Today is the Most Depressing Day of the Year -- Not.

Apparently, according to a mathematical formula devised by Cliff Arnall, today is the most depressing day of 2009. Arnall’s formula considers factors like people’s failure to keep up their new year’s resolutions, the weather, post-holidays blues (no more fun, lots of bills), and the date falling on a Monday.
Today is the Most Depressing Day of the Year -- Not

How to Find Your True Priorities

On January 1st, many people make resolutions for the new year, such as to go to the gym every day. You can’t help noticing that gyms suddenly become much more crowded. But by February 1st, most people have abandoned their resolutions. Gyms become empty.
How to Find Your True Priorities

How to Start Speaking at Events

You might first ask yourself what your goal might be. Are you speaking to further establish yourself and your company as thought leaders? Are you trying to pitch some amazing product?
How to Start Speaking at Events

15 Ways To Manage Risk In Your Financial Life

We all want to optimize our returns yet many of us forget that by doing so, we may be taking a lot more risk than we should. By managing our risks, we are better equipped with addressing unpredictable scenarios that can wreak havoc with our finances. Risk isn't a bad thing, just as long as it's controlled or "calculated".
15 Ways To Manage Risk In Your Financial Life

New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart

Many measures are probably familiar: not smoking, controlling cholesterol and blood pressure, exercising regularly and staying at a healthy weight. But some newer suggestions may surprise you.
New Thinking on How to Protect the Heart

Teens post health risks online

Have you taken a look at your teenage son or daughter's social networking site profile recently?
Teens post health risks online

Our world may be a giant hologram

DRIVING through the countryside south of Hanover, it would be easy to miss the GEO600 experiment. From the outside, it doesn't look much: in the corner of a field stands an assortment of boxy temporary buildings, from which two long trenches emerge, at a right angle to each other, covered with corrugated iron. Underneath the metal sheets, however, lies a detector that stretches for 600 metres.
Our world may be a giant hologram

Blu-ray Owners: You Should Get Your Eyes Examined

Tell a Blu-ray fan who's sunk hundreds or thousands of dollars into the technology that you can't really see the added picture quality offered by the hi-def format, and they'll probably respond the difference (to them) is so obvious only the willfully blind can't see it.
Blu-ray Owners: You Should Get Your Eyes Examined

How to Prevent Your Ears from Popping

For most people, traveling by air causes uncomfortable, sometimes painful ear popping. This can also happen when climbing to or descending from a high altitude, or when diving underwater. If you travel with kids, ear popping can make the trip all the more frustrating. So here's the scoop on ear popping - what causes it, and how you can prevent it.
How to Prevent Your Ears from Popping

Start Your Day By Eating a Frog

“Eat a live frog every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.” -Mark Twain
Start Your Day By Eating a Frog

Learn How to Be a Teen in 1950

A look at Coronet Films, which were shown in great regularity in American schools in the 1940s and ’50s, shows a completely different world of instructional videos for teens. Teens in the ’50s were taught how to say no to a goodnight kiss, not how to say no to a hit off a bong.
Learn How to Be a Teen in 1950

Six Tips For Boosting Your Sense of Self-Respect

Maybe you’ve lost your job. Maybe you didn’t get the promotion you were hoping for. Maybe your sweetheart broke up with you. People say “Don’t take it personally” and “Don’t let it get to you,” but that’s very hard to do.
Six Tips For Boosting Your Sense of Self-Respect

GPS Burglary

Warning cautions that thieves take GPS devices from cars parked at public events to locate homes to burgle.
GPS Burglary

Why does my voice sound so different when it is recorded and played back?

Sound can reach the inner ear by way of two separate paths.
Why does my voice sound so different when it is recorded and played back?

17 Uncommon Uses for Cotton Swabs

In the field of cleaning ears, no household item is relied upon more than cotton swabs. The swabs, tipped with cotton sheets, are built to remove earwax and dirt, which results in better hearing. You probably have a constantly renewed stock in your bathroom, given their usefulness. Reliable as the accessory is, cleaning ears is only one of its many functions. You might be surprised with the amount of things you can do with such a simple item.
17 Uncommon Uses for Cotton Swabs

Four Tech Products that Save You Time and Money

Feeling frazzled with newly incorporated frugality strategies? Last couple of DIY projects and bulk shopping runs send you over the edge into loony land? Here are four products we use to streamline logistics and re-channel stress into productivity.
Four Tech Products that Save You Time and Money

Do Aussie Workers Need To Take More Holidays?

When you encounter a headline like 'Aussies working world's longest hours', you're likely to pay attention -- especially if, like me, you've just come off a week with several 14-hour workdays. However, it turns out that what's actually being discussed is the unwillingness of Australians to take holidays.
Do Aussie Workers Need To Take More Holidays?

How To Burn Disk Images

It is surprising that many users who have downloaded the Windows 7 Beta release are having difficulties burning it on DVD. This article is supposed to act as a guideline for all of your disk burning activities.
How To Burn Disk Images

Composting Bins: Benefits, Rules, & How to Make Your Own

For a few years, I had been eyeing composting bins for the backyard. I was excited at the thought of turning things that we might normally put into the trash or the garbage disposal into beautiful, rich soil for our garden. I was, however, not excited about the price tags that I was seeing for even the most simple of composting bins.
Composting Bins: Benefits, Rules, & How to Make Your Own

Man takes 26 years to solve Rubik’s Cube

It has taken most of his life – but, after 26 years, builder Graham Parker has finally solved the puzzle of the Rubik's Cube.
Man takes 26 years to solve Rubik’s Cube