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Self-explanatory - it's a website that's been advertised on Canadian (and maybe American) TV. I looked into it and it has some really nice articles explaining how some things work. The nagivation is sometimes a bit clunky, and you have to remember to click NEXT PAGE - for some reason they can fit a whole article on a page -_-. The NEXT PAGE is inconveniently placed, but once you get used to it you'll be able to browse and learn for hours.

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How SWEARING works.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/swearing.htm

How DEATH BY HANGING works.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/death-by-hanging.htm

How COMPUTER ADDICTION works.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/compu ... ction3.htm
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The swearing one looks interesting.

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Cruor wrote:That was neither funny nor insightful.


He's like 12.
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Cruor wrote:The swearing one looks interesting.

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dom wrote:How SWEARING works.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/swearing.htm

People swear to help establish a group identity???
For ******'s sake, dom. Nice articles. :D

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Grandpa wrote:
dom wrote:How SWEARING works.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/swearing.htm

People swear to help establish a group identity???
For ******'s sake, dom. Nice articles. :D

Thx,
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I knew I should of just skipped OT and PMed you the link.
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pfft, rip off artist:
http://www.slate.com/

Nice site, thx for posting it.
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dom wrote:Self-explanatory - it's a website that's been advertised on Canadian (and maybe American) TV. I looked into it and it has some really nice articles explaining how some things work. The nagivation is sometimes a bit clunky, and you have to remember to click NEXT PAGE - for some reason they can fit a whole article on a page -_-. The NEXT PAGE is inconveniently placed, but once you get used to it you'll be able to browse and learn for hours.

Some articles i've read:

How SWEARING works.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/swearing.htm

How DEATH BY HANGING works.
http://people.howstuffworks.com/death-by-hanging.htm

How COMPUTER ADDICTION works.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/compu ... ction3.htm


Does it happen to have a "How Girls work." article? :?
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I just saw the commercial for this on discovery channel its a guy teaching a cat how to scuba dive. And the guy says sometimes people do weird things. To find out how almost everything works come to howstuffworks.com!

Weird comercial

Edit: Ahhh dam they dont have everything
what is the meaning of life?

NONE

All it shows is the Iching and otehr random stuff..
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NO_SILK_4_ME wrote:Does it happen to have a "How Girls work." article? :?


haha.

the swearing article was interesting indeed, specially the sections about the brain.
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