25 Strangest Prehistoric Creatures To Roam The Earth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HvtcVoI0-M

25 Health Myths That Need To Be Debunked Once and For All

25 Health Myths That Need To Be Debunked Once and For All

25 Biggest Rip Offs That You've Probably Been Tricked Into Buying

25 Biggest Rip Offs That You've Probably Been Tricked Into Buying

Everything You Know About Penises Is Wrong :-)

Everything You Know About Penises Is Wrong

8 Explosive Facts About Orgasms

Fwd: 3 cylinder

Nissan has a new small  1.5-liter turbocharged three-cylinder engine.

 

‘Holding the lightweight engine (at right) is Nismo president Shoichi Miyatani, and he's likely smiling because that 40-kilogram (88-pound) engine packs quite a punch with 400 horsepower and 280 pound-feet of torque. Nissan would like to take a moment to point out this engine's power-to-weight is better than the engines currently used in Formula One racecars.’

 

Cute Dogs Underwater Will Warm Your Heart (PHOTOS)

http://www.weather.com/lifestyle/pets/underwater-dog-photos-20130211

Introducing Bengal cat to a new kitten for first time

This is a series of about 6 videos that I like.

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/EhRuG0D-WsU

The most patient and docile cat ever!

Check out this video on YouTube:

http://youtu.be/C-UKbDMfnuI

What to do if you get in an accident.

Today I interviewed with a police officer over an accident that happened in March where someone rear ended me and then took off.  The license plate number that I was able to recall at the time of the accident might not have been valid according to the police.     If you get in an accident, the first thing you should do is use your camera phone to take pictures.

The 25 Pictures Girls Need to Stop Posting in Social Media | Rant Chic

http://rantchic.com/2013/11/07/the-20-pictures-girls-need-to-stop-posting-in-social-media/

Re: For the Chess player with everything

I saw this.  I think that it is gross...

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:32 PM, mikgri wrote:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57615154-1/taxidermy-chess-play-with-rooks-and-dead-rodents/

Attorneys: What is it like to be the defense attorney of someone you strongly believe to have committed the crime? - Quora

http://www.quora.com/Attorneys/What-is-it-like-to-be-the-defense-attorney-of-someone-you-strongly-believe-to-have-committed-the-crime?__pmsg__=+aGpKdXVCNk93TzE3WTlqZjUxYk46YS5hcHAudmlldy5wbXNnLmFsbC5Mb2dnZWRJbkZyb21MaW5rOltbMjc5MTQ3MzldLCB7fV0*

VIDEO: How Does Rescue Dog Look NOW?

http://www.weather.com/video/how-does-rescue-dog-look-now-40785

No calculator nor computer can do this without special software. It is too many digits.

• In 1977 at the Southern Methodist University she was asked to give the 23rd root of a 201-digit number; she answered in 50 seconds.^[1][4] Her answer—546,372,891—was confirmed by calculations done at the U.S. Bureau of Standards by the UNIVAC 1101 computer, for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.^[11]
• On June 18, 1980, she demonstrated the multiplication of two 13-digit numbers — 7,686,369,774,870 × 2,465,099,745,779 — picked at random by the Computer Department ofImperial College, London. She correctly answered 18,947,668,177,995,426,462,773,730 in 28 seconds.^[2][3] This event is mentioned in the 1982 Guinness Book of Records.^[2][3]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakuntala_Devi

Such feats are well beyond any remotely normal human brain.  One has to wonder how different her brain had to be?  

The only reasonable way to imagine that she could take a 23rd root of an extremely large number is to be able to accurately convert the number to a logarithm, do a division and then calculate an exponent in her head.  This is the process that people used slide rules to calculate much smaller numbers.   Doing this on paper could take hours.  The software on your computer couldn't handle this.  There probably are special programs that can handle it.

If that was her method, then she would have to have extremely large tables of logarithms memorized.  However, if she was this brilliant, maybe she came up with other ways of solving math problems.

Dan Pink: The puzzle of motivation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrkrvAUbU9Y

Scott McCloud: Understanding comics

I am not sure that this video presents anything new, but I love listening to intelligent people speak ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXYckRgsdjI

Ric Elias: 3 things I learned while my plane crashed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_zk2DpgLCs

From my cold, dead hands

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_my_cold,_dead_hands

Isleworth Mona Lisa

I find this interesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isleworth_Mona_Lisa

One of my favorite pictures

Mother Nature is a b....

If it is too good to be true...

Mother nature is a bitch :-)

I did not know the difference ... Warrantee vs. warranty

http://grammarist.com/spelling/warrantee-warranty/

 

Curiosity Peter Molyneux's latest game for Android Androidizen

Dumb idea:

http://youtu.be/zpmP8ZPgN5k

Carol Dweck, Stanford University Professor, On Why Telling Your Children They're Smart Is Actually Bad For Them (VIDEO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/carol-dweck-mindset_n_3696599.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular

Preposition Standing

Dryden is also believed to be the first person to posit that English sentences should not end in prepositions because Latin sentences cannot end in prepositions.[22][23] Dryden created the prescription against preposition stranding in 1672 when he objected to Ben Jonson's 1611 phrase the bodies that those souls were frightened from, although he didn't provide an explanation of the rationale that gave rise to his preference.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dryden

 

Try to avoid ending a sentence with a preposition. This is not really a rule, but lots of people think it is. So, to ensure you don't annoy your readers, just avoid the situation. If rewording your sentence makes it sound too contrived, just go for it and end your sentence with a preposition. (Sometimes, the cure is worse than the "problem.")

 

http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/prepositions_ending_a_sentence.htm

 

One of the most frequent questions I’m asked is whether it’s acceptable to end a sentence with a preposition.

 

I know many of you were taught that you shouldn’t end a sentence with a preposition, but it’s a myth. In fact, I consider it one of the top ten grammar myths because many people believe it’s true, but nearly all grammarians disagree, at least in some cases (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8). - See more at: http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/ending-sentence-preposition?page=all#sthash.BLjDqgXf.dpuf

 

http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/education/grammar/ending-sentence-preposition?page=all

 

 

This is the sort of English up with I cannot put.   -  Winston Churchill.

 

 

Re: S.I. Model Kate Upton at it Again

I am surprised that this can be shown on television ...

On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 8:07 AM, al wrote:

Did you catch this Carl's Junior ad with Kate Upton?

http://video.th.msn.com/watch/video/kate-upton-knows-how-to-sell/1jk10uqay?cpkey=225d59b8-30ae-413c-b794-e36048d70fe0%257c%257c%257c%257c

I was more fascinated by the robot dog.

http://green.autoblog.com/2013/05/22/chevy-volt-ad-silent-anthem-brings-back-friendly-deer-robot-d/

Why Russians have dashboard cameras

This is AMAZING STUFF...

Al

 

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 Subject: FW: Why Russians have dashboard cameras

 

This is why Russians use dash cams, (dashboard cameras) - amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/embed/5RAaW_1FzYg?autoplay=1&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0

Do they have Driver's Ed in Russia?   Or just another day in Boston. :-)