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Speed read

How to speed read

So much to read, so little time! Cut your bookreading time in half. Or more. This technique actually works. It trains your mind to interpret characters, words and paragraphs differently. In effect, you read ...

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Make mothballs jump

How to make mothballs jump

Watch an intimate dance performance in the depths of your own home. With who? Mothballs. You put mothballs in a vinegar and baking powder mixture and sit back and enjoy the show. Jumping, dancing mothballs.

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Make freaky cornstarch monsters dance on speakers

How to make freaky cornstarch monsters dance on speakers

This is a total cool science experiment. Make goop. You know that non-Newtonian fluid that comes of corn starch and water? Sometimes they call it Gak! When you put it on a resonating speaker the stuff dances ...

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Make fire from potatoes, salt and toothpaste (FAKE?)

How to make fire from potatoes, salt and toothpaste (FAKE?)

Is this for real? Can you actually make fire from a potato? Sure beats running sticks together though, but I highly doubt these flames would be helpful in a survival situation. Merely educational… and fun ...

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Write a story following advice from Kurt Vonnegut

How to write a story following advice from Kurt Vonnegut

"Audience requires us to be sympathetic and patient teachers, ever willing to simplify and clarify--whereas we would rather soar high above the crowd, singing like nightingales. That is the bad news ...

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How To Plot the Mandelbrot Set By Hand

Plot the Mandelbrot Set By Hand

The Mandelbrot set is made up of points plotted on a complex plane to form a fractal: a striking shape or form in which each part is ...more

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How To Take Your Kids on a Backyard Safari

Take Your Kids on a Backyard Safari

Without traveling further than your property line, your children can have a safari in their own backyard even if you live in the city. A ...more

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How To Write a Short Story

Write a Short Story

Whether you are an aspiring professional writer, the short story is the perfect medium. While writing a novel is a Herculean task, just ...more

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How To Create a Science Fair Project, from Beginning to End

Create a Science Fair Project, from Beginning to End

In Wikihow, there are many articles regarding science projects: ...more

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How To Find Perpendicular Vectors in 3 Dimensions

Find Perpendicular Vectors in 3 Dimensions

In order to find perpendicular vectors in three dimensions, you need to know how to find the determinant of a matrix and how to find the ...more

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How To Act when the Police Pull You Over (USA)

Act when the Police Pull You Over (USA)

You might be nervous about what's going to happen when you get pulled over, but remember that officers are the ones who have every right to ...more

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How To Address a Letter to a Government Official

Address a Letter to a Government Official

How often have we been advised to 'write our Congressmen' when we're up to our armpits in some sort of dilemma or challenge such as ...more

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How To Analyze Poetry

Analyze Poetry

Reading and understanding poetry can seem like a daunting task. Follow these steps to begin to "unpeel the layers" of your favorite poem. It ...more

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How To Assess Statistical Significance

Assess Statistical Significance

Statistical significance is the number, called a p-value, that tells you the probability of your result being observed, given that a certain ...more

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How To Attribute a Creative Commons Licensed Work

Attribute a Creative Commons Licensed Work

If you come across content or images that are licensed with Creative Commons (like all of the content and images on wikiHow) it's your ...more

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How To Avoid a Traffic Ticket

Avoid a Traffic Ticket

Tens of millions of such tickets are issued each year, raking in billions of dollars in fines for state and local coffers. For the motorist ...more

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How To Avoid Colloquial (Informal) Writing

Avoid Colloquial (Informal) Writing

While it may be acceptable in friendly e-mail or in chat rooms, excessive colloquialism can diminish the quality of a formal written text ...more

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How To Avoid Getting Shot by a Police Officer

Avoid Getting Shot by a Police Officer

Whether or not you have done something wrong, there is no reason to be shot by a police officer -- that is, unless you give them one. Here ...more

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How To Avoid Going Over an Essay Word Limit

Avoid Going Over an Essay Word Limit

Many people have trouble writing enough, but others use more words than they need, especially when they write quickly, focusing on putting ...more

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How To Be a Good Writer

Be a Good Writer

Here are some tips on how to become a good writer. It takes time, perseverance and practice, but with patience, good practical approaches ...more

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How To Be a Manga Fan

Be a Manga Fan

Manga is a comic from Japan that is popular all over the world. You may have heard or Sailor Moon, Death Note, Naruto and Tokyo Mew Mew ...more

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How To Be an Expert in Math

Be an Expert in Math

Equations, theorems, algebra, constructions ... And when we see all of them in our exam sheet we would like to run away. So some changes are ...more

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How To Be Good at Geography

Be Good at Geography

Being good at geography is a useful skill which a lot of people want. Here's how to immerse yourself in geographical information so that you ...more

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How To Be Smart in School

Be Smart in School

Ever want to be smart? Maybe you want to get into a club or want to just have good grades so your parents will stop grounding you for those ...more

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How To Become a Geography Master

Become a Geography Master

Do you want to achieve success in the fascinating field of geography? Do you feel disappointed in your dismal knowledge of the world around ...more

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4 Years in the Making: Insane Papercraft City

Tokyo art student, Wataru Itou, spent four long years crafting his meticulous paper city, entitled "A Castle On the Ocean".  The miniature papercraft city was constructed with ...

Jetman Flys Over Atlantic with DIY Wings - Plummets!

Yves Rossy, AKA Jetman, attempted to fly across the Atantic from Morocco to Spain yesterday. His homemade, jet powered wings "span 8 feet and are powered by four kerosene-fueled jet engines ...

Avoid Turkey-Frying-Fire Disaster this Thanksgiving

Thinking of deep frying a turkey this Thanksgiving? Careful. Or this might happen: Luckily, Alton Brown (of Food Network) offers a thorough step-by-step on how to fry that bird. Hackaday has also ...

Turbo Turkey - Cook the Damn Bird Above the Camshaft

So, I suppose we're going both redneck and Thanksgiving turkey twice today (Redneck Slingshot Chick + Extreme Thanksgiving Recipes). Something about home for the holidays inspires... and this is ...

Deeply Trusting Female Volunteers Bod to Redneck Science: First Human Slingshot

Well, maybe these folks aren't redneck. That is a pretty nice house, and that slingshot doesn't look too jery rigged. But the idea of a human slingshot is certainly redneck (and lotsa fun). Previously ...

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