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The True Odds of Airborne Terror

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After the recent scare, the TSA is enacting more flight security - you can see how stupid the leaked new flight rules are here. And for the actual odds of something happening on your flight? 500x odds of airborne terror2 The True Odds of Airborne TerrorThank you Gizmodo. You want something to be worried about while traveling?  Worry about drunk-drivers, texting drivers, and otherwise distracted drivers,  slipping in the bathroom, hidden heart problems, etc that are all more likely to get you first.

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Internet Memes

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Fear you've missed something on the Internet?  Want to see an old favorite Internet moment?  Internet Memes has an interactive timeline with links to all the favorites from Hamster Dance, and  Peanut Butter Jelly Time to Chocolate Rain and the shoe being thrown at President Bush.  Favorites from all time. Internet Memes

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Ten Rules For Being Human

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by Cherie Carter-Scott
  1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's yours to keep for the entire period.
  2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, "life."
  3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The "failed" experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately "work."
  4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson
  5. Learning lessons does not end. There's no part of life that doesn't contain its lessons. If you're alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.
  6. "There" is no better a place than "here." When your "there" has become a "here", you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than "here."
  7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.
  8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.
  9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life's questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.
  10. You will forget all this.

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Cooking By Numbers

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Select what you have in your fridge, select what you have in your cupboard, and Cooking By Numbers will find recipes for meals you can make with those ingredients.  Don't think you have enough food to make something to eat?  Select what you have and you may be surprised what you can make!  Can't make up your mind about what to cook? Click I feel lucky and let the site choose for you. Cooking By Numbers

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Learn With Video Lectures From Great Minds Online

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AcademicEarth Banner Learn With Video Lectures From Great Minds Online Academic Earth is a site that hosts thousands of video lectures in over a dozen categories, from researchers, lecturers, and scholars from Universities like Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and MIT. Academic Earth offers something mentally stimulating to watch about topics you've always been curious about such as astronomy, economics, biology, or political science.  The service hosts over 15,000 videos across 17 subjects. Many of them are lectures dedicated to a specific topic that you may want to learn more about, but many of them are generic introductions and talks that you can jump into without any prior knowledge of the topic. For example, the MIT lecture Physics I: Classical Mechanics, by Walter Lewin, can explain to you why two objects that fall at the same rate from heights even if one is much heavier than the other.  Similarly, if you're a fan of ancient history, there's the Introduction to Greek History lecture, taught by Yale professor Donald Kagan. If you find a topic that interests you, you can browse the available lectures and the grades that other viewers have given the lecturer to see if you might be interested in watching it. Each lecture has its own page and description, and you can watch the lecture in your browser like any other Web video. If it's one in a series of discussions, you can see the entire series of lectures and start from the beginning, or subscribe to the lecture series as a podcast. Many of the lectures include transcripts, citation information, and related documents and figures that you can see through links on the lecture page. AcademicEarth LarrySummers Learn With Video Lectures From Great Minds Online Academic Earth is a great way to spend some time learning something new if you're looking to expand your horizons and a good starting point if you're interested in a subject you never studied or pondering going back to school. There are plenty of pragmatic lectures as well, so if you're looking specifically for talks that will help you invest properly, understand copyright law, or start your own business, Academic Earth has videos for you. Academic Earth

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