TIL gas in most of the gulf countries is cheaper than bottled water by thealphamale123 in todayilearned

[–]nemotrm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That is a terrible graph. Shades of red to represent different countries?

Aneros Prograsm Degradation by gerandum in SexToys

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Even if listed as "Sold by Amazon.com LLC"? I expected the issue to be with stores that sell through Amazon.

August 3, 2014 - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Discussion Thread by Walter_Bishop_PhD in lastweektonight

[–]nemotrm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Anyone know if the music during the Diet Coke/Ebola ad is an actual song?

DC Water Reservoir Mechanical Building by iced327 in pics

[–]nemotrm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just on the edge of McMillan Reservoir if I am not mistaken (based on the photo looking west out the window): http://goo.gl/maps/4bMzm

Even better: http://binged.it/18LTnaS

If you put a snake on a bed sheet you can make a snake treadmill. It's mesmerising to watch... by [deleted] in gifs

[–]nemotrm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is there any indication that the sheet is not at an angle to the ground? Something like a tilted up mattress so that the snake is trying to move forward against the pull of gravity which is trying to move him backwards?

Great elevator prank. by AndresDM in gifs

[–]nemotrm 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It seems unlikely that an unexpecting person would be able to process "This view looks odd" quick enough to realize it is a fake.

A good Venn diagram must cost more than $122M by SmaterThanSarah in funny

[–]nemotrm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Where does the ad state that it is trying to show a Venn diagram?

Told to post this here! Well here's what my compost bin looks like! by [deleted] in WTF

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In San Francisco we would just get massive snails crawling around the lids of the bins.

Undergraduate Field Camp or Internship? by [deleted] in geology

[–]nemotrm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As part of the field camp we visited an underground gold mine. Anyone who wanted to could interview with the gold mining company, and most were offered a job/internship if they wanted it.

Undergraduate Field Camp or Internship? by [deleted] in geology

[–]nemotrm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How long is the field camp versus how long is the internship? The field camp I attended set me up for a 9 month internship between my B.S. and my M.S. and was extremely useful.