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A Good Bath
How to take a good bath • Pick a time when you are unlikely to be distracted. Peace and quiet should help you to relax. • Consider adding an essential oil, such as lavender oil, to promote relaxation. • Your bathwater should be just a little hotter than...
Plasticphobia
Plasticphobia Versatile plastics inspire innovations that help make life better, healthier and safer every day. Plastics are used to make bicycle helmets, child safety seats and airbags in automobiles. They’re in the phones, televisions, computers and...
wellbeing
It seems reasonable to be glad something has happened or not happened. Depending how it's understood, though, gratefulness makes dubitable assumptions about the existence of free agents with the power to bestow goods upon you, that is, assumptions about...
Stress
Not all stress is harmful. Stress can be good when it stimulates creativity and motivation, excitement and satisfaction. Harness stress instead of fighting it. Be more realistic about your expectations. Don’t try to always be perfect. Don’t be overly...
Stress
Not all stress is harmful. Stress can be good when it stimulates creativity and motivation, excitement and satisfaction. Harness stress instead of fighting it. Be more realistic about your expectations. Don’t try to always be perfect. Don’t be overly...
Public Speaking
Two kinds of public speaking are often confused. One is done by politicians on a podium or the Queen at Christmas, and is essentially a rehearsed reading with a script. The other is off the cuff, natural, using whatever headings or visual aids are useful...
The Robot Farmer
Farmers already do their work exclusively with machines. We have a traditional view of farmers as men of the land, with strong bodies and weatherbeaten faces. However, I do a lot of work in the countryside with farmers, and I'd say that 90% of them are...
Queen of Sweden
An eight-year-old Swedish-American girl came across an exciting find swimming at her local lake, when she pulled an ancient sword from its depths. "It's not every day that one steps on a sword in the lake!" But that's exactly what happened to Saga Vanecek,...
typhus in Los Angeles
typhus Around 430-424 BC, a devastating plague, which some believe to have been typhoid fever, killed one third of the population of Athens, including their leader Pericles. Typhoid fever, also known as typhoid, is a common worldwide bacterial disease,...
Scottish pearls
Scottish pearls are very rare freshwater pearls produced by a mussel (Margaritifera Margaritifera), found in the River Tay and other Scottish rivers. The Scottish pearls come in colours from rustic brown, grey, cream, white, lilac and pink with a subtlety...