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Inside The Mind Of A Sudoku Master

“Sudoku whiz Thomas Snyder squares off against his friend and former puzzle champ at the National Sudoku Championship in Philadelphia.” w/ video

Slut Metaphor

“I just had an argument with a girl I know. She was saying how it’s unfair that if a guy fucks a different girl every week, he’s a legend, but if a girl fucks just two guys in a year, she’s a slut. So in response I told her that if a key opens lots of locks, then it’s a master key. But if a lock is opened by lots of keys, then it’s a shitty lock. That shut her up.” w/ text

Eggs Are Getting Harder To Peel

“Consider the farm-fresh egg, the pristine symbol of the simple days of pre-industrial farming. People love them, but there’s a problem: They seem to be getting harder to peel. And though I’ve messily discovered this on my own, there’s some science to back this idea up. Here in food-crazed San Francisco, fresh eggs are everywhere. After purchasing some of these just-collected treasures for hard boiling, I found it nearly impossible to peel off their shells without pockmarking them. My once-beautiful eggs ended up with more craters than the moon. It couldn’t be my fault, I told myself. I’d been hard-boiling eggs for decades, most intensively during a six-month egg-salad kick in ninth grade. I got my technique down and everything. What happened, then?… It’s time to find out.” w/ photos

Worlds’ Fastest & Slowest Land Animals

“To determine the fastest animal in the world one has to consider the nature of the race that you are going to ask them run. Once we get speed on land, however, the most important consideration is going to be the distance over which the race is run… Following is an info graphic representing the 32 fastest (and slowest) land animals.” w/ photos

What Does Your Bar Tab Say About You?

“Have you ever seen a receipt laying on a bar top, and thought to yourself ‘I bet I know what kind of person this belongs to?’ Is it possible to formulate a conclusion based solely on what someone ordered? We’d like to think so.” w/ photos

Tomatoes Help You Lose Weight

“Forget fancy diets and strict exercise regimes. The key to keeping trim could simply be eating lots of tomatoes. Eating the fruit leaves you feeling satisfied, suppressing the urge to snack, which is one of a slimmer’s main pitfalls. It is thought tomatoes are rich in compounds that alter levels of appetite hormones, making them an easy – and cheap – way to keep hunger pangs at bay. The findings emerged from research into the benefits of enriching white bread with fruit and vegetables. A small group of normal weight women aged between 18 and 35 were offered cream cheese sandwiches that had been made with either white bread or bread that had been enriched with carrots or tomatoes. It was thought that the extra fibre provided by the carrot would make the carrot-bread lunches the most filling. Instead, the tomato bread was the most satisfying, a nutritional conference in France heard.” w/ photos

The Fear Detector

“A device that smells human fear is being developed by British scientists and could soon be sniffing out anxious terrorists. The technology relies on recognizing a pheromone – or scent signal – produced in sweat when a person is scared. Researchers hope the ‘fear detector’ will make it possible to identify individuals at check points who are up to no good. Terrorists with murder in mind, drug smugglers, or criminals on the run are likely to be very fearful of being discovered. However calm they might appear on the surface, their bodies could give them away. Although the research is at an early stage, the aim is to develop a prototype device in the next two to three years.” w/ photo

100 Things To Run Out In An Emergency

“[This is] a great list of items. I’m guessing that the items are not in any specific order, but collectively that’s a good checklist to review when making preparations.” — cmlesq

Texting While Driving Experiment

“Driving experiment shows the dangers of texting while driving. Studies show you are 5 times more likely to get in an accident.”

Why The World Will NOT End In 2012

“Skyscrapers crumble to the ground, fiery meteorites smash into Earth and a Tibetan monk cowers as a massive tidal wave swamps his mountain retreat. It is a vision of the coming apocalypse thrillingly captured in the latest Hollywood blockbuster. But fears that the world is due to end in December 2012 is just a myth fueled by internet rumor, according to a leading Nasa scientist. Dr David Morrison, who runs the space agency’s ‘Ask an Astrobiologist’ service, says he has received more than a thousand emails from those worried that the world is due to end in 2012. In an article published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Dr Morrison has answered the top 20 questions in an attempt to assuage these fears.” w/ photos