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How to Pretend to be Working at Work
Pretending to get your work done can be a risky and difficult proposition. If you fail to turn in an important assignment, you could be reprimanded, demoted, or even fired. If you’re careful though, you can avoid work while tricking those around you into...
How to Be a Great Actor
Although professionals onstage or in your favorite movies might make acting seem effortless, their performances are generally the result of years of effort, intelligent research, and careful observation. You can achieve a higher level of onstage or onscre...
How to Get Fit the Military Way
Ever been disappointed with results of a workout program? Military organizations around the globe have years of experience in workouts that give results. It's easy to see service men and women who are literally fighting fit and wonder how they manage to l...
How to Calibrate and Use a pH Meter
Chemists, biologists, environmentalists, and lab technicians alike all use pH to measure the acidic and basic potentials of a solution. A pH meter is very useful and the most accurate tool available to test pH levels. There are many simple steps, from p...
How to Prevent Natural Blonde Hair from Darkening
If you have naturally blonde hair, congratulations--you’re one of the only 2% of the world’s population that does.[1] X Research source But blonde hair can also begin to darken over time. If you want to keep your hair its blonde color as lon...
How to Plan a Party (for Tweens)
Your tween years are an important "rite of passage" of sorts - they're a transitional age between childhood and being a teenager. This is where parties can start to get confusing. With all the new information about parties, as well as your developing inde...
How to Teach Literature to College Students
Teaching a college literature course for the first time can be intimidating. However, if you are well-prepared, the idea of teaching college literature class should start to sound fun and exciting. To teach literature to college students, you will need to...
How to Avoid Coming off As Pretentious
If you have been called pretentious, people probably think you are arrogant, a know-it-all, smug, or superior. People have a hard time connecting with a person they feel is judging and preaching on the top of a pedestal. You will be seen as more relatable...
How to Defeat the Tyrannosaurus Rex in Tomb Raider Anniversary
This is to help any Tomb Raider beginners or those struggling to play Tomb Raider: Anniversary. This is about how to defeat only the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
How to Understand Someone With Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is a condition that lasts for three months or more and continues after the injury or condition is treated. The experience of acute pain is the nervous system’s natural response to possible injury. With chronic pain, however, pain signals cont...
How to Park a Truck or Large Vehicle
It’s no secret that large vehicles handle differently than normal sized cars. But when attempting to park in a spot or parking lot intended for vehicles of a more regular size, you’ll have to be especially careful with your large vehicle or truck. The las...
How to Build a Ferrocement Tank
Ferrocement water tanks are durable, inexpensive, and easy to build. Keep reading for tips on how to take on this project yourself!
How to Get Your Friends to Stop Fighting with Each Other
When two of your friends are fighting with each other, it can put you in an awkward position. You might be tired of hearing them complain about each other and getting stuck in the middle of their arguments. If you want to get your friends to stop fighting...
How to Tie a Palomar Knot
A Palomar knot, used for securing fishing line to fishing hooks, is a study and reliable knotting technique. Palomar knots can also be used on both braided fishing line and thin, monofilament fishing line, which makes them versatile. When done correctly,...
How to Pray Effectively (Christianity)
...if you do not forgive others their trespasses, neither will your Father in heaven forgive yours" (Matthew 6:15, Mark 11:26). Do your prayers work? "Father, bless my enemy with your peace..." is a prayer that makes sense! A lot of people wonder why some...
How to Read Faces
Reading faces is a vital skill. When trying to communicate with another human being, it's helpful to understand what potential emotions that person may be experiencing. In interpersonal relationships, you'll be able to take better care of those close to y...