Writers live through their work, and if a book is good enough, an author can achieve
immortality.
But once a writer becomes a household name, people start to focus on their genius and
forget about all their flaws and foibles.
Reality check: Some of the best novels and short stories ever written have been penned
by men and women with incredibly dark secrets.
On the page, they're masters of their craft, but in real life, they've sold out colleagues,
assaulted family members, and left friends trembling in fear.
If you want to know which of your favorite novels were written by monsters, then brace
yourself as we look at some respected writers who were actually terrible people.
Hunter S. Thompson, first-class jerk
"It's our country.
It's not theirs.
It's not a bunch of used car dealers from Southern California.
In a Democracy you have to be a player."
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas writer Hunter S. Thompson was a literary rockstar, both
when it came to fame and his out-of-control lifestyle.
The father of gonzo journalism, Thompson hung out with the Hell's Angels, went to war with
Richard Nixon, and consumed every drug known to man.
But while he's a colorful character, you wouldn't want Thompson as your friend.
Sure, he's a larger-than-life icon, but he was also a first-class jerk.
Need proof?
According to authors Doug Hill and Jeff Weingrad, Thompson allegedly tied actor Bill Murray
to a chair, tossed him into a pool, and nearly let him drown.
Need more?
During the '80s, Jack Nicholson was celebrating his birthday with his family when Thompson
showed up at his home in the middle of the night and shot a super powerful flare into
the sky.
Next, Thompson aimed a military-style spotlight at Nicholson's home and fired a pistol in
the air.
Then he capped the whole thing off by leaving an elk's heart and some bullet casings on
Nicholson's doorstep — as a joke.
Very funny, Thompson.
But you're definitely the only one laughing.
George Orwell sold out other writers
Although George Orwell was a socialist, he was open about his distaste for the Soviet
Union.
Just take a glimpse at his two classic works: Animal Farm and 1984.
These two novels absolutely tore the USSR a new one.
But even though Orwell hated dictators and overbearing bureaucracies, that didn't stop
the English author from selling out his fellow writers and artists to a powerful government
agency.
In the 1940s, Orwell did some work for a group called the Information Research Department.
In true Orwellian fashion, that innocent-sounding name belonged to a department that specialized
in churning out propaganda.
The IRD's job was to smear the Soviets, so Orwell wanted to make sure they didn't hire
anyone with communist sympathies.
Taking aim at some high profile names, Orwell drew up a list of writers and influential
people he believed sided with the Soviets.
He then handed his blacklist over to the IRD.
"In bird culture, this is considered a d--- move."
Yup, it was a pretty skeezy move — especially for a man whose entire career was about taking
down Big Brother.
The sad truth was that Orwell proved himself to be a first-class jerk and a horrible hypocrite
who might've done a fine job working for the Thought Police.
Ernest Hemingway, KGB spy
Chisel the Mt. Rushmore of American writers, and you've got to include Ernest Hemingway.
Papa Hemingway typed out some all-time great novels like A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the
Bell Tolls, and The Old Man and the Sea, and even nabbed a Nobel Prize.
But when he wasn't churning out classics, you could find him getting drunk and going
on crazy adventures.
He patrolled the Cuban coast in his fishing boat, hunting for Nazi subs.
He drove an ambulance during World War I and worked as a journalist during the Spanish
Civil War.
However, things took a dark turn when Hemingway joined the KGB, the notorious Soviet spy agency.
Part secret police, part intelligence organization, the KGB made its name jailing political opponents
and murdering enemies of the state.
When it comes to digging up dirt and hunting down dissidents, the KGB is right up there
with the Stasi and the Gestapo.
In other words, if you get a job with the KGB, you're automatically not cool.
"Boo!
Not cool!"
And according to books like Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America and Writer,
Sailor, Soldier, Spy, Hemingway actually volunteered to do a bit of espionage for the Soviets.
He was given the codename "Argo" — a ship from Greek mythology; fitting for such a nautical
guy.
He may be the granddaddy of modern badassery, but it turned out Hemingway was a lousy spy.
According to official KGB files, Argo never delivered any political information, and the
Russians soon gave up on their undercover author.
J.D. Salinger, total creep
When it comes to writing, J.D. Salinger was no phony.
The reclusive author was the man behind The Catcher in the Rye, one of the most beloved
and debated novels of all time.
But while Salinger's work has attracted legions of fans, many don't know — or overlook — his
controversial history with teenage girls.
As it turns out, Salinger was kind of a creep when it came to manipulating young women.
He would often lure these young girls into romantic relationships by writing them letters,
using both his pen and his power to seduce and trap teenagers.
When he was 53, he spotted a teenage Joyce Mccaynard on the cover of The New York Times
and soon drew her into a relationship.
She would later write about her interactions with the author, describing him as more than
a tad predatory.
Ickier still, he began courting Jean Miller when she was just 14.
He kept their uncomfortable relationship going until the girl turned 20, and then they finally
hooked up.
After an awkward one night stand, Salinger dumped her immediately.
"What did your mother think of this?"
"Well, exactly."
Of course, when it came to people his own age, Salinger was far less seductive.
On one occasion, a woman showed up at his house, collecting for the Red Cross, and he
responded by pulling a gun and threatening to shoot her.
Sure, the man was reclusive, but taking shots at the Red Cross is going a little too far
with the whole angsty writer angle.
Jack London, horrible racist
White Fang is one of the most famous 19th-century American novels, and one of the best stories
ever written from a canine's point of view.
But there's a lot more going on here than a simple story about a wolfdog making its
way in the world.
Pick up a copy of White Fang and skip to the part where the heroic beast encounters white
people for the very first time after living with a tribe of Native Americans.
"As compared with the Indians he had known, they were to him another race of superior
gods."
The novel then goes on to say that White Fang's Native American master "was a child-god among
these white skinned ones."
Yeah, it seems White Fang is a really racist wolf… probably because author Jack London
is one of the biggest bigots in American literature.
If you think the "superior gods" stuff is bad, then check out London's essay called
"The Salt of the Earth," which argued that whites are "a race of mastery and achievement."
London even wrote that genocide was just a part of natural selection, something that's
perfectly acceptable when "lesser breeds" encounter Anglo-Saxons.
And don't even get us started on his anti-Chinese 1910 short story, "The Unparalleled Invasion."
Here's the abridged version: China starts taking over the world, so the US and Europe
wipe it off the map with biological weapons.
Real uplifting stuff, London.
Doesn't remind us of evil aliens at all.
"EXTERMINATE"
Roald Dahl, anti-Semitic jerk
It might come as a surprise that Roald Dahl — author of James and the Giant Peach, Matilda,
and The BFG — was a bit of a monster in real life, not unlike the ghoulish characters
that populate his stories.
Dahl was reportedly a horrible person who made life miserable for everyone who worked
at his publishing company, Alfred A. Knopf.
According to one account by editor-in-chief Robert Gottlieb, whenever Dahl dropped by
the office, he treated secretaries like servants and threw tantrums when he didn't get his
way.
When the company finally told Dahl to get a grip or get out, everyone in the office
supposedly got on their desks and cheered.
Dahl was so bad that his first wife nicknamed him "Roald the Rotten."
In addition to being generally ill-tempered, he was allegedly racist.
In the original versions of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa Loompas weren't
eerie-looking orange dwarves from a mystical island; instead, they were actually black
pygmies.
As pointed out by the BBC, in James and the Giant Peach, the character of the Grasshopper
proclaims,
"I'd rather be fried alive and eaten by a Mexican."
But worst of all, Dahl went on the record in 1983 during an interview with New Statesmen,
saying,
"There is a trait the in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity.
[…] Even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason."
That's right.
According to Roald Dahl, the Jewish people deserved what they got during the Holocaust,
which is definitely not a story you want your kids to hear.
"You can quote Oscar Wilde, and say: When I am gone, I hope it will be said my sins
were scarlet but my books were read."
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As per the reports from Italy (translated by SportWitness), the German midfielder has
already agreed to a five-year contract with the Italian champions.
Can is out of contract this summer and he will leave the Reds on a free transfer.
The report adds that the Liverpool midfielder will earn around €6m/year over the next
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It will be interesting to see how Liverpool cope with this departure.
The Reds are yet to sign a replacement for Philippe Coutinho.
The Brazilian left the club in January.
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to Can in terms of skill set and style.
Liverpool have been linked with the likes of Jorginho and Ruben Neves this month and
they would be the perfect alternative to the German.
Official confirmation of the deal which will take Emre Can from Liverpool to Juventus will
reportedly arrive after Wednesday's Champions League semi-final.
Can's future has been the subject of much debate all season, with the Germany international's
current deal at Anfield expiring at the end of this season.
The deal was originally expected to be announced after the Champions League final at the end
of the campaign,
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How Scientists Protect the World's Most Famous Art - Duration: 4:58.
[♪INTRO]
Artists create all sorts of paintings, sculptures, and architecture that help make our world
beautiful and capture moments in history.
But without scientists, we would've lost most of this art by now.
Art gets dirty and damaged over time.
And if you try to clean it without paying attention to chemistry,
you could do more harm than good.
Thankfully, scientists have been learning how to restore artwork in some pretty cool
ways that are effective and safe.
And a little weird, to be honest.
One way of cleaning 3-D artwork — like, sculptures or architecture —
is by blasting it with a laser.
Which sounds counterintuitive... but awesome.
This method is called laser ablation, and it was first developed in the 1970s to get
something called black crust off marble.
This crust is a combination of pollution from the environment and the mineral gypsum — which
can form if marble is exposed to acid rain.
And it can be hard to get off.
Using chemicals or scraping it isn't always precise and can damage the art underneath.
Laser ablation gets around those problems by using short pulses from a handheld laser
to dislodge grime.
To make sure conservators don't accidentally melt any statues, the length of the pulse
is carefully controlled by a computer, and it usually only lasts a few millionths or
even billionths of a second.
The lasers also use infrared light, since that has a longer wavelengths and carries
less potentially-damaging energy than visible light.
Once the laser is turned on, the light heats up and expands the black crust.
That expansion creates waves of pressure that ultimately detach the grime — all without
affecting the marble underneath.
It's actually a little like how tattoo removal works — except those lasers are breaking
up the ink in your cells into smaller pieces, not blasting it off your body.
Lasers might seem like the gold standard for cool science.
But to repair some paintings, scientists got even more creative:
They trained dirt-eating bacteria.
A few years ago, art conservators in Italy were working to repair a series of 400-year-old
frescoes — a kind of painting done on wet plaster.
After decades of pigeon poop and harmful restoration attempts,
the frescoes were in pretty bad shape.
They were covered in waste, salt, and glues from those older, botched restorations.
And to make things even worse, the chemicals that conservators were using to try and clean
them were actually damaging the paint.
That's where bacteria came in.
By working with microbiologists, the conservators identified a strain of bacteria that could
actually eat the salts and glues right off the paintings.
In only a few hours, it removed 80% of the damage without touching the pigments underneath.
It's called Pseudomonas stutzeri, and it's pretty common in dirt and water.
These bacteria can get energy from all kinds of compounds, and they'll actually produce
different proteins depending on the food source they're given.
So by growing them in specific mixtures of old glues and salts, biologists can actually
"train" the bacteria to make proteins that eat away the grime on frescoes.
As long as they don't include pigments in the training mix, the bacteria won't touch
the original artwork, either.
After a few hours with these organisms, the paintings looked practically as good as new.
Or at least, way better than they did.
Bacteria has since been used to clean more paintings, some up to 700 years old.
And besides helping us, they're getting a free meal out of it — so it's a win-win.
Now, possibly the most satisfying method of art restoration is cleaning off yellowed varnish
with some careful chemistry.
For real, you can watch all kinds of videos of this online.
Varnish is applied to oil or acrylic paintings for a few reasons,
including to protect the art from dirt.
Formulas can vary, but it's generally made of a drying oil, a resin, and some sort of thinner.
The resin is a sticky substance — like pine resin — and it forms a hard coating on the
painting after everything dries.
The problem is, resins often change color over time.
After years of exposure to light or oxygen, compounds in them break down
and turn yellow or even brown.
And it's not pretty.
Taking off the old varnish is a challenge, because the chemicals used to do it can just
as easily erode the paint underneath.
So art conservators have to become chemists.
First, they'll slowly wipe away the old varnish using a chemical like acetone, a carbon-based
molecule that's great at dissolving resin.
Then, they also have to remove the acetone residue,
so it doesn't keep dissolving the original paint.
To do that, they'll use a neutralizer.
These are often mixes of chemicals — like oils — that stop a varnish remover from
reacting, or from being so acidic or basic.
The exact chemical they'll use will depend on the remover itself.
For example, with acetone, they can use a mix of petroleum and wintergreen oil.
Then, once everything is clean, the painting is ready to be re-varnished
or put back on display.
Without science, conservators could accidentally turn a work of art into, well, kind of a mess.
But thanks to techniques like these, they can keep preserving beautiful pieces of art
— and history — so we can enjoy them for decades to come.
Thanks for watching this episode of SciShow!
Besides restoring art, scientists are also pretty talented at busting art forgeries.
If you'd like to learn how, you can watch our episode all about it.
[♪OUTRO]
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Where To Start? - Bob Proctor - Duration: 2:02.
Hello there and welcome.
Do you know, almost everyone has a great idea,
and they're gonna execute their great idea.
I have all kinds of people come to me,
I've got a great idea I'd like to share with you.
What they do, is they want me to execute their great idea.
Why don't they execute their idea?
When you get a real good idea, you should act on it.
People have ideas of starting a business,
I've started a number of different businesses.
Question is: Where to start?
You start where you are and you start with what you've got.
That's all you need.
When you start where you are and with what you've got,
and you bring your mind to focus on that idea,
you will attract everything to you that you need.
You were taught, "Seek ye first this kingdom,
in its righteousness
and all these things will be given to us."
See when you learn to focus on something,
you get on a frequency.
And when you're on that frequency you start
to attract whatever you want.
You may not have any money,
you many not have the resources that you need to execute,
to build it into something big. That doesn't matter.
All the resources that you need
to do anything you want to do is already here.
But you've got to get in touch with them.
You've got to get in harmony with them and boom,
you'll rush 'em into your life.
You'll attract the money, the people, the thoughts,
the things, everything you need you'll attract to you.
So where do you start?
You always start where you are,
and you start with what you've got.
Don't be looking at what you don't have.
Think of what you do have.
Fall in love with your idea and get it rolling now.
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for tips, tools and resources.
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Make lifelong connections in the Microsoft Educator Community - Duration: 1:58.
- There is a feeling of being valued and understood
as an educator.
(upbeat music)
(children laughing)
- My vision of education is us learning together.
- It's the idea that each day we come,
whether you're in the nicest place or the hardest place.
- My students benefit from whatever I learn
on the global platform.
We are able to break the barrier of cultural differences,
of language differences, and we are able to reach out
to each and everyone out there.
- It's super important to bring in the world
into our classroom and for us to come out in the world.
There are so many different ways we can do that.
- The Microsoft Educator Community has really helped
to get all of the teachers on board for a common goal.
- The MIE program gets you out of your comfort zone.
- Every day is a day of learning for me.
(upbeat music)
- We've been friends for how?
- Finally today I get to meet you face-to-face.
- That's right.
- This is magic.
(laughter)
- Hi there, friend!
- I hope my students walk away from my classroom
being citizens of the world if you just have the devotion,
passion, and a bit of creativity.
- Come on!
- At the end of the day, it is about engagement.
(applause and cheering)
- There are endless possibilities.
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Your so cute sweetheart. What's up with the spoon?
Is that so?
Here we go!
It's good!
Is that good?
Wow! Look at that!
Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.
Happy birthday dear Pablo Alejandro.
Happy birthday to you.
Gotta make a wish sweetheart.
Okay! Here we go!
Number one! Good job!!
Your not going to touch me.. (with those sticky hands)
You're good to go. Come on let's wash you up!
Look how sticky I am.
(song by Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long)
song: American Authors - Best Day of My Life
High five!
Faster! Faster!
Oh hi! You want milk? You want milk?
Happy birthday to you!
Blow out the candles!
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How To Email Marketing (The Single Biggest Mistake Many Email Marketers Make) - Duration: 4:12.
the single biggest mistake many email marketers make and don't even realize it
hi Jason here and in this video you're going to learn the single biggest
mistake the email marketers make are you making this same mistake I know that
I've been guilty of it and I know how difficult email marketing can be if not
done right I've been there but this video will highlight the single biggest
mistake many marketers make so you can avoid it
okay without further ado let's talk email marketing
if you asked a group of marketers this simple question
when you send an email to your list what's your number one goal
what answer do you think you'd get?
to get readers to open it to get readers to read it to
give some useful info to build rapport to sell a product
those are all good answers
but they're also all wrong answers
of course you want them to open
the email read the email build some rapport maybe give some
useful info but none of these are your primary objective
so what is?
to get the click that's it
everything else is simply in support of that number one goal
ideally you want to train your list to click your links like mind numb robots
you want them to click automatically without thinking because
it's what they always do when they open your emails
you don't need to sell the product the sales page or video you send them to should do that for you
you don't need to tell them everything about the blogpost you're sending them to
the post will do that for you
so how can you improve your click-through rate?
give great information people will like you and
trust you if you give them great info that helps them clicking the link is
just a natural extension of that
show them the what but not the how
you might give them a really useful tip on what drives super targeted traffic but to
learn how to do it they need to click the link
don't always send them to sales letters
send them to fun stuff to show them your blog post your videos and even
other people's stuff now and then
and now and then surprise them with a free product
your email tells them a method to list build using Facebook
then you send them to a link that will give them 5 more list building methods
and when they click the link they see a very short sales page offering the product for free
how much do you think they love you right now
and what are the odds that they will click more of your links in the future just in case
there is another free product on the other side
of course your list and your niche may call for slightly different methods
but bottom line your primary goal of email
marketing is always to get the click because the more trained your list is to
click the more money you will make in the long run
I hope you found this video useful please like and leave a comment about whether you agree or disagree
about the importance of the click
and don't forget to subscribe to my channel
for more videos helping you to grow your online business and wherever you are in
the world have a great day
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The Weirdest Ways to Solve Big Problems! - Duration: 12:38.
Here are some of the weirdest ways big problems have been solved!
9 - Tallest man in the world If you've been following our videos here,
you'd know by now that dolphins are smart.
And they loooooove pufferfish.
Anyways, there are tons of scientists trying to decipher dolphin-language and culture.
Dolphins are an advanced race, and they have many things in common with us.However, just
like human babies, baby dolphins aren't exactly the brightest.
Back in 2006, there were two baby dolphins in Fushun, China who were left unsupervised.
During this time without human supervision, these two dolphins managed to eat off the
plastic edge of their pool!
They succeeded in swallowing the chunks of plastic before their caregivers noticed and
stopped them.
No matter what the vets did to try and get the plastic bits out, the dolphin's stomachs
just constricted with the instruments they used, and no one had arms long enough to reach
inside the dolphin's stomach.
With the plastic in their stomach, the dolphins couldn't eat, so the vets were afraid that
they weren't going to survive.
However, someone got a brilliant idea: why not just get someone who has arms that can
actually reach inside the stomach of these dolphins?!
And that's when the oceanarium called on the world's tallest man, a man named Xi
Shun, to help with their baby dolphin dilemma.
He was able to get his 41.7-inch-long arm inside the dolphins stomachs and remove the
plastic, bit by bit, saving their lives!
8 - Make them walk longer Do you guys hate having to wait for checked
bags at the airport?
We definitely try to avoid checking a bag just because of having to wait!
A few years ago, the Houston airport got some minor restorations, and the airport started
getting hundreds of complaints.
You would think a new restoration would cut down on complaints, but no, the complaints
kept rolling in because of the increased amount of time passengers had to wait to get their
bags!
The airport executives thought the problem was because that there wasn't enough staff
working on a particular shift.
They hired more baggage handlers for the busiest times of the day.
This plan worked pretty well, but even so, the complaints kept coming in.
The executives were baffled, and it was time to call the experts in.
The consultants essentially found that the distance between the arrival gates and the
baggage claim was very short, and it took passengers only a minute to walk that distance.
If the time it took for workers to get the luggage from the plane to the baggage claim
was eight minutes, this meant passengers spent about 85% of their waiting time just standing
around waiting for their bags!
So what was the solution?!
Just make them walk longer!
They moved the arrival gates away from the main terminal and at the same time, they routed
the bags to the outermost carousel.
Problem solved: now it took passengers 6 and a half minutes to walk to their bags.
The complaints dropped to almost zero.
Pretty ingenious if you ask us!
7 - It bangs So you've probably have seen commercials that
advertise that some cleaning product is able to remove grease and grime without almost
any effort whatsoever.
It's almost magical, because at the end, there's always a happy person standing in a pristine
kitchen.
Well, maybe those ads weren't exaggerating after all.
Caithness Chemicals is a chemical company with a plant in Ireland that used to recycle
plutonium.
The plant hadn't been active since the '80s, but radiation just doesn't go away for a
lonnnnnng time.
Caithness chemicals had a team in charge of dismantling the plant, but plutonium was still
all over the place giving off radiation.
The normal chemical agents they used to decontaminate surfaces needed time to dry and slowed down
the demolition process significantly.
So one of the workers suggested a cleaner he had seen on TV, a cleaning product called
Cillit Bang.
Obviously, they were desperate, because the team actually tried it.
Surprisingly, it worked.
The cleaner was found to reduce levels of radioactive contamination remarkably well!
The cleaner had worked so well, its use also drew interest from operators of other nuclear
sites in the UK.
Who knew that a cheap household cleaner is capable of getting rid of radiation?!
6 - Mice with headaches Here's an interesting fact: Brown tree snakes
were accidentally introduced to Guam after the second world war.
A few of these snakes were inadvertently transported from the Solomon Islands to Guam on a cargo
plane.
The thing with brown tree snakes is that they're great predators.
Since coming to Guam, Brown tree snakes have made several of the island's native animal
species extinct!
Also, they reproduced like crazy, so brown tree snakes infested the island's jungles.
So what was the solution?
Over the years, U.S.
Government scientists have unsuccessfully tried many methods to get rid of the overpopulation
of these snakes with such things as traps and snake-detecting dogs.
However, these methods still didn't seem to make a dent.
Instead, one unusual method that was developed actually worked.
Brown tree snakes are one of the few species that'll eat prey they didn't grilled themselves!
So scientists began filling red mice with acetaminophen, aka Tylenol, and began dropping
these mice over the jungles.
The acetaminophen dose is just enough to induce a coma and eventually make the snake a goner,
but not enough to damage any other animals fatally.
Pretty clever, right?!
5 - MacGuyverd it You'd think that after hundreds of scientists
planned out every single detail, and made backup plans for backup plans, there's pretty
much no chance for things to go wrong in an outer space exploration mission.
Well, if there's anything Hollywood has taught us is that space is unexpected at best.
What happened at the International Space Station was something that would've made Steven
Spielberg proud.
And MacGyver, too.
The ISS is home to six astronauts, all highly trained.
The ISS is powered by four Main Bus Switching Units, and basically, one started to malfunction.
No big deal, they thought.
After all, that's what they've been trained to do.
But when they went outside to replace the unit, they found that the unit was stuck.
Metal shavings had accumulated around the bolts, making the unit impossible to dislodge.
None of their highly technical tools was the right fit, and the problem remained.
However, the next day, they ventured out to fix the issue: they had a plan with a can
of nitrogen gas... and a toothbrush.
Say what?!
With the help of these not-so-technological instruments, they were somehow able to get
the unit unstuck and replaced in no time.
In other good news, no astronaut had to sacrifice their oral hygiene to the mission... the toothbrush
was a spare!
4 - Just add balls This scenario that we're about to describe
sounds like a crappy ScyFy Original Movie plot, but it actually happened.
A while back, the Ivanhoe Reservoir in Los Angeles dropped over 400,000 balls in the
water to protect the water from the sun!
But wait, why did the water need sun protection?
At the Ivanhoe Reservoir, the water contains bromide and chlorine.
Bromide is an element naturally present in groundwater, so no big deal.
On the other hand, chlorine is a chemical used to kill bacteria.
Obviously, the reservoir's water is consumed by thousands of people, it's of course vital
that the water doesn't have much bacteria floating around.
Bromide and chlorine on their own aren't harmful, but the trouble apparently comes
when the two are mixed with sunlight.
As it turns out, this dangerous mix results in bromate, a known carcinogen.
Okay, got it, keep the sun away from the water.
But c'mon, how do you do that in sunny Los Angeles!
A tarp could've been used, but it would have been too expensive.
They thought of using a metal cover, but that would have taken too long to install.
So the execs at Ivanhoe Reservoir reached the only possible solution: They dropped 400,000
pitch black balls over the surface of the water, a solution that somehow worked!
3 - Where the sun doesn't shine Viganella is a tiny little village in the
Italian Alps.
When we say small, we mean small as in there are less than 200 people living there.
However, those people had a big problem.
This small town is sun-deprived!
The village was built in a deep valley, and the mountains surrounding it doesn't let
the sun rays get to the village for many months out of the year.
Some of the villagers claim that it gets as cold as Siberia, as the ice and snow never
get the chance to melt.
What's the solution?
They essentially needed a giant reflector!
With the help of all their neighbors, Viganella was able to place an eight-by-five meter sheet
of steel at the top of one of the mountains.
This giant mirror reflects the sun into the main piazza of the town in the months where
the sun stops shining.
Thanks to this new mirror, Viganella will have at least one ray of sunshine from November,
when the sun disappears, to February, when the sun finally reappears on its own!
Viganella's mirror is controlled by a remote system that allows it to move and follow the
sun's path.
The whole project cost only about 100,000 euros, financed mainly by the local authorities
and banks.
Not bad!
2 - Avoid earworms Make no mistake, earworms aren't parasites
that burrow their way into your ear to lay eggs in your brain.
But for all the pain they cause, they might as well be!
Earworms are bits of music your brain gets stuck on.
You see, our brains are like machines.
When they start a thought, brains want to finish it in order to move on.
But sometimes, brains just can't finish the thoughts.
And what do they do?
You guessed right, they start all over again.
Earworms are essentially broken pieces of melodies that your brain repeats over and
over and over again in the hopes of finishing.
Because you don't know the full song, your brain is never able to reach the end, and
it just starts over again.
Earworms are the worst because you can't get it outta your head!
Sooooo, how do you get rid of them?
The experts recommend several different tactics, but the gist is this: the only way to replace
an insistent thought is with another thought.
You can start by playing the most annoying song on youtube.
In most cases, listening to the song finishing will be enough.
If that doesn't work, try solving some tricky anagrams or sudokus.
Focusing on a difficult task will get your brain distracted from the melody loop.
1 - I can get you a toe by 3 James Byrne was 29 years old when he had a
terrible accident at work.
While sawing through a piece of wood, he severed his left thumb completely.
He was taken to the hospital immediately with his severed thumb of course.
Surgeons got to work right away trying to reattach Byrne's thumb to his hand.
But despite their hard work, blood wouldn't start flowing again into his thumb.
Byrne underwent months of treatment, but ultimately, his thumb had to be cut off for good.
Unfortunately for him, there was just no way to get blood flow back into his thumb.
That's when surgeon Umraz Khan, the doctor overlooking Byrne's case, had an idea.
He proposed to use Byrne's dominant toe to replace his missing thumb!
During an 8 hour procedure, Dr. Khan supervised two surgery teams.
One team was working on Byrne's left foot, removing the big toe.
The other team worked on Byrne's hand, attaching the toe they had just removed.
Although it was a complicated surgery, the surgery was a complete success!
Although James Byrne now has a toe-thumb on his hand now, he almost has regained full
movement in the thumb.
He's able to do all the things we take for granted, such as being able to use a pen,
or open a door.
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Youre the light, youre the night
Youre the color of my blood
Youre the cure, youre the pain
Youre the only thing I wanna touch
Never knew that it could mean so much, so much
Youre the fear, I dont care Cause Ive never been so high
Follow me to the dark Let me take you past our satellites
You can see the world you brought to life, to life
So love me like you do, love me like you do
Love me like you do, love me like you do
Touch me like you do, touch me like you do (oh~)
What are you waiting for?
Fading in, fading out On the edge of paradise
Every inch of your skin is a holy grail Ive got to find (Hey)
Only you can set my heart on fire, on fire
Yeah, Ill let you set the pace
Cause Im not thinking straight
My head spinning around I cant see clear no more
What are you waiting for?
Love me like you do, love me like you do
Love me like you do, love me like you do
Touch me like you do, touch me like you do (oh~)
What are you waiting for?
Love me like you do, love me like you do
Love me like you do, love me like you do
Touch me like you do, touch me like you do (oh~)
What are you waiting for?
Youre the light, youre the night Youre the color of my blood
Youre the cure, youre the pain Youre the only thing I wanna touch
Never knew that it could mean so much,
so much
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