10 Overused Words in Writing

All words are good words. Some, however, are overused without adding value to what you write. As a result, they reduce the readers’ interest, make text seem redundant, and cause the writer to appear amateurish.
10 Overused Words in Writing

Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

You can review the complete list here.
Oxford English Dictionary Adds New Words

How to Be Outstanding

Are you exceptional in your line of work? Do you love what you do? Perhaps that’s why you are or aren’t getting the results you want.
People who consistently achieve outstanding results all have this in common: they are passionate about what they do. It’s no longer work, but an active participation of joy and creativity.
This article takes a deeper look into outstanding performance, and gives guidance as to how you can manifest outstanding results in your life.
How to Be Outstanding

Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake

It’s not surprising that many people, especially web workers, experience email fatigue. After all, spending hours each day reading and replying to emails can prevent you from spending more time on the work that you actually have to do (unless sending and receiving emails is your line of work).
Archive Reducing Unnecessary Email Intake

anti-theft lunch bag

Stealing your co-worker's lunch is a downright contemptible act, that is, if it's perpetrated by someone other than you. But, if you've ever had your lunch stolen, you know the the frustration and anger it causes.
anti-theft lunch bag

How to solve a maze puzzle using Photoshop

Steps to solve a maze with photoshop. 1) find a maze image that has good solid lines (maze should have an open start and finish point) 2) use magic wand to select the border of the maze 3) etc
How to solve a maze puzzle using Photoshop

7 Tips for Money and Marriage

Today, while most of us marry for romantic reasons, marriage at its core is still a financial union. So much of what we want — or don’t want — out of life boils down to dollars and cents, whether it’s how hard we choose to work, how much we consume or how much we save. For some people, it’s working 80-hour weeks to finance a third home and country club membership; for others, it means cutting back on office hours to spend more time with the family.
7 Tips for Money and Marriage

20 superfoods for weight loss

It's time for a new slim-down mantra: Eat more to weigh less. No joke! The right foods help you drop pounds by revving your calorie burn and curbing cravings.
20 superfoods for weight loss

23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself

In the not too distant past, the Web was all about sharing, broadcasting, and distribution. The tide is turning. The Web is moving towards the individual. Applications spring up every month that let people track, monitor, and analyze their habits and behaviors in hopes of gaining a better understanding about themselves and their surroundings.
23 Personal Tools to Learn More About Yourself

Why Tea Is Healthier Than Water

While nobody is running around extolling the virtues of cola as a replacement for water for daily hydration, researchers at Kings College London want to make sure you don't think every non-water drink is a poor substitute for water. After reviewing numerous studies on the benefits of drinking tea, they've concluded that tea is a superior drink.
Why Tea Is Healthier Than Water

The Falling Man

Do you remember this photograph? In the United States, people have taken pains to banish it from the record of September 11, 2001. The story behind it, though, and the search for the man pictured in it, are our most intimate connection to the horror of that day.
The Falling Man

10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

Who knew that providing energy and water for all could be a matter of foot cranks and dirt power?
10 Everyday Technologies That Can Change the World

Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming

The amount of sea ice around Antarctica has grown in recent Septembers in what could be an unusual side-effect of global warming.
Antarctic sea ice increases despite warming

Don’t Panic: How to Know When the Large Hadron Collider Spells Your Doom

As anyone who has even a passing fancy of physics knows, the Large Hadron Collider was turned on just a bit ago, and while the Earth has yet to implode, we might not be out of the woods yet.
Don’t Panic: How to Know When the Large Hadron Collider Spells Your Doom

Ten things you don’t know about the Earth

Good advice from the 60s acid band. Look around you. Unless you’re one of the Apollo astronauts, you’ve lived your entire life within a few hundred kilometers of the surface of the Earth. There’s a whole planet beneath your feet, 6.6 sextillion tons of it, one trillion cubic kilometers of it. But how well do you know it?
Ten things you don’t know about the Earth

Hurricanes, as seen from orbit

Hurricane Ike just rolled across Cuba, and soaked parts of Haiti - both regions still reeling from recent Hurricane Gustav. Ike appears to be weakening now, but is headed tward the Gulf Coast of the U.S., and may yet strengthen. The crew aboard the International Space Station was able to take a photo of Ike from 220 miles overhead last Thursday - one in a long series of great NASA photographs of hurricanes from space. Here are some of the best, from the past several years.
Hurricanes, as seen from orbit

Five Best Password Managers

You've got enough to keep track of in your day-to-day life without filling your head with the countless logins and passwords you've racked up over the years, and the Post-It note on your monitor just isn't an option. Luckily, there are several fantastic and secure password management applications designed to make it easy for you to remember, manage, and secure your passwords effortlessly.
Five Best Password Managers

20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

How many times during the day do you check email, or go to see updates of your favorite blogs or social sites, or shuffle paperwork or make phone calls … when you know you should be doing something more important?
20 Strategies to Defeat the Urge to Do Useless Tasks

Why the Brain Follows the Rules

Clues to understanding the human social brain come from a study of punishment's role in fairness.
Why the Brain Follows the Rules

100 Things You Should Eat Before You Die

A meme that has been making its way around the food blogosphere for a few weeks. It's a list of 100 things you should eat before you die.
100 Things You Should Eat Before You Die