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Sick Building Syndrome
Find out about sick building syndrome (SBS), including symptoms, things you can do to ease symptoms and possible causes.
Being a perfectionist is an obstacle and how to beat it
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The Economics of Writing a Book
Self-publishing is on the rise. Ebooks sales are exploding. Authors have more options than ever. Is making money still one of them?
2018 Engineering Gift Guide
The INSPIRE Research Institute for Pre-College Engineering is a research center in the School of Engineering Education (the world's first) at Purdue University focusing on pre-college engineering education research and integration with science, technology, mathematics and literacy.
The Slow Web Movement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSgiXGELjbc If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe. - Carl Sagan, Cosmos (1980). (Source: https://www.youtube.com/) The slow web started as a vague idea framed as a joke. When we put our site out into the world on January 2, 2011, we only proces
How to Make a Hotbed for the Earliest Sowings (2020)
Hotbeds are horticultural alchemy. But what is a hotbed and what makes them so magical?
Open call – your field recordings of obsolete sounds wanted
Recordings of disappearing, obscure and obsolete sounds wanted for new global collaborative sound project Obsolete Sounds.
Make your own microforest (2025)
The Miyawaki method of reforestation inserts small, densely packed wild acreage into urban environs. It’s proving wildly successful.
Much fridge food ‘goes there to die’
Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is likely driven in part by ambiguous date labels on packages, a new study has found. “People eat a lot less of their refrigerated food than they expect to, and they’re likely throwing out perfectly good food because they misunderstand…
ADHD and monotropism (2023)
Monotropism was formulated as a theory of autism, but as time has gone on it has become clear that many diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) identify strongly with many aspects of the theory.
Don’t pin the butterfly: not all hobbies need to become hustles
A couple of years ago, I got really interested in pu’er tea—a kind of fermented tea produced in China—which can sell for thousands of dollars. I tried some, liked it, read about its history, and then… My mind started racing: why is it so hard to buy pu’er tea in Europe? Maybe I could import ... Read More
25 Best Hangman Words
Mathematica analysis of picking the optimal words to win the Hangman spelling game. Code and link to Wolfram Demonstration are included.
How we perceive time: stop it slipping away by doing new things
Learn the science behind how we perceive time, how age affects our time perception & what we can do to make every second last just a little bit longer:
Laura Deming, founder of the Longevity Fund, on being homeschooled
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Obtaining a Thorough CS Background Online
An eclectic online curriculum that covers the core requirements of a typical undergraduate CS program.
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