My middle school gym/health teacher taught me this trick. You bend in the corner of a sheet of paper and tear the paper to create a staple without having a staple or a stapler. It has saved me in a pinch a number of times. http://www.bloomize.com/how-to-bind-papers-without-staples-or-clips
I was going to fast along with my Muslim friends for Ramadan to see how it goes. I woke up at 11 am and missed my third opportunity to visit the KAUST campus after running to try to catch the bus in the heat. This was the first time something actually happened on time since [...]
There was a recent New York Times ARTICLE about the morality of dog fighting. Clearly the dog fighting part is barbaric. What about other animals? Pigs are just as intelligent (actually more so) and we treat them like the shit they so enjoy rolling around in (it is natural sunscreen). We draw a special line [...]
Cool big bang video: My current theory is that as a universe experiences heat death it becomes a uniform haze of photons (nature’s garbage particle) which can be viewed in a different way (for mathematicians think of a Fourier transform of a constant being a delta function) as a singularity which becomes more complex and creates a [...]
I have never heard of a nation that failed or was negatively impacted because they invested too much in education. So we need more tax cuts.
Cuban cigars are legal here. In the US since the early 1960′s it has been illegal to import anything from Cuba. I got to smoke one last night on the Jeddah waterfront in front of the local royal palace island. So take that Americans!