First, I would like to explain that among my family members, I am considered somewhat of an oddball. Mostly because of some of the mods that I have performed on a few of my woodworking tools. After I show you what I did to my drill press, you may be inclined to agree. When I first hatch an idea in my little pea brain, the first thing I take into consideration is whether or not this mod is irreversible and will destroy my tool. In the case of my drill press, I determined that it was safe to pr...
I was able to interview another counselor. I was able to gather some of his opinion on stress. The following are the response I gather.
I love SCRABBLE, but sometimes it's hard to find an opponent who'll play a classic, tournament style game in person. Don't get me wrong—I play on the computer and iPhone all of the time, but it's just not the same as an in-person match. This leads me to stray every now and then, checking out new word-friendly games with a fast pace and interesting twist. And the most recent one was nothing like SCRABBLE, and I don't mean that in a bad way.
Kizeme This Japanese word, kizeme, means "spirit of attack." It is said of Miyamoto Musashi, the famed Japanese swordsman, that as he grew older he relied more on kizeme to defeat adversaries and, as a result, emerged victorious from challenges without taking the life of his opponent.
The secret is finally out on this sweet and spicy dish! For this, you will need: 1 pound of chicken chunks, 1 bunch of broccoli, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 1/2 teaspoons cornstarch, 1 teaspoon vegetable oil, 3 teaspoons white vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder, 1/2 teaspoon white pepper, 3 teaspoons sugar, 1/2 cup water, scallions, 2 1/2 more teaspoons of sugarm 2 teaspons cornstarch, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 2 1/2 - 3 teaspons white vinegar, 1/2 teaspoon oyster sauce, 1/2 teaspoon crushed garlic, 1/2 tea...
Plan an Italian-style dinner tonight with these authentic and traditional meatballs, straight form Italy! This meatballs recipe is a family treasure, which Jane happily shares with us. There's some great meatball-making tips in this video, so pay attention, because you won't get them anywhere else! And learning the secret to making them so incredibly moist is something you'll take with you for life. They're perfect for spaghetti or any other pasta dish. Make moist and authentic Italian meatba...
Soccer star David James is the goalkeeper for England and Portsmouth, so he's more than skilled with closing in on an attacker from the football field.
Lucid dreaming refers to the mental state when you are conscious of the fact that you are dreaming while you are dreaming. Though lucid dreaming is a rare occurrence for most people when they are sleeping, you can actually mentally train yourself during the waking hours and incorporate a number of techniques to increase your chances of achieving a lucid dreaming state.
Medicine, like the internet, is serious business. So when the text that appears on the labels of our medicine bottles makes about as much sense as an epileptic in a rave club, we can't help but take pause. Follow us on a journey of prescriptions and misdescriptions!
Creativity is a very important aspect of keeping a balanced mind. The more balanced your mind is, the more able it will be to perform the tasks you ask of it. And don’t think “creativity” has to be writing a novel or painting a masterpiece. The brain (and ‘spirit’) can benefit from simple and small adventures in non-linear thought and action.
The purpose of this article is to discuss how you can change your Windows 7 logon screen. This post will explain how to require a user to enter a username and password by default like the classic version of Windows.
eBooks are an amazing thing, especially with Amazon's Kindle. What's irrtating about eBooks as that you have an infinite selection of books at your fingertips, but they all cost so much! Well, as always, Null Byte has a trick up our sleeves for nabbing free ebooks from Google.
Get ready to rack your brains, because it's time for another Scrabble Challenge! I may have gone a little overboard on last week's challenge (there was over 25 anagrams to solve), so I'm slimming things down this week. This time, there's only one puzzle.
Flying orbs. At first, you might think of the Tall Man and his army of flying sentinel spheres, equipped with zombie brains and a mini-arsenal of saw blades, drill bits and shooting lasers. But these flying orbs weren't conceived from the evil mind of a superhuman mortician—they were designed by Fumiyuki Sato, a researcher at the Japanese Defense Ministry's Technical Research and Development Institute—for something other than deadly deeds.
In recent years, communication has become more intimate with the advent of applications like Skype and FaceTime, but what about the longing for actual physical contact? What if you could feel a loved one's hand, or even exchange a kiss? Impossible, right?
Here's a two-in-one "tutorial" for you today; how to fold a paper airplane, and how to execute a belated St. Patrick's Day manicure. Just follow along and do as the da Vinci does—our adroit instructor is a surgical robot, with a hefty price tag of approximately 1.3 million dollars, plus several hundred thousand dollars in annual maintenance fees. In truth, the da Vinci doesn't have the brain power to dictate the folding of a simple origami plane, nor does it know how to paint orange and green...
Penny pincher? A true believer in "waste not want not"? Then listen up—here's a quick tip that will save you some spare change.
Traders are in a frenzy of instant messaging all day long. The best ones, at least. A recent study says the best traders are the ones that IM the most and the least successful traders were the ones that IM the least. So, it seems like if you can find a way to jump on the bandwagon, you can beat the odds, too. But, what's their secret? Are they passing around insider information?
In this instruction, you will find out how to use the hidden Skype smileys and emoticons. You can not find this smileys in the standard Skype smiley menu. To use these smileys you need to memorize some words and put them in parentheses (). These words you can find in table below. There are 15 hidden Skype smileys. Also, there are a lot of flag emoticons, which you can get by typing flag, colon and international country code in parentheses, e.g. (flag:us) or (flag:uk). Here is the table of sec...
How can a small curtain cover a window three to four times its own size? With a motor and a robot brain, that's how!
Try out this authentic Italian recipe for polenta con puccu. It's a meal that simply soothes the soul. Eric Freiman-Polli shares the secret of his Italian grandmothers wonderful dish, for you to share with your family. It's chicken simmered in onions, red wine, cloves, mushrooms and rich tomato paste is a delicious accompaniment to creamy slow-cooked polenta.
Every day of the week, WonderHowTo curators are hard at work, scouring the web for the greatest and most inspiring how-to videos. Every Friday, we'll highlight our favorite finds.
The 2010 National SCRABBLE Championship is almost here. Only a few days left now. And one resident from Mount Pleasant, South Carolina is ready to go.
The Illusion Contest of the Year recently announced their top ten finalists, and the overwhelming crowd and jury favorite is Impossible Motion: Magnet-like Slopes by Koukichi Sugihara of the Meiji Institute for Advanced Study of Mathematical Sciences in Japan.
Andrew Odewahn of O'Reilly Answers posts a HowTo on creating 3D(ish) images through simple processing. Odewahn employs the practice of stereoscopy (a technique for creating the illusion of depth in a 2D image):
My father recently suffered a stroke. Now in Neuro Rehab at Cedars Sinai, he is enduring daily physical therapy, recreational therapy and occupational therapy sessions to help improve his balance, mobility and fine motor skills. I was initially worried about how I could incorporate his current PT regime in his daily life after he's discharged. That was until I saw the devices he used in the PT gym. Despite their "medical device" designations, the high tech stuff is remarkably similar to what ...
Just got a smoker? Well, how do you use it? Before you slap on the meat and try it out without any prior knowledge, check out this video for the basics of using a smoker. You won't regret it. The results will be a nice smoky flavor worth the time and preparation.
SCRABBLE is taking the world by storm. It's everywhere. You can play it on Facebook, iPhone, iPod, Nintendo DS, PSP, mobile phones... you name it, it's there. And you can even gamble online, like with SCRABBLE Cubes on WorldWinner.
What should you do when you're confronted with a mind-numbingly boring task that simply needs to be done?
Are you in a bad funk today? Treat yourself to a bar of dark chocolate. Or jump on a trampoline. Or get a nice plate of leafy greens at your neighborhood salad bar.
Constructive social interaction depends upon recognizing those one is interacting with. Not surprisingly, then, we have a section of our cortex devoted to facial recognition. But we're not the only ones.
When that midday fatigue starts hitting you, sometimes the best solution is to just give in to sleep and nap it off. But how long should you sleep? Nap for too long and you often wake up feeling even worse than before, and it could be hours before you finally feel fully awake. Australian researchers conducted a study that back up this idea. They found that not only is a very short nap perfectly fine for recharging your brain, but that longer sleep sessions can cause a period of impaired alert...
OK, first thing's first: need to get this insane picture out of the way. I think this might classify as horror movie creepy.
Japanese artist Motoi Yamamoto's medium of choice is none other than your simple household table salt, fragile and completely ephemeral. Yamamoto creates beautiful installations with the medium, salt being a strong symbol in Japanese death culture (as well as several other cultures around the world: Hinduism, Catholicism, Egyptian and Aztec mythology).
When arch-skeptic Michael Shermer has you in his crosshairs, the act is over. Criss Angel has been debunked on WonderHowTo many times before. But this disclosure of the famous spoon bend is unlike the others.
Knoxville (dressed up as Irving Zisman) goes to an undergarment store (such as Victoria's Secret where they let the boyfriends see the items that are tried on) with Spike (as an old woman) and Spike tries on a bra. When "she" shows Irving the bra he gets all hot and bothered and joins her in the dressing room. They make sex noises (ohhh yeahhh) and disturb the employees (who hopefully find themselves bewildered). When Irving leaves, he puts a cigarette in his mouth and Spike comes out fluster...
This video teaches the secrets to do a basic break dance drop in simple steps. First stand on your tip of your toes and jump to right side, come back and do the same with the other leg. Now again go back to left side by popping your right leg simultaneously. While popping your leg will be folded under your knee and drop to the ground with your hand support. Practice it again and again till you perfect it. Finally do the basic drop with some simple steps along with music. Do a breakdance drop.
Youtube Makeup diva Julie G gives us another installment in her glamorous makeup tutorials. Whether you're new to makeup application or you're a practiced hand, Julie's style ideas and tips are sure to give you some inspiration. This look is called earthy henna eyes, and can be recreated with these makeup supplies: MAC Select Cover-Up, MAC: Henna (MAC's Brunette, Blonde, Redhead Collection), MAC: Gorgeous Gold, MAC: Bronze, Jesse's Girl: Wicked, MAC: Apres-Ski (MAC Chill Collection), MAC: Bla...
Thai street vendor food can be quiet inexpensive, not to mention absolutely delicious! But what is their secret to these sidewalk dishes? Follow along with this cooking how to video as a Thai food vendor shows you how to make garlic shrimp. Follow closely and you’ll be cooking like a professional street food vendor in no time. You'll love the taste of these shrimp fried in aromatic garlic oil. Serve the garlic shrimp with a side of fresh cucumebers. Make Thai street vendor style garlic shrimp.
Thai street vendor food can be quiet inexpensive, not to mention absolutely delicious! But what is their secret to these sidewalk dishes? Follow along with this cooking how to video as a Thai food vendor shows you how to cook wide noodles with vegetables and shrimp in a thick sauce. This street dish is more commonly knows as radna, so make sure to ask for it by name. Follow closely and you’ll be cooking like a professional street food vendor in no time. This street vendor version differs slig...
