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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.

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

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. 1. Garlic Whether you like Asian, Italian, or Latin American cuisine, your love of garlic likely has something to do with it. And perhaps your wise pallet likes it for its beneficial effects on your cholesterol, among other things.

Eating a lot of garlic can lower rates of some cancers as well (ovarian, colorectal, etc) and colon polyps, too. 2. It is recommended that you get supplements with at least 95 percent curcuminoids in order to receive the most benefit. 3. Others have studied basil for its possible benefits in inhibiting breast cancer. PatrickJMT. Nine Stubborn Brain Myths That Just Won't Die, Debunked by Science. Khan Academy. Online Scientific Calculator and Math Help.

100+ Google Tricks. [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?

100+ Google Tricks

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. Convert units. Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Google Docs Google Docs is a great replacement for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, so learn how to use this product even more efficiently.

Use premade templates. Gmail Use the Tasks as a to-do list. University of Andy. BookBoon - online textbooks. Calculus Video Tutorials. Quantum Mechanics Lectures. The Online Learning Blog from Study2U.

Supposedly browsing the internet requires more brain power than watching television.

The Online Learning Blog from Study2U

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. Ted A conference that started in 1984 bringing together experts in technology, entertainment and design quickly grew into so much more. The conference itself is invitation only, but the website features all the talks at the conference in high res video format. New Scientist The New Scientist website carries new articles from the magazine as well as the NS archive of over 76,000 pieces.

Big Think The Big Think website is a collection of ‘global thought leaders’ who offer their thoughts and analysis on world events and other important developments. Café Scientifque ‘for the price of a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, anyone can come to explore the latest ideas in science and technology’ Breathing Earth Arts & Letters Daily.

HellBound Hackers - A Beginner's Guide. The Beginner’s guide.

HellBound Hackers - A 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. A road in which you are expected to be your own teacher in almost everything. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not implying that no one wants to help you, because this world is full of intelligent and insightful mentors, what I mean is – if you actually want to learn it, and learn it in such a way that you understand it, and can make up your own rules, the only way to do it is by teaching yourself. The road you have to walk down is not only long and filled with misinformation and old, out-dated information – it’s also fraught with dangerous temptations – the largest of which is the temptation to use power before you understand it.

Now, let’s see, I set out with this guide to give an easy jumping off spot – that I myself could have benefited from. First things first – Understanding your computer and browser. “What?!!!!” Well, here’s the thing. Hackety Hack!