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World Tobacco Day - May 31st
Believe that making the decision to quit smoking is right
The Health Belief Model, a psychological model used to treat and predict general health behaviors, says that you will be more likely to stop tobacco use if you:Believe that you could contract a tobacco-related disease, and this worries you
Believe that you can make an honest attempt at quitting
Believe that the benefits of quitting outweigh the benefits of continuing
Know of someone who has had health problems as a result of their tobacco use.
Get ready
Once you've made the decision to quit, you're ready to pick a quit date. This is a very important step. Pick a specific day as your "Quit Day." For instance, you could set a quit date 2 to 4 weeks from now so you'll have time to get ready. Now gear up to the day you will be rid of your habit. Get rid of ALL cigarettes and ashtrays in your home, car and place of work. Don't let people smoke in your home. Review your past attempts to quit. Think about what worked and what did not. Practice saying, "No thank you, I don't smoke."Get support and encouragement
You have a better chance of being successful if you have help. Tell your family, friends and coworkers that you are going to quit. Ask them not to smoke around you or leave cigarettes out where you cannot see them.Get medication and use it correctly
Medicines such as bupropion help some people stop smoking. These medicines do not contain nicotine, but help you resist your urges to smoke.Keep trying
Be prepared for relapse. Don't be discouraged if you start smoking again. Remember, most people try several times before they finally quit. Here are some difficult situations to watch out for:Alcohol - Avoid drinking alcohol. Drinking lowers your chances of success.
Other smokers - Being around smokers can make you want to smoke.
Bad mood or depression - There are a many ways to elevate your mood other than resorting to smoking.
Nicotine substitutes to help quit smoking
When you light up, it is only the nicotine that gives you the kick, but the rest of the smoke that causes damage. Actually, nicotine is not one of the cancer causing agents, it’s simply the reason you crave a cigarette. So you could consider nicotine replacement products as ways to take in the nicotine without the rest of the cancer causing chemicals in cigarette smoke. These products come in several forms: gum, patch, nasal spray, inhaler and lozenge.
Nicotine substitutes treat the difficult withdrawal symptoms and cravings that 70% to 90% of smokers find their only reason for not giving up cigarettes. By using a nicotine substitute, a smoker's withdrawal symptoms are reduced. This lets you focus on the changes you need to make in your habits and environment. Once you feel more confident as a non-smoker, dealing with your nicotine addiction is easier. Of course, it's very important that you don't smoke while using nicotine replacement products. The nicotine contained in nicotine substitutes is absorbed differently compared to the nicotine in cigarettes, so the substitutes are much less addictive. And nicotine substitutes do not cause cancer.
While quite a large number of smokers are able to quit smoking without the help of nicotine substitutes, others find it difficult to be successful quitters. Such people can use nicotine replacement therapy and a support technique. Remember that it is important to make the decision to quit. Smokers who want to quit have a better chance of being successful.
Smoking, Drinking & Addiction
Puffing Your Life Away?
Smoking tobacco causes cancer. Period. One cigarette has more than 4000 chemicals in it, most of which are also found in battery acid, sewers, toilet cleaners, car exhaust and so forth. The irony of it is that people are actually addicted to only one of them - Nicotine. They getthe others for free. Almost like a Super Dhamaka Sale.Sixty-nine of these chemicals cause cancer of the lungs, head, neck, gut and urinary bladder. Other chemicals cause heart attacks, stroke and blocked arteries. If one has smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 10 years, the lung cancer risk is increased 10 times and about 600 days are decreased from that person's life span.
Recent evidence was published in the August edition of the international journal Cancer this year. This study suggests that those who have to smoke within 60 minutes of waking up are at far greater risk of cancer than those who start to smoke later in the day. The reasons for this are not clearly known, but may indicate a greater dependence on nicotine in early morning smokers or an interaction with 'stress' hormones whose levels usually surge up in the morning. This in turn, may depend upon a person's individual genetic or personal factors. This news is interesting because it could allow doctors to device specific regimens to help early morning smokers quit.
So what does one do when one gets caught in the tobacco trap? The most important thing is the desire to quit. Where there is a will, there certainly is a way.
What seems to work best is a comprehensive program consisting of ongoing counseling by a trained physician, nicotine replacement (as a patch, chewing gum, etc.) where appropriate and certain special medicines (varenicline, bupropion) are to be taken under strict professional supervision. There are, however, a few simple effective things that a person can do himself - called the '5 Ds':
Delay the urge to smoke… then it will pass.
Drink water, chew gum or have a healthy snack to fight cravings
Do something else to distract yourself…take a walk, call a friend, keep your hands busy by doing chores or squeezing a rubber ball.
Deep breaths will relax you. Close your eyes and take 10 slow deep breaths or meditate.
Deep breaths will relax you. Close your eyes and take 10 slow deep breaths or meditate.
Discuss your thoughts and feelings with someone close to you.
Good luck with kicking that butt!
Self Check for Tobacco Consumers
Any past or current tobacco use is important information for your doctor with respect to your healthcare. And if you consume tobacco, it is important that you undergo some preventive healthcare in consultation with your doctor
This is because it is well known that tobacco use puts you at risk for certain health-related illnesses, so part of your healthcare should focus on related screening and preventive measures to help you stay as healthy as possible. Periodic checkups should include oral cavity (mouth) exams for any changes or problems. This helps tobacco users to prevent or detect early oral changes, leukoplakia (white patches on the mouth membranes), or oral cancer.
Any of these symptoms could be signs of lung cancer, or any other lung condition, and should be reported to your doctor.
While these can be signs of a problem, it is important to remember that many lung cancers do not cause any noticeable symptoms until they are advanced, and by that time they have spread to other parts of the body.
Remember too that tobacco users have an increased risk for other cancers as well, depending on the way they use tobacco. Other risk factors for these cancers may be more important than your use of tobacco, but you should be aware of the additional risks that might apply to your situation because of your tobacco addiction.
If you have any health concerns that may be related to your tobacco use, please see your doctor as quickly as possible. Taking care of yourself and getting the required treatment for small problems will give you the best chance for successful treatment.
The best way, though, to take care of yourself and decrease your risk for life-threatening lung problems is to quit consuming tobacco.
Good luck with kicking that butt!
Self Check for Tobacco Consumers
Any past or current tobacco use is important information for your doctor with respect to your healthcare. And if you consume tobacco, it is important that you undergo some preventive healthcare in consultation with your doctor
This is because it is well known that tobacco use puts you at risk for certain health-related illnesses, so part of your healthcare should focus on related screening and preventive measures to help you stay as healthy as possible. Periodic checkups should include oral cavity (mouth) exams for any changes or problems. This helps tobacco users to prevent or detect early oral changes, leukoplakia (white patches on the mouth membranes), or oral cancer.
Any of these symptoms could be signs of lung cancer, or any other lung condition, and should be reported to your doctor.
While these can be signs of a problem, it is important to remember that many lung cancers do not cause any noticeable symptoms until they are advanced, and by that time they have spread to other parts of the body.
Remember too that tobacco users have an increased risk for other cancers as well, depending on the way they use tobacco. Other risk factors for these cancers may be more important than your use of tobacco, but you should be aware of the additional risks that might apply to your situation because of your tobacco addiction.
If you have any health concerns that may be related to your tobacco use, please see your doctor as quickly as possible. Taking care of yourself and getting the required treatment for small problems will give you the best chance for successful treatment.
The best way, though, to take care of yourself and decrease your risk for life-threatening lung problems is to quit consuming tobacco.
You should also watch out for any of the following symptoms:
- Any change in the sound of your cough
- A new kind of cough
- Coughing up blood
- Hoarseness of voice
- Difficulty in breathing
- Wheezing
- Headaches
- Chest pain
- Loss of appetite
- Weight loss
- General fatigue
- Repeated respiratory infections
Wishing you to join the healthy World! Stop the usage of Tobacco.
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World Digestive Health Day - May 29th - Always eat only 70% (Full)
World Digestive Health Day
WORLD DIGESTIVE HEALTH DAY (29 May)
29 May is celebrated as "World Digestive Health Day". This is the main system in our body which leads to Obesity-an epidemic of developed and developing Nations. Eat to Live, but do not Live to Eat. Save a Morsel of Food to our Brothers and Sisters in countries of Famine.
Some amazing facts about GI System:
1) Digestive system is made up of almost 30 feet of pipes and tubes along with several other organs.
2) Moves food through the body, breaks down meals into chemicals.
3) Separates out unneeded materials and flushes them out of the body.
4) Stomach produces about 2 liters of gastric acid per day.
5) Liver is the only organ that can regenerate.
6) The nervous system in GI tract is also called as the second brain.
7) Handles about 500 kg of food per year and about 50 tons of food during lifetime.
8) The surface area of digestive system in approximately equal to that of a tennis court.
9) Colon contains trillions of bacteria with more than 400 distinct types
10) Stomach is the Mirror of our Emotions, so be Cool !
DIGESTIVE HEALTH : VITAL FOR GOOD HEALTH.
What's Wrong With Eating Too Full?
Don't over eat and don't encourage your family members and friends to overeat - unless you wish to shorten their healthy living and perhaps die younger!
An interesting article about eating too full....
"What's wrong with eating too full?"
"The more you eat, the sooner you die. The lesser you eat, the longer you live." This is what Dr Lee always says in his health talk. He also mentions, "Eating too full causes all sort of health problems such as hypertension, diabetes, stroke, etc."
Why eating too full is so harmful to your health? What can you do about it?
Mice experiment
To see how eating habit affects life span, a professor from University of Texas did an experiment on mice.
For the first group of 100 mice, he let them eat without any restriction, just like a buffet meal.
The second group was fed only 60% full. And the third group was given food without restriction too. But this time, he reduced protein content to half. After 2.5 years, guess how many mice were still alive out of 100?
* First group (eat without restriction) - only 13 mice was alive. Opsss...
* Second group (eat 60% full) - 97 mice was still alive. Only 3 mice died.
* Third group (eat without restriction with protein cut half) - 50 mice still alive.
What can we learn from these results?
Firstly, eating too full is really harmful to your body. Secondly, eat 60% full if you want to live longer and healthier. Thirdly, taking too much protein is harmful to your body too. We don't need so much protein after all.
Overworking Body
Imagine having a small family car. Instead of using it for short travel between home and office, you use it for long distance travel between different cities every day. Instead of using it 1 hour a day, you use it for 10 hours a day. Instead of driving at 70 km/h, you always speed up to 170 km/h, hitting engine's red line.
Can you estimate your car life span? Do you expect having various problems with your car after a short time? Driving your car at high speed for a long time is like always eating too full. You force your body to always work at its red line.
Do you know digestion is the most demanding work for your body? Think about the organs involved such as your mouth, stomach, liver, pancreas, duodenum and intestine. Think about the length of digestive tract from your mouth to intestine.
By eating too full, your body zaps up much of your energy for digestion. Otherwise, this energy may be used for other purpose such as enhancing your immune system.
Do you realize you become very tired easily after a big meal? That is the sign of your body working hard to digest all the food you take in.
If you eat an extra bowl of noodle, your pancreas has to produce extra insulin hormone to process the extra carbohydrates you take.
Your liver, stomach and intestine also have to produce extra enzymes to digest and process specific nutrients from that bowl of noodle.
Therefore the more you eat, the harder your body has to work to process it.
Of course, we must eat to survive. But we don't have to eat that much!
If you drive your car slowly and handle it gently, you can use it for a long time. But if you always floor the accelerator and drive like a rally driver, you know the consequence on your car life span.
Side effect of eating
Your car engine burns fuel to move your car and bring you to anywhere you like to go. As a result, the engine produces exhaust smoke which is toxic. It must be dispersed out from your car.
Similarly, your body cell burns nutrient for energy to survive. In the process, it produces free radicals. Since free radical is toxic to your body, it has to be neutralized and expelled.
"Just metabolizing food especially fatty and carbohydrate-rich fare causes the body to produce free radicals, which attack cells and can promote the development of chronic conditions including heart disease, diabetes and cancer," says Ronald L. Prior, Ph.D.
Of course, your body can control free radicals in small quantity. But the more you eat the more free radicals your body produces. Without adequate control, these free radicals easily attack your body cells and eventually cause all sort of diseases.
Good Eating Habit
After knowing the harmful effect of eating too full, what's your choice? Do you want to live longer, just like the second group mice in the experiment? Or do you want to risk ending your life earlier, just like the first group mice?
If you wish to live longer, here are some tips you can follow:
1. Always eat until 70% full. Do not exceed 80% full. You may want to stop eating when you feel slightly full.
2. Avoid having buffet style meal which makes it harder to control how much you eat. Instead, prepare the food you want to eat in a plate. After finishing it, don't add anymore food.
3. Leaving the dining table earlier may prevent you from picking some extra food to eat.
4. It is always a good idea to prepare lesser food in the first place. Some people are afraid of having not enough food for everyone. Actually, lesser food is beneficial for everyone..
In a restaurant, order in small amount first. You can always add in some extra order if necessary. But if you can get by with the original smaller order, that's great. Remember this: You have higher chance of overeating if you serve more food on the table. You have better chance of not overeating if you serve less food.
5. Avoid stuffing your fridge with ice cream, chocolate or other dessert. You cannot eat what you do not have.
6. When someone prepares a big plate of food for you, look at it first. Ask yourself, "Do I want to stuff it all into my stomach?"
If your answer is no, just put aside some food to another empty plate first. After finishing your food, look back at the extra food on that new plate. Say to yourself, "Phew! Luckily I didn't stuff that portion into my stomach."
7. When you get too hungry before your meal time, just take some fruit instead of heavy meal.
The tendency to overeat is very high for modern people.
Do You Know Most Monks Only Eat Twice A Day ?
They wake up at 4am, meditate and say their prayer. Later they have their simple breakfast at 7am. Before 12pm, they have their lunch. That's all for them. They eat no more after that. No tea break. No dinner. No supper. They still look strong and energetic.
Of course, we don't have to eat like them. But it reminds us we can eat less and stay healthy.
So remember to eat only 70% full if you want to stay healthy.
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Make Real Money with NeoBux - Guide to Get Started
I do know that you have landed in this page searching for ways to make money from the internet.
Well there is a promising and honest way, and know this. It is for free. Yes, this is no lie.
But I will tell you what you have to do and do it the way you are told. You can introduce your own methods at a later stage after you gain experience in this method.
Step 4
There are many different ideas and methods of how to best use the recycle tool. A good strategy in the beginning is to recycle any ref that hasn’t clicked on any ads today, yesterday or the day before that and has a “Click Average” (the amount of clicks per day in average) below 2.0. If a ref has a Click Average between 2.0 and 4.0, you should wait 4 days before recycling it. You should wait a whole week before recycling a ref with a Click Average above 4.0. Maybe he/she went on holiday and it would be unfortunate to recycle an otherwise great and very active ref.
Use this effective excel tool to know which of your referral is more profitable and which one requires recycling.
Download Link
Step 5
With less than 20 days remaining for a ref AutoPay will not work, which we of course want to use. So, as soon as any of your refs gets below 20 days to the next payment (you can find “Next Payment” on the same page as your rented refs are), you should pay for another 30 days for that ref.
Step 6
One could easily believe that NeoBux is too good to be true, for example, if you request a payment you will get paid to your PayPal or AlertPay account instantly. That’s why many make the big mistake to cash out their earned money too early, just because they want to make sure that NeoBux is indeed legit. This is a bit foolish. That money should have been used to maintain your refs. NeoBux is a very serious PTC (Paid To Click) program and you WILL get paid.
Instead, keep on transferring money to your Rental Balance each time you reach 3 dollars and buy new refs, which you maintain in the same way as I mentioned before. When your earnings start to increase, you can buy larger amounts of refs each rental time.
Step 7
Keep on with this strategy until you reach 300 referrals. Now, stop renting new refs and maintain the ones you already have. Things will move a lot faster now, and it won’t be long until you reach 90 dollars.
Step 8
This is the great part about NeoBux!
Now use 90 of your 100 dollars to buy “Golden Membership”. When you have a Golden Membership the money you earn each day will DOUBLE.
Now it’s time to rent new refs again. Things will move a lot faster now, and when you have about 2000 refs you can start cashing out all money you’re not spending on maintenance and recycling. You will be able to cash out approximately 20 dollars per day!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Finally…
…there’s something called “Direct Referrals” (members who are directly referred by you). When you have been a member for at least 30 days and have at least 100 clicks, with a special link (like this one) you get paid for everyone who registers through you and views ads, exactly as with the rented refs. So, spread the word about NeoBux to your friends and family. Attach the link as a signature in your e-mail, post it in forums. Use every free method you can come up with to refer members. They will then register through you and you will get paid for them as well – as a bonus!
Hope you enjoyed the guide and that it will help you to succeed with NeoBux!
Register with NeoBux here.
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Well there is a promising and honest way, and know this. It is for free. Yes, this is no lie.
But I will tell you what you have to do and do it the way you are told. You can introduce your own methods at a later stage after you gain experience in this method.
What is PTC: PTC (Paid-To-Click) – is an online business model that draws online traffic from people aiming to earn money from home. Paid-To-Click, or simply PTC websites, act as middlemen between advertisers and consumers; the advertiser pays for displaying ads on the PTC website, and a part of this payment goes to the viewer when he views the advertisement.
NEOBUX – This is an online company that is registered in the Portugal in the year 2007.
The global rank of Neobux is #50
NEOBUX – This is an online company that is registered in the Portugal in the year 2007.
The global rank of Neobux is #50
A few trivia’s about the site
Now that you are briefed about what you are going to read below, if you have trust and a little patience, please go ahead.
Step 1
Now that you are briefed about what you are going to read below, if you have trust and a little patience, please go ahead.
Make Real Money with NeoBux
A simple guide to get started
Step 1
The first thing to do, is of course to register at NeoBux official website. Registration is free of charge and works like any other common website registration.
Pick a time in the 24-hour period in which you log on everyday to NeoBux and view every ad available (later, you won’t get paid for the clicks made by your refs if you don’t view every ad yourself) by clicking on the text “View Advertisements” in the top right corner of the viewport. As a standard member you get to view a maximum of 4 ads per day (which takes about 3 minutes).
Pick a time in the 24-hour period in which you log on everyday to NeoBux and view every ad available (later, you won’t get paid for the clicks made by your refs if you don’t view every ad yourself) by clicking on the text “View Advertisements” in the top right corner of the viewport. As a standard member you get to view a maximum of 4 ads per day (which takes about 3 minutes).
When you have earned 0.60 dollars you have the opportunity to rent 3 refs.
Step 2
Don’t rent any refs until you have earned 2 dollars (if you want things to go faster you can, of course invest some money).
As you probably figured out by now, it will take some time before you have earned 2 dollars, but it’s better to wait so you don’t have to worry about not being able to recycle your inactive refs with new active ones. This will be a perfect time to familiar yourself with the website and to read the FAQ and the Help pages, and to take a look at the forums, which I highly recommend.
Step 3
When you have purchased your first 10 refs, you should enable “AutoPay”, which is a very good tool. Referrals cost 30 cent to extend for one month, but with AutoPay enabled all referrals who clicks on ads that day will automatically be extended for 1 day. It will only cost you one ad, or 1 cent (if a ref view 4 ads you will get paid for 3 of them and get to keep the ref for another day). You could say that the refs pay for themselves, but only if they’re active. For example, if one of your refs doesn’t click any ads one day, you won’t have to pay for that ref that day.
It might sound a bit confusing right now, but after a while you will understand how everything works.
So, click on “Enable” next to “AutoPay” on the same page as your refs are located.
Don’t rent any refs until you have earned 2 dollars (if you want things to go faster you can, of course invest some money).
As you probably figured out by now, it will take some time before you have earned 2 dollars, but it’s better to wait so you don’t have to worry about not being able to recycle your inactive refs with new active ones. This will be a perfect time to familiar yourself with the website and to read the FAQ and the Help pages, and to take a look at the forums, which I highly recommend.
Step 3
When you have purchased your first 10 refs, you should enable “AutoPay”, which is a very good tool. Referrals cost 30 cent to extend for one month, but with AutoPay enabled all referrals who clicks on ads that day will automatically be extended for 1 day. It will only cost you one ad, or 1 cent (if a ref view 4 ads you will get paid for 3 of them and get to keep the ref for another day). You could say that the refs pay for themselves, but only if they’re active. For example, if one of your refs doesn’t click any ads one day, you won’t have to pay for that ref that day.
It might sound a bit confusing right now, but after a while you will understand how everything works.
So, click on “Enable” next to “AutoPay” on the same page as your refs are located.
Step 4
There are many different ideas and methods of how to best use the recycle tool. A good strategy in the beginning is to recycle any ref that hasn’t clicked on any ads today, yesterday or the day before that and has a “Click Average” (the amount of clicks per day in average) below 2.0. If a ref has a Click Average between 2.0 and 4.0, you should wait 4 days before recycling it. You should wait a whole week before recycling a ref with a Click Average above 4.0. Maybe he/she went on holiday and it would be unfortunate to recycle an otherwise great and very active ref.
Use this effective excel tool to know which of your referral is more profitable and which one requires recycling.
Download Link
Step 5
With less than 20 days remaining for a ref AutoPay will not work, which we of course want to use. So, as soon as any of your refs gets below 20 days to the next payment (you can find “Next Payment” on the same page as your rented refs are), you should pay for another 30 days for that ref.
Step 6
One could easily believe that NeoBux is too good to be true, for example, if you request a payment you will get paid to your PayPal or AlertPay account instantly. That’s why many make the big mistake to cash out their earned money too early, just because they want to make sure that NeoBux is indeed legit. This is a bit foolish. That money should have been used to maintain your refs. NeoBux is a very serious PTC (Paid To Click) program and you WILL get paid.
Instead, keep on transferring money to your Rental Balance each time you reach 3 dollars and buy new refs, which you maintain in the same way as I mentioned before. When your earnings start to increase, you can buy larger amounts of refs each rental time.
Step 7
Keep on with this strategy until you reach 300 referrals. Now, stop renting new refs and maintain the ones you already have. Things will move a lot faster now, and it won’t be long until you reach 90 dollars.
Step 8
This is the great part about NeoBux!
Now use 90 of your 100 dollars to buy “Golden Membership”. When you have a Golden Membership the money you earn each day will DOUBLE.
Now it’s time to rent new refs again. Things will move a lot faster now, and when you have about 2000 refs you can start cashing out all money you’re not spending on maintenance and recycling. You will be able to cash out approximately 20 dollars per day!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Finally…
…there’s something called “Direct Referrals” (members who are directly referred by you). When you have been a member for at least 30 days and have at least 100 clicks, with a special link (like this one) you get paid for everyone who registers through you and views ads, exactly as with the rented refs. So, spread the word about NeoBux to your friends and family. Attach the link as a signature in your e-mail, post it in forums. Use every free method you can come up with to refer members. They will then register through you and you will get paid for them as well – as a bonus!
Hope you enjoyed the guide and that it will help you to succeed with NeoBux!
Register with NeoBux here.
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TIL 165 years ago today, Abraham Lincoln became the first and only president to register a patent; the invention, which was never produced, was an idea for lifting boats over obstructions if they got stuck.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inventive-abe-131184751/
TIL in 1961 the US accidentally dropped a nuclear bomb on a small town in North Carolina. It was 1 low voltage switch away from actually detonating.
http://www.history.com/news/document-reveals-1961-nuclear-close-call-over-north-carolina
A powerfully blunt summation of world power and the players involved (US, China, EU, Russia)
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Comcast: We Don't Have Broadband Caps, We Have "Data Thresholds"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ve_Lost_That_Lovin%27_Feelin%27
TIL that 10 Syrian Pound coins are so similar to Norway's 20 krone coins in weight that vending machines cannot tell the difference. Posten Norge had to close many of their coin-to-cash machines because of this. 20 krone is worth about 45 times more than 10 SP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_pound#Use_of_10_Syrian_pound_coins_in_Norway
TIL that Ronald McDonald is called Donald McDonald in Japan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McDonald#Localisation_in_other_countries
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/u/hibbel, self-noted German citizen, details why American society scares them, commenting on an article about police cooking a man to death via shower in South Florida
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Why Google Fiber, unlike Comcast, gives Netflix free peering
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House legislates curbs on NSA record-gathering: The House has passed a bill to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of American phone records. It’s the first legislative response to the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden
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In 1998, cable internet cost $20/m for 3Mbps; in 2014 15Mbps costs $50/m. Wholesale costs, however, are 110x cheaper than costs 16 years ago.
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Apple to fix iMessage bug that causes ex-iPhone users to lose their texts
http://www.engadget.com/2014/05/22/apple-imessage-bugs/
House votes 303-121 to curb NSA: "some of the NSA's biggest critics, who warned that the legislation had been gutted in recent weeks."
http://thehill.com/policy/technology/206929-house-votes-to-limit-nsa-spying
Fafnirsage is concerned about the safety of a new 2014 congressional campaign aimed at replacing congress with software in an AMA thread happening now
http://www.reddit.com/r/futuristparty/comments/264ibr/good_morning_rfuturistparty_we_are_running_two/chnkqfu
Anheuser Busch responds to attacks on their lobbying efforts in South Carolina
http://www.reddit.com/r/beer/comments/2650og/ab_budweiser_sent_8_lobbyists_to_fight_stone_bill/chnsx0k
cincodenada describes how to store 1Gb of data on a vinyl record
http://www.reddit.com/r/techsupportgore/comments/264i6b/heard_ticking_in_our_server_room_found_the_reason/chnw8oq?context=3
It’s victory day for patent trolls as key senator gives up on reform
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/gridlock-strikes-again-as-anti-patent-troll-bill-dies-in-us-senate/
Rana Adhikari, astrophysicist at Caltech, says we're on the cusp of not just directly detecting gravity waves, but doing the next generation of astrophysics with them.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/engineering/extreme-machines/gravity-waves-16754283
Here’s how Netflix feels about the FCC’s vote to end net neutrality
http://bgr.com/2014/05/21/net-neutrality-netflix-vs-fcc/
Marc Andreessen: Tech companies are still fuming over the NSA
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/05/19/marc-andreessen-tech-companies-are-still-fuming-over-the-nsa/
US House guts bill that would limit NSA data collection after intense pressure from Obama administration
https://cdt.org/press/house-leadership-moves-to-gut-usa-freedom-act/
Free App Lets the Next Snowden Send Big Files Securely and Anonymously
http://www.wired.com/2014/05/onionshare/
Yet another hugely important reason Google Fiber is better than your broadband service
http://bgr.com/2014/05/22/google-fiber-fast-lanes-peering-policy/
TIL Doodling can aid a person's memory by expending enough energy to keep one from daydreaming. It acts as a mediator between the spectrum of thinking too much or thinking too little and helps focus on the current situation. On average, doodlers can recall 29% more information than non-doodlers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doodle#Effects_on_memory
TIL that the Sun contains 99.86% of the mass in the solar system.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun#Characteristics
TIL That on Good Friday 1930 the BBC reported that today there was no news so instead they played piano music.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/noflash/html/1930s.stm
TIL all mammals have roughly the same number of heartbeats independent of lifespan, about 1 billion.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/9316546/
agenaille comments on how many lines of code HealthCare.gov really is
http://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/265yns/million_lines_of_code/cho3xhz
Google Says We Have a "Right to Know," But Really Just Wants the Right to Profit From Your Personal Information
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/117844/googles-right-know-vs-europes-right-be-forgotten
TIL that PETA prefers kill shelters ("open admission") over no-kill shelters.
http://www.peta.org/issues/companion-animal-issues/animal-shelters/
TIL that until 2011, Russia did not classify any drink with ABV under 10% an alcoholic beverage.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14232970
How Google plans to make free Wi-Fi available wherever you go
http://bgr.com/2014/05/21/google-free-wi-fi-program/
TIL in South Korea, earning an Olympic Medal means you avoid a mandatory two-year military service.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/07/22/jail-or-olympic-glory-no-easy-exit-from-skorea-draft/
FeculentUtopia gives an incredible analogy for what global warming actually means in a literal sense (why "everything doesn't just get warmer"), along with other excellent details.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceDiscussion/comments/261mzz/okay_im_beginning_to_actually_be_skeptical_of_the/chnf0xj
TIL 80% males born in the Soviet Union in 1923 did not survive World War II.
http://worldwar2.org.uk/world-war-2-facts
TIL that Robert Downey Jr. finally quit drugs in 2003 when his new girlfriend (NOT BURGER KING) gave him an ultimatum. She is unofficially known around Hollywood as the Miracle That Saved Robert Downey Jr.
http://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/susan-downey-interview-0110
Blacksheep214 gives a perfect cheat sheet on how to deal with a cheating SO.
http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/264d22/i_27m_just_found_pics_of_her_27f_cheating/chnk550
Netflix announces expansion to Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and Luxembourg
http://gigaom.com/2014/05/20/netflix-announces-expansion-to-germany-france-switzerland-austria-belgium-and-luxembourg/
TIL that during a pledge drive, a DJ at a Portland, OR radio station promised that the station would never play "Stairway to Heaven" again if someone made a $10,000 donation. Robert Plant was driving on the Oregon coast, heard the offer, and made the donation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairway_to_Heaven#Success_and_legacy
/r/dorsk sums up 'How to Win Friends and Influence People' chapters in a short comment so you don't have to read it.
http://www.reddit.com/r/DecidingToBeBetter/comments/263rpg/people_keep_telling_me_to_read_how_to_make_friend/chnfw4d?context=3
Forbes: ‘Net neutrality is a dumb idea’
http://bgr.com/2014/05/21/net-neutrality-fcc-proposal-dumb-idea
Driverless cars could cripple law enforcement budgets in the U.S. Approximately 41 million people receive speeding tickets in the U.S. every year, paying out more than $6.2 billion per year
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/05/20/1752254/driverless-cars-could-cripple-law-enforcement-budgets
Cornetto Cupidity Love Stories - 40 Love
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[TIL] When under stress, E. coli bacteria switch to more error-prone DNA management in order to increase the chance of receiving a mutation adaptive to the stress
https://www.bcm.edu/departments/molecular-and-human-genetics/?pmid=11034
TIL that mankind has already started growing food in space - namely, potatoes, in 1995
http://www.engr.wisc.edu/alumni/perspective/22.2/spuds.html
TIL Robert Downey Jr. thanked Burger King for getting him off drugs. In 2003, with a car full of drugs he had a burger that was so disgusting it made him rethink his life, and dump the drugs in the ocean.
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/burger-king-helped-beat-addiction-robert-downey-jr-article-1.294756
Latest stats show Comcast/TWC merger will cap 79% of broadband subscribers
http://gigaom.com/2014/05/21/latest-stats-show-comcasttwc-merger-will-cap-79-of-broadband-subscribers/
Ebay hacked? They told users to change their passwords then removed the posting.
http://bgr.com/2014/05/21/ebay-password-change-notice-breach/
カラスは真っ白 "fake!fake!" / A crow is white "fake!fake!"
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TIL that homebrewing beer or wine with an ABV greater than 0.5% was illegal until 1978 when President Jimmy Carter legalized the practice.
http://learn.kegerator.com/history-of-homebrewing/
/u/Cimeas explains the beneficial role of investment bankers in society
http://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/comments/260mhj/is_do_what_you_love_elitist/chmy2bm?context=1
/u/ifIdie2nite explains the point of complex vocabulary
http://www.reddit.com/r/cringepics/comments/261et5/a_friend_of_mine_has_become_a_thesaurus_warrior/chnar7n
/u/bfsesq describes what's it like to declare bankruptcy
http://www.reddit.com/r/answers/comments/262jd3/if_i_graduate_with_100000_in_student_loan_debt/chn9lfr?context=2
TIL The Beatles refused to play to a segregated audience as stipulated in their contract in 1965
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/sep/15/beatles-refused-play-segregated-audience
TIL that the largest bald eagle nest on record was 9.5 feet wide and 20 feet high. It weighed more than two tons.
http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/bald-eagle/
TIL that it would take 76 8-hour work days for the average person to read the Terms and Conditions they agree to in a year
http://techland.time.com/2012/03/06/youd-need-76-work-days-to-read-all-your-privacy-policies-each-year/
California approves rules for testing self-driving cars in California.
http://arstechnica.com/cars-2/2014/05/california-approves-rules-for-testing-self-driving-cars-in-california/
Democrats grill FCC chairman on Internet fast lanes and ISP mergers
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/democrats-grill-fcc-chairman-on-internet-fast-lanes-and-isp-mergers/
Facebook Reaps Billions from Your Data: It’s Time to Unplug
http://panampost.com/yael-ossowski/2014/05/20/facebook-reaps-billions-from-your-data-its-time-to-unplug/
The FBI Is Struggling to Hire Hackers Who Don't Smoke Weed
http://gizmodo.com/the-fbi-is-struggling-to-hire-hackers-who-dont-smoke-we-1579183208
u/pig_is_pigs explains with eloquence the difference from genuine espresso and false espressos/regular coffee
http://www.reddit.com/r/Coffee/comments/262lne/please_explain_what_real_espresso_is_does/chn30th
TIL there was a court case named United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins, and the shark fins won
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Approximately_64,695_Pounds_of_Shark_Fins
/u/anautumnstroll gives some great advice on dealing with a breakup after you lost "the one".
http://www.reddit.com/r/relationships/comments/261ev3/anyone_willing_to_share_some_hope_for_finding/chmr11a?context=3
Apple dethroned by Google as world's most valuable brand - CNET
http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-dethroned-by-google-as-worlds-most-valuable-brand/
TIL that child beauty pageants are illegal in France, and punishable with up to 2 years in prison.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-cruz/the-french-government-ban_b_3958301.html
TIL that Benjamin Franklin was not trusted to write the Declaration of Independence as they were afraid he would write a joke in it.
http://www.history.army.mil/books/RevWar/ss/franklin.htm
TIL while Bob Barker was the host of The Price is Right, he banned fur, wool, and leather prizes, fake display meat products, zoo trips, and cars made by foreign-owned automobile companies. Only fur products remain banned.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/09/05/price-is-right-special-ignores-bob-barker-they-havent-even-offered-me-a-dvd/
TIL that in Liechtenstein's last military engagement they sent 80 men and returned with 81 as they had made a friend
http://media.lonelyplanet.com/shop/pdfs/2143-Switzerland_-_Liechtenstein__Chapter_.pdf
Guy wants to commit suicide due to his man-boobs. /u/dipdipdata makes a video showing his manboobs and encourages him not to kill himself. Help find the original poster.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/2612lv/i_am_considering_suicide_is_the_man_boobs_dont_go/chmm78a
China bans use of Microsoft's Windows 8 on government computers
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/20/us-microsoft-china-idUSBREA4J07Q20140520
TIL C-4 plastic explosive is so chemically stable it can be shot, microwaved, or even *set on fire* without exploding. Soldiers in Vietnam would sometimes use it for cooking fires, and, supposedly, would *eat* small amounts to fake illness.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-4_(explosive)#Characteristics_and_uses
TIL that the game Monopoly was created with the goal of showing that rents enriched property owners and impoverished tenants
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_board_game_Monopoly#Licensing_outside_the_United_States
FXMarketMaker explains how...well how Foreign Exchange markets are made
http://www.reddit.com/r/finance/comments/25ytdv/how_does_the_forex_market_work/chmb1yl
/u/VAPossum shares a story about the futility of glitter containment.
http://www.reddit.com/r/pocketsand/comments/1pi1bq/why_is_glitter_discouraged/cd2szul?context=3
Everything Is Broken | "The NSA is doing so well because software is bullsh*t." "[Not] because they are all powerful math wizards of doom."
https://medium.com/message/81e5f33a24e1
Brain Damage meets Vibronics - Sufferation
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integralsrulz2 on how he got his call sign. NSFW
http://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comments/25ylox/callsign_check_in/chm624e
/u/bastegod responds to a writing prompt about Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong failing to return from the moon with an awesome tale of lunar adventure
http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/260oot/wp_neil_armstrong_and_buzz_aldrin_didnt_return/chmix5w
/u/schrodingersdawg writes the first part of the government's response to a world in which males are no longer born
http://www.reddit.com/r/WritingPrompts/comments/2606a3/wp_its_2015_for_a_year_no_male_human_has_been/chmgzy6
A redditor realizes Michael Crichton's entire career was spent writing about arrogant scientists ignoring nature, while his final completed book, 'State of Fear,' was exactly that-- an arrogant man of science ignoring the facts in favor of his worldview.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Freethought/comments/25z8dr/why_do_people_persist_in_believing_things_that/chmeyjm?context=3
CS version of The Devil went down to Georgia
http://www.reddit.com/r/GlobalOffensive/comments/260wgq/get_rights_accuracy_with_weapons_how_can_he_do_it/chmkfwc
Comcast Says It's Going To Slap All Of Its Customers With Data Caps, Makes Half-Hearted Attempt To Walk Back Earlier Statements When Backlash Kicks In
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140516/12271727260/comcast-says-its-going-to-slap-all-its-customers-with-data-caps-makes-half-hearted-attempt-to-walk-back-earlier-statements-when.shtml
Time Warner Cable, Comcast Set Record Lows For Satisfaction
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Time-Warner-Cable-Comcast-Set-Record-Lows-For-Satisfaction-129027
Microsoft announces the Surface Pro 3
http://www.theverge.com/2014/5/20/5734102/surface-pro-3-features-pricing-announcement
Americans hate their cable TV and internet providers more than any other industry – Quartz
http://qz.com/211382/americans-hate-their-cable-tv-and-internet-providers-more-than-any-other-industry/
Secrets, lies and Snowden's email: why I was forced to shut down Lavabit
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/20/why-did-lavabit-shut-down-snowden-email
TIL Pure LSD (Acid) salts are triboluminesent, emitting small flashes of light when shaken in the dark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triboluminescent
TIL a man narrowly avoided the death penalty after his alibi was confirmed at a dodgers game on the show Curb Your Enthusiasm.
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52169/time-larry-david-saved-man-death-penalty
TIL That there is a Swedish Speed Metal band called "Sabaton" That teaches history through it's music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabaton_(band)
One Hour of San Diego Surfing Time Collapsed: San Diego Study #4
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Breakdown on Gary Taubes' argument against "A calorie is not a calorie"
http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/25wqul/dr_robert_lustig_on_real_time_with_bill_maher/chma41z?context=2
TIL that 'Black Swan Theory' is the idea that rare catastrophic events which are beyond the realm of normal expectation or predictability (but later inappropriately rationalized by hindsight) play a vastly larger role in the course of history than any predictable or foreseeable occurrence.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_swan_theory
TIL political analyst Dr. Ronald A. Faucheux has correctly predicted 98% of winners in over 2,500 United States elections, sometimes a year or more prior to election day.
http://clarusrg.com/content/ronald-faucheux-phd
bw_bird offers a compelling argument about why you should work for Aperture Science over Black Mesa.
http://www.reddit.com/r/AskScienceFiction/comments/25yigt/ive_been_offered_an_internship_at_both_aperture/chm8bkc?context=3
precociousapprentice comments on Controversial subjects, one-line responses and idiots.
http://www.reddit.com/r/intj/comments/25yhy6/controversial_subjects_oneline_responses_and/chm6b2p?context=10
/u/TheGreatGatsby2827 predicts what the NFL will be like in the year 2020 after being taken over by SJWs and Tumblr users
http://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/25wrab/imagine_its_2020_in_the_nfl/chlo3yk
Steve Wozniak explains Net Neutrality to the FCC
http://boingboing.net/2014/05/19/steve-wozniak-explains-net-neu.html
TIL Viggo Mortensen, the actor who played Aragorn in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, can speak English, Danish, Spanish, French, Italian, Norwegian, and Swedish
http://www.celebuzz.com/photos/top-15-multilingual-celebs/lord-of-the-rings-star-2-2/
TIL the native americans planted three sisters (corn, beans, and squash) together so that they would benefit eachother. The corn provides a structure for the beans to climb. The beans provide the nitrogen to the soil, and the squash spreads along the ground preventing weeds.
http://historyandsci.blogspot.com/2011/05/the-legend-of-three-sisters.html
TIL When news of the Pearl Harbor attack arrived at Hitler’s headquarters, one of the assembled Nazi generals embarrassedly asked the rest of the group where Pearl Harbor was. Nobody was able to answer him and a world map had to be consulted (x-post from /r/history)
http://www.history.co.uk/study-topics/history-of-ww2/pearl-harbor
Cisco CEO warns Obama NSA 'load stations' threaten the entire tech industry
http://www.zdnet.com/cisco-ceo-warns-obama-nsa-load-stations-threaten-the-entire-tech-industry-7000029601/
TIL two British twins who were separated at birth and adopted by different parents ended up marrying each other without knowing they were siblings. Upon realizing they were twins, a British court annuled the marriage.
http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jan/11/allegrastratton
TIL Problem solving skills are good to a point, but those who spend a great deal of time problem solving are four times more likely to develop clinical depression
http://www.psychologytoday.com/files/attachments/84564/cbtfordepressiveruminationpaperscientistpractitioner.pdf
TIL that police departments can legally reject applicants for scoring too high on an I.Q. test.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/01/too_smart_to_be_a_cop.html
TIL There is a fungus called the "Bleeding Tooth" that looks like whipped cream topped with cherries.
http://viroola.com/2014/05/18/bleeding-tooth-fungus-this-stuff-looks-like-whipped-cream-topped-with-strawberry-jam/
TIL A commercial airline pilot successfully pretended to be a Cardiologist with 15 years of in field experience and even managed to publish 6 papers before being caught as a fraud.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MindMoodNews/fake-cardiologist-william-hamman-duped-real-doctors/story?id=12395288
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