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Heavily advertised, widely worn perfumes can smell good. Unfortunately, having a bespoke perfume made just for you will cost upwards of £600 for 100ml of eau de parfum (the most concentrated form of perfume), whereas a similar volume of a globally available brand typically costs £70. What, if any, is the actual difference? Videojug - Get Good At Life. The world's best how to videos plus free expert advice and tutorials.
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120 Ways to Boost Your Brain Power. Here are 120 things you can do starting today to help you think faster, improve memory, comprehend information better and unleash your brain’s full potential.
Solve puzzles and brainteasers.Cultivate ambidexterity. Use your non-dominant hand to brush your teeth, comb your hair or use the mouse. Write with both hands simultaneously. Switch hands for knife and fork.Embrace ambiguity. Learn to enjoy things like paradoxes and optical illusions.Learn mind mapping.Block one or more senses. Readers’ Contributions Dance! Contribute your own tip! There are many, many ways to keep our brains sharp.
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Each differ – some have all of the materials online and some may want you to purchase (borrow?) A textbook to follow along with. Each of them offers complete courses with only one thing missing: the credit for the coursework to put towards a matriculated degree. MIT OpenCourseware Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a pioneer in offering online college courses and they still have the most diverse and in-depth collection of classes available anywhere. Carnegie Mellon OpenLearning Carnegie Mellon, based in Pittsburgh, PA, has a variety of courses available for anyone online. Khan Acadamy Salman Khan began putting videos on YouTube to help with tutoring a cousin. Today, there are over 1000 videos on KhanAcademy, which is now a 501(c)(3) non-profit. University of California at Berkeley Stanford University iTunesU Tufts OpenCourseware Open University LearningSpace Johns Hopkins OpenCourseware.