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11 Ways to Deal With Homework Overload
A pile of homework can seem daunting, but it’s doable if you make a plan. Make a list of everything you need to do, and work your way through, starting with the most difficult assignments. Focus on your homework and tune out distractions, and you’ll get t...
How to Make a Potato Clock
Using potatoes to create an electrical current may seem impossible, but it’s actually rather easy to produce an electrical charge using only some potatoes and a few different types of metal. You can use this potato battery to power a clock for a short ti...
How to Start Mountain Biking
Zooming through the trees on two wheels is an addictive experience and mountain biking is a popular extreme sport for just that reason. If you're interested in learning what it feels like, you can get prepared properly for your first trails, develop the s...
How to Make Strawberry Water
When it’s hot outside, it’s important to stay hydrated. You’ve most likely heard the healthy recommendation to drink eight glasses of water a day. Sometimes, though, you’re craving something a bit more fun than a tall glass of plain water. When that cravi...
How to Create a Budget
Creating a budget can help you organize expenses, manage your income, and keep your finances in check. Start by writing down your monthly income and expenses so you can see where your money goes. Once you know where you’re at financially, you can come up...
How to Stop Feeling Like You’re Going to Pass Out: Prevent Yourself from Fainting
Fainting is a sudden, brief loss of consciousness that doctors call “syncope.” It’s caused by a drop in blood flow to the brain and is usually temporary.[1] X Trustworthy Source Cleveland Clinic Educational website from one of the world's leading...
How to Impress Others With Your Words
Do you want to impress people with your words? Do you yearn to be the person at cocktail parties whose conversation is always sparkling with wit? With some effort and a little attention to your audience, you can learn to dazzle your compatriots and astoni...
How to Draw a Realistic Anatomical Human Heart
Your heart sure does work hard, but that doesn’t mean you have to work hard to draw it! Drawing a human heart is easier than you may think. With our step-by-step guide, you’ll be sketching and shading a realistic heart in no time. Plus, you may just lear...
How to Become a Marine
The Marine Corps is a way of life that requires great physical and mental strength. You will need to consider what career specialty you’d like even as you continue to hone your body. Meet with a recruiter to enlist. After passing some preliminary tests, y...
How to Mount a Flat Screen TV
Mounting a flat screen TV to your wall is an aesthetically pleasing experience that you're sure to enjoy. With the proliferation of flat screen, HD, and plasma TVs, more and more people have started mounting TVs to their walls. In fact, it's relatively ea...
How to Make Rice Glue
Rice glue is used a lot in Japanese paper crafts and the making of kanzashi. The benefit of rice glue is that it dries hard and almost transparent, which is ideal for many paper crafts. Rice glue can be bought in an oriental supermarket or it can be made...
How to Handle Unexpected Baby Hamsters
You’ve just gotten a female hamster, or you accidentally allowed her to spend some quiet time with a gentleman caller. In any event, she’s unexpectedly become pear-shaped, as her abdomen swells with teeming baby hamsters. Or you were suddenly shocked to h...
How to Beat Master Hand in Super Smash Bros.
Fans of the series are familiar with the final boss of Super Smash Brothers, the simple but deadly Master Hand! It’s said that Master Hand is the "manifestation of creative spirit" in this world. He also gets a perfect attendance award for his appearances...
How to Make a Bamboo Wind Chime
Wind chimes, a decorative piece that can liven up your home, can be made from a variety of materials such as ceramic pieces and metal tubing. If you are going for a natural look and mellow tone, bamboo is an excellent material to use. You can make a simpl...
How to Play "Bunny Bunny"
Bunny Bunny is an extremely fun and simple group game, perfect for parties or other social gatherings. If you’d like to learn how to play this enjoyable game, then start with step 1 below.
How to Create Catchy & Memorable Band Names
Naming your band is an opportunity to communicate the style of music that you play. Your name also gives you a chance to express an important idea, or generate an instant reaction from your audience. There are many ways that you can generate an interestin...