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Mammatus clouds

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Scientists discover most relaxing tune ever

Sound therapists and Manchester band Marconi Union compiled the song. Scientists played it to 40 women and found it to be more effective at helping them relax than songs by Enya, Mozart and Coldplay.

Weightless works by using specific rhythms, tones, frequencies and intervals to relax the listener. A continuous rhythm of 60 BPM causes the brainwaves and heart rate to synchronise with the rhythm: a process known as ‘entrainment’. Low underlying bass tones relax the listener and a low whooshing sound with a trance-like quality takes the listener into an even deeper state of calm.

Dr David Lewis, one of the UK’s leading stress specialists said: “‘Weightless’ induced the greatest relaxation – higher than any of the other music tested. Brain imaging studies have shown that music works at a very deep level within the brain, stimulating not only those regions responsible for processing sound but also ones associated with emotions.”

The study - commissioned by bubble bath and shower gel firm Radox Spa - found the song was even more relaxing than a massage, walk or cup of tea. So relaxing is the tune, apparently, that people are being Rex advised against listening to it while driving.

The top 10 most relaxing tunes were: 1. Marconi Union - Weightless 2. Airstream - Electra 3. DJ Shah - Mellomaniac (Chill Out Mix) 4. Enya - Watermark 5. Coldplay - Strawberry Swing 6. Barcelona - Please Don’t Go 7. All Saints - Pure Shores 8. AdelevSomeone Like You 9. Mozart - Canzonetta Sull’aria 10. Cafe Del Mar - We Can Fly

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abideinhislove:

HAHA AWE!

This brings me such joy!

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Fuck No! Zombies: AMC Announces The Walking Dead Season 3 Preview Weekend July 7 & 8

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AMC announced today The Walking Dead Season 3 Preview Weekend on Sat., Jul. 7 and Sun., Jul. 8 beginning at 11:30AM/10:30c each day. Airing just one week before Comic-Con, the two-day programming event will feature a marathon of all 19 episodes from the…

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insatiable-geek: Kaylee’s Strawberry Cosmo

Ingredients:
2 strawberries
1 oz. Vodka
1/2 oz. Strawberry Liqueur
1/2 oz. simple syrup
dash of orange juice

Directions: Combine all of the ingredients except the strawberries and orange juice in a cocktail strainer with ice. Shake until mixed, and strain into a martini glass. Add the orange juice and garnish with strawberries. Nice and sweet, just like our favorite spaceship mechanic.

Drink created and photographed by the Insatiable Geek.

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butterfreid:

Seasonal Fruits Calendar
i seriously need this. i have no clue when fruits are in season. also, the vegetable calendar

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thedrunkenmoogle:

Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy cocktail)

Ingredients:
1 oz. Jack Daniels Whiskey
1 oz. Peach schnapps
4-6 oz. Orange juice
1 splash of Blue curacao
1 lemon twist
1 olive (optional)

Directions: Fill a highball glass 3/4 full of ice. Add the Jack Daniels and peach schnapps, then top off with orange juice. Mix well, then add the blue curacao over the top. Garnish with a lemon twist and olive, if you chose to include it. Drink… but… very carefully…

May 25th is celebrated by many as Towel Day, paying tribute to Douglas Adams’ comical space book series, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. So naturally, tonight is the best night of the year to drink some Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters, which, according to the book, feels like having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped around a gold brick. While there are many “Earth” versions of the fictitious cocktail, the one we chose to post today is a more commonly served recipe. This version of the drink is served the Zaphod Beeblebrox nightclub and bar in Ottawa.

Drink created by the Zaphod Beeblebrox nightclub. Photography by The Drunken Moogle.

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Sweden’s Bunkers

With no domestic sources of fossil fuels (well – except for wood of course), there has always been a push in Sweden to go for local sources of energy. A fairly large number of reasonably sized rivers made hydropower an interesting alternative and large installations were made in the early 1900s. The main railways in Sweden were electrified from 1914 and onwards and at the time of WWII, a substantial coverage had been achieved by international standards. Today some > 95% of the rail transport effort is done with electric traction.

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At the beginning all the robots are waiting for my signal to start. While dancing, they are constantly synchronizing with each other, so if a robot lags behind they will wait for him and the late robot will accelerate. When I remove a robot from the choreography, the others continue dancing. When he stands up again and resumes his dance, he asks the others for a starting position. Then he goes to this position, and starts dancing. Since he starts with a little latency, he will dance a little faster and the others a little slower to synchronize.

The music is played by another robot, and is a part of the synchronization process : the robots are synchronizing with the music too.

This work is the result of the collaboration between the Nonlinear System Laboratory at MIT and Aldebaran Robotics.

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pleatedjeans:

hamster plays dead [video]

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gameofcatandmouse:

this is my human. when human is fussy, i just pet it like this.

as you can see, human is calm.

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motherjones:

We learned something new today. Er.

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The passages cited:

Arkansas, Article 19, Section 1

No person who denies the being of a God shall hold any office in the civil departments of thisState, nor be competent to testify as a witness in any Court.

Maryland, Article 37

That no religious test ought ever to be required as a qualification for any office of profit or trust in this State, other than a declaration of belief in the existence of God.

Mississippi, Article 14, Section 265

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office in this state.

Pennsylvania, Article 1, Section 4

No person who acknowledges the being of a God and a future state of rewards and punishments shall, on account of his religious sentiments, be disqualified to hold any office or place of trust or profit under this Commonwealth.

South Carolina, Article 17, Section 4

No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution.

Tennessee, Article 9, Section 2

No person who denies the being of God, or a future state of rewards and punishments, shall hold any office in the civil department of this state.

Texas, Article 1, Section 4

No religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office, or public trust, in this State; nor shall any one be excluded from holding office on account of his religious sentiments, provided he acknowledge the existence of a Supreme Being.