1. Travis Alexander

This is the last photo of Travis Alexander taken moments before Jodi Arias murdered him. She showed up, they fooled around, hopped in the shower where she took a bunch of photos of him. She snapped this photo and then killed him right after. On June 9, 2008, Alexander’s body was discovered by his friends in a shower at his home in Mesa, Arizona. Alexander had sustained 27 to 29 stab wounds, and had his throat slit and suffered a fatal gunshot wound to the head.

2. Evelyn McHale

On May Day, just after leaving her fiancé, 23-year-old Evelyn McHale wrote a note. “He is much better off without me I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody.” She then went to the observation platform of the Empire State Building and jumped. In her desperate determination, she leaped clear of the setbacks and hit a United Nations limousine parked at the curb. Across the street, photography student Robert Wiles heard an explosive crash. Just four minutes after Evelyn McHale’s death, Wiles got this picture of death’s violence and its composure. The serenity of McHale’s body amidst the crumpled wreckage it caused is astounding.

3. Chris McCandless

This picture is Chris McCandless’ final self taken photo after venturing into the Alaskan wilderness. He’s the inspiration for the film Into the Wild. Soon after this photo was taken he was found dead in an abandoned camper, starved to death and a skeletal appearance and crazed grin on his face.

4. Heaven’s Gate Cult

March 26, 1997 brought the grizzly discovery that 39 members of the Heaven’s Gate cult had committed mass suicide, believing their souls would be transported to a spaceship trailing the Hale-Bopp comet. They were all wearing the same thing, including a specific model of Nike athletic shoes. Heaven’s Gate – a group led by a man who called himself ‘Do’ and believed he was a descendant of Jesus Christ, brought the bizarre, delusional world of UFO-related cults to the attention of the outside world. The founder of the cult, Marshall Applewhite, told his followers that the world was due to be ‘wiped clean’ by the alien founders and that they needed to leave the earth.

5. Blanche Monnier

Blanche Monnier, a French woman who was kept hostage for 24 years in a locked, covered room where she was forced to live in her own waste. She was rescued in 1901, after the police received a letter detailing how a lady was being held hostage in France. They went to the home and discovered an anorexic Blanche Monnier lying in a pool of excrement and trash on a couch in an upstairs room. The 55-pound, 49-year old Blanche was hiding under the sheets, terrified. She had not seen sunlight in 24 years.

6. Saylor Guilliams; Brenden Vega

Two 22-year old friends, Saylor Guilliams and Brenden Vega, went hiking together in March of this year in Santa Barbara County, California. The path they had chosen wasn’t very well-lit and the two had fallen and injured themselves repeatedly. When hours of cries for help proved unsuccessful, Vega left his friend to go and seek assistance. Along the way the young man stumbled off a rocky cliff and fell to his death. The next day another set of hikers were in the area taking photos of their adventure. Unbeknownst to them, Guilliams can be seen in the background of the pictures (she has red curly hair), laying face down in the mud, unable to move with a broken arm, two broken ankles and several other compound fractures.

7. Reynaldo Dasga

Philippine councillor Reynaldo Dagsa was celebrating New Year’s Eve with his family and gathering loved ones together for a photograph to commemorate the occasion. Little did he know his assassin would step into the frame of that picture a split second before squeezing the trigger that would end their life. The politician had helped get the shooter in the photo jailed for car theft. His accomplice can also be seen in the top right of the photo, just behind Dagsa’s wife, daughter and mother-in-law.

8. Tina Watson

The photo was taken by Gary Stemper, of his wife in the foreground. The other two divers pictured are Tina Watson and a rescue diver. Tina and her husband Gabe, an Alabama couple, had chosen Australia for their honeymoon site to do some diving at the Great Barrier Reef. But this was a dive from which Tina would never surface alive. The husband’s story is that strong currents pulled her under, and upon swimming to her after her distress signal Tina knocked his mask loose, and by the time he recovered she was sinking too quickly. He surfaced for help, and also later claimed that an ear issue prevented him from diving deeper to retrieve her and that he hadn’t been properly trained for a situation like that. Conflicting statements by Watson led to an investigation, and Queensland prosecutors suggested that he turned off his wife’s air regulator and bear-hugged her until she lost consciousness, then turned it back on and resurfaced.

9. The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project

The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, led by the charismatic leader Jim Jones, had an astonishing 918 people take their own lives. It’s the largest mass suicide in history and a terrible reminder of the power of the cult of personality. Prior to September 11th, 2001, the act was the single largest loss of American life from a deliberate act, and some witnesses have characterized the event as a mass murder more so than a suicide. The incident that gave birth to the phrase “drinking the kool-aid”, a large vat of the drink (actually Flavor-aid) was mixed up containing valium and cyanide and members begin to ingest it via syringe, squirting in the mouths of children.

10. The Candy Man Victim

Dean Coril, infamously known as The Candy Man due to his penchant for handing out sweets to neighborhood children, is one of the most prolific serial killers in America history. Along with his two accomplices David Brooks and Elmer Henley, Coril raped, tortured and murdered a minimum of 28 boys between the years of 1970 – 1973. Coril was shot dead by Henley who is currently serving a 600-year sentence in prison for his role in the murders. In 2012 a filmmaker was granted permission to review his personal belongings, which had been dumped in an old school bus. Among them he found a Polaroid of a handcuffed young boy, lying on the floor, Coril’s toolbox of torture implements in the foreground. The stomach-churning image is made even more chilling by the fact that no one knows who the child is, and it may mean there are more victims of The Candyman that the police were unaware of.

11. Regina Kay Walters

This is a picture of Regina Kay Walters taken when she was 14 years old. Taken by serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who was later discovered to be driving around the country in his 18 wheeler with a torture chamber in the back. He cut her hair and forced her to wear this black dress and black heels.

12. James Bulger

The toddler in the photo is James Bulger. He is being led away from his mother by one of the two 10-year-old boys who abducted and would later murder him. At the trial it was established that at this location, one of the boys threw blue Humbrol modelling paint, which they had shoplifted earlier, into Bulger’s left eye. They kicked and stomped on him, and threw bricks and stones at him. Batteries were placed in Bulger’s mouth. Police believed some batteries may have been also been inserted into his anus. Finally, a 22-pound iron bar, described in court as a railway fish plate, was dropped on him. Bulger suffered ten skull fractures as a result of the iron bar striking his head. Dr. Alan Williams, the case’s pathologist, stated that Bulger suffered so many injuries that none could be isolated as the fatal blow.

13. Tyler Hadley

At 1:30 on Saturday afternoon, 17-year-old high school drop-out, Tyler Hadley, posted a notice on his Facebook page, letting all his friends know that there would be a party at his house that night. He decided the festivities would be a whole lot less fun if his parents were around. So Tyler decided to take care of that small inconvenience. Later that afternoon, Hadley attacked his parents with a framing hammer, beating Blake and Mary Jo Hadley about the head and torso until they were dead. Then he dragged their bodies into a bedroom, used books, files and towels to cover their bodies, and locked the door. Between 40 and 60 people showed up for the party that night.

14. Starving Girl in Sudan

In March 1993, while on a trip to Sudan, photographer Kevin Carter was preparing to photograph a starving toddler trying to reach a feeding center when a hooded vulture landed nearby. Carter reported taking the picture, because it was his “job title”, and living. He was told not to touch the children for fear of transmitting disease.

He committed suicide three months after winning the Pulitzer Prize. Sold to the New York Times, the photograph first appeared on 26 March 1993 and was carried in many other newspapers around the world. Hundreds of people contacted the newspaper to ask the fate of the girl. The paper reported that it was unknown whether she had managed to reach the feeding centre. In April 1994, the photograph won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. (I want everyone to know this isn’t my work, but I am sharing it)

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1. Atheist here. Bright light. I knew there were people waiting for me where the light was coming from. Over there. Absolute ecstasy was the feeling. Then I remembered I had a new born baby and was instantly back.

2. I had been very depressed for a while and decided it was time to go. I downed a shit ton of pills and washed them down with a ton of rum. While “dead” I was in a completely dark area all alone. The peace I felt in this area was amazing. I found myself talking to a mysterious voice who told me he was God. We talked for what felt like an entire lifetime. He told me my heaven was this dark secluded area where I could finally be at peace. We also talked about nearly everything that had to do with anything. He ended with telling me that I couldn’t stay because I still had business to take care of. Before I awoke he told me I couldn’t tell anyone of what we spoke about. When I woke up my body felt healthier than I have ever felt and I had this peace about me that hasn’t gone away. I feel like I can remember what we spoke about I just can’t put it in words. I equate it to trying to describe a new color to someone. Anyways I haven’t been nearly as depressed since then and I completely took control of my life for the better.

3. When I was 8 years old, I was run over by a car. Ripped me off my feet, leg got caught in the wheel well, slammed my head into the concrete. Instant blackout. I remember walking (floating?) through this blue tunnel, like a cave that was bright enough to see in. The tunnel wasn’t smooth. It was natural, with overlapping layers. At the end, there was the white light that everyone talks about. Before I knew it, I was in it. A disembodied hand reached out to me, and though it was this warm, welcoming feeling, I knew I didn’t want to go. It wasn’t as if I was scared of what was waiting on the other side, I just felt it wasn’t time to go yet. I remember audibly saying that I wasn’t ready yet.

I woke up in the ambulance, with the EMT hovering over me. Coming back into reality was slow going, and his voice was a groaning mockery of my choice. “Everything’s going to be alright.” Combined with the darkness of the ambulance, I though my refusal to go with whoever offered me their hand led me to a fate far worse than just dying.

To be fair, I was a pretty crappy kid.

4. When I was dead, it was black. I didn’t hear, see, or smell anything. It might be because I was only dead for such a short time. When they restarted my heart, I felt a pull on the center of my chest and it was like I was literally ripped out of the dark.

5. I was about 5, in pain from a migraine. My mother tried to calm me down and then gave me a chewable painkiller of some sort. As soon as that thing touched my tounge I heaved as I had been crying pretty heavy just beforehand and it got caught in my throat.

I was clinically dead for over 6 mins as they tried to dislodge it and had it not been for my grandmother frantically running outside to wave down the ambulance they had called I wouldn’t be here today.

What I saw though, I will never forget. Small golden doors closed to me. Light behind them but no way in. Next to me, however, stood a man in a Black Top with a long tailed suit coat (also black). He has haunted me ever since.

6. Atheist here. I was hit pretty hard by a speeding car near my neighborhood. I had this amazing feeling of energy/ecstacy as this light became brighter. In a way, I felt good to go towards this light because as I got closer, I felt warmth, happiness. But I felt it was wrong to continue. I promptly wake up and I’m in the hospital with my mom crying over me. I don’t feel this has affected my religious views or anything. But I did learn that your body tries to make death the most comfortable it can for you.

7. Failed suicide attempt around age 13.

Once I passed the “point of no return,” all the pain and depression, fueled by anger and a desire to kill (myself), I was overcome by this calm. I saw myself as I floated over my body. Then I sort of “flipped over” and was going down this tunnel of light.

At the end was some kind of barrier like a film. I remember touching this film and I knew I had touched some kind of all-encompassing omnipotence. As i became aware of it, I sort of became it, and a part of it at the same time. I suddenly knew everything, and for a nerd like me, that was all I ever wanted. The concept of all-knowing is hard to recall, but I remembered two things:

The first is when you know everything, you lose the concept of what a question is. You don’t even ask questions; you just know the exact same moment because there is no preface to knowledge anymore. Knowledge is not something you seek, you are the knowledge.

Second, in this state, I knew I had to go back and keep living. I also knew that I would not understand when I woke up alive why I should keep living. But I knew and I carried back to my body the feeling that I had to keep living even if I did not understand why yet. Like I once understood, but what I understood would get lost in the translation. So all I could do was know, at one point, it made sense and I agreed to it. If that makes any sense.

Waking up, I felt so small, like my mind could not fit in this teeny tiny mortal coil. And I was so distraught at being alive, I wailed and mourned that I was forced to endure my utter contempt at self and environmental misery.

My life got better, but sometimes I feel like death is this place in space and time where the ultimate safety and comfort dwells. And I do not fear death because it’s going to be okay. Like, more okay than any okay we know as blobs of walking meat.

8. Its a very odd feeling and somewhat hard to explain. First right after the incident that caused me to be resuscitated(car accident). The whole accident was in slow motion. I remember getting onto the on ramp hitting a huge pot hole and the van I was driving start to spin sideways and hitting the curb that caused my van to flip. The last thing I remember was being upside down in the air before the van finally hit the ground. It literally went from me thinking I’m going to die to nothing. Everything just went black. I had no feelings or thoughts. It was nothingness. Nothingness tends to scare people but you don’t even know that you existed. Its not painful or scary you just simply cease to exist. The one interesting thing about it is it all happens so fast that you have no real idea whats going on. While I was being resuscitated is when things get kind of weird. It went from nothingness not even knowing you existed to me seeing my girlfriend. It was still black but I could see her and then I started hearing her say wake up over and over again until i eventually came too.

9. Not me personally, but my brother-in-law (Catholic) had a severe heart attack and had to be brought back three times on the operating table. Afterwards, during his recovery period, he went through quite a deep depression because he had seen absolutely nothing during those three times.

10. I almost died this past 4th of July. I was ejected from my motorcycle headfirst. My lung collapsed And my collar bone punctured the top half of my lung. I was left for dead on the side of the road. During this time, I had a near death experience. It felt as though I was sinking into a deep dark pool of water. Everything around me was black and the world we live in kept getting smaller and smaller. It was like I was sinking slowly into a world of unknown. Sound began to act as though it was farther and farther away. In a strange way, I felt in peace. My pain was gone and the weight of the world passed me by. I recall having memories of my friends and family. Then next thing you know, I shot back to life. It must have lasted a few minutes, but to me it felt like a few hours. Death is an eventual reality for us all. This experience taught me to cherish today.

11. There’s no excitement or struggle or really any awareness of what’s going on. You just kinda fade and slip away. Everything’s kinda insubstantial, like it’s there but not. You sort of know something’s not quite right, but somehow that’s not important.

You know that feeling you get when you dream yourself awake, and you get up, brush your teeth, make breakfast, and then you wake up for real and find yourself still in bed, disoriented?

Coming back is kinda like that. You know things were different just moments before, and it’s really hard to put a finger on it, but everything’s kinda there… but at the same time, you’re not quite sure that you’re back in the real world, either.

12. About two years ago I was clinically dead for about eight minutes the doctor told me due to a heroin overdose. It was a pleasant feeling however it may have just been because I was insanely high (obviously) but it was scary at the same time. I felt like I no longer had any care in the entire world and I could finally be at peace. My heart was beating fast, my entire body was sweaty, and everything felt like it was going in slow motion. I remember right before I fell out in the ambulance one of the ems guys yelled, “We’re losing him.” I let out my last breath that I can remember then calmly went to rest. When I woke up in the hospital a few hours later everything was spinning. I was very confused and disoriented and couldn’t see straight until the next day. All in all it wasn’t terribly bad but I still wouldn’t wish that feeling on anyone else. Also, needless to say I don’t do heroin in anymore.

13. To me it felt a bit like slipping into a dream. Everything in the dream feels and looks bright and colorful, and feels like it lasts hours, but when I came back, I had only been gone for less than 3 minutes. The subject of the dream, or anything about it I didn’t remember. I knew none of it made sense, but it felt peaceful, almost uplifting. When I came to, it sounded like I was in a large crowd for a few seconds, but woke to a nearly silent room. Then my vision came back. It was slow, almost like what an old CRT TV looks like when it turns on. dim at first, very fuzzy, then everything got brighter and more defined. That’s when I noticed my whole body had been numb from the neck down and slowly started gaining feeling in my hands and feet and slowly started radiating towards the center of my body. I was very disoriented. It was very hard to remember what I was doing before I went out, or even who the people around me were, or even where I was. After about 5 minutes,everything had come back to normal, except for the pounding headache.

14. My little brother has type 1 diabetes, and when he was about 10, he went into hypoglycemic shock overnight. I remember waking up to 6 paramedics running up the stairs in my house, and hearing “he stopped seizing. There’s no pulse.” They loaded him up in the ambulance and told my parents at the hospital, that it was a miracle that they were able to resuscitate him on the way. So when I went to go visit him, I asked him how it felt, to which he had replied “Everything was getting louder, and louder, until suddenly, it started fading away and I was just floating on one of those tubes at sportsworld (local waterpark) with no one around. And it was nice. Can we go there once I get out of here?”

15. You feel like you’re going to the deepest sleep (in fact you are) and when waking you’re confused as hell and don’t really understand what happened, just that everyone is SO CONCERNED for you. Extremely unnerving and scary in a detached way. I kept asking what time it was and slipping back ‘down’. No memories of the other side, just that feeling of being so unbelievably tired and that if I just slept everything would be OK.

16. It feels like falling asleep. You start to feel darkness but it isn’t scary and you’re not completely conscious of what’s going on and then all at once you’re gone and you didn’t even realize you slipped away. Ifyou wake up from it though, everything’s hazy and confusing.

17. All I felt prior was the feeling of falling. Just infinitely falling even though I was already on the ground. Then the next thing I know I just felt like I woke up. EMTs were crowded around me and my mom was there and a good friend of mine. When they brought me back all I felt was as if I had been asleep. Not very good sleep, like a shitty 10 minute nap on a pile of rock in July while you’re throwing up everywhere kind of nap.

(found on Reddit)

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This Guy Is Happily Married…To Five Different Women

A true Inventor, 15-Yr-Old Kelvin Doe Wows M.I.T. and becomes the youngest person in history to be invited to the “Visiting Practitioner’s Program at MIT.

Crazy irate neighbors argues like children

Package thief gets a taste of his own medicine

Trailer for the new X-Files series!

Deaf People Reactions When They Hear For The First Time

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If you like hot girls rocking yoga pants, look no further – Leenks

This 104-Year-Old Yarn-Bomber is the “World’s Oldest Street Artist” – Ned Hardy

Top 15 Most Unfaithful NFL Players – Todays Info

Amber Rose Wants You To Look At Her Butt – Crowd Ignite

8 People Who Lied About Tragic Events – Linkiest

Top 10 Hottest Victoria Secret Angels – Joblo

Cute girls represting their sports teams – Bro My God

Ariel Winter wearing a cleavage revealing top – Celeb Jihad (nsfw)

Kaitlynn Carter’s Bikini Photos in Miami – G-Celeb

Paul Walker’s Teen Daughter Is Suing Porsche – Newser

The Wrestler in Real Life – Ric Flair’s long, steady decline – Grantland

Izabel Goulart looks damn good in a bikini – Drunken Stepfather

Tesla’s Model X, its first all-new car in three years, launches today – The Verge

Vanessa (Minnillo) Lachey Has Been Killing the Sexy Game For Over a Decade (31 Photos) – Radass

10 Perfect Girls With Nice Sexy Butts Gifs – Classy Bro

Check out these celebrities with hideous spouses – Buzzfudge

Great Films That Get Away with Not Explaining Things – Ranker

George Zimmerman Retweets Trayvon Martin’s Dead Body, Confirms Psychopath Status – The Blemish

Jim Carrey’s ex just killed herself after breakup – Celeb Slam

Anthony Bourdain’s Food Market Takes Shape – NY Times

34 Hot Girls With Guns – Regretful Morning

Put on your booty shorts and lets go for a workout (32 Photos) – Bad Sentinel

Here’s How 13 Famous Porn Stars Looked In Their High School Yearbooks – Playboy

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What is Autism?

Autism is usually used to describe a difficulty in understanding social situations. People who have autism may have difficulty understanding what is appropriate in conversation, interpersonal relations, or interacting with large groups of people by displaying “strange” behaviors. These can include talking for great lengths of time about certain subjects past the group’s interest, or being unable to pick up on social cues (being uninterested in a certain topic of conversation, subtle clues towards guiding the direction of a conversation, etc.).

Autistic people process information on people with the ‘objects’ part of the brain, instead of the ‘social’ part. Thus, social norms and effects of ones behaviour on others are not considered, relevant or even understood.

Ever been somewhere completely foreign? The people talk strange, dress strange and act strange. Toilets flush the wrong direction, cars on the wrong side of the road. People on the street will stand too close to you or get angry if you point with one finger. All kinds of shit that leaves you with a vaguely uncomfortable feeling. You can communicate with people, although misinterpretations are common, and you can interact enough to get by, but you can never really get your point across when needed, and you just plain don’t have a grap of their social norms. Pretend this never gets better. That’s kind of how we think an autistic feels.

It depends, of course, on where one lands on the aforementioned “autistic spectrum”, but holds true to some extent with all autistics. It’s hard to get your point across or to get someone else’s point, others emotions or reactions to events make no sense, and are unpredictable to an autistic. It is honestly surprising to a person with autism that the neighbor would get mad at you for smashing his car windows with a hammer. You’d be confused if he liked his windows, or just hates that hammer. A lot of folks with autism cling to things like math for comfort. They like patterns, predictable things that always have a familiar outcome.

Check out The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time . Amazing story told from the point of view of an autistic child.

What is dialysis and how does it work?

Kidneys are what make urine; when kidneys fail, all or some of the things that would be removed from the body by peeing, can’t be removed naturally and will build up inside the body making people feel sick. The main thing dialysis does is remove most of the same stuff health kidneys get rid of by peeing. In simplest terms, they usually join a vein to an artery (in the wrist if I’m not mistaken) and hook up to your blood from there. The blood pumps into a machine that acts as a fake kidney (because the patient on dialysis kidneys don’t work as they should). The fake kidney filters out the waste and extra stuff in the blood that one’s kidneys normally do on their own. After that it pumps the blood back into the body. This happens continuously and is about a three to four process and patients need to go three times a week.

– fdubs312 

Why were native American populations decimated by exposure to European diseases, but European explorers didn’t catch major diseases from the natives? 

A big factor is that Europeans had spent centuries living in very close contact (often same house) as domesticated animals like pigs, cows, sheep etc.

Most epidemic-type viruses come from some animal vector. Living in close contact with these animals meant europeans evolved immunity to these dieases, which gradually built up as those anumals became a bigger part of european life.

But indigenous Americans had much less close interaction with domestic animals (some Indigenous American cultures did have domesticated dogs, hamsters guinea pigs, etc, (for food) but it was nowhere near as common apart of American life and culture as european), so they got exposed to all these domestic animal viruses (toughened up by gradual contact with europeans) all at once.

– nil_clinton

Are there any arguably “good” dictators currently ruling in the world? 

He’s not a good man but the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, is doing a lot of good for his country.

He’s dictator in practice, having been ruler since 1989, and elections under him are a joke. However, he has led the country through some difficult times and they’re beginning to do quite well for themselves. He’s been reasonably pro-Western yet also pro-Russian, walking a fine line trying to please both. He’s encouraging foreign development of their Caspian Sea gas and oil. He plans to have the country trilingual by 2050: Kazakh, Russian, and English. He’s opening up the country to tourists and trying to make it a new popular destination for travellers, with the reform that involves. He’s also trying to implement anti-corruption measures, which the gods know are needed.

He is anti-nuclear weapons: they had the 4th largest nuclear stockpile in the world when the Soviet Union disbanded and now they have no nuclear weapons at all, having worked with the US to dismantle their arsenal.

Having been there myself, Kazakhstan is a lot more developed and wealthy than neighbouring states like Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. They also are very proud of their religious tolerance and multicultural society, having large Muslim and Christian populations living mainly in harmony.

He’s done some bad shit too, no doubt about it, and the country’s bureaucracy drastically needs an overall. Fortunately, there’s plans for this too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan_2050_Strategy

Whether the anti-corruption reform works remains to be seen, but in general things are definitely looking up for Kazakhstan.

– Minky_Dave_the_Giant 

Why do fans have to give the football back if it goes into the stands at an NFL game, but at baseball and hockey games you can keep the ball/puck?

Generally because baseballs only last a few pitches anyway, once it hits the dirt it gets replaced and they’re all made the exact same so they’re extremely expendable.

As for footballs, as you may have seen with deflategate, only a certain number of balls are used in a given game and they need to be pumped up to a specific pressure so it’s important that only approved footballs are used at all times.

– yanksin1st 

How can supermarkets offer thousands of different items without there being massive waste due to unsold products?

There is massive waste.

It’s built into the margin of all the products in the store. Usually in the higher selling products. You should be able to notice that grocery stores that have a large diversity of products are often times more expensive. Also major grocery stores are able to negotiate their purchase price down from vendors so they can keep consumer prices stable while taking a bigger margin themselves. This is “selling shelf space.”

That being said grocery stores are run on razor thin margins. Part of the reason Costco can keep its prices low is because they have less diversity and the diversity they do have is mostly in non perishables.

– TheRedTornado 

How come the vast majority of the world’s top universities are American? What historical circumstances gave US universities an edge over other ones? Also, how does the US manage to have amazing universities, yet have such a poor primary education system? 

Top universities have huge endowments. US has the most money, so we have a lot of rich people who donate to their former university.

How can the smell of cigarette smoke stay in walls, curtains, clothes, etc. for long periods of time, but smells like perfumes, casseroles, other foods, etc. do not linger for more than a couple of days usually? 

It has to do with where the smell is coming from. Cigarette smoke is smoke. It’s combustion particles, actual tiny bits of ash, semi burned tobacco, plant matter, etc, and because it’s particulates it is like dust that settles over a room, getting in the fibers of curtains, between pages of books. On top of that a lot of it is tar and other substances which are aeresolized by the smoker, but which become a sticky substance when it cools on a surface, yellowing walls and allowing even more dust, ash, and smoke to stick to it.

Contrast this with parfume literally translated it means through smoke coincidentally as in incense. Parfume isn’t made of particles of ash and soot, it’s made of volatile oils and extracts like rose oil, bergamot oil, which smell great and have a strong odor, but they don’t last very long precisely because they smell so good (strong). The more volatile the compound, the quicker it breaks down (and is released into the air) and the more scent is released in a short period of time. In perfuming this is called the head note and it’s what you smell when you first spray a fragrance. The smells are intense but fade quickly.

Then you have heavier oils like patchouli, oak moss, etc which are more stable (less volatile), last longer, but because they are stable, they smell less intense. These are the heart notes, and what you smell an hour after putting on the parfume.

Lastly you have the really thick, resinous components, the real gunky stuff that lasts forever but is much more subtle in scent because it doesn’t break down easily. These are your ambergris, amber, tonka bean, etc. These are called the base notes.

So because parfume gets it’s scent from oils, esthers, volatile organic compounds, aldehydes, alcohols, etc, these things all have short life spans and strong smells in common. Eventually the oils break down into simpler and simpler components until there is little to no smell left.

– kodack10

What happened to the documentary stations (History, Discovery, TLC, Nat Geo) that caused them to focus on reality TV in lieu of documentaries?

Many cable channels are created to fulfill a specific programming niche, and their name is Exactly What It Says ]— the Golf Channel shows golf, the Game Show Network shows Game Shows, and so on.

Some channels, however, are not as wedded to their original concept as others. Meddling executives look at the demographics to whom their channel appeals and decide that, hey, since the people watching their Speculative Fiction channel are mostly 18-31 males, and Professional Wrestling is hot among that demographic, surely no one would mind if they started showing pro-wrestling!

The fans of the original programming will mind, of course, but the channel tends to keep going regardless. This may show up with only a couple of odd programs in the schedule, but far too often, given enough time, a channel will have pretty much abandoned its original concept. Whether or not the former invariably leads to the latter is a subject for debate.

Since the network is strongly impacted by the ratings, and the highest ratings go to generally the same few demographics, this tends to lead to networks becoming more and more like each other, either in similar programming or outright airing the same shows.

Some changes can be chalked up to the changing landscape of TV. As the number of channels goes up, networks re-align themselves to try and hold some of their market. That, or the parent companies who might own seven or more cable channels each shuffle stuff for "synergy" or to reduce redundancy. Competition with new media is prevalent as well — classic reruns give way to DVD box sets (and the real killer, Netflix and similar streaming services), music-video channels give way to YouTube and iPods, and info-dumping all-text channels give way to the data display in a digital cable box, smartphone apps (once again, the real killer) or some new-fangled webernet site. Other times, it’s just shifting to whatever the network feels will attract the biggest audience — and the audience that lets them charge the most for ads (especially the lucrative young adult demographic, needless to say).

Depending on the network and how the decay is carried out, changing concepts can be either good or bad for the channel. If the Network Decay works out, it may expose the channel to thousands, if not millions of new viewers, who would normally never watch the network in the first place. Or perhaps the earlier direction just was not working out and the network made changes in order to get better and more profitable programming. Furthermore, there are several good shows floating around in Development Hell that wouldn’t stand a chance of getting picked up unless a network decides to spread its wings. If the decay doesn’t work out, however, then it can create a Broken Base among the channel’s viewers, and can throw the network into a Dork Age. Even if the decay works, the expanded viewership would come for naught for the various programs now squeezed out of the network’s scheduling – once again, pointing out that good and bad can come of it, depending on the viewer.

– TV Tropes

How did humans become so smart and why are we the only ones?

There are different theories about this. This means we don’t know for sure. But one interesting thing ist that we aren’tthat much more intelligent than other species. Imagine humans without knowledge and tools in a savanna. Would they instantly start chatting and writing books? Probably not. A large part of what we call “intelligence” is actually accumulated knowledge.

In the end, it boils down to intelligence being an evolutionary favorable trait. Those who were more intelligent had higer chances of survival. Also, people compete(d) for resources (especially reproductive privilege) inside of their tribes, which means that the evolution of intelligence has happend in large parts due to inter-human competition. Other animals didn’t compete with humans in that way. This may be one cause for other animals “staying behind

– triple_vision 

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10. Stephen Hawking – IQ 160

Even after being diagnosed by Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) that caused his paralysis, Hawking still worked for the better understanding of the universe to show the people how much the universe is unique. Hawking is best known for his groundbreaking research in theoretical physics. He helped us to understand the universe. It is Stephen who established the Big Bang Theory. He is renowned as a physicist as well as a Director in the cosmologist department and a cosmologist author.

9. Albert Einstein – IQ 160-190

Interestingly enough, Albert Einstein never took an IQ test, which is why the 160-190 is mostly presumed by experts and scholars across the world. Known for his essential work in the field of theoretical physics, professor Einstein is viewed as not only one of the most influential physicists in history, but also as one of the smartest people who have ever lived. Famous for developing the theory of relativity, the word ‘Einstein’ has rightfully become synonymous with the word genius over the years.

8. Judit Polgar – IQ 170

According to many people, Judit Polgar is considered to be the best chess player among women. She also won the competition of the youngest Grandmaster at a phenomenal age of 15. She is best known for beating Bobby Fischer at the age of 15. Fischer was considered the best player of chess in history before Judit. She also gave a beating to Garry Kasparov who was considered the number 1 player of chess.

7. Leonardo da Vinci – IQ 180-190

In a similar fashion to Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci’s IQ is based mostly on speculation, judging by how technologically advanced and how much before their time his inventions were. Experts believe that Da Vinci’s IQ was within the 180-190 range, making him one of the smartest people in history. Leonardo da Vinci is also one of the first polymaths, an expert in various fields like sculpting, painting, geology, cartography, mathematics, and engineering.

6. Garry Kasparov – IQ 194

Garry Kasparov is without a doubt, the greatest chess player of all times. Between his professional debut in 1986 and the end of his career in 2005, Kasparov was ranked #1 for 225 out of a total of 228 months, the greatest form ever recorded for a chess grandmaster. Kasparov has been viewed as quite a prodigy over the years, having his fair share of international acclaim not only for his competitive form, but also for playing competitive matches and winning against advanced chess machines like IBM’s Deep Blue computer.

5: Christopher Michael Langan – 195

Christopher is described as one of the smartest man in America. Langan started talking at an age of just six months and taught himself how to read at a phenomenal age of three. He also scored a perfect SAT score. He dropped from Montana University saying that he was smarter than his teachers. The man is certainly a figure of confidence. Langan developed the CTMU also known as the “Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe”. Christopher stands at 5th spot with a high IQ level of 195.

4. Kim Ung-Yong – IQ 210

Born in 1963, Kim Ung-Yong started speaking around the time he was just 6 months old. By his 3rd birthday, Kim Ung-Yong could already read English, Korean, Japanese, and German. Later on, he would move to the United States to further his studies, subsequently getting a job at NASA where he worked for almost 10 years. At some point, however, Kim Ung-Yong decided to abandon his NASA career and return to his home country of South Korea to become a teacher.

3. Christopher Hirata – IQ 225

At the age of 13, Christopher Hirata became the youngest American to win a gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad in 1996. One year later, at the tender age of 14, Hirata enrolled in the California Institute of Technology. At the age of 22, Christopher Hirata obtained his PhD from Princeton, before returning to California. He remained in California to this day, teaching astrophysics at the California Institute of Technology.

2. Terence Tao – IQ 225-230

Australian mathematician Terence Tao was quite a well-known child prodigy in his younger years and rightfully so. The brilliant Terence Tao specializes in harmonic analysis, additive combinators, and a wide array of similar mathematics fields. The son of immigrants from Hong-Kong, Terence Tao received the Fields Medal in 2006 for excellence and innovation in mathematics. He currently works as a professor at the University of California in Los Angeles.

1. William James Sidis – IQ 250 – 300

The brilliant William James Sidis enrolled into the prestigious Harvard University when he was just 11 years old, to study mathematics. At the time of his enrollment, he was the younger student to ever enter Harvard. He was still a young man when he started teaching, but because the small age-gap, he had serious issues reaching his students who didn’t always took kindly to him. He would later participate in socialist movements, getting in quite a bit of trouble with the law as a result. Because of his attitude, his parents would later confine him to a sanatorium in an attempt to reform his political views. After his release in 1921, William strayed away from academia and lived a rather normal life until his death at the age of 46 following a brain hemorrhage.

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Country: China

Contents: A fish, scrambled egg with tomato sauce, rice, spinach, cauliflower, and soup

Country: Buchach, Ukraine

Contents: Soup, macaroni, pickle, bread, sliced hot dog

Country: USA

Contents: Cheeseburger, french fries, salad, milk, apple, peaches

Country: France

Contents: Baguette, salad, couscous, mixed veggies in sauce, meat.

Country: South Korea

Contents: Mixed grains and rice, stinky bean stew, mixed and fried chicken and vegetables, simmered seaweed a.k.a. steamed green beans, and cabbage kimchi.

Country: Czech Republic (Prague) 

Contents: Soup, rice, chicken, dessert (is that egg on top?), juice and hot tea. 

Country: Singapore

Contents: Fried anchovies, omelette, cabbage stir-fry with tomato and beansprouts, and chicken chop.

Country: UK

Contents: Potato, peas, some sort of pudding, and your guess is as good as mine on the last item.

Country: Japan

Contents: Tofu hamburger with pasta, fishcake, fried potato with ketchup, some kind of potato salad, wiener, and mikan (tangerine).

Country: Honduras

Contents: Rice porridge

Country: Slovakia

Contents: Smoked mackerel, bread, red pepper and tomato salad, kiwi, apple, and a milk cake.

Country: Malaysia

Contents: Noodle, prawn, fish-cake, eggs, a packet of vegatable and fruit juice, and an apple.

Country: Taiwan

Contents: On the left: sweet and sour pork with pineapple, radish, carrots and green pepper, middle: vegetable stir fry with garlic, on the right: fish ball stew with cabbage, carrots and wood ear mushroom, and soup: seaweed and egg drop.

Country: Sweden

Contents: Chicken salad, cottage cheese on knäckebröd, shredded carrot, sauce.

Country: Philippines

Contents: Lechón kawali, liver sauce, rice

Country: Tanzania

Contents: Ugali, chicken, greens, dipping sauce, watermelon salad.

Country: Haiti

Contents: Brown rice and beans.

Country: Brazil

Contents: Rice, Beans, Bread, Meat with vegetables, banana and alface, acelga salad

Country: India

Contents: Rice, sauce, lady’s finger curry with some Masala.

Country: Malawi

Contents: Beans, assorted vegetables, cabbage

Country: Sweden

Contents: Potatoes, cabbage, beans, cracker, Lingon Berry juice

Country: Thailand

Contents: It is white rice, chicken, green beans and a fried egg.

Country: USA

Contents: Beef and Cheese Enchiladas, Spanish Rice, beans a la charra, strawberries, skim milk! 

Country: Buchach, Ukraine (primary and secondary school)

Contents: Soup with potatoes, buckwheat, cutleta (sausage patty), and a pickle.

Country: Japan

Contents: Rice w/konbu (a sweet seaweed), nikkujagga (beef with veggies), omelette, sausage, potato puff, and apple.

Country: South Korea

Contents: Kimchi, pork, bean paste sauce (sammjang), steamed cabbage, soup

Country: Japan

Contents:Udon, cheese-stuffed chikuwa (fish sausage), frozen Mandarin orange, and milk.

What’s For School Lunch?

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Katy Perry gets felt up by ROLLING fan she brought on stage.

Michael Jackson Dubbed By David Firth (Salad Fingers) (NSFW)

Adult Swim’s Show “Off the Air” Brings Nine Animators Together to Craft a Beautiful Music Video

Everything Wrong with Trendy Restaurants

Holy cow, dude passed a 9G centrifuge test!

Col John Stapp experiences 49G’s while decelerating from 630mph – 0mph in a few seconds.

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Love Me Some Hot Girls With Tattoos! – Bro My God

Guilty Dog Desperately Asking His Human For Forgiveness Is The Sweetest Thing On The Internet – Ned Hardy

25 Celebrity Plastic Surgeries Gone Horribly Wrong – JellyShare

Side bewbs are a thing of beauty – Leenks

Adam Levine’s Wife Gets Frisky On the Beach – Crowd Ignite

Drug Lord: The Legend Of Short…Awesome Documentary! – Frontline

The Top 10 Hottest Babes Over 40 – Joblo

Demi Lovato took some damn hot photos for complex – Celeb Jihad (nsfw)

19 People Who Absolutely Nailed Flirting by Text – Linkiest

Ashley Benson is fun on Snapchat – Drunken Stepfather

A Few Fascinating Facts About In-N-Out Burger – Bro My God

Can You Pass This 8th Grade Test From 1912??? – Leenks

The Average American Worker Earns Less Today Than 40 Years Ago – Fast Coexist

Danielle Knudson Doing Some Swimwear Photoshoots – G-Celeb

India Mob Brutally Kills Man Over Rumor He Ate Beef – Newser

49 Last Known Photos of Famous People – Ranker

Nice collection of rumps to celebrate Hump Day! – Radass

You Will Not Believe How Much Money These Celebrities Insured Their Fake Boobs For – JellyShare

Lindsay Pelas Is Over J.J. Watt Because He (For Some Reason) Didn’t Slide In Her DMs – Playboy

Premium pet food is really expensive—and not actually better for your pet – Quartz

The Rock’s Superhero Powers Couldn’t Save His Tiny Puppy – The Blemish

High-End Dumpster Diving on the Upper West Side – VICE

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It all started when in November 2006 when Kees Veldboer, an ambulance driver, was moving a terminally ill patient, Mario Stefanutto, from one hospital to another. The retired seaman desperately wanted to be by the water once more. To his surprise, Veldboer obliged.

“Tears of joy ran over his face,” Veldboer told the BBC. “When I asked him: ‘Would you like to have the opportunity to sail again?’ he said it would be impossible because he lay on a stretcher.”

And so Stichting Ambulance Wens — or Ambulance Wish Foundation — was born: a charity that grants terminally ill patients their final wishes.The charity has grown to 230 volunteers, six ambulances, and a holiday home, and has made an incredible 7,000 wishes a reality.

It helps four people a day on average — the only stipulation is that they are terminally ill and can’t be transported other than on a stretcher.

To find out more and donate to this fantastic cause, visit the Stichting Ambulance website and Facebook page.

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Cannabis For Kids: From 700 Seizures A Day To A New Lease Of Life

SKATE: Eric Koston Vs Luan Oliveira

8 mile in real life. Eminem destroying MCs before he was famous.

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A Butcher Takes Apart a Whole Pig In Minutes

Dog enjoying himself some corn

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This girl has got that Gym Selfie down! – Leenks

Man Halts Daughter’s Wedding To Invite Her Stepdad To Join Procession – Ned Hardy

If you love thigh gaps, here is a gallery of some of the nicest spaces you’ll ever see – Hidden Playbook

Halloween Costumes 2015: Top 60 Most Offensive Costumes – Linkiest

Hot Girls In Tight Dress Will Make Your Day – Bro My God

21 Celebrities’ Moms Who Look Almost As Young As Their Daughters – Scribol

Carmella Rose should definitely be on your radar – G-Celeb

Katy Perry bends over and gives the audience a view – Celeb Jihad (nsfw)

63 Celebrities Recall Their First Concert Memories – Vulture

Kemp Muhl is my dream girl – Drunken Stepfather

Woman Causes Car Accident, Immediately Denies Any Fault (video) – Leenks

Why do prescription drugs costmore in the US? – Hopes And Fears

The Biggest Military Wastes of Money – Ranker

This Private Jet Is More Luxurious Than Most Apartments (9 Photos) – Radass

10 Dead in Shooting at Oregon College – Newser

Pamela Anderson Describes Playboy Mansion Sex Parties as ‘Amazing’ – The Blemish

Google’s Cute Cars And The Ugly End Of Driving – Buzzfeed

10 Hottest Photos of Jamilya Damon – Classy Bro

Los Angeles ‘party house’ has wild all-night raves with bikini-clad women – Daily Mail

Why hello there, Kendall Jenner – Celeb Slam

Stay away from these 5 cars! Here are our picks for the least reliable cars on the road today – Motor Guides

The 32 Hottest Celebs To Appear In Playboy – Regretful Morning

Let’s Just Rob a Bank & Post the Pics on Facebook – The Rackup

Baseball Announcers Are Rude As Hell To Sorority Girls Taking Selfies – Digg

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