Conquering drowsiness before it overwhelms your mind can be quite a challenge without the help of caffeine, taurine and drugs.
With the prevalence of energy drinks and coffee shops conveniently located all around us, finding an unnatural, unhealthy energy boost is easy. You’ll certainly be wide awake and wired, but your health will pay the price too.
So the question is: What are some healthy, natural ways to boost your energy and stay awake and alert when you must. Let’s take a look at 50 possibilities:
Friday, September 23, 2011
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Cool and Crazy Landscapes
Meet the real-life sky walker - the photographer who risks his life scaling sky-high buildings to take incredible photos of the world below.
Russian student Marat Dupri, 19, bought a Canon camera 18 months ago and immediately decided to start taking shots of beautiful views.
He began climbing onto the roofs of houses to capture spectacular views from the air, before deciding to go to even greater heights.
Together with his fearless friends and models, he has sneaked past guards at some of Moscow's tallest structures - to produce incredible yet stomach-churning images.
Russian student Marat Dupri, 19, bought a Canon camera 18 months ago and immediately decided to start taking shots of beautiful views.
He began climbing onto the roofs of houses to capture spectacular views from the air, before deciding to go to even greater heights.
Together with his fearless friends and models, he has sneaked past guards at some of Moscow's tallest structures - to produce incredible yet stomach-churning images.
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10 Amazing Science Books That Reveal The Wonders Of The Universe
If you're looking for a perfect holiday gift for science lovers, consider these ten amazing books. They prove science is awesomer than fiction, and are packed with beautiful pictures too.
1. On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition
by Charles Darwin with David Quammen
Darwin's original book didn't just kick off the fiercest scientific debate of the last 200 years... it's also a well-written book that is actually surprisingly fun to read. But this new edition released to celebrate the book's 150th anniversary takes it into a whole new dimension, incorporating over 350 beautiful photographs and illustrations that provide visual context for Darwin's ideas. Even better, this edition incorporates selections from Darwin's earlier travel journal The Voyage of the Beagle as well as various letters and diary entries, exploring the more personal side of his journey to one of history's greatest scientific discoveries.
1. On the Origin of Species: The Illustrated Edition
by Charles Darwin with David Quammen
Darwin's original book didn't just kick off the fiercest scientific debate of the last 200 years... it's also a well-written book that is actually surprisingly fun to read. But this new edition released to celebrate the book's 150th anniversary takes it into a whole new dimension, incorporating over 350 beautiful photographs and illustrations that provide visual context for Darwin's ideas. Even better, this edition incorporates selections from Darwin's earlier travel journal The Voyage of the Beagle as well as various letters and diary entries, exploring the more personal side of his journey to one of history's greatest scientific discoveries.
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Cool Modern and Futuristic Furniture
Interior decorating should be creating a vitality and stability atmosphere so that every workers feels spiritful and be pleasant to do their job perfectly. Feels free to check this design picture that I collect for you, hope you like it.
It’s nice to see that designers keep coming with new and beautiful furniture that has a not only a practical use, but is also looking really good and improves your interior design.
Any kind of Furniture is very important in daily life, different companies want to design stylish and hottest furniture but few companies want to design cool furnitures, fashionable furniture, and also include few LEDs in furnitures
Especially modern couples today wish for a home that is restful, yet trendy and reflecting of their contemporary tastes and lifestyle. Rooms in modern homes are furnished with
It’s nice to see that designers keep coming with new and beautiful furniture that has a not only a practical use, but is also looking really good and improves your interior design.
Any kind of Furniture is very important in daily life, different companies want to design stylish and hottest furniture but few companies want to design cool furnitures, fashionable furniture, and also include few LEDs in furnitures
Especially modern couples today wish for a home that is restful, yet trendy and reflecting of their contemporary tastes and lifestyle. Rooms in modern homes are furnished with
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Difficult Things To Say When You're Drunk
Quotes From Famous Drunk People.
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools
- Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
- Catherine Zandonella
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.
- Anonymous
Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure, hooking up with fat, hairy girls.
- Ross Levy
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
- W.C. Fields
- Ernest Hemingway
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
- Ernest Hemingway
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
- Catherine Zandonella
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of alcohol.
- Anonymous
Drinking provides a beautiful excuse to pursue the one activity that truly gives me pleasure, hooking up with fat, hairy girls.
- Ross Levy
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
- W.C. Fields
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Coolest Inventions Now days
The pics below are some pretty cool inventions. Some cooler than others.
An invention is a novel composition, device, or process. An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived, in which case it may be a radical breakthrough. In addition, there is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social behaviors adopted by people and passed on to others.
Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience. An invention that is novel and not obvious to others skilled in the same field may be able to obtain the legal protection of a patent.
Invention is a creative process. An open and curious mind allows an inventor to see beyond what is known. Seeing a new possibility, connection, or relationship can spark an invention. Inventive thinking frequently involves combining concepts or elements from different realms that would not normally be put together. Sometimes inventors disregard the boundaries between distinctly separate territories or fields.
An invention is a novel composition, device, or process. An invention may be derived from a pre-existing model or idea, or it could be independently conceived, in which case it may be a radical breakthrough. In addition, there is cultural invention, which is an innovative set of useful social behaviors adopted by people and passed on to others.
Inventions often extend the boundaries of human knowledge or experience. An invention that is novel and not obvious to others skilled in the same field may be able to obtain the legal protection of a patent.
Invention is a creative process. An open and curious mind allows an inventor to see beyond what is known. Seeing a new possibility, connection, or relationship can spark an invention. Inventive thinking frequently involves combining concepts or elements from different realms that would not normally be put together. Sometimes inventors disregard the boundaries between distinctly separate territories or fields.
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Things Successful People Do Differently
Why have you been so successful in reaching some of your goals, but not others?
If you aren't sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail.
The intuitive answer — that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others — is really just one small piece of the puzzle.
In fact, decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do.
If you aren't sure, you are far from alone in your confusion. It turns out that even brilliant, highly accomplished people are pretty lousy when it comes to understanding why they succeed or fail.
The intuitive answer — that you are born predisposed to certain talents and lacking in others — is really just one small piece of the puzzle.
In fact, decades of research on achievement suggests that successful people reach their goals not simply because of who they are, but more often because of what they do.
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Civilizations That Mysteriously Disappeared - Top 10
Throughout our history, most civilizations have either met a slow demise or were wiped out by natural disasters or invasion. But there are a few societies whose disappearance has scholars truly stumped:
10. The Olmec
One of the first Mesoamerican societies, the Olmec inhabited the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico. The first signs of the Olmec are around 1400 BC in the city of San Lorenzo, the main Olmec settlement which was supported by two other centers, Tenochtitlan and Potrero Nuevo.
The Olmec were master builders with each of the major sites containing ceremonial courts, house mounds, large conical pyramids and stone monuments including the colossal head that they are most known for.
The Olmec civilization relied heavily on trade, both between different Olmec regions and with other Mesoamerican societies. Because they were one of the earliest and most advanced Mesoamerican cultures at the time, they are often considered the mother culture of many other Mesoamerican cultures.
10. The Olmec
One of the first Mesoamerican societies, the Olmec inhabited the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico. The first signs of the Olmec are around 1400 BC in the city of San Lorenzo, the main Olmec settlement which was supported by two other centers, Tenochtitlan and Potrero Nuevo.
The Olmec were master builders with each of the major sites containing ceremonial courts, house mounds, large conical pyramids and stone monuments including the colossal head that they are most known for.
The Olmec civilization relied heavily on trade, both between different Olmec regions and with other Mesoamerican societies. Because they were one of the earliest and most advanced Mesoamerican cultures at the time, they are often considered the mother culture of many other Mesoamerican cultures.
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Things don't always go as planned
Things don't always go as planned. Check out the pics below to see a few examples of what happens when our expectations get punched in the face by reality.
Expectations: Reality
Expectations: Reality
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Monday, September 12, 2011
Cool Hand Painting Art
Guido Daniele's amazing Hand Painting Art. Guido Daniele was born in Soverato (CZ - Italy) and now lives and works in Milan. Since 1964 until 1968 he attended Brera artistic High School and he graduated from Brera School of Arts (major in sculpturing) in 1972.
In 1972 he started working as hyper-realistic illustrator, in co-operation with major editing and advertising companies, using and testing different painting techniques.
In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones: using the "body painting" technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions.
In 1972 he started working as hyper-realistic illustrator, in co-operation with major editing and advertising companies, using and testing different painting techniques.
In 1990 he added a new artistic experience to his previous ones: using the "body painting" technique he creates and paints models bodies for different situations such as advertising pictures and commercials, fashion events and exhibitions.
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Coolest World Records
Here you have a collection of the coolest world records:
Basketball longest shot aim ball sitting on the floor:
Basketball longest shot aim ball sitting on the floor:
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World's Best Booze And Where To Drink It
Drinking the local beverage is a sure way to warm the hearts of the locals. Here is a selection of alcoholic drinks that make the effort of travel all the more rewarding.
1. Sake, Japan
Called nihonshu in Japan, sake is a rice wine with an alcohol content of 15% to 17%. Prior to the first sake brewery being established at Kyoto’s Imperial Palace in the 7th century, sake was consumed in a form that resembled porridge, with the rice primed for production by the chew-in-the-mouth method. There are more than 1,600 brewers of this almost transparent alcohol, with varieties ranging from sweet to crisp and fragrantly fruity. Serving sake slightly chilled generally brings out its best qualities.
1. Sake, Japan
Called nihonshu in Japan, sake is a rice wine with an alcohol content of 15% to 17%. Prior to the first sake brewery being established at Kyoto’s Imperial Palace in the 7th century, sake was consumed in a form that resembled porridge, with the rice primed for production by the chew-in-the-mouth method. There are more than 1,600 brewers of this almost transparent alcohol, with varieties ranging from sweet to crisp and fragrantly fruity. Serving sake slightly chilled generally brings out its best qualities.
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Incredible 3D Street Art
3D graffiti, whether it’s in chalk or paint, on walls or the street, represents a new way of combining the mastery of Renaissance art techniques with the gritty, ephemeral qualities of amazing street art.
These 3D street artists gives graffiti a whole new meaning – one that departs from the conventional interpretation of graffiti as vandalism in the form of images and letters scrawled on public property.
Artists like Kurt Wenner, Eduardo Relero and Tracy Lee Stum create street art that is so incredible it is almost impossible to pass by without being sucked in to the worlds they create on asphalt and concrete surfaces. At the bottom you have the making of one of them.
These 3D street artists gives graffiti a whole new meaning – one that departs from the conventional interpretation of graffiti as vandalism in the form of images and letters scrawled on public property.
Artists like Kurt Wenner, Eduardo Relero and Tracy Lee Stum create street art that is so incredible it is almost impossible to pass by without being sucked in to the worlds they create on asphalt and concrete surfaces. At the bottom you have the making of one of them.
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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Cool Food Art
Sometimes playing with your food can be a good thing. Take these awesome examples of food art for instance - they're silly, fun, and some just downright impressive!
The time and dedication it must take for some of these is incredible (not to mention the willpower it takes to not eat the yummy stuff!) and for that I give kudos to the "artists" of the following pictures.
The 28 Healthiest Foods on the Planet
The following is a "healthy food hot list" consisting of the 29 food that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Along with each description is a suggestion as to how to incorporate these power-foods into your diet. If you're searching for more tips on healthier living, take a direct approach to your health and wellness by customizing your individual health insurance needs.
FRUITS
The time and dedication it must take for some of these is incredible (not to mention the willpower it takes to not eat the yummy stuff!) and for that I give kudos to the "artists" of the following pictures.
The 28 Healthiest Foods on the Planet
The following is a "healthy food hot list" consisting of the 29 food that will give you the biggest nutritional bang for you caloric buck, as well as decrease your risk for deadly illnesses like cancer, diabetes and heart disease.
Along with each description is a suggestion as to how to incorporate these power-foods into your diet. If you're searching for more tips on healthier living, take a direct approach to your health and wellness by customizing your individual health insurance needs.
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Cool Picture Of The Day - Sept / 11 / 2011
Isn't he the coolest dog ever? Kind of a matrix dog.
102 Interesting things about dogs
Here’s an interesting list of facts for you about dogs, I bet you will find out some things you didn’t know before about mans best friend, I know I did.
102 Interesting things about dogs
Here’s an interesting list of facts for you about dogs, I bet you will find out some things you didn’t know before about mans best friend, I know I did.
- It is a myth that dogs are color blind. They can actually see in color, just not as vividly as humans. It is akin to our vision at dusk.
- Dogs DO have better low-light vision than humans because of a special light-reflecting layer behind their retinas
- A German Shepherd guide dog led her blind companion the entire 2100 mile Applachian Trail
- If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could product over 66,000 dogs in 6 years!
- Dogs’ only sweat glands are between their paw pads
- Like human babies, Chihuahuas are born with a soft spot in their skull which closes with age
- The breed Lundehune has 6 toes and can close its ears
- Teddy Roosevelt’s dog, Pete, ripped a French ambassador’s pants off at the White House
- President Lyndon Johnson had two beagles named Him and Her
- Franklin Roosevelt spent $15,000 for a destroyer to pick up his Scottie in the Aleutian Islands
- In Roman times, mastiffs donned light armor and were sent after mounted knights
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World’s Best Secret Islands
Our world has a lot of beautiful islands and some of them are really magnificent and full of natural resources and minerals, but some islands are still unexplored and are secret as many people don’t know about them. The culture and life style on these islands are very unique. Here are world’s best secret islands you may ever want to visit.
1.Torres Strait Islands, Australia
The Torres Strait Islands are situated off the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. 2 islands form the Torres Strait stretching from the peninsula north to the Papua New Guinea border.
Only 3 of the Torres Strait Islands are open for the public where as other islands are only for the Islanders, who originally came from Polynesia and Melanesia. The population of the Torres Strait Islands is now more than 6000. Each of the Torres Strait Islands has unique cultures and languages.
1.Torres Strait Islands, Australia
The Torres Strait Islands are situated off the Cape York Peninsula in Australia. 2 islands form the Torres Strait stretching from the peninsula north to the Papua New Guinea border.
Only 3 of the Torres Strait Islands are open for the public where as other islands are only for the Islanders, who originally came from Polynesia and Melanesia. The population of the Torres Strait Islands is now more than 6000. Each of the Torres Strait Islands has unique cultures and languages.
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Friday, September 9, 2011
50 Cool Mobile Phone Concepts
Mobile phone business is one of the most rapid growing industries. Not so long ago, the popular check phone was Nokia 3310 with mere basic functions: call, text messaging and the only bearable game, snake.
However, significant improvement has been made since then. We now have so many variety of phones that surpasses the basic function, smart phones for example allows you to connect to social media conveniently, GPS, video conferencing etc.
However, significant improvement has been made since then. We now have so many variety of phones that surpasses the basic function, smart phones for example allows you to connect to social media conveniently, GPS, video conferencing etc.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Cool Picture Of The Day - Sept / 08 / 2011
Interesting things about cats
Cats do strange things and behave in some very interesting ways. Read through the following interesting facts about cats and you will be amazed by the meaning behind some cat behaviors. You will also find some lesser-known information about cats.
Note: All the facts on this page applies to domestic cats.
The cat was seen as a sacred animial in ancient Eqypt, and the history of domestic cats dates back to as early as 8000 years.
The biggest breed of domesticated cats are called a Maine Coon cat and weighs up to 11 kg.
Cats are some of the smartest animals and can interpret a human's mood and feelings.
The average cat sleeps between 12-14 hours a day.
Cats paw (repeatedly treading on a spot - often it's owner) to mark their territory. Cats sweat through the bottom of their paws and rub this off as a marking mechanism.
Cats can be tought how to use the toilet. Using The Toilet Trained Cat, for example.
Cats do strange things and behave in some very interesting ways. Read through the following interesting facts about cats and you will be amazed by the meaning behind some cat behaviors. You will also find some lesser-known information about cats.
Note: All the facts on this page applies to domestic cats.
The cat was seen as a sacred animial in ancient Eqypt, and the history of domestic cats dates back to as early as 8000 years.
The biggest breed of domesticated cats are called a Maine Coon cat and weighs up to 11 kg.
Cats are some of the smartest animals and can interpret a human's mood and feelings.
The average cat sleeps between 12-14 hours a day.
Cats paw (repeatedly treading on a spot - often it's owner) to mark their territory. Cats sweat through the bottom of their paws and rub this off as a marking mechanism.
Cats can be tought how to use the toilet. Using The Toilet Trained Cat, for example.
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Cool Package Designs - Part I
Packaging is a very important marketing strategy to glamorize a product in order to attract the consumer's attention. Often however, packaging can be neglected by business.
Here is a compiled selection of beautiful packaging designs, some conceptual and some that made it to the shelves but all great examples of the designer going the extra mile to ensure that all important first impression is a positive one.
Here is a compiled selection of beautiful packaging designs, some conceptual and some that made it to the shelves but all great examples of the designer going the extra mile to ensure that all important first impression is a positive one.
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