Keyboard shortcuts are an easy way to save yourself some time and typing if you spend a lot of time click-clacking away at your keyboard like I do. The most common ones are somewhat universal (to many applications, at least). Control + P to print, Control + C to copy, Control + V to paste.
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“OK” is certainly one of the most common expressions in the English language–and one of the most versatile. After all, it can be used as an adjective, a noun, and a verb. But what do the letters in OK stand for? And where did the expression come from in the first place? Over the years,
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Have you ever imagined how long would it take to fall through the centre of the Earth, traveling from one side of our planet to the other? Physicists have long calculated the answer to that question as being 42 minutes, but now, new calculations show that the theoretical trip would actually take around 38 minutes
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Try putting an ice-cube in your mouth. The insides of your mouth and tongue instantly turn numb. Hold it in still and you will feel pain. Now try sucking on peppermint. The mint itself is at room temperature, but your mouth instantly feels cold and numb. How did it do that? The answer is menthol,
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Overeating effects are serious and can cause major debilitating results on one’s body. Some effects include bone deterioration and depression – and coping with stomach pain or bloating. Why does overeating cause those symptoms? And what’s the chemistry behind dyspepsia? For answers, check out the video above. It’s one of the installments of the American
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Have you ever wondered why we clap our hands, and who invented the act of clapping? Well, it’s impossible to know exactly when people first started clapping, though it’s definitely an ancient and widespread behaviour. It had certainly caught on by the time of the Roman Empire. That’s when crowds would clap, snap and wave
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The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has disclosed, it’s high time secondary school students started preparing to write the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, through Computer Based Test, CBT. This came as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Liberia, Mr Augustine Ngafuan urged WAEC to introduce Group-Work in classroom into their marking
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When someone wrongs you–either by accident or on purpose–it can be hard to get over it. How do you forgive somebody when every fibre of your being resists? How do you look at the person lovingly when you still have the memory of his/her unloving action? Well, you may not be able to forgive and
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The twenty-one Chibok schoogirls who escaped when Boko Haram abducted hundreds of them on 14 April last year are back in class at the American University of Nigeria in the north-eastern Adamawa State. Over 200 others have remained in captivity almost one year after they were taken hostage. Among those who have returned to school,
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Well, they don’t all die that way, but many of them succumb to the laws of physics in their final moments. It’s at that point that normal blood flow stops, the legs contract, and the bug gets too heavy. Inevitably, it falls over onto its back. Of course, a stiff breeze or a curious pet
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