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• 5 Ways to Save a Life

  Quick: What would you do if you impaled yourself with a large, sharp, piece of wood? If your tooth fell out? If you fell from a high ladder? If your friend had a severe allergic reaction? Even if you don't have first aid training, there are simple things everyone can learn to do in emergency situations.

  
  

• Cops Have ??? ALWAYS Get a Lawyer

  Cops want tp ask you a few questions? You want to cooperate, but fight the urge. So say the law professor and detective in this fascinating video. Even if you haven't done anything wrong, they say, you will only make things harder on yourself if you answer police questions without your lawyer being present.

  
  

• What Orwell Wrote 70 Years Ago Today

  George Orwell has been dead for 58 years, but his blog is now up and running. For the next four years, you can read what he wrote on this very day, 70 years ago.

  
  

• 5 Scientific Theories to Make Your Head Explode

  Imagine how big the universe is. Now get this: Recent evidence suggests that it's billions of times bigger than that. And that's just one of five widely accepted scientific theories that are really, really crazy, when you think about it. Source: Cracked

  
  

• Get Ready for the New Generation of 'Superbugs'

  Researchers are racing to find a way to kill a new generation of deadly antibiotic-resistant bacteria, which have moved out of the ICU and into the population at large. One of the most promising avenues of research involve infecting the bacteria with even smaller organisms called macrophages. Source: The New Yorker.

  
  

• Making Sense of Isaac Newton

  He probably didn’t get bonked on the head by an apple. But Newton did have unusual experimental methods, like sticking a needle into his eye socket to see what would happen. He believed he could turn lead into gold and obsessively read the book of Revelation. Newton’s nothing like the story we’ve all been told. Source: Vanity Fair

  
  

• How to Tie a Bowline

  Step by step, illustrated instructions. A bowline knot, also known as a bowline hitch, makes a fixed loop at the end of a rope or string. The loop can be secured over an object like a post or passed through a ring or hole before the knot is tied. These instructions will guide you in making a simple bowline knot with string. Source: wikiHow

  
  

• How to Think Straight about Risks You Face

  Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks. Here's how to think straight about dangers in your midst. Ten ways we get the odds wrong, including fearing snakes instead of cars. Source: Psychology Today

  
  

• How to Tell If Someone Is Lying to You

  You can see it in their body language and how they speak: liars are more likely to say things like, “to tell you the truth.” Four other giveaways: shifty eyes, higher vocal pitch, perspiration and heavier breathing. Source: MSNBC

  
  

• How Gunpowder Changed the World

  After Chinese alchemists accidentally discovered gunpowder, it became the basis for almost every weapon used in war from that point on, from fiery arrows to rifles, cannons and grenades. Gunpowder made warfare all over the world very different, affecting the way battles were fought and borders were drawn throughout the Middle Ages. Source: Live Science

  
  

• Why Do We Still Have the Penny Anyway?

  Making a penny costs the Mint 1.7 cents. Even worse is the nickel. It costs ten cents to make. The US has not rid itself of a coin since 1857 (the half penny.) Legislation to get rid of the penny has been proposed and defeated, but something has to change. Source: The New Yorker

  
  

• Do Boomerangs Work...in Space?

  If thrown in space, will a boomerang return to its pitcher? Yes, if it was thrown in the International Space Station. Find out why gravity is pretty much irrelevant, according to the aerodynamics expert studying the curved devices. Source: New Scientist

  
  

• How Did a Woman Get Fused to a Toilet Seat?

  It wasn’t easy. She sat for way too long—three or four weeks—and developed bedsores. The skin, trying to heal itself, became attached and grew around the seat. She and the seat were removed with a crowbar and sent together to the hospital to be separated. Source: Discover

  
  

• King Arthur: Separating Fact from Fiction

  The legendary hero unites various regional British kings against common enemies and fights off countless invaders. He also goes on a quest for the Holy Grail, a chalice Jesus used at the Last Supper that's said to contain the secret of immortality. Why scholars continue to debate whether he existed at all. Take a closer look at the basic Arthurian legend and its variations. Source: How Stuff Works

  
  

• How to Spot a Psychopath

  In the public imagination, a "psychopath" is a violent serial killer or an over-the-top movie villain. Spanning all cultures and eras, roughly one man in every hundred is born a clinical psychopath. They are so common that every person reading this sentence almost certainly knows one personally. Indeed, a significant number of readers are likely psychopaths themselves. Source: Damn Interesting

  
  

• How Pickpockets Do Their Thing

  A skilled pickpocket can make off with just as much money as an armed robber, without much danger of confrontation or risk of being identified in a line-up. By the time the victim realizes what's happened, the pickpocket is long gone. How it happens, illustrated to reveal pickpocket secrets. Source: How Stuff Works

  
  

• How Our View of the Universe Has Changed Since 1908

   
  

• Everything There Is to Know about Wikipedia

  On Wikipedia, anyone can be an editor, and it has millions. But only a few thousand of these make contributions that last. There are vandals who post “nipples and broccoli” on the Pop Tarts page, bullies who participate solely by mocking, and “deletion extremists” who scour the site for too-obscure poets. Source: The New York Review of Books

  
  

• CPR: Everything You've Been Taught Is WRONG

  Ready for a medical emergency? The rules of CPR have changed. Catch up on the recommended chest compressions, mouth to mouth breathing, and more. With clear illustrations to help you save a life. Source: Best Life

  
  

• 12 Tips on Flying from the Flight Crew

  Insider advice from the true airplane travel experts. Helpful advice on remembering where you parked your car, getting a better seat, and why you must bring ear plugs, a book, and lotion. Source: Tripso

  
  

• How to Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft

  Identity thieves are creating new ways of obtaining personal information every day—be on your guard! A checklist, including everything you need to know about your credit report, donating to charity, email safety, and more. Source: Boulder County Colorado Government Online

  
  

• Insider's Guide to Switching Airline Seats

  Seat shuffling can make your trip much more comfortable. When your flight isn’t full, there are many reasons to switch: crying babies, stinky feet, body odor, drunk old men and more. A few tricks to help you pull it off. Source: Tripso

  
  

• 20 Things You Didn't Know about Relativity

  Galileo invented it, Einstein understood it, and Eddington saw it. How much do you know? Find out who Hermann Minkowski is and if someone fudged the results of a key experiment. Source: Discover

  
  

• All Blue-Eyed People Have the Same Ancestor in Common

  Why pale irises arose has always been something of a genetic mystery. Until now. According to a team of researchers from Copenhagen University, a single mutation which arose as recently as six thousand years ago was responsible for all the blue-eyed people alive on Earth today. Source: Daily Mail

  
  

• How to Talk Your Way Out of a Speeding Ticket

  Nobody relishes an encounter with the police. But there are many ways to get out of a ticket. Mastering these skills is bound to prove financially rewarding. Speeding tickets can easily set you back $200—and result in car insurance hikes too. Here's advice both on how to avoid getting a ticket—and, if you aren't successful there, how to get your ticket dismissed in court. Source: Smart Money

  
  

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