Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia is the term for the fear of the number 666.

We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less; we have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, yet less time; we have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgement; more experts, yet more problems; we have more gadgets but less satisfaction; more medicine, yet less wellness; we take more vitamins but see fewer results. We drink too much; smoke too much; spend too recklessly; laugh too little; drive too fast; get too angry quickly; stay up too late; get up too tired; read too seldom; watch TV too much and pray too seldom.
 
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values; we fly in faster planes to arriv ...

I have spent many sleepless nights, or if I did manage, it was "as if I was not sleeping". However, I stumbled upon these tips the other day, and I thought sharing is caring.

It is worth trying if you're a night owl, like myself!

Good night

Source:

http://positivemed.com/2013/12/22/8-things-not-to-do-before-bedtime/ ...

The Tunguska event was a large explosion that occurred near the Tunguska River, in where is now Russia. The explosion occurred at an altitude of 5–10 kilometres (3–6 mi) by a stony asteroid that is believed to have burst in the air rather than hitting the surface.

Since the 1908 explosion, there have been an estimated 1,000 scholarly papers (mainly in Russian) published on the Tunguska explosion. In 2013, a team of researchers led by Victor Kvasnytsya of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine published analysis results of micro-samples from a peat bog near the blast epicenter showing fragments that may be of meteoric origin.

Estimates of the energy of the blast range from as low as three to as high as 30 megatons of TNT. The energy of th ...

The MessagePad, released in 1993, was the first in a series of Newton devices to be developed and sold on the market. The 1.4 pound physical device was collaboratively manufactured by Apple and Sharp. The MessagePad packed a 20MHz ARM 610 RISC processor, 640 kilobytes of RAM, and a 336x240 monochrome LCD touch screen with stylus and handwriting recognition support. It was powered by four AAA batteries. It ran Newton OS version 1.05 and cost $699.99.

The Newton platform was axed from the Apple product line for two main reasons.

(1) The early Newton OS that shipped with the original MessagePad proved to be not so user friendly, especially when it came to the unpredictable handwriting recognition software. The press and other media outlets (inc ...

This sand castle has been etched on a single grain of sand.