So in this simple experiment, you can find ways to blow yourself up twice over, dose yourself with poison gas, and bathe yourself with atmospheric acid. It’s no wonder it’s such a classroom tradition.
A simple childhood experiment, involving basic stuff that anyone could find around the house, provides you with a simple means to make both a chemical and physical weapon. Find out how to split ordinary water into two different dangerous gases, and cause two different explosions.
Would you believe they can get a chemical weapon and an explosive with just some household ingredients? And that this has been used as a way to teach kids about electricity and water for generations? To do the miniature version of this experiment, just grab a glass, a nine volt battery and wire, a couple of pencils, a piece of cardboard, and some salt.
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If you have an Asus computer and aliens invade Earth, you are screwed. Their warranty doesn’t cover “space invasions.” Incidentally, space invasion comes before “abuse, neglect, in or use under abnormal conditions.”
Exclusions from your ASUS Warranty Extension Program including the WEP On-Site NBD Limited Hardware Warranty Service
• There is damage caused by natural disaster, intentional or unintentional misuse, acts of war, space invasions, abuse, neglect, improper maintenance, or use under abnormal conditions
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Americans trying to cut sodium from their diets may be surprised to learn that bread, not chips or pretzels, is a leading culprit .
A new report from the Center for Disease Control found that bread and rolls are the top source of sodium in America’s diet, more than double the percentage of savory snacks.
“Breads and rolls aren’t really saltier than many of the other foods, but people tend to eat a lot of them,” said Mary Cogswell, a CDC senior scientist who co-authored the report.
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The John Doe custom was born out of a strange and long since vanished British legal process called an action of ejectment. Under old English common law, the actions landowners could take against squatters or defaulting tenants in court were often too technical and difficult to be of any use. So landlords would instead bring an action of ejectment on behalf of a fictitious tenant against another fictitious person who had allegedly evicted or ousted him.
In order to figure out what rights to the property the made-up persons had, the courts first had to establish that the landlord really was the owner of the property, which settled his real reason for action without him having to jump through too many legal hoops.
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#1, United States of America
Calories per Day: 1st out of 24 (Gold)
Television Viewing: 1st out of 24 (Gold)
Sports Aversion: 3rd out of 24 (Bronze)
Internet Usage: 3rd out of 24 (Bronze)
Word from the Couch: U-S-A! U-S-A! U.S. sports four medals in The Daily Beast’s Couch Potato Olympics, easily nabbing the top spot on our podium. Just like in the real Olympics, where America is jockeying to hold on to the medal lead, America always goes big, or doesn’t go at all. From the Wing Bowl in Philadelphia, to New York City’s historic Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest to countless county fairs across the nation featuring fried everything, gluttony is as American as an entire apple pie, and apparently all that downtime in front of televisions and computers translates into lots of sports viewing, not much sports playing.
#2, Canada
Calories per Day: 8
Television Viewing: 5
Sports Aversion: 12
Internet Usage: 1 (Gold)
Word from the Couch: Must be the snow. And the cold. Canada may not have the world’s best Internet infrastructure, and there’s plenty of hockey and skiing, but even the most die-hard winter sports enthusiast has to go inside sometime—and look up the score of the Canucks game on ESPN.com. And when it snows so much that Olympic skiing events are canceled, there’s nothing better for Canadians than snuggling up with a cup of hot chocolate and a warm computer. Canadians on average spent nearly 43 hours online in December, according to ComScore.
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