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If You Want to Make Witty Comebacks, Be a Better ListenerIdea 2016. 6. 11. 10:03
The best witty comebacks use someone’s words against them, but you can’t do that if you don’t hear what they’re saying. When it comes to conversation, having a sharp wit means being a great listener. Abigail Paul, the artistic director at the Theatre Language Studio (TLS), says most of us don’t listen to the whole message when someone else speaks. We’re too busy thinking about our own points and..
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Build Your Own Movie Screen for Summer Backyard PartiesIdea 2016. 6. 11. 10:01
Making your own screen for backyard movie viewings saves you money over buying an expensive screen, and makes warm weather entertaining easy. Here’s how to put your own together with just a couple hours of work and a few supplies.This movie screen and frame is meant to be easy to disassemble for storage or transportation, so if you don’t want that feature, you can glue together all the joints to..
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Use a Silent Ringtone to Quiet iPhone AlarmsIdea 2016. 6. 11. 09:52
Regardless of whether or not your iPhone is muted, if you have an alarm set, it’ll make a sound. How-To Geek points out that a silent ringtone can solve this potential problem so you’ll still get the vibration without the ringing. The process here basically requires that you use a ringtone with no actual sound. How-To Geek posted their own to make the process easier. Once that ringtone is on you..
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Charcoal Grill Anything With This Visual GuideIdea 2016. 6. 11. 09:44
When it comes to grilling over charcoal, timing is everything, and it can be difficult to know exactly when to start cooking that juicy steak or ear of corn. To help solve this dilemma, the good people at Bon Appetit mapped out a grilling timeline, and put it on a handy printable graphic. This wheel of charcoal wisdom walks your through the entire life cycle of your briquettes—from lighting to r..
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Try “Hurricane Sprints” For a Super Challenging Sprint WorkoutIdea 2016. 6. 11. 09:42
Doing sprint intervals on a running track or the treadmill at the gym is a popular way to get an effective, short cardio workout. There’s one major gripe: you’re mainly working out your legs. With “hurricane sprints”, your upper body and core can actively join the fun.Normally, in a high-intensity interval training (or HIIT, for short) sprint session, you’re gunning it like Usain Bolt for a set ..
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The True Size Shows You How Big Countries and States Really AreIdea 2016. 6. 11. 09:39
Most maps you see don’t show Earth according to its true proportions, so it’s easy to get confused over the size of different countries, states, and even continents relative to each other. The True Size is an interactive map that lets you see how big or small these places really are. To use the map, you simply search for a country or state. The tool finds and highlights the area, and you can dra..
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The Best Way to Load Your Dishwasher Is Buried In Its ManualIdea 2016. 6. 11. 09:38
People fight over the best way to load the dishwasher. Forks with tines up or down, pots on the top or bottom—luckily, it’s all meaningless. Your specific model probably has a “right way,” and it’s buried in the back of its owner’s manual. Checking the user manual seems like a no-brainer, but with something as easy to use (or that was pre-installed when you moved in) as a dishwasher, you may hav..
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OneLook Reverse Dictionary Helps Find That Word You Can't RememberIdea 2016. 6. 11. 09:30
It’s right on the tip of your tongue. You know it’s there. It’s when you intensely dislike something. When your brain can’t quite pick out the word you need, OneLook Reverse Dictionary can look the word up by its definition. The tool, from dictionary site OneLook lets you look up related words or definitions to come up with the word you need. Can’t remember the word for fear of spiders? OneLook ..