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PBS. How to Tie Basic Knots. Basic knots Welcome to Basic Knots The eight knots in this section are the most basic knots - the building blocks of knot tying.

How to Tie Basic Knots

Select the knots from: the index above left; the pictures above; or the Basics Usage page. Selection. Things My Father Didn't Teach Me. ABOUT ARCHIVE FOLLOW Facebook Twitter Instagram Google+ Ads Via The Deck Things My Father Didn’t Teach Me share it happyfathersday 4,393 notes.

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CourseLab - free e-Learning authoring tool. Download free Fiction, Health, Romance and many more ebooks. What happened in my birth year? Random. 18 Free Wikipedia Tools For Better Research « Ijaar.

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18 Free Wikipedia Tools For Better Research « Ijaar

We have selected 18 really awesome tools that will allow you to get more out of wikipedia and utilize it in a more productive manner. All these tools are completely free: 1. Similpedia: Similpedia lets you find similar content on wikipedia. 2. WikiAlarm allows to track several Wikipedia articles and send you automatic email updates whenever your selected articles are edited. 3. WikiRank lets you see what topics are popular on Wikipedia. 4. WikiRage tracks the Wikipeda pages that have been receiving most edits recently. 5. Wikipedia-Roll allows you to search and browse wikipedia articles visually. 6. DeletionPedia provides you with a copy of the articles that have been deleted by wikipedia. 7. EyePlorer helps in visulaizing facts and figures about a certain topic. 530 Free Online Courses from Top Universities.

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Below, you will find 1,700 free online courses from universities like Yale, MIT, Harvard, Oxford and more. Our site also features collections of Online Certificate Programs and Online Degree & Mini-Degree Programs. Note: This page includes a lot of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Hack a Day — Fresh hacks every day. Interview Tips. New Learning. Planet Green: Search Results. Easter miracle? Eggshells reborn as plastics. Easter is about rebirth and renewal, yet that spirit doesn't extend to all parts of the holiday.

Easter miracle? Eggshells reborn as plastics

Countless Easter eggs, for example, are produced, used and then discarded every year, whether they were laid by a hen, a rabbit or a plastic mold. Conveniently, a new research project aims to make such ovoid overkill less wasteful, and not only on Easter. Led by scientists at the U.K.'s University of Leicester, the project is developing a way to convert eggshells into bioplastics, to be used in anything from pharmaceuticals to egg cartons — and maybe even plastic Easter eggs.

This could be a boon for food producers, which often must pay to dispose of eggshells in landfills. "Eggshell is classified as a waste material by the food industry, but is in fact a highly sophisticated composite," says Richard Worrall, director of the Food and Drink iNet, in a University of Leicester press release. BICYCLED » A bike made out of cars. Making beautiful bikes from junked cars. Fewer cars and more bikes is a probably a dream for cyclists and TreeHuggers everywhere.

Making beautiful bikes from junked cars

Bicycled is a slick new project that aims to achieve these two goals in an artful way, by making bikes from junked cars. It is such a poetic concept, it's not surprising the project seems to have originated from the creative agency, Lola Madrid. As you'll see in the promo video above, there's no shortage of car parts to choose from, so each bike will be unique. Body metal is used for the bike frame, brake lights turn into reflectors, door handles become seat post clamps and so on. I haven't seen any of the finished bikes, but I love the concept. The bikes don't appear to be for sale yet, but you can add your name to a wait list at the link above.

Tech Tips. Feed Your Head. How to Get Personal and Professional Value from Idle Web Surfing. Given how the usage of The Simple Dollar spikes during the normal workday in the United States (this phenomenon occurs on many other blogs, too), it’s easy to conclude that many visitors visit the site during downtimes during their workday, seeking information to improve their financial lives and their career.

How to Get Personal and Professional Value from Idle Web Surfing

While this is an effective way to use downtime, with just a little bit of planning and forethought, you can make that time spent finding and discovering useful information for yourself and for your career quite a bit more valuable without a lot of additional effort. Here’s the game plan – try out some of these tactics for yourself. Share information you find.

Let’s say you find a brilliant article on The Simple Dollar (or another site, but I’m sure the best stuff is from TSD). You read it, find things you can actually implement in your own life, and are really inspired by it. The silent epidemic of malnutrition. ARTIFICIAL EYE/ RETINAL PROSTHESIS COULD HELP THE BLIND SEE AGAIN - Muddlex - Social Media and Technology News. Shawn Kelly, a senior systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a computer chip that translates camera images into electrical pulses that the nerves inside the brain can understand.

ARTIFICIAL EYE/ RETINAL PROSTHESIS COULD HELP THE BLIND SEE AGAIN - Muddlex - Social Media and Technology News

The result is vision. The cameras are incredibly small and mounted to a pair of glasses.