April 18, 2010 15:27:25
Lipstick has a dangerous history. Take a purplish-red seaweed dye, add fine red clay, iron oxide (rust), henna, iodine, and a poisonous alcohol sugar called bromine mannite, then add a slimy lump of stone-crushed dead beetles and ants, stir well into a sticky soup, then use your finger to draw t...
April 1, 2010 14:25:30
Frogs can predict earthquakes up to 5 days days before they happen. They sense the release of radon gases and charged particles that are released from deep Earth movements before quakes strike. They use these as a form of earthquake early-warning-system and leave their colonies for higher ground...
March 12, 2010 13:15:11
Why do Easter Bunnies bring Easter Eggs? Rabbits don't lay eggs! And what is all this about hunting for Easter eggs - where did that come from? Most people think of Easter as the holy days of the Christian Calendar marking the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But many Easter celebrations ...
March 4, 2010 22:14:47
St. Patrick's Day is named after Saint Patrick who died in 461 AD. He is the patron saint of Ireland and the day of his birth, March 17th, was made a Catholic holiday in the early 1600's and an official Irish public holiday in 1903. Each March 17th, St. Patrick's Day parades take place all arou...
February 13, 2010 20:09:31
Sometimes timtim users take the time to write in and tell us how they have used the drawings and what they think of the site - we love it!! Below is a collection of comments: Joel Greene, Beaufort Symphony Orchestra - You are talented! Just found and immediately joined your s...
January 11, 2010 00:42:51
World's Most Sold Comic! Timtim Visits Mort Walker
Just after Thanksgiving 2009, timtim member Graham, his dad Robert, and I watched as Mort Walker focused his thoughts, took pencil and paper, and began to draw. It was a pleasure to the eye and amazing to see his power of concentration. A minute later he’d brought Beetle Bailey to life...
January 4, 2010 05:42:29
Snoopy from the 'Peanuts' comic strip was created by Charles Schulz. Schulz had a philosophy about life that came out in his work and can best be summed up with the following quiz. Try this out and you'll get the point. 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. 2. Na...
October 29, 2009 02:41:48
Asperger's Syndrome - A User Manual
Asperger's Syndrome - often pronounced as(s)-burger , is a diagnosis used to describe people within the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum. They are single-minded perfectionists with very poor social skills and a very literal interpretation of the world around them. For people like...
October 18, 2009 18:02:54
Stare at the black cross in the middle of this drawing. Keep your eyes on the cross and you will slowly see the pink dots be washed away by the rotating green dot! Now, try to follow the green dot with your eye around the circle. As you do, the green dot will disappear and all you will see is th...
August 20, 2009 22:39:57
It's like being hypnotized - you wake up afterwards wondering where you are and what happened. It seems like a daydream into The Twilight Zone - another Power Point Presentation by a speaker who believes that bullit points and non-stop slides can somehow transmit the message into the listeners' ...
July 5, 2009 16:32:41
What is the 6th number in this math sequence? 1, 2, 6, 42, 1806, ____ ??? It is said that engineers take 3 minutes to solve this, architects 3 hours and doctors 6 hours, physical therapists 20 minutes, yoga instructors 5 minutes, retired folks, 14 minutes, pharmacists 4 minutes, fraud investigat...
June 7, 2009 14:48:58
Alexander McCall Smith Interview: The No.1 Ladies Detective Writer
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling British author of over 60 books, is on his way back to Botswana to write his next book. He was kind enough to answer a few questions for timtim about his characters and book covers and his thoughts on artwork, talent, and teaching. Alexander ...
April 2, 2009 19:17:33
The first kiss can make or break a relationship. Besides being an emotional experience, kissing tells our primitive brains much about each other. The more different a man's saliva is from the woman's, the stronger the sub-conscious attraction. And research in the animal kingdom is revealing that...
March 25, 2009 14:29:16
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. There was a...
March 2, 2009 21:12:01
People who doodle are smart - they pay more attention and remember things better than those who do not doodle. That's the scientific result of a study done by Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth and published by the magazine Applied Cognitive P...