Should you ever find yourself with a few minutes in a day just idly clicking around on the net...

Science Crowdfunding - all current projects are here

And here are just some of those projects:

Cancer - Click to CureEach image you will see is a tiny tumour sample from a huge dataset. Help our scientists to accelerate the analysis of this data by ( Read more... )

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Ingredients:
Coffee powder - 3 Tbsp
Hot water - 3 Tbsp
Sugar - 1/2 cup
Gelatin - 1 1/2 Tbsp
Brandy - 3 Tbsp
Evaporated milk (chilled at least 2 hr beforehand) - 410 g

Instructions:Fully dissolve the gelatin powder in the water, then add in the coffee powder, sugar and brandy ( Read more... )

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Just quick whirlwind around the world and it's fireworks displays to welcome the new year.

( None of these photos are mine. )

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Pick fifteen pictures that are currently on your hard drive that you feel are self-expressive. They must be on your hard drive right now, no Googling, no Flickr.

2. No captions. You're speaking in pictures. (Ask me for sources)

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Serves: 4

INGREDIENTS
Skim Milk - 2 cups
Sweetener - 2 tbsp (I would use sugar, at about 1.5 tbsp. Need to experiment)
Peppermint extract - 1/2 tsp
Unsweetened chocolate (finely chopped) - 1/2 square
Hot brewed coffee (double strength) - 2 cups
Whipped cream - 1/2 cup

DIRECTIONS1. Mix skim milk, sweetener and peppermint extract in saucepan. Stir ( Read more... )

Sometimes, you find yourself with a rather small present, (like home-made jewellery, etc.) which isn't always worth the hassle of going out and getting the box or bag. Or you just don't want to spend the extra bit of cash on wrapping. It's nice on the environment too you know!

[Image heavy!]

The basics: No fancy paper? No problemYou can just ( Read more... )

So, holiday music. Much of it is overplayed, not that I don't have a couple of those myself.

All links go to youtube, downloads to come later. (And not of every song.)

Christmas Eve in Sarajevo, Trans Siberian Orchestra. Christmas, orchestras, rock and kittens. ♥

Christmas 1915, Tommy Flemming. History is strangely fun, even the not so happy ( Read more... )

Fics by sinnatious
All from the Final Fantasy fandom, FF7 and Dissidia(+Duodecim).

Allure of Honey
It was Bartz's fault. He'd sold off a pile of armour and weapons from their collection without a single thought that Cloud might still be using some of them, all so he could get himself an exclusive set. And right after Onion Knight had used up a stack of ( Read more... )

Masala chai. ( They’re more like guidelines. ) SOURCE HERE 4 teaspoons of coriander seeds ( Read more... )