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Until recently, losing an hour of daylight in the fall presented a problem for the candy industry. That’s because Daylight Saving Time traditionally ended on the last Sunday in October, a.k.a. before Halloween night. Intense lobbying to push back the date went on for decades. According to one report, candy lobbyists even went so far as to […]
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Bradbury’s title refers to the auto-ignition point of paper—the temperature at which it will catch fire without being exposed to an external flame. Bradbury asserted that “book-paper” burns at 451 degrees, and it’s true that different kinds of paper have different auto-ignition temperatures
The lost camel No sooner do the three princes arrive abroad than they trace clues to identify precisely a camel they have never seen. They conclude that the camel is lame, blind in one eye, missing a tooth, carrying a pregnant woman, and bearing honey on one side and butter on the other. When they
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In 1984, a researcher named Roger Ulrich noticed a curious pattern among patients who were recovering from gallbladder surgery at a suburban hospital in Pennsylvania. Those who had been given rooms overlooking a small stand of deciduous trees were being discharged almost a day sooner, on average, than those in otherwise identical rooms whose windows
The Pomodoro Technique® Daily/Weekly Process The Pomodoro Technique book is organised into six incremental goals. The objectives should be achieved in the order in which they are given here: 1. Find out how much effort an activity requires Ever wonder where all your time goes? Wonder no more: it’s all on the page. Your Pomodoro To-Do sheet
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#7-9 Focus on Getting Better, Rather than Being Good — Think about your goals as opportunities to improve, rather than to prove yourself Be a Realistic Optimist — Visualize how you will make success happen by overcoming obstacles Don’t Tempt Fate — No one has willpower all the time, so don’t push your luck Roughly two years ago,
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What Were Helen Keller’s First Words? On April 5, 1887, less than a month after her arrival in Tuscumbia, Anne sought to resolve the confusion her pupil was having between the nouns “mug” and “milk,” which Helen confused with the verb “drink.” Anne took Helen to the water pump outside and put Helen’s hand under
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Doing less accomplishes more When your goals are so spread out into different areas of your life, you simply do not have enough time or energy to reach them all. You halfheartedly accomplish a few, but the momentum doesn’t pick up because you’re not making real progress. Radical reinvention shocks the system You change your
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Welcome to ConstitutionFacts.com where you’ll see the entire text of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence – and much more! You’ll find interesting insights into the men who wrote the Constitution, how it was created, and how the Supreme Court has interpreted the United States Constitution in the two
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Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Hamlet by William Shakespeare Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte Moby Dick by Herman Melville Ulysses by James Joyce Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marque Dr Jekyll and Mr
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