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July 10, 2010 19:25:37
My brother, Tom, said we should make some money. I knew what money was - adults had piles of it. But the idea of making the stuff seemed crazy to me. I was 6 years old and could make paper airplanes and hammer a nail. But making quarters, nickels and dimes was a mystery. Tom, ...
July 29, 2010 14:41:51
I grew up with two sisters, so I knew what girls looked like. We were a big family with one very busy bathroom. I felt kinda sorry for girls – they seemed to have some parts missing. They couldn’t just stand and squirt all over the pot. They had to sit. But those boy-gir...
May 8, 2010 15:41:39
During the Cold War, Mother's Day was the one day of the year when a launched nuclear missile could have gone out of control. All commercial telephone satellites were overloaded with transatlantic Mother's Day calls, and the US military often used these satellites as back-up guidance systems for...
December 9, 2008 21:01:02
A 20 year old Chinese girl from Zhuhai in Guangdong province became partially deaf after a passionate kiss from her boyfriend. The girl was admitted to a hospital with complete loss of hearing in her left ear. The doctor who treated the girl explained his diagnosis. "The kiss reduced the pr...
October 14, 2008 20:31:56
They don’t stay closed. They won’t go up half the time. Pull too hard and the zipper pull comes off! Zippers are probably the first machines any of us learn to use as kids. But who first thought up the zipper and how long ago was that? It all started 115 years ago in Chi...
March 23, 2010 01:12:40
Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads. Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled. Meanness don't jes' happen overnight. &nb...
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 ...
February 18, 2009 20:48:41
Ben 10? No! Pen 10 - Obama Style
When President Barack Obama signed the $789 billion Stimulus Bill on Tuesday Feb. 17th in Colorado on live TV the audience and press were scratching their heads with laughter. The president used a brand new pen to sign each of the 10 signatures the document needed to become law. As odd as thi...
September 20, 2008 16:48:07
How many times have you heard the words, “I can’t draw!” or “Drawing is a talent you inherit!” With such words people often dismiss their own abilities and spend the rest of their lives muttering the phrase “If only I could draw it I could explain it much bet...
April 6, 2009 19:35:26
A few weeks ago 9-year-old Malaysian boy, Lim Ding Wen, wrote a finger-painting application called Doodle Kids for the Apple iPhone. The program allows iPhone owners to draw images on the handset's touch screen using just their fingers. Although done to please his two sisters aged 3 and 5, the p...
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' ...
June 24, 2010 19:19:41
DreamWorks takes Danish Trolls to Hollywood
In 1959 Thomas Dam was an unemployed danish fisherman. With no money to buy a Christmas gift for his daughter Lajla, he used his family's carving talents to make a gift. He created a wooden, troll doll modeling it after his own mirror image. 51 years later the trolls are going to Hollywood. On J...
October 29, 2009 02:41:48
Einstein Mozart Darwin Warhol & Bill Gates
Asperger's Syndrome - often pronounced as(s)-burger , is an unusual phrase used to describe people on the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum who are single-minded perfectionists with very poor social skills and a very literal interpretation of the world around them. For most, the 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 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...