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How To Use Kitchen Knives

Using Kitchen KnivesLearning how to use kitchen knives properly helps you to get kitchen tasks completed more quickly and more easily.  Understanding the best way to use your knives will also make sure...

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How to Get Rid of Dandruff Once And For All

Dandruff - An Unpleasant ConditionDandruff can be a real embarrassment to many unfortunate sufferers. Fortunately, there are many effective treatments for keeping the condition under control....

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How to Make Hand Shadow Puppets

Hand Shadow PuppetsHand Shadow Puppet CamelSource: Austin Hackney (author)The art of making and performing hand shadow puppets probably dates back to ancient China (they are still sometimes called...

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Understanding Stress And Anxiety

What is Stress?Stress can be a very serious matter.Source: AustinHackney'Stress' is arguably one of the buzz words of the twenty-first century lifestyle. Typically, it has pretty negative connotations....

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Rhode Island Red Chicken Breed

                                                                       Rhode Island Red RoosterThe Rhode Island Red Rooster is the archetype of all roosters and the breed one of the most popular...

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How To Study : Taking Notes

Good note taking is a key study skill that should not be neglected.Source: Austin Hackney (author)Note Taking as a Powerful Study TechniqueRight at the outset one of the key skills that any student...

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Directions for Making Puppets

The author with a self-portrait marionette puppet under construction.Source: Austin Hackney (author)How to Make PuppetsThere are many different kinds of puppets that you can make. In this article...

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How to Practice Zen Meditation

The Art and Science of ZenZen meditation practice is one of the most popular and misunderstood of all meditation practices.Drawing of the Tang Dynasty Zen monk Faru (法如)Source: Public Domain. Wiki...

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What Flowers Attract Hummingbirds?

Hummingbird Feeding From FlowerA Female Ruby-Throated Hummingbird feeds on nectar from a red flower. Hummingbirds are attracted to red flowers especially but will also feed from flowers of different...

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How Do Visual Illusions Work?

Tricks Of The EyeIn this illusion, the grey lines between the black and white squares appear to be bending. Now get a straight edge and test them, you will find that they are all straight and...

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How to Write the Minimal Alphabet

What is The Minimal Alphabet?The Minimal Alphabet is a system of shorthand writing - or a secret code if you want to make it more exciting - that was devised by David Conant.His original intention was...

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List of The Smartest Birds: A Guide to Avian Cognition

The Smartest BirdsHumans have always been fascinated by birds.The author with a Maroon-Bellied Conure. Parrots and their allied species are well known for their intelligence and adaptabilitySource:...

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How to Teach Using Puppets

Using Puppets to TeachPuppets are a great medium to help kids learn all kinds of things from counting and the alphabet to social skills and storytelling.Whether you are thinking of using puppets to...

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What is Ethical Investment? Ten Tips for First Time Ethical Investors

Ethical Investment: A Beginner’s Guide to Making a Profit without Sacrificing Your PrinciplesResearch shows that the forward trend in investment is towards what is termed ‘ethical investment.’ But what...

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How to Practice Taoist Meditation

What is Taoist Meditation?Taoist meditation is a form of physical and mental practice that is based on the ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism (pronounced Dow-ism).Taoism has its roots in ancient...

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Who Was Alice Bailey?

A Woman Before Her TimeFew people, outside certain occult circles, remember the name of Alice Bailey today. Yet in her own time she was one of the most influential, controversial and mysterious figures...

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Why Go to a Laundromat?

Why I Love the Laundromat  It’s not that I couldn't afford a washing machine or that I don’t have space at home to install one – I could and I do. So why the heck do I go to all the trouble of taking...

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What Is Abnormal Behavior?

Is This Normal?If I turned up at your place like this, would you think that was normal?Source: author photoHow Do We Define Abnormality?The study of 'abnormal behaviors' is officially termed either...

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How To Use Kitchen Knives

Using Kitchen KnivesLearning how to use kitchen knives properly helps you to get kitchen tasks completed more quickly and more easily.  Understanding the best way to use your knives will also make sure...

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How to Get Rid of Dandruff Once And For All

Dandruff - An Unpleasant ConditionDandruff can be a real embarrassment to many unfortunate sufferers. Fortunately, there are many effective treatments for keeping the condition under control....

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