Try this intriguing experiment! Prepare three bowls - with cold, warm and normal water (at room temperature). Simultaneously, immerse your left hand in the cold water, and your right hand in the warm water. When the sensations of opposite temperatures are mindfully felt, remove both hands, and submerge them in the normal water together. Something ( Read more... )

Sometimes, I get slightly annoyed when I ask friends out and they make it difficult for me: (in order of decreasing annoyance ( Read more... )

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back-dated to 24 Aug 2006 (Thu), PragueContemporary observations are changing our understanding of planetary systems, and it is important that our nomenclature for objects reflect our current understanding. This applies, in particular, to the designation 'planets'. The word 'planet' originally described 'wanderers' that were known only as moving ( Read more... )

It's so unfair. We've not even begun reminiscing over old childhood days and she's left us!

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(1) around 2:15pm, when I was parking my car at Adam Road Food Centre to have lunch with my father, a young man came up to me and offered me his 50-cent parking coupon, as he had used only 5 minutes of it. So, I saved 50 cents by his kind gesture. So nice ( Read more... )

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Le matin je me réveille comme si ma mère est toujours là. Ce sentiment me calme et me satisfait. Mais la connaissance qu'elle n'est plus dans cette maison, dans cette rue, dans cette ville, dans le monde, dans l'univers risque de me frustrer ( Read more... )

君不见，黄河之水天上来，奔流到海不复回。
　　君不见，高堂明镜悲白发，朝如青丝暮成雪。
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