Breaking a Mirror

These days the accidental breaking of a small mirror (like the hand-held or self-standing kinds typically used when applying cosmetics or shaving) usually produces no more thought in most people than "I have to get a new mirror." The breaking a large wall-mounted or floor mirror, however, may still often elicit the exclamation, "Uh-oh, that's seven years of bad luck."
Breaking a Mirror

Six Words You Should Drop from Your Resume

Whether you're polishing your resume because you've been laid off or you just like to be prepared, weblog Squawkfox suggests six words you should banish from your curriculum vitae.
Six Words You Should Drop from Your Resume

Nine Tips to Keep Yourself Exercising, from a Former Couch Potato

One of the most commonly made, and most frequently broken, New Year’s resolutions is the resolution to exercise more. People who exercise are healthier, more energetic, think more clearly, sleep better, have delayed onset of dementia...the list goes on.
Nine Tips to Keep Yourself Exercising, from a Former Couch Potato

Are You Rationalizing Your Decisions?

Are you rationalizing your decisions? Let me answer that for you real quick. Yes, you are.
Are You Rationalizing Your Decisions?

Enable Hotmail POP3 In All Countries

Microsoft has announced a change to the Hotmail email provider service that they offer. The feature to access Hotmail accounts using a POP3 connection will be gradually enabled for all Hotmail accounts. Gradually meaning that only users from some countries like Germany, Italy or the United Kingdom are currently able to connect to Hotmail via POP3 while others have to wait until Microsoft enables POP3 access for their countries as well.
Enable Hotmail POP3 In All Countries

The Oddest English Spellings, Part 12 Or, One, Two, Buckle Your Shoe

Two and shoe rhyme. Why then are they spelled so differently? Those who ask such questions believe that rhyme and reason go together.
The Oddest English Spellings, Part 12 Or, One, Two, Buckle Your Shoe

Surviving a Plane Crash

New York City witnessed the seemingly impossible last week, when US Airways flight 1549 ditched into the icy Hudson river so gently that all 155 passengers walked away unharmed. Those merely witnessing the event, might be all the more frightened now, having not known (before) that birds flying into engines can cause such profound disaster.
Surviving a Plane Crash

How to Chop Onions Without Tears

Why do onions make you cry, and how can you prevent it from happening? Onions are made up of a tunic of outer leaves (the brown layer), scales (the white firm juicy edible part), and the basal plate (often called the "hairy part" or the "root").
How to Chop Onions Without Tears

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