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How to Make a Compost Tea
Compost tea is a well-balanced and nutrient-rich fertilizer that you can make by brewing compost in water. This fertilizer can be used on flowering plants, vegetables, houseplants, and crops of all sorts to increase growth, blooms, and yields. The trick t...
How to Compost
Composting is one of the simplest ways you can make a positive impact on the environment. Yet, we often end up wasting our food and garden scraps by sending them to the landfill. Most people don’t realize that 30% of what we throw out could be composted....
How to Live with Asperger's Syndrome
Asperger Syndrome is a nebulously-defined category of autism. People who live with Asperger's may be called "Aspies" or "Aspergians" and they are sometimes labeled as geeks, dorks, or nerds. Autistic people often experience problems with social interactio...
How to Treat a Blister
Blisters are fluid-filled bumps that appear on your skin when it has experienced friction. You may get them on your feet after walking around in shoes that are too tight, or on your hands after spending a day shoveling in the garden. If you get a blister,...
How to Study For Exams
Taking exams is stressful, but you can make it easier by improving the way you study. Studying for your exams effectively and efficiently will keep you from feeling unprepared, and it will set you up for success!
How to Play DotA
Defense of the Ancients, or DotA, is a map in the game Warcraft 3. It was created by players and is arguably the most popular custom map ever made. It combines strategy, skill, teamwork, and a little luck. DotA is a game of infinite depth and complexity...
How to Prepare to Ride a Horse
Preparing to ride a horse is easy as long as you have the right gear and know how to saddle and bridle your horse. Before you ride a horse, put on long pants, boots, and a riding helmet. Place the pad and saddle on your horse’s back, and insert the bit in...
How to Have Hope
Do you often find yourself struggling to see any meaning or purpose in your day-to-day activities? Do you want to break out of bad habits but can’t find the desire to do so? Hope might seem like a vague word with perhaps little to no relevance to your lif...
How to Improve Balance
Have you ever seen an Olympian on a balance beam? All those flips, jumps, and twists are possible because they have terrific balance. But good balance isn’t just helpful if you’re an Olympic athlete. It can actually help prevent falls and accidents. The g...
How to Design Your Own T Shirt
Designing your own t-shirt can be a fun, creative activity, and may even bring you some money if you decide to sell your designs. Whether you intend to print the shirt yourself or send it off to a professional printer, you can still come up with the desig...
How to Stop Fighting with a Stubborn Parent
Fighting is never fun. It is even less fun being in conflict with those you love. Arguments between you and your parents may seem as inevitable as the passing of time but there are in fact ways to reduce conflict, even with the stubbornest of parents.
How to Build Your Own Air Conditioner
Air conditioning uses up 20 percent of the electricity used in the U.S. To reduce your use of air conditioning and help the environment, you can build an conditioner with either a box fan and a cooler or with a box fan and a radiator. Follow these instruc...
How to Invent a Product
The word “inventor” conjures all kinds of images in our minds. We picture the mad scientist stumbling upon technologies that seem impossible, and whacky characters gluing pieces together in their basement. The reality is that inventing something isn’t alw...
How to Choose a Haircut That Flatters Your Facial Shape
When you're deciding which haircut will look best on you, take the shape of your face into consideration. A good haircut will highlight your unique angles and bring out the best in your features. Although certain haircuts may be ideal for your face shape,...
How to Avoid the Temptation to Eat Unhealthy Foods
Cravings for unhealthy food can happen to anyone. There are many factors that can lead to these cravings, such as hormonal fluctuations, reaction to stress, depression, and eating disorders.[1] X Research source These cravings can be hard to...
How to Tell Someone You Do Not Want to Be Friends
When it's time to tell someone that you don't want to be friends anymore, how should you do it? The answer partially depends on whether you're close friends or casual friends. If this is someone you don't know well, you can fade out of the friendship eith...