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Of course, we knew all along it was about hormones talking to hormones. Now there’s scientific - and economic - proof.”A study shortly to be published in the journal Evolution and Human Behaviour found that lap dancers in their most fertile phase of the menstrual cycle earned much more than dancers in the least fertile phase. In contrast, dancers who took the contraceptive pill, which ‘flattens’ the hormone cycle, earned much the same throughout the month.” | |
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We can think of no finer use for Curved Mind that to bring you this comprehensive collection of Monty Python sketches. This is possibly the biggest aggregation of insanity as yet found on the web.
Everything from the Parrot Sketch, to the Spanish Inquisition, to the Lumerjack Sketch, excerpts from Holy Grail, Fish Slapping Dance… too numerous to mention… well, 150 to mention anyway. |
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If you’ve ever read the Jesus Mysteries, or considered the startling similarities between Christian Myths and ancient Egyptian ones, then listen on. This explanation can help resolve many discrepencies in modern theological arguments.
This video is in three parts.
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This was posted on Craig’s List:”I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don’t think I’m overreaching at all… I am looking for MARRIAGE ONLY… I wouldn’t be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn’t able to match them – in looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping a nice home and hearth. What am I doing wrong?” | |
Here’s one of the answers she got:
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The ten stories retold in this book are often regarded as among the most exciting archaeological discoveries of the modern era (since 1750). …
Like the Rosetta Stone: This exciting discovery in 1799 was the key to deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs and unlocking the history of the ancient world texts. It provides a window into the real history of Egypt rather than an imaginary one; all other decipherings of ancient languages since the Rosetta Stone’s initial decoding in 1822 are based on its precedents. |
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OK - so, like if this was your barbershop, how many hair cuts would you get a year? How big a tip would you be leaving? 
This article is short on words, long on pictures! |
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This webcam map links you to live webcams from around Europe, each link comes up as a list of different webcams for that area.
Fascinating way to armchair travel, seeing the way people are living, moment to moment. |
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After all this time, they still enjoy being together.  This couple has been married 80 years.”AlonzoSims, 97, kisses his wife, Beulah, 94, Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007. The Jackson County couple will celebrated their 80th wedding anniversary Sunday at 2 p.m. at Cloverdale Manor nursing home in Scottsboro, Ala. Without their families’ approval, the two teens married in 1927, when he was working at a farm, plowing fields with a mule and picking cotton for 50 cents a day. “ |
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The couple, who raised six children, credit their long lives to hard farm work and eating lots of vegetables. They moved frequently to find farm work, going from Paint Rock Valley near Garth to Atchley Bottom in Madison County and then to Woodville in the 1960s.
They said their eight decades of marriage have been virtually free of fussing.
”We’ve been too busy to fight,” Beulah Sims said.
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Some of these elevators will inspire awe, others sheer fear. Pesonally, I can’t even look at some of these shots without feeling woogly in my butt. I do envy some people the views, though. Check out these shots, and a few video experiences, at this link on DeputyDog.com
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Once a year, the Black Rock desert in Nevada, transforms into something not only unrecognizable as Black Rock Desert, but is something that is completely out of this world. |  |
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The Burning Man festival hosts inventions, unlikelihoods, ideas, anything - it all goes. And it all goes up in flames at the end. You have to see it to get it.
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1000 Islands are located between Kingston and Brockville, Ontario, Canada, in the Great Lakes. In reality there are more then 1800 islands there. In the Beginning of the XVIII (18) century they were divided into 8 groups according to size.It’s an amazing place. The scenery is fantastic. All the while, they’re still on the shipping passage through the Great Lakes. Can you imagine seeing massive tankers and cargo ships go right by your house?
Here’s our top list of videos that show you ways to remove scratches from your CDs. Of course, try at your own risk! Personally, we like the one with the banana.
If you’ve been hiding in your basement, madly visualizing for all the proponents of LOA and The Secret to magically warp to another universe, then take heart in these spoofs. These pleasures thanks to SNL, (Saturday Night Live), and Australia’s Chase War.
(And when you’ve finished enjoying these videos, you can go to our LOA, The Game, game page for a distraction that will take your mind off these things and drive you equally crazy!)
SNL parody about The Secret show on Oprah
Chaser’s War
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GRAND PRIZE Kim Steininger Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania “I took this picture right before I ducked,” says Steininger. On a bird-watching trip in Ontario, Canada, last winter, the network administrator noticed that one of the great gray owls she was photographing was staring back at her. |
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You wouldn’t believe us even if we told you, so you’ll just have to see for yourself these totally amazingly cool computer mods. Click through to see some of our favourites and to get the link to the full article. |
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The idea that people are connected through just “six degrees of separation,” based on Stanley Milgram’s “small world study,” has become part of the intellectual furniture of educated people. New evidence discovered in the Milgram papers in the Yale archives, together with a review of the literature on the “small world problem,” reveals that this widely-accepted idea rests on scanty evidence. | |
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Many people are familiar with Apollo 13, thanks to the 1995 Ron Howard movie of the same name. But as Howard himself was quick to point out when the movie was released, it is a dramatization, not a documentary, and many of the elements that mark the difference between Hollywood and real life are omitted or altered. For this 35th anniversary of Apollo 13, IEEE Spectrum spoke to some of the key figures in mission control to get the real story of how they saved the day. | |
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So this article might just help you convince your parents to get you that Wii for Christmas - afterall, it’s one of the top ten technologies that is changing the world, (for the better), along with Google, laptops and the very computer you’re reading this on. | |
| Why 7 memory myths? Of course, the magical number 7, plus or minus 2! It is 7 myths because 7 is a good number for memory right? Wrong, and it gets us started with our first memory myth.
Myth 1: The magic of 7 items (plus or minus 2) |
What of when John Cleese is dead, bereft of life, gone to meet the choir invisible? Here’s John Cleese’s Eulogy, given by the only person best fit to give it - himself, at the Just for Laughs festival in Montreal.
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In 2001, Dr. Evgeny Podkletnov began publishing a series of scientific papers detailing the experimental results of what he called an “impulse gravity generator”. The device reportedly produced hundreds of pounds of gravitational force in a non-diverging beam, capable of “punching holes through concrete and warping metal like hitting it with a sledgehammer”. | |
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This is a “do it your self” Sudoku solver, where you click on the choices of numbers for each square, and it will fill in the correct options. | |
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These quotes are retrieved from “The Quotations Page” which has additional background information on the author and on the quotes themselves.”Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.”"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.”
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” |
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From E-Zine Articles:Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fly? Ever wanted to be the President? Maybe you’ve always wondered what it would be like to time travel; perhaps even take a ride on the back of a brontosaurus. Once you learn how to lucid dream all this and more is available to you on command. The only limit to what you can do is your own imagination. | |
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‘Pop’, ’soda’, by any other name would still be ‘fat juice’. More research recently published in the medical journal Lancet, supports the cry that pop is possibly the number one culpret in our obesity epidemic.(continued) | |
Some footage as it happened from the Space Shuttle Atlantis
| This is the best hummingbird picture we’ve seen yet. The level of detail in it is amazing. You’ve gotta click through and see for yourself.link |
OK - like maybe we can understand this ad for pest control, having kids ourselves, but second h and tomb stones? Gentle eye removers? And some good reminders not to use the advertised products.
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| The greatest music sites on the internet. This is ”the essential music sites” list. Music communities, music shops, web radio, free music.link |
So you think you know your own mind? You know what you want, what you think and feel, you know what you remember, when you remember. Think again. Darren Brown can make you think and feel what he wants and remember what he decides you remember. He uses several mental strategies, including NLP, Neurolinguistic Programming. Clearly he’s a master psychologist. I want him on our side.
My personal favourites, the birthday present and the pick up at the bar, not to mention the bank robbery.
The Birthday Present
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A major archeological find at Sagalassos, a collosal statue of the Emperor Hadrian.Check out the pics. | |
 These are the parts of the world that are still using feet and inches and miles. The rest of us are using the metric system. Want to get with the program? Want to know, what exactly a meter is?
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Think you’ve got safety issues at home, at work or on the street? That’s nothing compared to the safety violations we found from different parts of the world.This truck repair was one of the safer ones…. | |