I find this graphic particularly interesting because I was born and grew up in the greater Los Angeles area. Born in North Hollywood. Lived in Sherman Oaks until I left home and got married Went to Van Nuys Jr. High and High School Have been to all of the areas depicted, except Skid Row
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The heart of Blue whale is of such tremendous dimension that a small child could swim through its veins. How do you call the dot over i and j – it’s “title”. And what about the metal part of a pencil? – it’s “ferrule.” A group of flamingos is a “flamboyance”. And a group of pugs
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Sharyl Attkisson is an American author and host of the weekly Sunday public affairs program Full Measure with Sharyl Attkisson, which airs on television stations operated by the Sinclaire Broadcast Group. She was formerly an investigative correspondent in the Washington bureau for CBS News but left when CBS began sidelining her because she did not
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I bet you didn’t know this. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMsaH6SY4CY] A trio of researchers at Stanford recently published an article in Nature that explains the curious attraction found in droplets of everyday food coloring. The paper is the culmination of hundreds of experiments that began in 2009 when Nate Circa was working on an unrelated experiment as
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Quora – A site for mostly professional questions about science, economics, movies or anything else. Currently owned by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales (who sometimes answers questions too)! Question.com – Questions and answers in any category. Although it has a good name, users are not as active as on the other sites listed here. Yahoo! Answers
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