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The main worry of most athletes and trainers, whether they perform resistance training or aerobics, is how fast they can progress. A question that should be addressed with a lot more attention is: If I stop training, how much of what I gained am I going to lose? The numbers are quite striking and much likely to make you think twice before you keep off the track or ...

What happenned in 1947 in Roswell is probably so far the biggest lye organised by the US government. Find out why in this really enjoyable lecture in 3 parts made by Prof. Muller from the University of Berkeley. It raises interesting political questions. In the case of Roswell, it was easy for the US citizens (especially 50 years later) to forgive their government for this lye, based ...

While browsing a commercial website today, I came across a skype-looking logo on the side saying "I'm offline". A few keywords in a popular search engine ( I am tryin to not say its name for a whole week) yield what I had been looking for : A way to include your skype status on a blog ! My brains are fusing with ideas of cool stuff we can do with ...

Having been awarded no less than 9 Clumsiness Gold Medals at the Beijing Olympic Games 2008, I stand proudly and admit freely that my cloth do not last long without experiencing stains of all sorts. Feeling tired of web-searching and re-re-reading the same cleaning solutions over and over again, I have compiled here the not-so-magic granny old recipes to get rid of them quickly and at no cost. Special products ...

Unbelievable but true, this is indeed a post about...yep: Toilets :) The city of Paris faces a huge lack in the number of those public facilities. Anyone who has been to Paris knows that and it's one of the very few reasons why I hate Paris at times. Not only there is not enough but they are often barely clean, they charge, and they are closed at night. So ...

Although buying and reading books may not be listed in the favourite hobbies in Singapore (although shopping for books could be), you may need, at some point of time, to purchase a book. Forget about Amazon, there is no Amazon Singapore, besides so far I found no Amazon website that accepts to do international shipping to Singapore. If you're a student, or know people from a university, you may want ...

There is 3 mobile phone networks in Singapore, by order of popularity : Singtel Starhub M1 They are said to be equivalent, I haven't really been through a serious study of their prices, I was at Starhub and paid on average 36 S$ per month for ton of sms and quite a lot of phone calls. Networks here haven't yet started selling bulk sms and minutes to subcontractors unlike they did in France ...

It's simple, you have GOT to read this if you are: a student, that may soon need to look for an internship. soon to seek a job and want to assess quantitatively how much interest your recruiters show for your application. a blogger and want the most detailed information about visits. You can try here a public sample of the StatCounter.com interface. I used this magic stuff when I was looking ...

For those whom can afford free time (barely my case, at least I like to believe so). It is about how to make your free time less boring, and productive in a fun and enjoyable way. Quite insightful: Are you happier at your job, or during your free time? Unless you’ve followed the research of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi you would probably be surprised at the actual answer. He conducted studies ...

Does it happen to you to be in some crown let's say in a metro station, and people as usual walk in random directions, it is stressful and just makes everybody walk slower. So eventually every now and then you would boost your brain and try and predict the shortest path but it takes a lot of effort. So rather often, that sentence hits your mind "Oh Lord ...