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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-03-30/a ... iz/6365780
Hadn't read any of these, and only got one wrong (the pet lounge one)

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For skip.

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Power-posing like a Superhero Transforms You into One

Harvard scientists conducted a study where they divided subjects into two groups. The first group was told to power pose before a mock job interview, while the second group was instructed to assume low power positions before their interview. The interviewers chose to employ the power posing group just about every time. Seems we feel, think, act like and become winners when we adapt the body language of a winner…and the most interesting part is that the effect is not just a mind-trick, there is chemical evidence of the change.

Getting your arms up like you just won the lottery, placing your hands on your hips like Superman or impersonating Captain Morgan for just two minutes will positively charge your neuro-endrocrine levels. After the job interviews, scientists tested the saliva of the power posers and affirmed that just 120 seconds of powerful posture increases testosterone (dominance hormone) about 20%, while dropping Cortisol (stress hormone) about 25%. The low power posing group had the opposite effect (elevated cortisol and reduced testosterone). Amazing. This study goes a long way to confirming that there is a multi-directional interplay between our body, mind and behavior. Posing like a superhero primes you for superherosim. No wonder superheroes are always standing, well, like superheroes!

Humans are weird.

*strikes an heroic pose*

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Spot the drug-fucked hippies, and the guy with zero tolerance



Another drug induced revelation

But yeah, ice cubes are pretty bad-arsed. Solids floating on a liquid of the same stuff... outrageously useful for keeping our drinks cool, because they float there, in the hottest part of the glass

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When cooled from room temperature liquid water becomes increasingly dense, as with other substances, but at approximately 4 °C (39 °F), pure water reaches its maximum density. As it is cooled further, it expands to become less dense. This unusual negative thermal expansion is attributed to strong, orientation-dependent, intermolecular interactions and is also observed in molten silica.

The solid form of most substances is denser than the liquid phase; thus, a block of most solids will sink in the liquid. However, a block of ice floats in liquid water because ice is less dense.

The laws of nature, so strange and seemingly arbitrary (ie. badass)

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Spot the drug-fucked hippies, and the guy with zero tolerance

Too easy
Former = you
Later = me

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[Outlaw Yogi]

23 years ago next month I bought my block, or 20 years ago this month I owned my block outright.
Came and went many times for various durations, usually only a few days and never more that 2 months at a time.
5 years ago in Febuary I moved to my block permanently, but had my mail going to a neighbor's letter box lest the council hunt me off my land for not having a house on it.

Since Beattie's forced council amalgamations the rates have gone up considerably, but they fix the road and leave us alone.

So several weeks back I applied for a rural number (same as street number) rather than using the lot number. Waited a couple of weeks and then went back to council asking
"Any time soon?" ... as someone I owe a favour had sold their property and needed an address to register a vehicle to.

One Thursday arvo I noticed the post with the number on it.
Next day, Friday, I made a letter box from the butt of a log (like tree stump) forestries leave lying around and a plastic 25 litre container.
The following day, Saturday, in rolls Joe's witness.

Can't believe it. For ages no one could find me. Would drive straight past my place and say "We couldn't find it".
Slash the driveway and put up a letter box and the whole world takes it as a
personal invite.

[Neferti]

23 years ago next month I bought my block, or 20 years ago this month I owned my block outright.
Came and went many times for various durations, usually only a few days and never more that 2 months at a time.
5 years ago in Febuary I moved to my block permanently, but had my mail going to a neighbor's letter box lest the council hunt me off my land for not having a house on it.

Since Beattie's forced council amalgamations the rates have gone up considerably, but they fix the road and leave us alone.

So several weeks back I applied for a rural number (same as street number) rather than using the lot number. Waited a couple of weeks and then went back to council asking
"Any time soon?" ... as someone I owe a favour had sold their property and needed an address to register a vehicle to.

One Thursday arvo I noticed the post with the number on it.
Next day, Friday, I made a letter box from the butt of a log (like tree stump) forestries leave lying around and a plastic 25 litre container.
The following day, Saturday, in rolls Joe's witness.

Can't believe it. For ages no one could find me. Would drive straight past my place and say "We couldn't find it".
Slash the driveway and put up a letter box and the whole world takes it as a
personal invite.

You used your real name, right? Should have stuck with Outlaw Yogi.