April 1, 2010 14:25:30
Frogs can predict earthquakes up to 5 days days before they happen. They sense the release of radon gases and charged particles that are released from deep Earth movements before quakes strike. They use these as a form of earthquake early-warning-system and leave their colonies for higher ground...
March 23, 2010 01:12:40
Keep skunks and bankers at a distance. Life is simpler when you plow around the stump. Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads. Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled. Meanness don't jes' happen overnight. &nb...
March 12, 2010 13:15:11
Why Do Easter Bunnies Have Eggs?
Why do Easter Bunnies bring Easter Eggs? And what is all this about hunting for Easter eggs - where did that come from? Most people think of Easter as the holy days of the Christian Calendar marking the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. But many Easter celebrations include The Easter Bunny...
March 4, 2010 22:14:47
St. Patrick's Day is named after Saint Patrick who died in 461 AD. He is the patron saint of Ireland and the day of his birth, March 17th, was made a Catholic holiday in the early 1600's and an official Irish public holiday in 1903. Each March 17th, St. Patrick's Day parades take place all arou...
February 13, 2010 20:09:31
Sometimes timtim users take the time to write in and tell us what they think of the site and we love it. Below is a collection of comments that have come in over the last year Rachel in Australia writes: I love you for sharing this wonderful generous resource, Tim. Thank you so m...
January 11, 2010 00:42:51
World's Most Sold Comic! Timtim Visits Mort Walker
Just after Thanksgiving 2009, timtim member Graham, his dad Robert, and I watched as Mort Walker focused his thoughts, took pencil and paper, and began to draw. It was a pleasure to the eye and amazing to see his power of concentration. A minute later he’d brought Beetle Bailey to life...
January 4, 2010 05:42:29
Snoopy from the 'Peanuts' comic strip was created by Charles Schulz. Schulz had a philosophy about life that came out in his work and can best be summed up with the following quiz. Try this out and you'll get the point. 1. Name the five wealthiest people in the world. 2. Na...
October 29, 2009 02:41:48
Asperger's Syndrome - A User Manual
Asperger's Syndrome - often pronounced as(s)-burger , is a diagnosis used to describe people within the high-functioning end of the autistic spectrum. They are single-minded perfectionists with very poor social skills and a very literal interpretation of the world around them. For people like...
October 18, 2009 18:02:54
Stare at the black cross in the middle of this drawing. Keep your eyes on the cross and you will slowly see the pink dots be washed away by the rotating green dot! Now, try to follow the green dot with your eye around the circle. As you do, the green dot will disappear and all you will see is th...
August 20, 2009 22:39:57
It's like being hypnotized - you wake up afterwards wondering where you are and what happened. It seems like a daydream into The Twilight Zone - another Power Point Presentation by a speaker who believes that bullit points and non-stop slides can somehow transmit the message into the listeners' ...
July 5, 2009 16:32:41
What is the 6th number in this math sequence? 1, 2, 6, 42, 1806, ____ ??? It is said that engineers take 3 minutes to solve this, architects 3 hours and doctors 6 hours, physical therapists 20 minutes, yoga instructors 5 minutes, retired folks, 14 minutes, pharmacists 4 minutes, fraud investigat...
June 7, 2009 14:48:58
Alexander McCall Smith Interview: The No.1 Ladies Detective Writer
Alexander McCall Smith, best-selling British author of over 60 books, is on his way back to Botswana to write his next book. He was kind enough to answer a few questions for timtim about his characters and book covers and his thoughts on artwork, talent, and teaching. Alexander ...
April 6, 2009 19:35:26
A few weeks ago 9-year-old Malaysian boy, Lim Ding Wen, wrote a finger-painting application called Doodle Kids for the Apple iPhone. The program allows iPhone owners to draw images on the handset's touch screen using just their fingers. Although done to please his two sisters aged 3 and 5, the p...
April 2, 2009 19:17:33
The first kiss can make or break a relationship. Besides being an emotional experience, kissing tells our primitive brains much about each other. The more different a man's saliva is from the woman's, the stronger the sub-conscious attraction. And research in the animal kingdom is revealing that...
March 25, 2009 14:29:16
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
There was an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. There was an old lady who swallowed a spider, that wiggled and jiggled and tickled inside her. She swallowed the spider to catch the fly. I don't know why she swallowed the fly. There was a...