Monthly Archives: November 2010

50 Secrets Your Pilot Won’t Tell You

Every worried about the truth in the cockpit when you ride one plane? You think that all important information is passed over to you as a passenger? Maybe not all the time according to this article. This one is one

Posted in travel

National Geographic’s Photography Contest 2010

Like every year, the National Geographic holds its photo contest where people can submit their best shots for rating via its readers. A really great collection of these shots can be found here.

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Dancing with the stars helps to release aggressions …

An US citizen go so upset about seeing Bristol Palin on the “Dancing with the stars” show, that he took a gun and blasted off his TV set. That poor guy, who has my full understanding, got arrested for what

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Buy a truck and get an assault rifle for free

An US truck dealer is running a special campaign to increase his sales (story here). If you buy a truck, he will give you an assault rifle (AK47) for free. Thus, if his costumers have a crash with people injured

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Slow down, there’s music

Imagine that one of the best violinist in the world is giving a free concert. Would you be interested? Joshua Bell did a kind of field study by playing in a subway station incognito for roughly one hour.Read his story

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Optical illusions

Here’s a great page which contains a lot of optical illusions which twist your brain. You will be amazed how much movement you see in static pictures

Posted in math

How save is flying?

Everybody tells you that riding on an airplane is the most save way to get around. That might be true from the point of statistics, where you compare the number of accidents to the number of flights. Nevertheless, be aware

Posted in travel

Unbreakable?

That guy on the shopping channels try to advertise his product as “unbreakable” and then does a small demonstration …

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Royal Facebook

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How user interfaces are designed

Posted in computer
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