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USE GOOGLE BETTER. You're probably thinking but I know how to Google, but do you really?

USE GOOGLE BETTER

There is a lot more efficient Googling than you might think: in a recent study on student research skills, 75% of the students couldn't perform a well-executed search on Google. When the success of your term paper hangs in the balance, using Google effectively is crucial, but most of students surprisingly just don't know how. Here we gonna go over some valuable tips that will help you refine your googling skills, as well as some other great things. How to Google Search terms called operators can help you get far more specific results than you would by only using generic search terms.

Lets say you want NYTimes articles about test scores in college, but not SATs, written between 2008 - 2010. Google: site:nytimes.com ~college "test scores" -SATs 2008..2010 Don't ask Google questions. Google: filetype:pdf air speed intitle:velocity of *swallow. How to confuse a moral compass. People can be tricked into reversing their opinions on moral issues, even to the point of constructing good arguments to support the opposite of their original positions, researchers report today in PLoS ONE1.

How to confuse a moral compass

The researchers, led by Lars Hall, a cognitive scientist at Lund University in Sweden, recruited 160 volunteers to fill out a 2-page survey on the extent to which they agreed with 12 statements — either about moral principles relating to society in general or about the morality of current issues in the news, from prostitution to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. But the surveys also contained a ‘magic trick’. Each contained two sets of statements, one lightly glued on top of the other. Each survey was given on a clipboard, on the back of which the researchers had added a patch of glue. When participants turned the first page over to complete the second, the top set of statements would stick to the glue, exposing the hidden set but leaving the responses unchanged. 7 Ways To Speed Up Your Internet in Windows 7. Is your internet becoming slow in Windows 7, but you don’t know how to speed up the internet connection?

7 Ways To Speed Up Your Internet in Windows 7

No worries, here are some of the best ways to speed up your internet connection in Windows 7 and make it blazing fast again. Ads: When it comes to internet connections, there are some things you can do to speed up your download speed, website loading speed or improve your gaming latency: Best Chrome Extensions. On this page, you will find the best Chrome extensions for all your browsing needs.

Best Chrome Extensions

Using the right Chrome extensions can completely transform your online experience, and make your time on the Internet much more productive and interesting. We’ve made the effort to categorize the extensions and chose only those we believe to be the best ones and which will most likely be useful to you. A perfect tool for students/researchers and one of the best Chrome extensions for organization. Diigo lets you highlight, share and save web pages.

Read selected content both online and offline. Xmarks syncs your data across multiple computers and browsers. The Evernote Web Clipper is the easiest way to save, mark up and share anything you see online. Helps you to collect, manage and cite the sources for your latest project. Bookmark and organise anything online that interests you into trees and share with others for a social bookmarking experience. Want to know what that word means? The 10 Best Extensions For Chrome Tab Management. Advertisement Tabs, tabs, tabs.

The 10 Best Extensions For Chrome Tab Management

If you’re a multi-tasker, you love tabs. Thankfully, the days of having 30 separate Internet Explorer windows open in the Taskbar are behind us. Tabs make web browsers a lot easier to use. But that doesn’t mean you can’t improve tabbed browsing. If you’re an avid Chrome user who doesn’t want to switch to an alternative app, you need to turn to third-party extensions for the functionality you crave. But which one should you use? 1. It might have started life as a lightweight and super-fast browser, but these days, Chrome is a memory munching behemoth. It’s hardly surprising; it takes a lot of power to run lots of extensions and integrate the browser tightly with the Google ecosystem of apps.

35 Lifechanging Ways To Use Everyday Objects. Top 50 Important Tools – DIY Tips and Advice – Tools Everyone Should Own. Man is "weak in himself, and of small stature," wrote 19th-century essayist Thomas Carlyle.

Top 50 Important Tools – DIY Tips and Advice – Tools Everyone Should Own

Yet, with tools, "the granite mountain melts into light dust before him, seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his un­wearying steeds. " And this from a guy who never felt a 5800-rpm circular saw scream to life in his hand. While much has changed since Carlyle's day, one thing hasn't: We need tools to build, repair and maintain the mechanical world in which we live. With these 50 tools, you'll be ready for just about any project--whether it's melting mountains or swapping out the kitchen sink. 1.

. * Few tools combine brute force and finesse as elegantly as a sledgehammer. 2. . * In theory, you use a center punch to start holes in metal. 3. . * The putty knife is more than a single implement.