Bluffing is a form of deception that is common and essential in Poker as well as many everyday situations. The body unconsciously leaks ‘gestural slips’ (aka “Poker Tells”) so if you know what you are looking for, you stand a better chance of calling your opponents bluff. Lie detection experts can spot deception a mile off and using our guide, you will be able too. Via: Visual.ly
The Bloomberg website has produced an interactive infographic on the richest people in the world fully equiped with responsive rollovers and cute stats about said baller. The infographic lets you categorize by industry, country of citizenship, gender, age and world domination plot. Then you can plot all the rich heads by rank, graph and region. Oodles of fun. I personally don’t get how the Waltons can eat dinner with each other without having squires taste their food before hand. One swift poison sip of soup and the other 3 would be roughly 10 billion richer. Then there’s also those pesky kids to think about also. Well food for thought. Check out the interactive list at Bloomberg Billionaires
Basically your first step to being a grown ass man. So you’re living on your own without a clue as to how to cook, clean or organize your kitchen. Don’t worry, you’re in the same boat as most guys, but if you want a leg up on the comp-bro-tition it might help to know a thing or two about what makes your kitchen tick. The kitchen Cheat sheet, by Everest Fitness, is your kitchen guide for dummies. The guide helps with metric conversion with oven temperature to weights as well as the different cuts of beef, pork and lamb and how long to cook your basic vegetables, but he most helpful tip is the fridge storage tip. Ahh you grow up so fast. Next up, buy a silverware tray. No? Ok, one step at a time.
The internet has spoken. For years the many distinctive aspects of the world surrounding the big game have gone as a matter of opinion, but there is finally a way to gauge how the world (wide web) perceives it. Here are the metrics of advertisements during the Super Bowl, as well as most tweeted moments of the game, halftime show and The Harbowl.
Properly describing the taste of your favorite beer to someone who hasn’t indulged is more difficult than you think. h/t Guyism.com
This infographic may feel obvious but I think this needs to be shared with everyone living and working in New York City. Very little escalator etiquette in the Big Apple. In fact, save this infographic to your desktop, print it out and keep a few in your back pocket. If you see anyone breaking the rules hand them a flier. Source: Laughingsquid.com
Sometimes products we see on TV don’t actually equate the same way in real life. This is especially true for fast food.
Controlling your dreams might be easier than you think. This infographic by Bedroomworld.com ventures into the phenomenon of lucid dreaming and shows how you can become an oneironaut (A person who explores dream worlds, usually associated with lucid dreaming).
Curling up in a ball on one of those double wide faux leather seats. Laying on the nasty carpet with a jacket over our head. Leaning forward with your head resting on a carry on suitcase. We’ve all been there. Sleeping at an airport can be an absolute nightmare. Here are a few people that tried (and filed) to catch some ZZZ’s before their flight and an interesting infographic showing us how to do it. View the full size infographic >>
This infographic from Cascade Healthcare Solutions provides interesting facts about the obesity epidemic in America and impact it is having on the economy, military, and healthcare.
The big game is almost upon, which means you better be up to date on your Super Bowl history. The last thing you need is to pull some random stat out of the blue, only to be called out by the stat troll who has Wiki ready and armed on his iPad.
Facebook has recently introduced Graph Search which brings the long due innovation in internet searching and suddenly makes Google look broken. It is based on natural language instead of Google’s keyword based search; it provides you with personalised search results that exactly match your needs; it understands – for the most part – what you mean by a search query instead of mindlessly matching the keywords; and a lot more. This infographic explains how Google and Facebook Graph search stand head-to-head with each other and how Facebook’s Graph Search is the future of internet searching.
A bitterly violent war against Mexican Drug Cartels wages on across the U.S. border. Tens of thousands are being murdered, and over a million are being forced to flee their homes. U.S. laws and policy play a major role in the conflict’s violence. This video is about understanding the complexities of the war and why it is happening. Source: visually.com
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The good people at supermanhomepage.com put together this incredibly detailed infographic that shows the evolution of Superman’s “S” shield over the last 75 years.
Excercising 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, isn’t just about building up muscles worth showing off. As you’ll learn here, it is literally a matter of life and death. Tribe Sports created this infographic to put the fear of fitness in your eyes.
Ever wonder what kind of planning goes into pulling off a massive diamond heist? A lot. Take a look at what it takes to pull off a very lucrative and very illegal line of work. Here are 8 different high profile diamond heists, some successful, some not. Go head, Danny Ocean, give it a shot.
Here is a map of the wide spread and just plain mean strain of Flue virus running rampant around the U.S. this season. Chris Cantey created this map using an incidence of the keywords ‘sick’ or ‘flu’ from from geo-enabled Tweets, mined from the Twitter Streaming API. The results may surprise you.
From primarily males with low-tech gadgets to an even split of males and females with smartphones, who share everything, see how college students and their technology have evolved since the 1960s in this fun infographic from carrington.edu.
So whether you’ve been a cider aficionado for years or you’re just getting into this world of apple-flavored delight, take a look at the following infographic and see for yourself the proud history of hard cider.
We’ve all used textbooks at nearly every level of our education. Some of these textbooks have such a long lifespan, it is impossible for them to remain objective and completely correct for decades, which makes finding errors today an easy task. It is particularly jarring when some of today’s textbooks get things offensively wrong. Valorebooks.com has listed some of these notable errors, examining errors ranging from incorrect math and grammar to offensive statements and even bigotry. Keep in mind that some of these textbooks are still in use in classrooms, and the process for changing a textbook can be quite long. Ultimately, it is up to the school boards in the specific districts that still use them to change the curriculum.
As we told you last week, 60% of football fans prefer tailgating at home. So what is driving this change in the way football fans across the country are enjoying America’s game? It’s a number of things ranging from technology advances that let you watch every game in real time on crystal clear TV’s to obnoxious fans offending every kid within 25 feet with their drunken obscenities. But mostly this shift is being caused by rising prices in just about everything. Tickets, gas, parking, and the list goes on.
The long road to the superbowl often provides unpredictable results. Which seeds have won the Lombardi Trophy since 1975, when the NFL began awarding home-field advantage to each conference’s top seeed? Source: Sports Data
You just finished shredding some serious pow on the mountain. Killed it. Now you’re freezing, tired, legs feel like jello and all you can think about is happy hour at the lodge. Who knows what it is, but there’s nothing like a good happy hour at the slopes after a day of skiing. Everyone is high (spirited) and fun loving. Maybe it’s because of the Hall & Oats cover band or maybe it’s because a day of hard work calls for a night of good drinks. So heat up and ask for this easy to concoct warm beverage. Just make sure you drink responsibly and are over 21. We don’t need drunk babies skiing down the slopes. Tak a look at some of our other Drink Infographics
Making a good shot is like knowing how to play the piano; Unless you’re a professional it comes in handy at parties and lounges, mostly to impress someone, but done right and you’re golden. The trick is knowing what song to play and what shot to take. 30 different cocktail shot recipes, visualized into a handy infographic for all. Then go look at our Drink Infographics section. Do it.
Cell phones today are amazing. You can watch HD movies while flying across the country. You can instantly talk face to face with someone half way across the globe. But did you know that a cell phoen is good for more than communication? Let’s stay things turn nasty in your city. Think zombie attack or major superstorm. You’re left there cold and hungry. No matches, no fishing pole, no way to tell which way is north and south. What do you do? Find a few cheap cell phones and use it’s parts as a survival tool.
Last year’s end sparked a huge flow of New Years resolution stats and with stats come infographics. Take each of these as matter of fact or with a grain of salt, each has a substantial amount of information to help you stick with your New Years rezzy. Good Luck. (H/T): Visual.ly
RSVLTS.com headquarters is in Jersey City, NJ which was hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Judging frmt he destruction we saw out our window and the photos from Hoboken we need to take a good hard look at how our communities handle emergencies. Are we really prepared to handle the worst case scenarios? More than ever, there is a great need for emergency management experts. This infographic provides details as to what that looks like. With the dismal stats related to M.B.A. students it might be a nice career shift.
Our pal’s over at Krush created this gnarly infographic showing the back end of the favorite action sports winter pass time of our generation. The X Games have most definitely surpassed it’s founders wildest dreams in terms of sheer growth and popularity. Quadroupaling in attendance and nearly tripling in TV viewers, the X Games have become a staple competition no matter the household. Check out the infographic to find out the bare bones facts.
No one knows exactly where it started, but tailgating has become somewhat of a staple in American culture. Check out this infographic on the history in the U.S.
Here are a few very interesting facts about the human body that would make for great water cooler talk today. GO SCIENCE!
Whether you think they’re cliché or not, everyone has a New Years Resolution. The trick is to keep it and stick with it. Take a look at popular resolutions from years yonder and some tips on how to follow through with them.
Here is an accurate sketch of the deepest depths in our oceans and lakes, including the Challenger Deep, the deepest trench in our ocean, where James Cameron recently ventured to in a one man sub. Click Image for full size. Source: xkcd
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