Many of us fell for the idea of Sea-Monkeys. As kids, we hoped to own royal underwater creatures who wore golden crowns and sat on thrones. The package promised a kind of «Planet of the Apes»-meets-Atlantis inside cheap plastic mini-aquariums.
Sadly, Sea-Monkeys were nothing more than brine shrimp (Artemia salina) whose eggs could be brought to life by adding them to water.
As exciting as seeing the eggs hatch and turn into tiny translucent shrimp was, the only other trick Sea-Monkeys performed was swimming toward light. Not exactly what was advertised on the toys’ packaging.
In the video » Just Add Water » by Great Big Story and CNN Films, posted Wednesday, we learn the bizarre history of Sea-Monkeys and their creator, an eccentric inventor named Harold von Braunhut who marketed the creatures to gullible kids since their debut in 1960.
It wasn’t the brine shrimp themselves that captured kids’ imaginations, but the marketing behind them. After all, who could resist the ads in the back of comic books of cartoon-style underwater creatures (that look nothing like monkeys at all) doing circus tricks? Of course, none of us read that very small print that said, «Caricatures shown are not intended to depict Artemia salina. »
Harold von Braunhut went so far to file a Sea-Monkeys patent to breed a hybridized version of the brine shrimp to insure they would live longer.
Sea-Monkeys weren’t the only kids toys invented by Harold von Braunhut. He also created X-Ray Spex, Crazy Crabs and something called Invisible Goldfish. But according to the video, he also had a dark past that might involve supporting Nazis.

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Push-ups, like vanilla flavors, are reliable, but when you want something different but just as good dips are your answer. Dips also work out your chest, shoulders, and triceps, but focus on slightly different parts of those muscles. Combine that with push-ups and you will build awesome chest and “pushing” strength.
Before you try chest dips, make sure you can do a full push-up and have no pain in your shoulders and elbows. Dips can be done with either your body weight or a weight that’s tied around your waist, between two chairs or parallel bars. While holding onto both chairs or bars that are about shoulder width apart, suspend yourself in the air, using your arms, core, and legs to hold your whole body afloat and steady. Then you slowly lower your body by bending your elbows until they’re about 90 degrees and push back up. Once you try them, you’ll probably find them pretty difficult to do at first. You can work up to them by:
Just generally getting stronger in your upper body and core from other exercises will go a long way toward helping you complete dips. For more tips on setup and bad habits to avoid, check out the full video.
How to Do Dips — Chest & Triceps Exercise | Buff Dudes

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A portrait is often defined with a little depth of field of effect that makes the person in focus really pop. Most smartphone’s can’t produce this effect, but How-To Geek shows off a way to use a single Photoshop effect to create the same look.
How-To Geek suggests using an Iris Blur to emulate the effect of a wide aperture lens. Essentially, you’ll apply the effect, then drag the circles around to fake a good portrait effect. Of course, it takes a little more finesse than that, so head over to How-To Geek for their guide.
How to Make a Smartphone Photo Look like It Was Taken With a DSLR | How-To Geek

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You spend more time with your own failures than anyone else on Earth. Eventually, you might internalize them and come to fear failure. However, for everyone else, they barely know your failures even exist.
As personal finance site Four Pillar Freedom points out, many of the failures you internalize are completely invisible to everyone else. If you apply to a hundred jobs but only get one, most people only see you getting a job. You’re the only one who sees the hundred rejections. Sure, they might not feel great, but no one else is holding them against you:
Of course, sometimes you’ll screw up in a public way that people can see. None of us can hide all of our faults. However, you’re not as much of a failure as you might think. Most people experience those same rejections. You just don’t see theirs and, naturally, they don’t see yours.
You Are the Only Person Tracking Your Failures | Four Pillar Freedom via Rockstar Finance
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Now that the year is ending, and the holiday season is over, your gingerbread house may seem a little outmoded. But pie knows no season, so rather than tossing your cookie house in the trash, you should probably make it into a pie crust.
This brilliant idea comes from the geniuses over at Extra Crispy , and I really wish I had known about it before I tossed my spicy construction project, due to structural issues. Assuming you didn’t use glue to keep the thing together, this can be done with almost any gingerbread house. Just pick off the gumdrops and other candies (frosting and sprinkles can stay), bash it up with a hammer, and chuck it in the food processor to get two cups of fine crumbs. Mix the crumbs with half a stick of melted butter, press into a pie pan, and bake at 350 °F for ten minutes. Fill as you please.
Turn a Gingerbread House into a Crazy-Good Pie Crust | Extra Crispy
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