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If they had lived: What music legends would have looked like today
Posted by staff / November 21, 2013No one can say exactly how the music world would have been impacted had the likes of Elvis Presley, Bob Marley and Janis Joplin lived to a ripe old age, but Sachs Media Group and photo restoration and manipulation firm Phojoe thought it would be interesting to get a glimpse of what would never be. …
Read MoreThe ultimate chart of hand tools
Posted by staff / November 21, 2013Does the fix-it person in your life already have every tool money can buy, leaving you without options for the gift-giving season? Then hurry over to Pop Chart Labs and grab one of these incredible hand tool charts. The best part is that they’ll be happy to make their own frame for it, then it’s …
Read MoreA year of parenting [comic]
Posted by staff / November 20, 2013No matter how many books you read or experienced parents you talk to, the minute a baby enters the picture, life changes in ways you never could have imagined. Grant Snider hits the nail on the head with his observations on the first year of parenting that anyone who’s been there has to smile at. …
Read MoreBeautiful shots of single snowflakes
Posted by staff / November 19, 2013While a road full of snow can easily induce panic, viewed one at a time, those flakes are really quite stunning. Russian photographer Alexey Kljatov lights his unique snowflake subjects with a flashlight and uses a piece of dark wool as a backdrop for these tiny natural masterpieces. It’s a view we rarely, if ever, enjoy …
Read MoreJFK: theories and conspiracies [infographic]
Posted by staff / November 18, 2013Araminta Wordsworth and Mike Faille are National Post staff and they’ve put together a great info graphic illustrating various theories about JFK’s assassination. It’s been half a century since President John F. Kennedy was gunned down by Lee Harvey Oswald on that fateful November day in Dallas, but after the official Warren Commission, and more …
Read More7 surefire tips to overcome presentation anxiety [infographic]
Posted by staff / November 18, 2013From middle school to retirement, and often beyond those boundaries, the nightmare that can be public speaking rears its ugly head for those who fear it. That’s why this great infographic from 24slides is the perfect bookmark to add to your files if just the word “audience” causes your tongue to tie and palms to …
Read MoreThe correct pronunciation of 15 top tech names
Posted by staff / November 15, 2013There’s nothing worse than name-dropping with the wrong pronunciation, so Mashable’s Sara Roncero-Menendez is here to help you sound like you’re in the know with the proper way of saying the top names in tech. Marissa Mayer How It Should Be Pronounced: Like “mire,” not “mayor” Mayer was hired as Yahoo’s new President and CEO in 2012, …
Read MoreListen to the lovely orchestra of crickets singing at human speed [audio] [updated]
Posted by staff / November 14, 2013Want to hear something magical? Experimental director and playwright, Robert Wilson, caught a hauntingly beautiful piece of music one night, a recording of crickets. That part is common enough, but then he stretched out the sound as much as one would have to stretch the life of a cricket to equal that of a human, …
Read MoreOnly 10 biggest companies provide most of the products we use regularly [infographic]
Posted by staff / November 14, 2013Here’s a great infographic that shows us how most of the products we use on a regular basis, are actually from one of these 10 companies. See the original here: Washington Post. More stories about business. Photo credit: Washington Post
Read MoreAnimal ardour: What animals tell us about dating [infographic]
Posted by staff / November 14, 2013Navigating the dating world can be a baffling experience, but if you put us in the context of the rest of the animal kingdom, it can certainly lend some clarity and a healthy dose of humor, too. Via FreeDating.co.uk. Like infographics? So do we.
Read MoreWhen schools offer healthy snacks, kids eat them
Posted by staff / November 13, 2013Schools that started healthful snacks in lunchtime a la carte or vending programs boosted their students’ overall daily consumption of fruit by 26 percent, vegetables by 14 percent, and whole grains by 30 percent. “Our study shows that schools can make the kinds of changes required by the forthcoming USDA guidelines, and these changes can …
Read More5 ways our Stone Age bods are bad for modern living
Posted by staff / November 12, 2013Evolution can be a great thing, but it seems our culture is winning the race to the detriment of our bodies. In a recent talk, Harvard evolutionary biologist Jason Lieberman described five ways we haven’t evolved with the times, but maybe putting this knowledge into our big, old brains is the first step toward making healthy …
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