Latest articles and news for January 24, 2024
Housekeeping tips: Clean your vent easily
If you feel like your house is dustier than usual, or your vent simply doesn't work as well as it used to, then it's probably time to clean it. Lots of people prefer to hire specialists to do it, but it's actually pretty easy to clean your vent on your own.
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Interior tips: A plane wall – decorate your living room easily!
If you have a plain wall in your living room, then you might want to decorate it to create a focal point. Nowadays, you can easily find lots of ideas on how to decorate your living room, especially when looking online.
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Gardening insights: How local communities benefit gardeners and farmers
Local communities can actually benefit people, and they can be even more useful for gardeners and farmers. When you grow plants, you require lots of knowledge, tools, and time, and it's always better to share these things with others too.
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Useful Tips: How to Care for Shoes Made of Genuine Leather
It is best to clean leather shoes with a soft cloth or sponge; hard brushes cause microcracks on the surface of the leather, which leads to cracks and rapid deterioration of the shoes.
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Food storage tips: Soups – keep them fresh for a long time!
While it's relatively easy to freeze some cooked meat or vegetables to eat them later, it might be way harder with liquids like soups. Soups are way harder to store, and you should eat them fresh – so what should you do?
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Tips from the Designer: How to Choose an Upholstered Chair – Good to Know
It is better to give preference to models in which the backrest tilt is adjustable. By adapting to the sitting posture, such a chair reduces the load on the spine, allowing the back muscles not to be overstrained.
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Nature is amazing: How lizards grow new tails
You've probably heard about the amazing ability of lizards to grow new tails, or even witnessed it in real life. While not all lizards can do it, this amazing ability has always been surrounded by many myths and misconceptions.
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A new discovery: Violent students – how teachers can handle that
Not only teachers, but also students can be violent – and most teachers can't do anything about it. Teachers across the country have shared their insights on the most effective strategies for handling student violence, according to a nationwide study.
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Helpful Tips: How to Wash Black and White Clothes
These items are best washed by hand in warm water with a small amount of washing liquid. Always use this method the first time you wash a new item of clothing, so you know right away whether it will dye or not.
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Housekeeping tips: Keep your floors clean in winter
In winter, you can accidentally bring lots of dirt and moisture at home on your shoes, resulting in messy floors. While it's almost impossible to eliminate dirt completely, there are still a few things you can do to keep your floors clean.
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Interior tips: Hobby items – store them properly in your cabinet
If you have real hobbies that require lots of items and tools, then you know well how hard it might be to store them properly. If you don't want your items to be everywhere around while you're enjoying your favorite activities, then you should store them like a pro.
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Interesting Facts: What Nature Does Fish For – You Didn’t Know About It
The importance of fish in nature and human life is great. They purify water and are food for animals and humans. Fish are a valuable source of nutrients. Fish oil is used as a medicine.
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Gardening insights: A brief history of pesticides
Gardeners often have to get rid of various pests, and the easiest way to do it is to use some of the modern pesticides. While pesticides are often seen as a relatively modern invention, our ancestors used to have their own way of getting rid of pests.
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Nervous Tic: What is it
Nervous tics are involuntary (uncontrollable by the will) rapid contractions of the facial or skeletal muscles that can occur at any age.
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Swans: Interesting Facts – Amazing Nature
Depending on the species, the plumage of swans is either pure white, gray or black.
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Beverage ideas: Make a tincture – add frozen cherries!
If you like having a collection of alcoholic beverages at home, and enjoy the home-made ones, then you probably have a few tinctures at home, too. The best thing about them is that they often taste amazing, and they also are extremely easy to prepare.
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Nature is amazing: Teeth that grow all the time
While some animals tend to change their teeth to permanent ones just once, other animals have different adaptations to survive. For instance, some animals like rodents have their teeth growing all their life – but why?
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Chronic Stress: What is it
Chronic stress is the occurrence of a negative reaction of the body in response to prolonged exposure to unfavorable conditions. Prolonged stress can be recognized by both physical and psychological symptoms.
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A new discovery: Screen time matters – limit your kids' online presence
Everyone knows that kids shouldn't spend too much time using their devices, but not everyone understands how they actually affect children. A review of 23 years of neuroimaging research, analyzing 33 studies with over 30,000 participants under the age of 12, has found that time spent on screen-based media has measurable and long-term effects on children's brain function.
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Capers: Health Benefits
Capers are not food. But rather, decorating food. In cooking, they play the role of a powerful seasoning: one spoon of capers is enough for them to impart their strong spicy-mustard taste and aroma to the entire environment and invigorate the most bland dish.
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