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6 Surprisingly Advanced Ways Animals Use Medicine
#3. Monkeys and Elephants Practice Family Planning
If there's one single thing that separates humans from animals, it's that we actually put some thought into who we'll have sex with. Animals don't plan for a baby; they just hump the nearest female they see and let natural selection take care of the rest. Hell, dogs will hump your leg if they're in the mood. They don't care. Put it in front of them, they'll hump it.
Of course they will. They're animals. Enjoying sex without getting pregnant is advanced stuff -- most human teenagers can't manage it, let alone monkeys.
The Medicine: Chemicals for Birth Control and Induced Labor
The woolly spider monkeys of Brazil have it figured out.
They've also cornered the limb market.
According to the Smithsonian National Zoo, anthropologists have found that the monkey females eat certain types of plants that increase their estrogen levels, thereby decreasing their fertility rates. Interestingly, they also found that others were eating plants that very likely raised the probability of getting pregnant. So those monkeys not only take the pill -- they come off of it and replace it with fertility treatments when necessary. Whoa.
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Hope they have adoption centers, too, because awwwww.
African elephants, meanwhile, have figured out ways to induce labor. A pregnant elephant was once seen walking 17 miles to get to a certain tree, uprooting it and eating it whole. A few days later, a healthy calf was born. It hardly seems like coincidence -- trees of this very family, Boraginaceae, are also used by local Kenyan people to induce labor.
And while eating a whole tree might seem somewhat excessive, this is not uncommon behavior in elephants, as seen in Dresden Zoo, Munich:
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Yes, that is a whole Christmas tree. Yes, he ate five of the damn things.
#2. Birds Use Anti-Lice Shampoo
Many of the parents among our readers probably know of the nasty little souvenirs their kids can sometimes bring home from kindergarten or elementary school, and we're not talking about dead slugs, Pokemon cards or Justin Bieber merchandise. We're talking about this:
Oh, hey, it doesn't look as freaky up close and oh no our brains have died.
Animals have the same problem with lice and even worse kinds of bugs. And it can be a killer for birds, since their whole bodies are covered in large, dense feathers that make a wonderful breeding ground. The same feathers the bird really needs in order to keep functioning as a bird.
"I told you sons a' bitches to check your bags!"
But what's a creature with a brain the size of a pea gonna do about it?
The Solution: Smoke and Acid
Maybe you've heard about the superstition that a raven or crow on the roof brings bad luck. Or maybe you saw Stephen King's made-for-TV movie The Stand and figured it out yourself. As we have pointed out previously, those birds are freakishly intelligent, and people of olden times theorized that the black bird on the straw-thatched roof is in fact plotting to set it on fire.
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This is still true, only now they'd strip the lead off first.
Well, not quite that: The smoke that comes up from home roofs can fumigate lice or other nasty parasites right out of a bird's plumage. In modern times, people have witnessed crows air out their wings over a cigarette.
Oh, and just in case man is not so helpful as to provide burning stuff for their hygienic needs, there is even a well-documented case of a tame rook that learned how to strike matches for exactly that purpose. There are no reports of what other things "Corbie" managed to light up this way, but we're certain that many orphans died.
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In a more unusual practice, birds have been observed engaging in a hardcore delousing method known as "anting." In active anting, birds pick up ants -- particularly ones that can spray formic acid -- and rub them along their flight feathers to kill any hangers-on. Passive anting is, well, a little more masochistic. Basically the birds will just find an anthill, drape themselves over it and enjoy the sensation of an ant swarm crawling over their wings, eating every louse they see.
"Gee, this is a great idea and I should try it right now!" -- No one.
#1. Caterpillars Poison Themselves to Save Themselves
Caterpillars, being essentially little more than sentient pipe cleaners, could not be expected to stand much of a chance against, well, anything. They're pretty much at the bottom of the food chain, basically brainless, shuffling bits of meat for smarter animals to much on.
They're such easy targets that somewhere along the line they even became the prison bitch to the tachina fly, which has taken to laying their eggs inside the caterpillars so their little fly babies can have a tasty meal when they eventually hatch. So it's not like with most parasites, where the bugs just kind of camp out in the guts of their host, making them miserable and stealing their nutrients. These larva will eat that caterpillar from the inside out -- eventually killing it altogether.
And it couldn't be perpetrated by a more adorable creature.
And yet, there is one thing that caterpillars are very, very good at: eating. And they turned it into a weapon.
The Medicine: Plant Insecticides
Experiments have shown that infected woolly bear caterpillars will seek out and eat plants containing a specific alkaloid that kills their unwelcome subtenants. And if that already seems like way more thinking than a caterpillar should be capable of, it turns out they also carefully manage the dose. Being insects themselves, the chemicals also poison them -- so they have to take just enough to kill the bugs living inside them without killing themselves. All without the benefit of one of those little cough syrup measuring cups to make sure they don't OD.
Between parasites and poison, this little thing is more alive than any of us, man.
Wait, there's more. If you're thinking that caterpillars just eat these plants all the time, you're wrong -- eating the plants when healthy can kill them. The benefit comes when the parasites are present to take the brunt of the poison. In other words, the insects have to not only know that they are sick, but avoid the medicine if they aren't.
Raise your hand if you have at least one friend who can't manage that level of self-control around medication.
At least when this guy is tripping out he can survive jumping off a fifth-story balcony.
For more information for you Jack Hanna wannabes, check out 6 Adorable Cat Behaviors With Shockingly Evil Explanations and 6 Animals That Just Don't Give A F#@k.


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Is there a way to give terminal specific background image and make it 50% transparent at the same time?
Assuming you are asking about Gnome Terminal, select your background image and adjust below transparency slider - it's in same tab in same preferences dialog
The options for gnome terminal do not allow you to set a transparency mask for a background image.
You can either choose from a solid color background, a background image where you can set the opacity shade of that image or transparent background where you can set the level of transparency for the terminal's selected background color.
If you select a image as a background you wont be able to see tru that image.
What you can do is create an image in a format that allows transparency (ie png) and set that image as your background for the terminal.
Step by step
I have started with this image called
I have open it with Gimp and set the transparency of it to 75% and saved it as
I then go to Edit > Profile Preferences > Background and set the image I have just created as the selected background for my terminal.
You can then adjust the opacity for the background with the slider to get the desired shade on your background.


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Peano Arithmetic has two axioms which use the multiplication symbol: ∀x:x*0=0 and ∀x:∀y:x*Sy=x+x*y. The 2-term relation "x divides y" can be expressed as D(x,y) := ∃z:z*x=y. Multiplication is a function and divisibility is a relation, so in order to compare apples and apples, consider the 3-term relation M(x,y,z) := x*y=z and the axioms ∀x:M(x,0,0) and ∀x:∀y:∃u:∃v:M(x,Sy,u)∧M(x,y,v)∧v+x=u and also the fact that M is a function ∀x:∀y:∀u:∀v:(M(x,y,u)∧M(x,y,v))→u=v. Now D can be defined in terms of M by D(x,y) := ∃z:M(z,x,y). I wonder if it is possible to do the reverse, and define multiplication in terms of divisibility. If the M axioms are replaced by some D axioms (maybe ∀x:D(x,x), ∀x:D(x,0), and others), can M be expressed in terms of D? Prime, GCD, LCM can all be defined in terms of D alone, but I don't know how to define M in terms of D, nor do I know how to axiomatize D without reference to M. If it is possible, what axioms are required for the divisibility relation, and how is the multiplication relation defined? If not, why not?
My answer is couched in informal terms, largely in order to make typing less tedious. I assume that you have enough experience to turn the answer into a formal one. The downside of doing that is that it would make the thing look more complicated than it really is. In producing the definition, I make no attempt at efficiency.
Suppose that we have produced a definition from divisibility of the relation $\text{Square}(s,t)$, where $\text{Square}(s,t)$ means "$t$ is the square of $s$."
Then we can readily produce a definition of of your $\text{M}(x,y,z)$ by using the fact that $(x+y)^2=x^2+ 2xy + y^2$.
Indeed $\text{M}(x,y,z)$ if and only if there exist $u$, $v$, and $w$ such that $\text{Square}(x,u)$ and $\text{Square}(y,v)$ and $\text{Square}(x+y,w)$ and $w=u+z+z+v$.
Now we want to define the relation $\text{Square}(s,t)$ from divisibility. Note that $s$ and $s+1$ are relatively prime, so $s^2+s$ is the LCM of $s$ and $s+1$. Thus $t=s^2$ precisely if there exists $u$ such that $u$ is the LCM of $s$ and $s+1$, and $s+t=u$.
The LCM is easily handled using only divisibility, so that's all there is to it.
No, not in general. You can define the multiplication relation in terms of the division function, but this only gives you a truth condition M(x,y,z) that tells you if z is the product of x and y. It does not give you a mechanism for generating the z from the x and y: for that you need to be able to prove that the multiplication relation specifies a total function.
And this is not always possible:
$xy={\rm lcm}(x,y)\times\gcd(x,y)$, so if you can define lcm and gcd, can't you define product?


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Giving feedback or "criticism" is important to our members, but often also hard to give. As most people take it really hard and we know that and it makes us nervous to give it. Some do it really carful, so that the message waters down, some make it too hard, and the others avoid it.
So is there any right way of giving feedback?
We need to do it hard on issue and soft on person. So that people take it serious and not get offended.
A few tips have to deliver criticism in your classroom and improve member's performance.
- Always start with praise, something specific that this person has done, or he looks (use words : impressed , pleased, full of admiration,…) than a little pause and give feedback
- Be generous with praise, if you do it right than feedback will be taken positive
- Make praise and feedback specific and simple
- Give it on time; do not wait too long but address it when you notice that the person needs feedback.
- Make it regular. Feedback needs to be done regular so that members get used to it and appreciate it.
- Focus on performance not personality of member. You maybe do not like member, but he needs your feedback, so focus on performance , technique, position on bike not personality
- Criticize private. Use "off bike teaching" and give feedback private. Do not walk strait towards person. Make it safe enjoinment for a person.
- Feedback needs to be neutral not judgmental
- Avoid : You must, you should, You cannot, Need to
- Use feedback to inform." What would it happened if you relax shoulders?"
- Use "I "statement. So that you make feedback, from your perspective.
- Limit your focus. 1 – 2 issues in one time. Do not put too much information's in one feedback.
- Provide specific suggestions , have and with what a member can improve
- Follow up. The whole purpose of feedback is to improve. So you need to see, recognize improvement.
- Avoid speaking loud and in microphone. If you use microphone in class, turn it off when you address criticism.
Use this tips to become better Spinning® instructor and help members to perform better. Do not be afraid. The rules are simple and they will help you address issues regards techniques, position on bike, performance and intensity.
"Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things" W.Churchill


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6 Bizarrely Creepy Moments from the Mario Universe
The Mario Bros. series is a place where hitting a floating brick with your head and expecting money to come out is considered normal. These games are classics, so we don't even stop to think about the absurdity of what goes on in them. For something to be considered creepy within that context it would have to be pretty messed up -- like, for example ...
#6. Mario Party 8 -- Bizarre Happenings in the Woods
The Mario Party games can be pretty fun if you play them with lots of friends (and if you are an adult, it probably helps to be under the influence of some kind of mind-altering substance). Mario Party imitates the format of a board game with the added bonus that you can play them all alone without feeling like such a sad loser. (But really, you are.)
You aren't pretty enough to play Mario Party with people.
Most of the mini-games in Mario Party are pretty inoffensive -- except for this one called "Eyebrawl." It's just ... actually, there's no way to describe it. The game starts with the characters walking into dark woods at night -- which in itself is pretty suspect -- when these inexplicable floating eyeball creatures come from out of nowhere.
Mario games should not remind us that scene in The Shining.
The Super Mario Wiki informs us that the floating eyes appeared before in Mario 64, which is odd, because we don't remember them from anything except our nightmares. The objective of the mini-game is to move the wiimote in circles, making the eyes dizzy as they eerily follow your every movement with their, um, selves.
"Oh God -- everyone's watching! It's just like being at the mall!"
Once they become dizzy, the eyes explode into a cloud of smoke -- only to be replaced by increasingly bigger ones. The player who pops the most eyes wins. And then the nightmare is finally over, right? Not so -- it's only just began.
You see, most mini-games end with the winner doing a celebratory dance, but in this case, the celebration is interrupted when several small eyes appear out of nowhere and move towards the players. The winner starts screaming and runs away in terror, leaving the utterly shocked and terrified loser to be surrounded by the peepers in a scene that looks like what we think was happening off camera in The Blair Witch Project.
Meanwhile, the remaining big eye simply stands in the background, watching you in silence. The image then lingers there for entirely too long (about seven or eight seconds) before the normal game resumes. Keep in mind that the average age of the Mario Party player is probably, like, seven. If you're playing Mario Party with a son or younger sibling and you come across this mini-game, good luck explaining to them why this is happening to their character as they weep inconsolably.
"It was time that you learned there is no God, anyway."
#5. Super Mario 64 -- The Killer Piano
Everything about Mario 64 is a little bit scary scary. The haunting music in the endless staircase. The big Chomp. That giant freaking eel that sneaks up on you in the underwater level. Even Mario himself looks like a complete maniac with these graphics.
They probably weren't going for a "guy who breathes heavily as he stares at you in the subway" look, but there you go.
But the scariest part is a scene in the haunted house level that serves no purpose other than making you shit your pants. As you explore the house, you come into a room with nothing but a piano in it.
How nice.
But when you approach the piano, this happens:
It jumps at you, revealing a massive set of spiked teeth and an appetite for human flesh.
Goodbye, childhood.
That's the actual music from the video, by the way (minus the scream, but that's the least scary part). It's exactly the same sort of unnerving background music you'd hear in a David Lynch movie.
Oh, and there's no way to stop the piano. There's no way to kill it. It'll just keep coming at you until you die. The only solution is to give up and escape. As we said, it serves no purpose but to make sure you never, ever sleep. So then you come out of the room and walk around the house, you know, to chill out a little, get yourself together ... and what do you find next?
#4. Various -- Super Mario Faces of Death
In the early Mario Bros. games, whenever Mario or Luigi "died" they would simply jump back on the screen and give you a sort of "whoopsie daisies" look, as if reassuring children that they were in fact OK.
This taught an entire generation that you can fall into a pit without a whole lot of consequences.
Other times, Mario would just fall backwards raising his legs, like a little kid playing dead.
That's about as gruesome as video game deaths got back in the day. Technology, however, has allowed developers to get increasingly realistic in this area, and Mario games are no exception. Like in Mario 64, where you can hear Mario drowning and watch his limp body float to the surface. First he clutches his throat, as water rushes in:
And then he goes limp, floating face-down on the surface just as a real drowning victim does. A shadow of Bowser's skull floats in over the scene:
Many of the other death animations in that game include Mario yelling in terror as he falls from a great distance, desperately coughing and choking from poisonous gas and struggling helplessly as his body is slowly sucked into quicksand.
And in case you ever wondered what Mario's lifeless skeleton looks like, you can watch him being electrocuted to death in Super Mario Galaxy. That sort of thing leaves no room for uncertainty. There's a more definite quality to Mario's deaths these days, like they're trying to tell you that, yes, he is absolutely dead and it's all your fault.
No wonder Mario never made it as a plumber: He has no fingers.
Even "Game Over" screens have gotten creepier over the years. Fun fact: They're called that because they used to be just the words "Game Over" on a blank screen. Most of the time, you've just watched your character die an increasingly gruesome death, so the words should be plenty. Apparently, Nintendo thought we were wondering what happens to our characters when they die in the game. Hence the growing tendency to include unnecessarily detailed images of the characters looking utterly shamed and defeated.
And then there are the ones that show them looking like they're being tortured while floating in a black void, like in The Donkey Kong Country series:
Other times, they're more straightforward about the fact that you've sent your character to eternal hell:
Then there's the otherwise unremarkable Luigi's Mansion. An early version of the game included this disturbing game over screen:
"You no longer control Luigi. Only the voices control him now."
Apparently they realized it looks like Luigi is either about to murder his family or has just gotten through doing so, because they took it out of the finished game.


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I managed to find an efficient algorithm (polynomial time in $P$,$Q$ and $N$) for the following sum:
$$\sum_{i=0}^{N} \lfloor iP/Q \rfloor,$$ where $P,Q$ are relatively prime positive integers. When $N=Q-1$ it's fairly easy to get a simple closed form, and this is also well-known. The details of the general algorithm can be found here http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/73120.html. It is a very nice algorithm that resembles the standard GCD algorithm somewhat.
I'm trying to generalize this algorithm to sums of the following form: $$\sum_{i=0}^{N} (i^{k0}) \cdot (\lfloor (iP/Q) \rfloor)^{k1},$$ where $k_0$, and $k_{1}$ are non-negative integers. Does anyone have any good ideas for this? The algorithm doesn't have to be polynomial in $k_{0}$ and $k_{1}$, and algorithms for small values of $k_{0}$ and $k_{1}$ would also be interesting (such as $k_{0} = 0$). Obviously, $k_{1} = 0$ is not interesting.


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This year for the first time Studio One Art Center is activating their really great art and craft studios for the East Bay Mini Maker Faire.
If you're not aware, Studio One is a City of Oakland public arts studio. They offer classes, after school care, summer camps and all kinds of amazing hands-on arts and making programming throughout the year.
Besides hosting the Maker Shed, BioCurious, MakeSF, Mothership Hackermoms, Ace Monster Toys, Workshop Weekend, the Swap-O-Rama-Rama and more tomorrow, Studio One will be showing off their facility and teachers:
- Janet Hiebert will be demoing stained glass, glass fusing & glass beads (upstairs)
- Karen Ehrhardt demoing metal jewelry and Alyssia Cartner on found object assembly (upstairs)
- Blanca Soltys on wheel throwing demos & hand building demos in the Ceramics Studio (downstairs) + glaze your own bisque ware in the side courtyard
Sounds like there will be drum making and building of terrariums too. Help Studio make a mosaic for their new garden. And experience first-hand this City of Oakland cultural hub + resource.


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by Melissa Brunner
A family who have experienced unthinkable tragedy showed us again Friday what it means to have faith.
Dustin Leftwich was sentenced to life in prison for the May 2012 murder of 18-year-old Brenna Morgart. Brenna had graduated from Seaman High School less than a week earlier. She went out for a jog and never returned. In the days and weeks that followed, we heard stories of her kindness toward others and her deep faith in God. To this day, I see vehicles bearing the letters WWBD - What would Brenna do?
Who could possibly forgive the person who stole so much from them? In court Friday, Brenna's family did. Her father extended condolences to the Leftwich family for THEIR loss - a son who would die in prison. He also said that Brenna would want Leftwich to know that no sin is unforgivable, so long as one seeks forgiveness from God.
What a tribute to the spirit of a life lost much too soon.
I wanted to share with you again a blog I wrote May 30, 2012, following Brenna's funeral. It brought great response from many of you and the message of her life is worth repeating.
From May 30, 2012:
If your life was a ripple, traveling across the water, how far might it extend?
I thought about that this morning as I saw the vehicles packed along the frontage roads, parking lots and grassy fields around Northland Christian Church Wednesday morning. Did Brenna Morgart have any idea that, at the age of 18, her life would have had that much of an impact? Did she realize each smile, each hello, each kind word, would leave an impression on the recipient? Did she ever think her ability to remain positive in the face of adversity would have those left behind asking, "WWBD - What Would Brenna Do?" when deciding how they will move forward in the face of this tragedy?
It reminds me of that commercial where someone holds the door for a person, then that person helps another pick up their dropped papers, then that person helps the neighbor rake leaves, and so on. We have no idea how those small interactions each day make an impact on those we encounter.
It's evident from the outpouring of love and support we've seen over the past week that Brenna's ripple was more like a wave, reaching beyond the boundaries of the shore.


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I have a ruby file saved on my desktop as test.rb. How can I open it with terminal? I have already tried to use /home/desktop/test.rb and what I get in response is bash: /home/desktop/test.rb: No such file or directory.
You can use the
This way you don't need to make your file executable.
(The tilde symbol
If you still need to make your script executable I hope you remembered to type the shebang line on the first line of your script:
then run
The you need the path of the Desktop-Folder, try it with
Your final command than will probably look like that:
But you should try a tutorial for the Linux shell, like this one: LinuxCommand.org
Your home directory is
You forgot the


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First off sorry for the noob question, I'm sure it's been asked before but I have no idea how to phrase it eloquently...
Sometimes when I open/run/execute (unsure of proper term) an application (?lol) from the terminal like geany ie:
geany filename.php
or maybe run a node.js script:
node server.js
The command will execute fine, but I'm then left without the ability to execute any other commands unless I open another terminal. my
root@pcname:~$ is gone and when I try typing in something else and hitting Enter it just breaks to the next line.
I've noticed that sometimes I can hit CTRL+D and it'll give me my prompt back (sorry is prompt even the right name for it?)
So could someone please explain why this is happening and how I can get back to the prompt without opening another terminal.
Thanks, and sorry again for my noobery.


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by Melissa Brunner
We're always interested to hear what shows you'll see on WIBW's CBS primetime lineup each year, and we found out today what's making it to fall.
I admit I was a big surprised by some of the moves. "CSI: Miami" was canceled, while the original "CSI:" and "CSI: New York" stick around. Also, a new show that I enjoyed when I had a chance to catch it - "Unforgettable" - is done after just one season. My favorite comedies will be back - "How I Met Your Mother" and "Big Bang Theory." Returning will be the new comedy "2 Broke Girls." I thought it had its funny moments - and it did turn in decent ratings - but it will be interesting to see how it develops in season 2. I'm also glad "Person of Interest" will return. Now, if only I can find time to watch it more regularly!
A big question mark also is returning - "Two and a Half Men," where Ashton Kutcher replaced Charlie Sheen this season. It will move to Thursday nights, however. Again, jury is still out with me on whether this show has run its course.
As for new shows, some big names will be on CBS this fall - shows with Michael Chiklas, Dennis Quaid and Lucy Liu are all in the mix.
Here's the news release from CBS so you can get all the details:


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It's a business related e-mail, and I want it to get to the person before I wake up in the morning, but I don't want their first impression of me to be that I was awake at 3am sending e-mails. Is there a way to set it to delay the sending of an e-mail I already typed by a few hours?
You can't do this natively with GMail but you can do it with browser extensions:
Despite requests for this feature since 2009, the Gmail team refused to implement it.
There are however browser extensions and apps that let you schedule new emails or replies:
You could use Boomerang.
Not via the web UI, no. You would need to use POP or IMAP and send the email from a client (such as Outlook, Thunderbird, and others) that supports delayed sending.
There is now a bit of script that you can install through Google docs that will let you save a draft with the delivery time and apply a label to have the email automatically sent. I have not tried this myself, but it came up while I was looking for a solution to this problem.
You would need to use a third-party app for that.
TimeCave looks like it might do that for you. From their "about" page:
(emphasis mine)
You can do it completely inside Google - without any third-party applications.
Digital Inspiration provides a script that you can run in a Google Spreadsheet. It draws the message IDs from your drafts and let's you select a date for the message to be sent. Another column tells you the status of each message (Not Scheduled, Scheduled, Delivered, etc).
You can make a copy of the original spreadsheet into your own Google Drive by finding the link on the blog - http://www.labnol.org/internet/schedule-gmail-send-later/24867/.
For a detailed 3 minute demo, check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhU5y7huAY8
Install Boomerang extension so that you can send the email as and when you want. Check out this tutorial about how to install extension and use it to schedule emails in your gmail. http://www.megebyte.com/how-to-schedule-emails-in-gmail/
I stumbled on this thread while trying to answer this question my self. I've just installed Send Later and it seems to work well.
To add a timer to a message hit control-shift-enter. Set your time for sending and press the "send later at time(s) specified above". Relax in the knowledge that no one knows you write your work emails at 3 in the morning. :)
Microsoft outlook works well and will do it through any email you choose