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	June 23rd, 2012 Euro 2012: Who Are The Players? [Infographic] Posted about 17 hours ago by visually to Holy Kaw! Euro 2012: Who Are The Players? From Visual.ly. Tons of excellent infographics in one place. プロダクト Posted 1 day ago by Koichi Mitsui to s a s u r a u 1 秋が楽しみ。 How to get more Likes, comments, and shares on Facebook [infographic] Posted about 23 hours ago by Infographics Monster to Holy Kaw! Dan Zarella at HubSpot analyzed the data from 1.3 million Facebook posts to determine what type of posts garner the most likes, shares, and comments. Via Social Mouths. Improve your social media skills. An early morning rap: "Milk in my Sippy Cup" [video] Posted about 22 hours ago by Kate Rinsema to Holy Kaw! 1 To many parents out there, it’s already the middle of the day, so you could probably use a little pick-me-up to get to nap time, eh? Since you might have shelved much of that extensive rap collection due to kids’ uncanny ability to decode lyrics you really don’t want them to understand until they’re past the awkward questioning phase, here’s a family-friendly sample of the genre featuring little Max and the vocal stylings of Wax and Herbal. Embedded media -- click here to see it. Full story at YouTube via FoodBeast. Ah, babies. 10 of the world's most expensive beers Posted about 22 hours ago by mental_floss to Holy Kaw! If you like sampling new beers or hate having money, you might want to try one of these. 1. Sapporo’s Space Barley Price: $110/six-pack ABV: 5.5% In 2006, Japanese and Russian scientists tested how well barley could grow in space. They rocketed barley seeds to the International Space Station and planted them aboard the Zvezda Service Module. After spending five months in orbit, the fourth-generation of barley was brought back to earth, where Japanese brewer Sapporo fermented it into the world’s first space beer. A six-pack costs $110—not bad, considering it was imported from the cosmos. If you’d like a cheaper space brew, try 4pines Vostok Space Beer. The stout is the first zero-gravity beer. Not only is it drinkable in space, but it’s cheaper, too: $20 for a six-pack. It’s perfect for anyone who’s dreamt of imbibing where no man has imbibed before. 2. Crown Ambassador Reserve Price: $90/750ml ABV: 10.2% If Foster’s is Australian for beer, then Crown Ambassador Reserve must be Australian for expensive beer. Aged in French oak barrels for 12 months and packaged in a champagne bottle, Crown pitches Ambassador as an alternative to wine. The Australian brewer has produced four iterations since 2008, each batch limited to 8,000 bottles. See the rest at mental_floss. All the top stories from mental_floss. 8 successful people grateful they got canned Posted about 19 hours ago by mental_floss to Holy Kaw! In our tough economic climate, it’s worth reminding ourselves that losing a job might not be the end of the world. Sure, it never feels good, but for these well-known folks, getting the boot from their gigs provided the impetus for them to reach even greater successes. 1. Jerry Seinfeld Remember the ABC sitcom Benson? Seinfeld undoubtedly does. Early in his career he had a small recurring role as a mail boy on three episodes of the show from 1980-81. One day he showed up at work for a read-through, but he couldn’t find a script with his name on it. After Seinfeld asked what was going on, an assistant director told him he’d been fired from the show, but nobody had remembered to tell the young comedian. A humiliated Seinfeld trudged out and decided he was through with sitcoms unless he could get more control over the creative process. As you might have heard, he was pretty successful once that eventually happened. 2. Michael Bloomberg By most any metric, the Mayor of New York is a pretty successful fellow. His $20 billion net worth makes him one of the ten richest people in America, and he can still run for another mayoral term. He wasn’t always so successful, though. In 1981, investment firm Salomon Brothers canned him from his partner-level job following a buyout (although Bloomberg got $10 million as a payment for his capital in the firm). Instead of jumping back into another job at an investment bank, Bloomberg took the cash and bet it on an oddball idea he had to use computers to disseminate financial information to investment firms. Good move. The company, Innovative Market Systems, was eventually renamed Bloomberg L.P., and that company is worth somewhere north of $20 billion today. 3. Robert Redford Before he became the Sundance Kid, Redford needed his dad’s help to get a job at Standard Oil. Although he would later reach great heights on the screen, acting like a good employee was one role he never nailed. As Harvey Mackay writes in his 2004 book Fired Up!, Redford served as a “roustabout,” an unskilled laborer who did little jobs around the rigs, until he was discovered sleeping in an oil tank he’d been assigned to clean. Instead of canning him on the spot, the company put Redford on probation and moved him to a bottle-washing plant where he drove a forklift. Redford got bored with the job, though, and started doing forklift tricks. One day it literally all came crashing down when Redford took a corner too quickly and overturned his bottle-laden forklift. As Redford dryly remarked to Mackay, “I knew it was the end of my career in that business.” See the rest at mental_floss. All the top stories from mental_floss. One kidney? Feel free to play football Posted about 19 hours ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! Kidney injuries among high school varsity athletes are so rare that students with only one kidney should be allowed to play, new research shows. “Many people have restricted that activity in the past because of concern about the loss of the kidney, but we’ve been able to show that the risk is really extraordinarily small,” says Victoria Norwood, professor of pediatrics at the University of Virginia. Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. 'Junk chimeras' may be vital to cancer Posted about 19 hours ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! 1 A previously unknown way genes fuse to form a “chimera” may play a crucial role in the growth of cancer tumors. “Each gene is like a unit. There are boundaries preventing [one] gene’s factors from influencing other genes,” says Hui Li, assistant professor of pathology at University of Virginia. “This discovery really says in cancer, the boundary is not that tight. . . . Somehow cancer has found ways to go through the boundary and read into the next gene, and somehow, with splicing, can actually join different gene parts together.” Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. ¿Por qué la comida de los restaurantes nunca se parece a la de la publicidad? Posted about 20 hours ago by Carlos Valerio to Conozca Más Clásico. Llegas totalmente hambriento a tu restaurante favorito y ordenas la apetitosa hamburguesa que aparece en el menú. ¿Qué obtienes a cambio? Una carne fría y seca envuelta en dos panes rancios y una tímida porción de lechuga. ¿Por qué los establecimientos están empeñados en vender algo que literalmente no existe? Un reciente video subido por Mcdonald's Canadá, intentó explicar el misterio realizando un pequeño experimento; para ello, la directora de marketing de la compañía,  Hope Begozzi, ordenó un Cuarto de Libra en uno de los establecimientos, con el fin de retocarlo para una campaña publicitaria. Antes del ejercicio, Begozzi se dio cuenta que su hamburguesa lucía ridículamente irreconocible –comparada con la del anuncio– por lo que pasó varias horas en el estudio componiendo la triste realidad. Las fotografías publicitarias utilizan una serie de trucos para lograr que sus productos se vean atractivos y apetitosos –incluso en nuestra edición de enero utilizamos la técnica para retocar nuestras cinco dietas. En este caso, se emplearon jeringas para colocar perfectamente los aderezos, y las verduras fueron acomodadas a mano; además, la carne fue ligeramente cocida para lograr una textura jugosa y el pan no se contrajo porque no estuvo en una caja cerrada. El tiempo también fue un factor clave. "La hamburguesa de la tienda se cocinó en un minuto, aproximadamente. El proceso que se sigue en un rodaje fotográfico suele durar horas", recalca Begozzi. La mercadóloga también asegura que todas los productos que se muestran en los anuncios utilizan los ingredientes que hay en la tienda y que no existe ningún tipo de ajuste fotográfico, ¿le creemos? Hace unos años, Domino's Pizza se convirtió en la primera franquicia en anunciar que no retocaría sus alimentos, con el fin de promover sus valores de honestidad y transparencia. ¿Crees que los demás restaurantes deberían sumarse a la propuesta? Embedded media -- click here to see it. FUENTE abcnews.go.com La evolución ha generado mujeres más bellas y hombres más feos Posted about 19 hours ago by Carlos Valerio to Conozca Más La naturaleza es sabia ¿Maquillaje? ¿Dinero? ¿Ropa? ¿Qué es lo que otorga belleza a una mujer? Según los científicos, la evolución es la encargada de haber creado féminas más atractivas, a diferencia de sus contrapartes masculinas. Un estudio hecho por Markus Jokela, investigador de la Universidad de Helsinki, reveló que las 'guapas' suelen tener más hijos, a diferencia de las menos agraciadas, y que una gran parte de sus retoños son mujeres. Estas jovencitas suelen crecen en 'bellos cisnes' y tienden a repetir el ciclo –al seguir pasando sus genes; además, con el paso del tiempo, las generaciones se van perfeccionando. En contraste, los hombres siguen siendo feos, como los ancestros de las cavernas. Asimismo, al analizar por cuatro décadas la evolución de 2,000 mujeres estadounidenses, el experto encontró que las hermosas tenían 16% más hijos que los 'patitos feos'. En 2006, un experimento desarrollado por los investigadores de la Escuela de Economía y Ciencia Política de Londres, también encontró que las parejas atractivas tenían más probabilidades de tener hijas, debido a diversas estrategias evolutivas que cada sexo tuvo que adoptar para sobrevivir. "El atractivo físico es una característica altamente heredable, lo que aumenta el éxito reproductivo de las hijas". No las culpen por ser hermosas. FUENTE telegraph.co.uk Gulf of Mexico 'dead zone' smaller in 2012 Posted about 15 hours ago by Futurity to Holy Kaw! The Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone for 2012 is expected to be the second smallest on record—but not because of any cutback in nitrogen use. “These dead zones are ecological time bombs,” says University of Michigan aquatic ecologist Donald Scavia. “Without determined local, regional and national efforts to control nutrient loads, we are putting major fisheries at risk.” Full story at Futurity. More research news from top universities. Sent by Posterous. Change your email settings or unfollow. Other questions? We'd love to help.