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How Does the Brain Learn Best? Smart Studying Strategies. In his new book, “How We Learn: The Surprising Truth about When, Where, and Why It Happens,” author Benedict Carey informs us that “most of our instincts about learning are misplaced, incomplete, or flat wrong” and “rooted more in superstition than in science.” That’s a disconcerting message, and hard to believe at first. But it’s also unexpectedly liberating, because Carey further explains that many things we think of as detractors from learning — like forgetting, distractions, interruptions or sleeping rather than hitting the books — aren’t necessarily bad after all. They can actually work in your favor, according to a body of research that offers surprising insights and simple, doable strategies for learning more effectively. Society has ingrained in us “a monkish conception of what learning is, of you sitting with your books in your cell,” Carey told MindShift.

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Garden compost making. How To Compost With A Compost Pile - Pictures And Description. Custom Search When you think of garden compost - what comes to mind?

Garden compost making. How To Compost With A Compost Pile - Pictures And Description

Warm sunny days spent planting a vegetable garden... only to be spoilt by having to plunge your gardening fork into a smelly mass of slimey, rotting vegetable matter. Well, if that is your experience, you're just not making compost correctly. Vegetable gardening and garden compost making are like Laurel and Hardy or Morcombe and Wise - I added the second pair because they`re more my era and I don't want you thinking I'm that old... get my drift! Garden Compost - Getting Started It is tidier to make your compost pile in a bin or compost container. Locate your compost bin in a sheltered, level area of the garden - where there is good drainage and access if it is possible. Composting with Worms. An Introduction on The Worlds Best Compost: A Fair Overview This guide of The World's Best Compost is brought to you by FaceLube, your best source for Best Face Moisturizer for Men and the Best Male Grooming kits.

While you are here, don't forget to see FaceLube's amazing broad spectrum anti-aging sunscreen and happy customer compliments on Amazon. Video Summary: Learn to compost with worms. Video goes over selecting a container, starting a worm bin, caring and troubleshooting. 6 Tips for Building Soil for Your Raised Garden Beds and Planters. When my wife and I first started gardening in earnest, the results were discouraging.

6 Tips for Building Soil for Your Raised Garden Beds and Planters

The seeds we planted would sprout and begin to grow, but soon the rate of growth would slow and produce undersize vegetables. Some would succumb to damage from insect pests and slugs, and even when we purchased healthy seedlings for transplanting, they failed to grow to the size we expected. During our first few seasons of gardening we spent more time weeding than anything else. Our undersize plants left much of the topsoil exposed, and local weeds took advantage of the sunlight and available ground space.

Although we watered the beds regularly and applied mulch to supress the weeds, the harvest from our early vegetable gardens was pitiful. Over time we learned what most successful gardeners know: building soil is what gardening is all about. With hopes of sparing you the mistakes we made, here are some tips for building productive soil for your garden beds and planters. 1. 2. 3. 4. 30 things you should never compost or recycle. Remember the good ol' days — back when we only had one bin for trash?

30 things you should never compost or recycle

In retrospect, those days were actually more wasteful than good. We sent things to the landfill that might have nourished our yards, and buried them side-by-side with materials that should have been reclaimed and put back in the production chain. Today, most of us have two bins: one for compost and another for recycling. They're great for reducing curbside trash, but not everything is suitable for those bins. We've rounded up 30 things people mistakenly try to compost or recycle. Bread products: This includes cakes, pasta and most baked goods. Camping Stoves. TS98_e-Sword9-4. Practical self sufficiency through food skills. A Little Bit of Personality: October 2013. Though I write often about cognition patterns and how thought processes differ between each of the sixteen types, I feel like I haven't really gotten across in full what I mean.

A Little Bit of Personality: October 2013

And is there any way better to get across concepts simply and efficiently than pictures? I think there is not. Now, I can't make stick people like the greats, and I don't want anyone to think I'm trying. This is just literally the best I can draw :P Well, pretty much... {On an interesting side-note about XKCD, I've noticed web comic writers are often IP's, especially INP's (the author of XKCD being very classically INTP). Everyone thinks :O It's kind of a necessary part of being conscious. A common misconception about Introversion vs. Instead, Introversion and Extraversion describe where you primarily turn for information and input. In truth, it's as simple as that, though those differences effect all a person's decisions and actions. Typical side effects of these focuses, again, are varied. Thinker vs. Self Sufficiency. TwitterHeader. Honey and Locusts. Book Review: Managing God’s Money by Randy Alcorn. Managing God’s Money, Randy Alcorn’s most recent book, is a life changer.

Book Review: Managing God’s Money by Randy Alcorn

I say this because the book has been a catalyst in initiating conversations with my wife that we never would have had otherwise. We already knew that everything belongs to God. We already understood the principles of being property managers for God. We were even tithers, and we felt good about it. But things are now different; instead of smugly believing that God is surely proud of us for how we manage his money, we are now investigating ways to go beyond a tithe, to dedicate all of our assets to His glory and to intentionally invite some trepidation into our financial lives by giving away much of the nest egg we have accumulated. I believe the power of this book is Randy’s ability to move us from doctrine to practice.