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Healing Herbs: 7 Herbs and Spices you Should have in your Pantry

Our bodies are complex, sensitive systems that are affected to a greater or lesser extent by a whole hose of external forces—air quality, the clothing we wear, where we live, the diets we eat. It all has an impact on our health. Even things as small and seemingly inconsequential herbs and spices can really benefit us physically, and we’re not just talking about our taste buds, either. Read on to find out how your eating habits may help to heal you. http://www.altmedicinezone.com/natural-remedies/7-picturesque-healing-spices-you-should-have-in-your-pantry/

Nine Stubborn Brain Myths That Just Won't Die, Debunked by Science

Brain games will make you smarter! The internet is making you dumber! Alcohol is killing your brain cells! The brain is a mystery we've been trying to solve for ages, and the desire to unlock its secrets has led to vast amounts of misinformation. Many of these false notions are more widely believed than the truth. We took our healthy skepticism and a bunch of brain research to find the truth behind some of the most common myths about intelligence and our brains. http://lifehacker.com/5867049/nine-stubborn-brain-myths-that-just-wont-die-debunked-by-science
http://www.khanacademy.org/ Matrices, vectors, vector spaces, transformations. Covers all topics in a first year college linear algebra course. This is an advanced course normally taken by science or engineering majors after taking at least two semesters of calculus (although calculus really isn't a prereq) so don't confuse this with regular high school algebra.

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Online Scientific Calculator and Math Help | eCalc

Online Calculator and Math Help eCalc is a free and easy to use scientific calculator that supports many advanced features including unit conversion, equation solving, and even complex-number math. eCalc is offered as both a free online calculator and as a downloadable calculator. Input Mode (Algebraic vs. http://www.ecalc.com/
The Original Electric Car: Unplugged? Perhaps the most notorious suppressed invention is the General Motors EV1, subject of the 2006 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? The EV1 was the world's first mass-produced electric car, with 800 of them up for lease from GM in the late '90s. http://www.trutv.com/conspiracy/in-the-shadows/the-18-most-suppressed-inventions-ever/gallery.all.html?link=DCF

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http://www.eternalcode.com/100-google-tricks-that-will-save-you-time-in-school/ [via onlinecolleges.net ] With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away.

100+ Google Tricks

10 Websites To Make You Think | The Online Learning Blog from Study2U

Supposedly browsing the internet requires more brain power than watching television. Although judging from some of the websites we’ve come across that assumption is cast into doubt. Here’s some of the sites we like that might get your brain to sit up and listen. A conference that started in 1984 bringing together experts in technology, entertainment and design quickly grew into so much more. http://blog.study2u.com/373/10-websites-to-make-you-think/

HellBound Hackers - A Beginner's Guide

http://www.hellboundhackers.org/articles/478-a-beginner-39;s-guide.html The Beginner’s guide. Okay, so you want to learn to hack, and be a "kewl haxor", right? Well, good luck on that one – you’ve got a long road ahead of you.
http://hackety.com/ Hackety Hack uses the Shoes toolkit to make it really easy and fun to build graphical interfaces. Several lessons and example programs are provided, showing you how to make all kinds of fun things! Check out what other people are doing with Hackety Hack! The Programs section is chock full of fun projects from other Hackety users.

Hackety Hack!