Is this gonna be THAT kind of party?

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Caffeine doesn’t actually give you energy. This is what it does to your body.

Caffeine doesn’t actually give you energy. This is what it does to your body.

Caffeine actually stops the breakdown of energy so you have a surplus!

In simple terms, ATP is what gives your body energy. Food is broken down and stored as ATP which is used as energy.

When you start to feel yourself dragging, it is because you've used up all the ATP, because ATP cannot be stored for long term.

Caffeine blocks the signal in your body, adenosine, from binding and letting the body know you are out of energy.

It tricks your body into thinking that there is energy there. The effects of the caffeine can kick in within 10 minutes and last up to 4-6 hours!

That's why you crash from caffeine, when the effect runs out, your body tries to use ATP and there's none there!

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Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Dec 29, 2013)

Liger?



Once, there was a lovesick tiger who fell in love with a lovely lioness. However, her pride rejected him, and they were not allowed to be together because he was different.



Heart sickness and grief caused the lovely lioness to lose all of her fur. Even though it was a sad sight, the tiger was overjoyed! Now he would shave off all of his fur. Then he could pretend to be a large lion and be with his beloved.



Unfortunately, they did not get to live happily ever after! His plan failed. Even with his fur gone, everyone could tell he was a tiger.



Ignoring any obvious size differences, how did the pride know that he was obviously still a tiger?





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Today's Daily Trivia Quiz (Dec 29, 2013)

"How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"

These questions are based on the original book by Dr. Seuss. It was later adapted to an animated TV movie, and more recently into a live-action movie.



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Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Mendicant

men-di-cant



noun :: A beggar.



"The wandering mendicant depends on his neighbours for support."

Is it true that one quarter of the area of Los Angeles is covered in cars?

Is it true that one quarter of the area of Los Angeles is covered in cars?

Nope. This myth is fairly widespread on the internet, but it’s not accurate. As of 2007, there were 5,484,606 registered automobiles in the city of Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, the city itself spans an area of 502.693 square miles.

To cover one quarter of the city, the city’s five and a half million cars would need to take up an area of 125.67325 square miles or 3.5 BILLION square feet. That’s not even close to being true.

To be generous, let’s assume that the 5,484,606 automobiles registered in Los Angeles are all above average in size.

For the sake of argument, let’s assume that everyone in LA drives a Hummer H1.The Hummer H1 has a width of 86.5 inches and a length of 184.5 inches.

That’s a grand total of 15,959.25 square inches (about 110.8 square feet) of area covered by each automobile.

That would mean that the total area covered by LA’s cars would be 607,694,345 square feet (about 22 square miles).

That’s a far cry from the 3.5 BILLION square feet required to cover 25% of Los Angeles. It’s actually less than 5%. It’s probably smaller still, since most cars take up less area than the Hummer H1.

Still, LA does have a lot of cars. There are 3,792,621 people in the city, which means that there are almost twice as many cars as there are people.

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Find out why conjoined twins are called “Siamese Twins”.

Find out why conjoined twins are called “Siamese Twins”.

Chang and Eng Bunker were one of the earliest known pairs of conjoined twins. They were born in what is now known as Thailand in 1811, when the country was still known as the Kingdom of Siam.

They moved to the United States and made a living making public exhibitions of themselves, and they were called the "Siamese twins" because of their country of origin.

Since they were partially Chinese, they were actually known as “Chinese Twins” in Siam.







They lived very interesting lives. They both got married; Chang had 10 children, and Eng had 11.

Their wives were sisters, so their children were cousins from both sides and, genetically, were also half-siblings. Their wives didn’t get along, so they had to have two houses.







The two twins died on the same day in 1874. Chang died from pneumonia. Eng refused to let his doctor separate him from his brother, so he died 3 hours later.

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This video of the world's shortest escalator is one of the funniest things you'll see today.

This video of the world's shortest escalator is one of the funniest things you'll see today.

This hilariously pointless piece of machinery is located in the Kawasaki More's department store in Japan and was declared the world's shortest by Guinness in 1989. If you think the absurdity ends with it's height, you are quite mistaken.

Yes, the escalator is only 32.8 inches high (about 2 ½ feet). Yes, the escalator moves downward instead of up, rendering it even more useless.

The funniest part about this escalator, though? After you finish "riding" it, you must take a set of manual stairs which immediately follows!!











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If you took out this part of your eye, you could see ultraviolet light.

If you took out this part of your eye, you could see ultraviolet light.

You may have heard that digital cameras can be made sensitive to infrared light by removing the IR filter found inside, but did you now that something similar can be done with the human eye?

People who have aphakia, or the absence of the lens on the eye, have reported the ability to see ultraviolet wavelengths.

The lens on a human eye ordinarily filters out UV rays, so we don’t see many of the things certain animals see.

For example, the males and females of some butterfly species look identical to the human eye but very different to UV-sensitive eyes — the males sport bright patterns in order to attract the females!

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Watch A Baby Going For A Joyride On A Roomba

Coupled with the most appropriate soundtrack of all time.

Try to catch this baby ridin' dirty.

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What a baller.

Later, homeslice.

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He’s just resting.

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The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser - The Independent

The Saturday Quiz: Try our weekly brain teaser The Independent 1. The traditional Danish song "Skuld gammel venskab rejn forgo", translated in 1927 by Jeppe Aakjær is a translation of which 1788 Scottish composition? 2. Which two-word name was Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, a father of modern architecture born ...

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Woolly mammoths are not as old as you think!

Woolly mammoths are not as old as you think!

Even though most of us relate Woolly mammoths with cavemen, they were still around here when the Egyptians were building the pyramids!

The woolly mammoth coexisted with early humans as most of you know, and those humans used their bones and tusks for making art, tools, and dwellings and even cook their food.

A small population of 500-1000 woolly mammoths lived on Wrangel Island until 1650 BC. That’s only about 4,000 years ago!

It is said that the last of them died 1000 years after the Giza pyramids were built. The reason for the demise of these species is still unknown.

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These were JFKs last words to his wife.

These were JFKs last words to his wife.

John F. Kennedy was the 35th President of the United States, serving from January 1961 until he was assassinated in November 1963.

President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, while on a political trip to Texas to smooth over frictions in the Democratic Party between liberals Ralph Yarborough and Don Yarborough and conservative John Connally.

He was shot once in the throat, once in the upper back, with the fatal shot hitting him in the head.

President Kennedy died younger than any U.S. President to date.

While riding in the motorcade, the first lady reached for her sunglasses to what JFK said “take off the glasses, Jackie” making those the president’s last words to his wife.

She mentioned them on her book (written by Sarah Brodford), stating that those are some words that she will never forget.

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Eating organic food might turn you into a jerk! This is why

Eating organic food might turn you into a jerk! This is why

A psychology professor from Loyola University in New Orleans recently revealed a study she conducted in which she found that people who are exposed to organic food tend to judge moral situations more harshly than those who don't.

The professor had noted that many organic foods are named and marketed with moral terminology. For example, Honest Tea, or the many Eco- branded items. This is what made her conduct this study.

In it, she exposed three groups of people to organic, comfort (brownies) and regular food.

Then she showed them a series of vignettes about moral transgressions. Some of the vignettes were about cousins having sex, or an ambulance-chasing lawyer.

After, she asked the groups to judge the situations from 1 to 7. People exposed to organic food judged the situations at an average of 5.5. Comfort food people at 4.89 and the normal food people at 5. So organic food might make you more judgmental.

The same study also suggested that organic food might make you more selfish! In a second phase of the study, they asked them how much time they'd be willing to help out a needy stranger. Organics said 13 minutes, while the other groups said 24 and 19 minutes.

Why could this be? The most popular explanation at this point is that people who eat organic food think in their minds that they've done some good for the world already, so they give themselves more leeway to not be good in other areas.

In other words, you've already done your good deed for the day by eating organic food, so there's no need to do more.

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12-Piece Burr Puzzle

Just a little something to use up some scraps. This is a 12 piece burr puzzle in cherry and walnut. I got the plans for free from the American Woodworker site.

It’s very easy to make – all 12 pieces are alike:

3/4×3/4×4.5”

Each one has 3 cuts with a 3/4” dado set 3/8” deep.

I used my dado crosscut sled and it took less than 5 minutes to make all the cuts. Another couple minutes for a quick sanding and then I relieved the edges on the router table.

From the time I grabbed the scraps out of the bucket to the time I finished relieving the edges was under 20 minutes. That included ripping to 3/4×3/4, cutting to length, installing the dado blade etc.

Assembly, even with the instructions provided, took a bit longer.

It is a snug fit as made, and I’m worried that any finish will make it too tight. So I’ll either sand it down some more, or – more likely considering the amount of scraps I have to get rid of – I’ll do up another one but add a couple .01 shims to the dado set.

My goal for next year is to use up as many small scraps as I can, and I like puzzles. So if you know of any other burr puzzle plans like this please post them on LJ!

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The owner of the Coors beer empire was allergic to beer

The owner of the Coors beer empire was allergic to beer

Adolph Coors III was the grandson of Adolph Coors and heir to the Coors beer empire.

On February 9, 1960, he was murdered at the age of 44 in a foiled kidnapping attempt while on his way to work by escaped murderer Joseph Corbett, Jr. In Colorado.

Ironically and sadly, he was never able to enjoy one of it's smooth and nice fresh beers since he was allergic to them.

The man behind the Coors beer empire was allergic to the drink he sold to millions. However, he was able to live a nice life by being able to graduate from college and start a family.

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This monument is dedicated to ordinary people who sacrificed their lives for others. Where is it?

This monument is dedicated to ordinary people who sacrificed their lives for others. Where is it?

It's called the Memorial to Heroic Self Sacrifice and it's located in the Postman Park in London.

It was first proposed by George Frederic Watts in 1867. The idea that there were a large number of people that did heroic acts of self sacrifice and were going to be forgotten.

Most of the entries range from 1900 to 1931. Some of the heroic acts are: A person gave up their life belt and went down in a sinking ship.

A man saved a stranger from drowning and drowned himself. Another got fatally scalded in searching for his mate.

From 1931 there wasn't an entry until 2009, when a man saved a boy from drowning. Check the source for a complete list of entries.

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Only in Venice, kiddies

- Submitted by reader Sarah B., who saw this dude in the Venice Post Office.

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