have A Hidden Meaning

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Nowadays there are so many companies with instantly recognizable logos, but few people actually know the meaning behind these corporate symbols. Here are 10 modern day examples of company logos and the meanings behind them:

Tuesday, February 18, 2014

8 Interesting Facts About the United Nations Organization (UNO)



The United Nations is an organization of the largest in the world. the Members include virtually all countries in the World and in the 7 continents. But behind the greatness, the UNO save the fact that interesting to study. Here's 8 interesting facts about the united nations or better known as the UNO.

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

7 Scientific Reasons Diagonally Cut Sandwiches Are Better

1. The diagonally sliced half is optimized for dipping in a variety of soup containers.

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2. Mutual support in a vertical setting maintains overall structural integrity in the hours leading up to lunch.

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3. Hypotenuse length maximizes tongue-to-sandwich-filling contact area.

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4. Longer fissure span means increased chance of creating a melted Cheese Bridge.

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5. Triangle structure creates an obvious grab zone.

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6. Acute corners allow for four perfect initial sandwich bites.

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7. The initial corner consumption sets up two ultimate bites of unmatched, crustless perfection.

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