Reasons Satellites are Sent Into Orbit
"We frequently get asked at satellite conferences and trade shows about what satellites are actually used for apart from spying/military use and satellite TV purposes. In fact there are many more widespread uses of satellites that don’t necessarily come to mind in most conversations about them....
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Most sneakily creepy fairy tales we all know
"We all grew up with fairy tales. You know, the nice stories with fairies, nice dwarves, heroes and heroines. Little did we know that we were being fed the filtered version of these stories. In reality, most of these stories are laden with really creepy and gory themes that were crafted to frighten...
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Flowchart to Determine if You Should Buy an Ipad
"The Ipad came out on Saturday, and if you weren't one of the 3 million peoplestanding in line at the Apple store to get one already, then you're probably wondering what all the fuss is about, and whether you should be buying an Ipad, too. Luckily, we've created this flowchart to help you determine...
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Magazines That Need To Stop Publishing
"Magazines. Sure, we love them… but aren’t there, like, a LOT of them? A lot of them that seem pretty…. similar? Surely we could do without a lot of them. Here are some that really need to stop publishing because they are either A) Evil or B) Superfluous. "[via ego tv]
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Amazing Tricks to Play with your Brain
"Mind is the aspect of intellect and consciousness experienced as combinations of thought, perception, memory, emotion, will and imagination, including all unconscious cognitive processes. Mind manifests itself subjectively as a stream of consciousness."[via smashing lists]
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Math Riddles to Amaze Your Friends
"Numbers can be deceiving and manipulated in some pretty amazing ways if the observer is not paying attention. I really enjoy these types of challenges and tricks and thought that I would share some of my favorite math sequences that seem to produce amazing results with you. In reality the results...
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Get your Child to Sleep in their Own Room
"Do you put your child to bed at night only to find them crawling into bed with you a few hours later? What can you do to get your bed back? How can you get your child to sleep in his/her own rooms all night long? Check out the following tips to help everyone get a good night’s sleep."[via christian...
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Biggest and Brightest Full Moon of 2010
"This being the first full moon of 2010, it is also known as the wolf moon, a moniker dating back to Native American culture and the notion that hungry wolves howled at the full moon on cold winter nights. Each month brings another full moon name."[via yahoo news]
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Man Buried in Haiti Rubble Uses iPhone to Treat Wounds, Survive
"U.S. filmmaker Dan Woolley was shooting a documentary about the impact of poverty in Haiti when the earthquake struck. He could have died, but he ultimately survived with the help of an iPhone first-aid app that taught him to treat his wounds.[via wired]
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Creepiest Unexplained Broadcasts
"As we speak, broadcast signals are moving invisibly through the air all around you, from millions of sources. And some of them are really, really freaking weird. We know this because occasionally somebody with a shortwave radio, or a special antenna or even a common household television, will capture...
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