Is the number 13 unlucky?
eferences for certain numbers over others have affected the floor numbering in a high-profile Hong Kong development. This is akin to the widespread skipping of the 13th floor in buildings in the U.S. and elsewhere around the world (including the apartment building I lived in while I was growing up). [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="262" class="caption-"] Marc Realty/Chicago A Chicago office building renames the 13th and 14th floor as 14A and 14B, respectively.[/caption] Fear of the number 13 doesn’t extend to…
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Forget parties this Halloween – ZOMBIE THEMED PAINTBALL:
u and your friends battle the undead with paintball guns inside a haunted house. Brilliant idea: http://evike.com/zombiehunter/ Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways From An FBI Behavior Expert
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The Calculus of Carnage
in over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like You: 7 Ways From An FBI Behavior Expert
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Beware “Far” Ethics
ilosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils; but present evils triumph over it. Francois De La Rochefoucauld. Katja Grace’s translation: We nobly analyse distant things, and in the present do whatever the hell we want. via overcomingbias.com Join over 320,000 readers. Get a free weekly update via email here. Related posts: New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy New Harvard Research Reveals A Fun Way To Be More Successful How To Get People To Like You: 7…
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The Secret Behind Powerball Lottery Strategies:
e odds of winning a Powerball jackpot are 1 in 195,200,000...To put it in perspective, the odds are better that a randomly chosen American male happens to be George Clooney... ...many people believe purchasing tickets often, or in bunches, substantially increases their chances of eventually winning the lottery. It doesn’t. Even if purchasing 195,249,054 tickets over a lifetime guaranteed a jackpot win (which it doesn’t), that lifetime would have to be very long, or the buyer very rich to begin…
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Is There A Reverse Brain Drain To India And China:
surveyed 1,224 foreign students from dozens of nations who are currently studying at U.S. universities or who graduated in 2008. The majority told us that they didn’t think that the U.S. was the best place for their professional careers and they planned to return home. Only 6 percent of Indian, 10 percent of Chinese, and 15 percent of European students planned to settle in the U.S. Many students wanted to stay for a few years after graduation if given…
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How to save a lot of money on entertainment:
ere are many strange religions in this mixed-up, modern world — Discordianism, Pastafarianism, the Church of the Subgenius — but one of strangest and most popular is the Cult of the New. People will pay more than twice as much to see a first-run movie compared to seeing it in a second-run theater or renting it and watching it at home. They’ll pay $50 for a videogame that will clearly be a $20 “greatest hits” game before too long. They…
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Adderall Speculation:
udents apparently consume mass quantities of the performance-enhancing drug Adderall during exam time. Normally the price is $3 for 10 mg, but it rises during exam week to at least $5. One student reports that in his suburban Dallas hometown, drug dealers, realizing this price variation, speculated by buying up large supplies of the drug at $3 and dumping them on the market during exam time, hoping to sell at $5. They didn’t realize that this large increase in supply…
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