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How These Two 17-Year-Olds Are Cashing In On The Fidget Spinners Everyone Is Talking About
Six months ago, spinners were unheard of. The hands of children were oddly empty. Today most middle and high school kids either have an original Fidget360, or have one of the many knock-offs. All parents and teachers know what spinners are, regardless of if they approve. When Allan Maman looked around for something to alleviate his own ADHD, he ran into the concept of a toy that allowed you to unconsciously fidget while still focusing on another task. At the time, nobody was producing fidgets for the marketplace in a readily available way. Maman saw the need and realized he...
Intuition Is The Highest Form Of Intelligence
Intuition, argues Gerd Gigerenzer, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, is less about suddenly "knowing" the right answer and more about instinctively understanding what information is unimportant and can thus be discarded. Gigerenzer, author of the book Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious, says that he is both intuitive and rational. "In my scientific work, I have hunches. I can’t explain always why I think a certain path is the right way, but I need to trust it and go ahead. I also have the ability to check these hunches and find out what they are...
wHy ThE cApiTaLiZaTiOn Of EvErY oThEr LeTtEr?
I don’t get it. Where did this affectation begin? Is this some bleedover from the gamer subculture? “wOOt!” “pWnEd!” I know every generation resorts to slang and obscurity to differentiate itself, so is this the new way for people who capitalize every other letter? Some digging has yielded the information that this practice is known as “Studlycaps” or “camel caps” From the Wikipedia: “According to the Jargon File “ThE oRigiN and SigNificaNce of thIs pRacTicE iS oBscuRe.” it appears to have been popularized among adolescent users during the BBS and early WWW eras of online culture, as a form of rebellion...
WOMAN SAYS SQUID-LIKE SUBSTANCE WAS FLOATING IN BOTTLE OF COCONUT WATER
A woman said a squid-like, gooey gunk she found floating in her favorite beverage made her violently ill, and she's on a quest to figure out what it is.Barbara Kline, 34, said she made the horrific discovery on April 25.After opening the beverage and taking a sip, Kline said she noticed something was very wrong. "I swallowed a big clump. It was really nasty and it tasted really thick," she said.She sliced open the Vita Coco coconut water container and found something disturbing inside."The legs, they're legs," Kline explained. "There's definitely something other than mold in there." (Cont'd Below) She...
Construction Site Theme Park in North Texas Lets You Play with Heavy Machines
If you have ever driven by a construction site and felt an intense urge to jump on some of the equipment and move some dirt around, there is a place in North Texas that can scratch those specific itches. (Cont'd Below) Extreme Sandbox, located north of Dallas in Pottsboro, bills itself as an extreme heavy equipment adventure company where patrons can pay a fee to drive Komatsu bulldozers, wheel loaders and excavators for fun. Owner Randy Stenger started his company in Hastings, Minn. just outside of St. Paul in 2012 and later opened a second location in Texas in early...
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