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I found this article online and felt compelled to share it with you guys.
(credit: Radio Praha)
Among the souvenirs that tourists bring back from a visit to Prague are little clay figures of the Golem – a giant linked to one of Prague’s best known legends. What few of them know is that there is a [...]

I found this online and had to share it with you guys.
Bananas and Monkeys
Original source unknown.
Start with a cage containing five monkeys.
Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. [...]

Switching languages can also switch personality: study

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) – People who are bicultural and speak two languages may unconsciously change their when they switch languages, according to a U.S. study.
Researchers David Luna from Baruch College and Torsten Ringberg and Laura A. Peracchio from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee studied groups of Hispanic women, all [...]

Blood Falls
This five-story, blood-red waterfall pours very slowly out of the Taylor Glacier in Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys. When geologists first discovered the frozen waterfall in 1911, they thought the red color came from algae, but its true nature turned out to be much more spectacular.
Roughly 2 million years ago, the Taylor Glacier sealed beneath [...]

HAARETZ ARTICLE: Most people go to the Western Wall to pray, but now some will also head there to pay.
The cabinet has approved a plan that would allow for sponsorship messages to be beamed onto the Western Wall, sources in the Prime Minister’s Office told Haaretz Monday.
According to the plan, any company will be able [...]

Long-term pot use can double risk of psychosis
Young people who smoke marijuana more prone to delusions, study says

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REUTERS LONDON – Young people who smoke cannabis or marijuana for six years or more are twice as likely to have psychotic episodes, hallucinations or delusions than people who have never used the drug, scientists said on [...]

One of the best excuses I have Heard from guys after failing tests, that they’re bad test takers. they want me to believe that they fully participated in class, took notes, Spent every hour they had studying, and their IQ is above 140 , but when it come to passing tests they just cant seem to do [...]

For us common People, Stuff is subjective. Stuff is one of the most general words out there, ranging from emotional issues (i.e. I have lots of stuff going on in my life,) to physical things (i.e. You cant camp out in my garage its loaded with stuff.)

In a world where instant is rarely quick enough (just think about how annoying it is when your celphone takes more than .025 seconds to find a connection…) it’s about time that the folks at Photoshop have come up with the ultimate cooking/baking software. I remember back in the day when I installed Photoshop on [...]

God Bless America….and…Hulu.
That was the feeling I had in my heart after one of my close friends introduced me to Hulu.
I did not have a TV in my house and my Blockbuster account was way too expensive for me, living on a limited student’s budget, but Hulu changed all of that.
There was no more late [...]