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Mind-boggling
Is crop production so inadequate that millions of people will starve in the future? If you are aboard an airplane that is struck by lightning, are you likely to be killed? Does herbicide use create resistant “super weeds”? Should you make out your will before undergoing general anesthesia? Arachnids make webs; that’s what they do—right? Is it true that no one knows what became of the Anasazi?California is doomed: it’s going to fall into the ocean! Ninth-grade high school students and Harvard University seniors agree that the Earth causes the phases of the moon. Want to know where a comet has been? Check out its tail. Forensic evidence is infallible. All these widespread beliefs are mind-boggling misconceptions. Here’s why.
By giridn4 years ago in Futurism
Top 10 Out of This World Hotel Rooms
The best part of travel is getting out, seeing the country, meeting new people, and taking in new cultures. That is, if you’re an extrovert. If you’re an introvert like so many are, the energy required to launch yourself into so many unfamiliar situations means frequent retreats back to the hotel room. There, in your mini forward operating base, you can recharge and reset for the next barrage of novelty. And it helps if the hotel room isn’t grey and lifeless.While some hotel rooms look like interrogation cells in Guantanamo and some like Queen Elizabeth’s personal spa, there exists a third type that is simply something else. These hotel rooms are wildly unique in shape or decor, or even redefine the whole concept of living spaces. Here are ten of those hotel rooms, who can best be described as out of this world.
By giridn4 years ago in Wander
5 Misconceptions
Campsite, I loathe. Camping is a romantic holiday that a man may enjoy for me. It's not because I'm a rolling princess needing comfort from my beast. Just like a lusty muscle ox, I love to have intense animalistic sex.
By giridn4 years ago in Humans
Top 10 Ways Your Pilot Might Kill You
“Good day everyone. This is your captain speaking. We’ll be leaving the gate shortly for our three-hour flight. The weather looks fine, so we should be looking at a smooth, comfortable ride.”Well yeah, unless he doesn’t de-ice the wings before takeoff. Or gets disoriented and thinks the ocean is the horizon. Or misses the runway at landing. Or…Here are ten ways that pilot might kill us all. Please brace for impact.
By giridn4 years ago in Lifehack
Better Than You
We have a rather arrogant quality about ourselves in these modern times. We seem to truly think we have reached the acme of human society. Well, I hate to be the one to disabuse you of that notion, but I’m going to . . . Almost everything we do has been done better before us. Our ancestors hold the key to solving many problems of modern society and this list looks at those solutions.
By giridn4 years ago in Humans
Fame After Their Death
Becoming famous is a dream for many. Some work towards it for years, others achieve it by accident. But what if you were to become internationally famous without ever knowing or even being around to enjoy the benefits of your notoriety? Here are ten people who only hit the big time after their death. Who knows, it could still happen to you.
By giridn4 years ago in Humans
Success in Everything
In 2007 I started Listverse with no idea what it might become. I have been through a lot with the site—professionally and personally. Over the years I have read copious amounts of books to help me make the right decisions for the site. This list is a summary of the best advice I have found for starting with nothing and trying to build something. I hope that this will be useful for some of our followers who are hoping to get away from the mainstream and create something new of their own.
By giridn4 years ago in Motivation
Failed Inventor’s
Without inventors, we wouldn’t really have anything but ourselves and our basic behaviors. Invention is the backbone of progress; it’s how culture evolves in the place of our now mostly superfluous biological evolution. But for all the inventions that made it into popular use, hundreds of times more failed along the way.The whole process of invention, creation, and distribution is just one checkpoint after another—one potential failure after another. It could be a faulty idea, a great idea in the wrong era, a great idea that someone else beats you to, an idea no one will sell, or an idea beat out by a competing concept. There’s no shortage of ways in which inventors can flounder, even—sometimes especially—the greats.Here are ten times the world’s best inventors utterly failed.
By giridn4 years ago in Journal
Top 10 Movies
Typically, movie lists on the Internet are centered around genres or finding the best film of a particular year. While those certainly work well enough, they don’t take as broad an approach as possible.This list takes advantage of the fact that Hollywood has been pumping out movies for over a century. Instead of choosing the best film of a particular year or genre, the films on this list were selected from the decade they were released.Finding the right movie from each decade considers a film’s box office draw, critical acclaim, awards received, and cultural impact. Odds are, many won’t agree with these picks, so load the comments with the movies you think should be at the top of a particular decade.
By giridn4 years ago in Geeks
Top 10 Animals With Creepy Behaviors
10. Mass Suicide As crazy as it is, this behavior doesn’t just occur in one species. We know many species to commit mass suicides (though not in lemmings, as is popularly believed). The range of species known to kill themselves en masse is staggering—everything from insects to birds to amphibians to mammals and more. And we rarely have any good idea why.
By giridn4 years ago in Earth
The Myths And Realities Of Hating The skinny Girl
I'm the dumb chick. Some of you envy me, that implies. I know that when you remark, "I wish I had your physique," you have jealousy in your heart. Or "you're lucky enough to be slim." "How dim are you, though, my favorite is? "My answer - create a rare illness that prohibits you from eating.
By giridn4 years ago in Humans
How long can people live in a real world?
If you can only reach 105, the survival probability seems to have a 50/50 level each consecutive year of life. This is broadly agreed upon by many scientists. One of the eldest controversies in the longevity study nevertheless is if this statistic curiosity indicates a real "mortality plateau," which means that the time one of us may hang around is almost unlimited.
By giridn4 years ago in Earth