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5 options to consider when looking for off-campus housing A big decision that can affect your academic performance as well as your social and life development in all kinds of ways.
How do you choose the right housing for your particular needs as a student? It’s a decision that can affect your academic performance and it’s also going to impact your social and life development in all kinds of ways. Each student has their own needs and circumstances. For some, the final rental price is important and they are mainly interested in the financial side of housing. For example, it’s common for universities to offer off-campus accommodation they have procured through deals with real estate agencies, but these options are often above the financial capabilities of the average student. Others are more lucky and are mainly interested in where they will…
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6 inspirational design trends in modern celebrity homes These celebrity designer touches can hopefully inspire a little sparkle to smaller yet ambitious homes.
Imagine living in Bill Gates’ $125 million home with as many wildly over the top features you could think of – including rotating artwork, pressure-sensitive floors for security, and a whopping six different kitchens to design to your heart’s content. Celebrity homes have always been a subject of fascination, telling us as much about how the rich and famous enjoy their leisure time as about the latest high-tech features enhancing human home life and enjoyment. Of course, you don’t need to have a celebrity budget – or even a ridiculous amount of space – to design beautiful interiors. These are just six homes whose designer touches can easily inspire a…
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How an everyday American man became the overlord of thousands of Filipinos Kevin Horn was a normal man. Then he randomly decided to join a Filipino group on Facebook.
Kevin Horn was by all accounts a normal man, but one day he made the fateful decision to join a Filipino group on Facebook. There aren’t a lot of white Americans involved in the online Filipino community, but Kevin respected their culture, language, and most importantly, their memes. He now has thousands of loyal Filipino fans who hail him as their lord and savior. Here’s how it happened. Kevin wasn’t a stranger to memes, but his internet shenanigans one day landed him into a Facebook group titled “Fresh Sardines from West Philippine Sea Shitposting.” He already knew a little bit of Tagalog, so he tried to join in on the…
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How to get the most out of online dating It's the new normal, so here's some advice from the top experts in the world of online dating.
We all live in a digital world and finding your romantic partner through the internet has long since become the new normal. The many platforms and gamified ways of searching for your perfect match can be fun and exciting, but there are many pitfalls you’ll want to avoid. There are also some universal rules of successful online dating that are worth taking note of if you want to succeed. We have gathered advice from some of the top experts writing on the world of online dating. Before anything else: know what you’re looking for According to a Freelocaldates review, a good many online daters don’t actually know what partner they…
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The catchy genius of the ‘nonsense song’ It's easy to dismiss nonsense songs as silly and dumb, but they have a rich history and channel the very lifeblood of rock'n'roll.
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Inspiration from the 7 most stubborn people in history You think your kids are stubborn? You have no idea how bad it gets.
Man crosses Atlantic in raft with no water In 1952, Alain Bombard grew concerned with how many lives were being lost at sea. As a well-regarded scientist, it was within his means to start developing safer nautical emergency equipment. But Bombard was ridiculously stubborn, and had already convinced himself that people were dying in life rafts simply because they weren’t good enough at managing their resources. To prove his theory that safety required better people and not better safety equipment, Bombard prepared to set sail on a little raft across the Atlantic ocean. He didn’t bring any fresh water, and only a sextant to guide him. Neither a newborn baby,…
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5 scientific ways strangers can tell you’re gay (even if you’re in the closet) We don't endorse stereotypes unless they're funny or we have science on our side, and the data is in: the "gaydar" is anything but a myth.
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6 incredibly stupid cons that actually worked You are being hunted by polish priests and need to pay the CIA $160k to protect you. These are the cons that make Nigerian 419 scammers look like Ocean's Eleven.
Some cons are so assed-out lame, they prove that it isn’t stupidity that makes someone fall victim to a scam. It can’t be. If it were stupidity, the victims in the following scams would be literally dumber than rocks. After all, if you approach a rock and say, “give me your money,” or “let me examine your lady business,” the rock won’t budge. Here are six successful cons that make Nigerian 419 scammers look like Ocean’s Eleven. 1. “Your Computer Has Been Infected by Polish Priests Attempting to Take Over the US Government.” How Much Did This Lie Make? Authorities believe twenty million dollars. That’s almost 1/10 as much as…
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Eilmer of Malmesbury: the flying monk of medieval England The first known serious flight attempt in world history occurred about a thousand years before the Wright brothers, in an English abbey.
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How close did we actually come to Fallout’s nuclear future? Nuclear cars, robots, mutants, the atom-bomb apocalypse... where did Fallout’s grim retro-futurism come from, and how close did we come to a Fallout future?
Before you even had the first Fallout game out of its jewel case, the game hit you square in the face with its vision of the nuclear future. On page three of the manual – styled as the Vault Dweller’s Survival Guide – you found this image, and immediately understood just what this world you were about to visit was like. Unlike the fantasy RPGs that defined the genre at the time, this was a game about the future-that-wasn’t: a 1950s sci-fi imagining of the Cold War, complete with mushroom clouds, underground cities and grinning, all-American propaganda. Fallout‘s ruins of post-war America were a love letter to the golden age…
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Classical music cheat sheet: everything the modern man needs to know, in one sitting Become irresistibly cultured after just one afternoon of study with this 8-step cheat sheet you can't fail.
So you’ve got a new love in your life, and this person is interested in classical music. Are you into it? Yeah, I can get a lot of homework done with this on-style? Or for real? You should at least make an effort, right? There is a gulf of compromise between a full on study of a vast and complex field and not even making an effort – and right in the middle of it is this handy cheat sheet covering all the basic and presenting a wealth of youtubes to click. Let’s start with the X-Man of classical music: Bach Watch this video on YouTube Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 –…
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Being a hobo was hard—’Hoboglyphs’ made it easier Sketched with coal or chalk in places where migrants were likely to pass, hoboglyphs – the secret code of hobos – were pointers for other travelers.
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Ok, boomer—and 20 more horrific realities of becoming an adult And there's nothing you can do about it.
“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists”—Kurt Vonnegut Most young whippersnappers look forward to becoming an adult and building their own independent life. And when they do, they invariably discover that the ability to buy infinite candy and deciding your own bed time isn’t quite the nirvana it seemed to be. In fact, understanding that nothing is ever what it’s cracked up to be is just one of the many bitter pills you’ll have to swallow as you age through life at an exponentially rapid pace. Let’s talk about some of the unfortunate realities that settle in as you set a course through the rocky seas of…
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Just what is astrology any way? Whether people are checking their horoscopes in magazines or seeing if their star sign matches with their crush, astrology is here to stay. So what is it based on?
Astrology seems to be more popular than ever. Whether people are checking their horoscopes in magazines or seeing if their star sign matches with their crush, astrology is here to stay, and the ancient practice is more than reading whether you are predicted to have a good week and blaming your character flaws on your star sign. Here’s a brief introduction to astrology. The different signs Most of us are familiar with the 12 astrology signs based on when we were born. These can be split into water signs (Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces), fire signs (Aries, Leo and Sagittarius), earth signs (Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn) and air signs (Gemini, Libra…
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