14 mars 2014
9 Things You Should Know About Your Caffeine Habit
Even if you're not among the 63 percent of Americans who drink coffee every day, caffeine is hard to avoid. It's all over your corner store, from energy drinks to colas and bottles of iced tea to cans of Starbucks "Refreshers." For a while there, it was looking like even your gum was going to be caffeinated.
-Mother Jones
8 mars 2014
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Your Penis
Ask yourself a question: How well do you really know your own penis? Pretty well, I bet you'd say. But ask it a different way: What would a penis reviewer say about it? In a world of 3.5 billion penises, how does mine stack up?
-GQ
Guess Who’s Having More Sex Than You?
Who’s having more sex than you? Match.com crunched the numbers and the answers will surprise you. You’ll never guess who’s having more sex than you.
-Imgnooz
Dean's Blue Hole, World's Deepest Blue Hole
Dean's Blue Hole near Clarence Town on Long Island, Bahamas, is the world's deepest known “blue hole” - a term given to any deep, water filled, vertical caves or sinkholes with an entrance below the water surface. While most blue holes and sinkholes reach a maximum depth of 110 meters, Dean's Blue Hole plunges to more than 200 meters, which makes it quite exceptional. At the surface, Dean's Blue Hole is roughly circular, with a diameter ranging from 25 to 35 meters. After descending 20 meters, the hole widens considerably into a cavern with a diameter of 100 meters.
-Amusing Planet
Diomede Islands: Two Islands Split by the US-Russian Border and the International Date Line
The Diomede Islands are a pair of rocky islands located in the middle of the Bering Strait between mainland Alaska and Siberia. Though the two islands are only 3.8 km apart and clearly in a single group, they are separated by the International Date line which also marks the international border between Russia and the United States. Big Diomede is owned by Russia and Little Diomede is owned by the USA. Additionally, Big Diomede is 23 hours ahead of Little Diomede owing to the International Date Line that passes between them, because of this they are sometimes called Tomorrow Island and Yesterday Isle, respectively.
-Amusing Planet
Partis Pour 18 Mois, Ils ne Sont Jamais Revenus ! Un Road Trip qui Dure Depuis 23 ans
Les voyageurs passionnés n’ont souvent qu’une seule idée en tête : vivre toute leur vie sur la route. Entre rêve et réalité existe un fossé, qui est franchissable pour certains ! Gunther Holtorf et sa femme Christine n’ont pas choisi ce chemin de vie, il s’est plutôt imposé à eux comme une évidence.
-Voyager Loin
What You Learn in Your 40s
IF all goes according to plan, I’ll turn 44 soon after this column appears. So far in my adult life, I’ve never managed to grasp a decade’s main point until long after it was over. It turns out that I wasn’t supposed to spend my 20s frantically looking for a husband; I should have been building my career and enjoying my last gasp of freedom. I then spent my 30s ruminating on grievances accumulated in my 20s.
-NY Times
Bahamas: Billionaire claims he is getting younger
Bahamas resident Peter Nygard says he is receiving stem cell therapy and that a study from the University of Miami suggests he is getting younger, the Bahamas Tribune reports. "They are looking at me, and my markers have shown exactly that I have been actually reversing my ageing and getting younger," the 70-year-old says.
-BBC News
























