22 Food Words You Might Be Pronouncing Wrong

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Your Ancestors Didn’t Sleep Like You

Ok, maybe your grandparents probably slept like you. And your great, great-grandparents. But once you go back before the 1800s, sleep starts to look a lot different. Your ancestors slept in a way that modern sleepers would find bizarre – they slept twice. And so can you.

Building a Highway Is Way More Complicated Than You'd Think

Mark Rober left Nasa to make awesome wearable Tech Halloween Costumes

Until June of this year, Rober was a mechanical engineer at the world's most famous space agency. He worked at Nasa for nine years, seven of were spent working on the Curiosity Rover.

Now he creates wearable tech Halloween costumes and recently sold his company, Digital Dudz, to the British company that makes Morphsuits, where he now works (nope, we didn't know they were a British invention either).

Well, That Was Close!

Yes, North Korea Has A Suicide Bomber Corps With Nuclear Nackpacks!

No, You’re Probably Not Smarter Than a 1912-Era 8th Grader

In the early years of the 20th century, the students in Bullitt County, Kentucky, were asked to clear a test that many full-fledged adults would likely be hard-pressed to pass today. The Bullitt County Genealogical Society has a copy of this exam, reproduced below—a mix of math and science and reading and writing and questions on oddly specific factoids–preserved in their museum in the county courthouse.

Warning! These 1950s Movie Gimmicks Will Shock You

Welcome to summer movie hell—another blockbuster season filled with costly digital effects that disappoint more often than they surprise. During a University of Southern California film symposium in June, two directors guilty of creating this trend, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, predicted the imminent collapse of their mega-budget film industry. In its place, they suggested a future of immersive technologies, where theaters would offer thrills you couldn’t get via Netflix.

Cinema's Greatest Effects Shots Picked By Hollywood's Top VFX Specialists

From Eadweard Muybridge and George Méliès to James Cameron and Phil Tippett, the history of movie effects is basically the greatest bedtime story never told. Except it’s a yarn so full of dragons, dinosaurs and mimetic polyalloy killing machines sent back from the future that you’d never get any sleep after hearing it. As Life Of Pi and Avatar amply demonstrate, there are many chapters still to be written and innovations still to be forged, but whether in-camera, matte, prosthetic, CG, or just lovingly modeled by a man with a passion for Plasticine, effects have brought magic to the movies since the silent era. In a unique celebration of the art, Empire asked the people who make them happen to pick their favorites.

First Hole Is Complete

Checking out the form for the catch foundation.

Working on the tee box for the first hole.

We completed tee box one and afterward decided that pouring concrete would be better for the rest of the course.

We were able to get the guys who maintain the common areas to dig the holes for the catches.  Huge time saver!

First catch.  It can't take that many bag of concrete, can it?

7 - 80 pound bags of Quikrete!  Are you kidding me?

The loop in the middle is to padlock down the catch and prevent theft.

Yes, it is hot!

Why Lego Minifigures Have A Hole In Their Heads

To match the bricks? To snap on hats? Nope. In reality, minifigs have been designed to allow air to pass through if lodged in a child’s throat.

The Other Killer

HIV/AIDS may be the world's best-known virus, the subject of marches, concerts and billions of dollars of aid. With good reason: it killed 1.47m people in 2010. Less noticed, however, is viral hepatitis: it felled 1.44m globally–almost as many as HIV. And viral hepatitis killed more people in 117 of the 187 countries tracked by the Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington–including in India, China, Britain and Japan.

The greatest food in human history

What is “the cheapest, most nutritious and bountiful food that has ever existed in human history” Hint: It has 390 calories. It contains 23g, or half a daily serving, of protein, plus 7% of daily fiber, 20% of daily calcium and so on.

This Video Of Rush Hour At A Beijing Subway Station Will Give You Nightmares

How McDonald's Fakes Their Food