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Obscure Fruits from Around the World
While there are over 2,000 fruits in the world, most people have only tried around ten percent of them. Fruits are nutrient powerhouses that are vital to health and provide an abundance of flavor. These tropical and strange varieties are not only certain to bring vigor to your step but to rev your tastebuds in ways you’ve never experienced before.
By M.R. Cameo5 years ago in FYI
AOSD: The Dragon
1.5 in a million they said. You’re 1.5 in a million if the dragon finds you. 1.5 in a million if they’re smart enough to see. When the illness is so rare most doctors have never heard of it, the path to recovery is ice beneath the dragon’s claws. I was one of the lucky ones.
By Bree Beadman5 years ago in FYI
Why Consuming Melanin Supplements For Tanning Is so Beneficial?
Melanin is a specific pigment that is responsible for one’s skin tone, shade, and body texture. It is a naturally occurring hormone that gives your skin a brown color. Generally, it is considered that the more melanin in your body, the darker will be your skin tone.
By Melanotan Aus5 years ago in FYI
Kangaroos
I’m not really sure if this is the type of knowledge-bomb one would drop when trying to impress someone but then again I’ve never much been concerned about my impression on others. I’m more of the 13 year old boy trapped in a 40 year old woman’s body when it comes to small talk. The bread and butter of my sense of humor is my unapologetic love of dick and fart jokes and I’m not afraid to admit it.
By Kathryn Kingsley5 years ago in FYI
7 Uncommon Facts About the Common Black Ant
Have you ever wondered more about that huge line of ants traveling your backyard or tracking in your kitchen before you go to grab the bug spray? I most certainly have. In fact, learning about ants was the first weird and intriguing knowledge that got me hooked on random facts. So it is thanks to these little fellas that this burning desire to write this awesomely kickass article and produce an equally kickass podcast began. Let’s get into this!
By Lauren Lovan5 years ago in FYI
La Cucaracha or The Cockroach: both a hard no.
My years as an educator have taught me valuable lessons in so many subjects and areas: pedagogy, classroom management, differentiated learning styles. But there are additional gems I've discovered along the way that are truly priceless. Like the year I moved to a new classroom and went in a week early to organize.
By Heather Buchta5 years ago in FYI
Darkside of GMOs - Food Industry
GMOs are one of the most controversial areas of science. Genetic engineering is used in many fields, but even the medical applications like GM insulin are widely accepted. The debate heats up when it comes to food and agriculture. Why is that? Why is the same thing treated so differently? Let's try to get to the bottom of this and explore the facts, the fears and the future of GMOs.
By Zeeshan Mushtaq Lone5 years ago in FYI
Dinosaurs: The Earth's GOAT
The Stegosaurus lived longer before the Tyrannosaurus Rex than the T-Rex lived before us. Think about the implications of that for a minute. Stegosaurus roamed the earth around 150 million years ago in the late Jurassic period. That was already the second geologic period of the dinosaurs. (The Triassic kicked off 100 million years before ol' Stegs popped up). T-Rex didn't appear until the end of the Cretaceous period 85 million years later. And then us homo sapiens, the planet's snot-nosed Gen-Zers, rolled in less than three hundred thousand years ago, 65 million years after the final episode of Dinosaurs. Even including Neanderthals and other hominids only gets us about half a million years closer. If you go with the broadest possible definition and say mammals, our species has only been on top since well after the dinosaurs got meteored.
By William Reid5 years ago in FYI
Blindsight
I wonder how many people with reflexive responses (whether of approval or disapproval) to Stanley Milgram’s famous experiment have read the book he generated from its results, Obedience to Authority. It’s a curious document. He vastly overimagines the degree to which authority and obedience are ingrained in human interactions. To demonstrate that people have provisional authority in some situations who don’t in normal circumstances, he points out that a shoe clerk can order you to stand in your sock feet, a barber to present your throat to his razor, a movie usher to take the seat she (usually) shows you with the flashlight she carries for guidance in the dark, and a bank teller to surrender your money. The last is the only one of these that bears any real colour of truth, and most of the means by which banks extract money from their ordinary customers are imposed by the invisible authority of custom, not that of tellers whom we’re likelier to regard as servants than masters (if we don’t regard them as equals momentarily attending to our needs).
By Martin Heavisides5 years ago in FYI
