The Secret to White Teeth

The Claim: You need to pay the advertiser for the secret to white teeth. Usually the claim is a mom discovered this secret for under $5.00. Well, it's true. And you most likely have it right in your cabinet now.

The Truth: Pay for the results and you'll be told to use EasyWhite and DazzleWhite Pro which are highly regarded as a scam operation if you visit many consumer activist sites. Many variations of the name exist and none are to be trusted.

The actual secret is Brush with baking soda and peroxide. It's not the brushing that whitens your teeth either; it's the exposure to these active agents. Two natural whiteners are carrots and strawberries. It's suggested to drink Tea through a straw but who does that? Just brush your teeth if possible after drinking tea or be prepared at day's end to brush with baking soda and rinse with peroxide.

Leaving the peroxide in your mouth longer allows the active agent to whiten however it will make your gums tender. Results are fast, just keep at it. You should also note that you don't want to actually BRUSH your teeth with baking soda. You want to apply the baking soda to your teeth with a brush but don't brush vigorously as it is abrasive and will remove the enamel from your teeth if you are not careful.

Stemulite - Natural Alternative to Steroids

The Claim: Ads and loaded articles explain that Stemulite is alternative to steroids (anything is an alternative to steroids). Stemulite ads claim steroids don't build muscle they blow it up, and it's not permanent. Not true. The ads also claim Stemulite uses natural muscle repairing ingredients to help the body repair the micro tears from weight lifting so you build ...   more »

In a recent high profile row, Ralph Lauren took flack for blatant outrageous Photoshopping of models.   But this has not reformed the industry.   Instead, magazines like W have simply decided to jam more false images of how people look down our throats.  After all, who is to stop them?Check out what it appears to be 36 year old Anja Rubik's superimposed body... scratch that - her body was attached to Demi Moores for the sake of a better cover image.    You have to wonder, did Demi even wear the same Balmain dress?There has to be an extreme effort to put forth to take a woman that is 47 and make her look like a woman much younger.   The answer may be beyond Photoshop, it could very well be full body replacement with the use of Photoshop.  Representatives from W claim 'nothing unusual' was done but of course that means nothing because Photoshopping is standard practice in the industry.  The blogsphere has gone nuts questioning if the photo is retouched.   This writer asserts the photo is both retouched with other significant changes.The story is evolving by the minute.  Demi being the high-tech tweeter has joined the fray and insists in a tweet:  Here is the original image people my hips were not touched don't let these  people bullxxxx you!I've always been a big Demi Moore fan.  I mean no disrespect in any way, there seems to be a great body evidence (no pun intended) that the body in her photo is not her.  Offering up a photo she received from W magazine isn't the same as the original photo before any staffer touched it.  Perhaps she can clarify this and put he matter to rest.  Until then, a lot of speculation will continue.  If nothing else people are ...   more »

We've all made a paper airplane, usually we have two choices.  The long jet, or the short stunt plane.  Neither flies all that great.  What if you could combine the two for a snub nosed paper airplane that actually flies GREAT!

(Aside from the instructional video below - the Sky King Instructional Diagram of at right is larger file, right click and save if you want larger printable image)

That's just what Takuo Toda of Japan did April 11th 2009.  His origami paper airplane design combines the best of various designs into a super airplane known as the Sky King. His invention was recognized in 2009 by Time Magazine as one of the year's top 50 inventions.  Toda  knows a lot about inventing a great paper airplane, after all he's chairman of the Japan Origami Airplane Association. "Since I was about 4 years old, I’ve been able to make really good paper planes and commit the steps to memory."  His ambition has resulted in the Sky King (a.k.a. the Toda Fold), a paper airplane which in April 2009 was flown for a record 27.9 seconds at a competition in Hiroshima. "I'd been trying to break the record for 11 years," said Toda, 52. "I finally got it." It's not Toda's only plane design, he has over 700 in his resume.  He's even got various paper airplane instructional books published.   He hopes one day to reach a flight time of 35 seconds which he has accomplished in practice.

Anyone that has ever tossed a hand glider paper airplane has hoped for longer flight time.  People have tossed paper airplanes off the anything they could climb.  As a kid who hasn't stood on a balcony or roof of their house and tossed a plane? Adults have thrown them off tall buildings.  There is an unconfirmed story in paper airplane circles that in the U.S. a paper airplane was thrown off a mountain.  The person drove drove a half an hour downhill to a lower parking lot and the paper airplane landed at the same time he arrived.  

Takuo Toda's greater goal is to drop an airplane from orbit in space and NASA has approved it.  Still, Toda has some stiff competition in that area as Andy Chipling, president of the Paper Aircraft Association has already dropped a paper airplane from 7,000 feet which was performed from a hot air balloon high over Kenya in Africa.  He and the balloon operator were already at 5,000 feet above sea level so in reality they were 2,000 feet up.  Perhaps his toss from a para glider may have been more monumental.  What makes it special is those planes have survived the drop.  No one knows if a the planes dropped from the International Space Station will survive even though they'll be treated with a special glass coating to protect them in re-entering Earth's atmosphere.

Like the paper airplane you made as a kid, the Sky King is made of a single sheet of paper, which can be a your basic oblong notebook sheet or copy sheet (8.5 x 11).    You won't need any tape or glue either.



Fly it inside and you'll think, nice.  But since you won't have a flight-hanger to toss yours in, you may not get the same results as Mr Toda.  You may even think the Sky King is not much different than other paper airplanes.  Take it outside and it will really impress you.  You'll get long flight time results.   Here is a video of how to make the Sky King courtesy of Wired...   more »