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Make yourself resolute with the idea that you will win whenever you go on a mission, and you can win even if it is not so realistic.
– Ninja instructional poem
[Note: I want your questions about real-life ninjas! Please include them in the comments down below or here, and I’ll try to pass them on to author John Man to answer.]
Our idea of the quintessential ninja is a little short of historical reality. In fact, what does the average person really know besides that they dress in all black and are masters of stealth and assassination techniques? They didn’t use magic, they couldn’t walk on water, and their primary goal was not to kill or be killed.
John Man’s new book Ninja: 1,000 Years of the Shadow Warrior traces this order through history — from the first proto-ninjas to the true ninjas’ rising prevalence in…
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Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. – Bill Gates
This is 100% true.
Students in Kerry Bootsma’s 8th grade English classes at Stilwell Junior High have been using Audacity to edit and improve their written essays. Audacity is a free software program for recording sound. After drafting their essay, students read and record their essay at the computer. Then they play the recording back and by hearing themselves read their own writing aloud, students are able to listen to the flow of their writing and make changes in grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
Here is some feedback from students:
“Hearing myself say the sentences pointed out some errors. I shrunk a huge sentence into smaller ones, and I realized some things I had just didn’t make sense.”
“I thought it was really helpful because when you read it in your head you skip over words and only say what you meant to in your head. But when you have to read it out loud, you actually have…
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Who would have thought?
By: Fredrik P.
A friend of mine is 45 years old, has no gray hair, and very good skin for her age. I wanted to find out if there was anything in her routine that could have been a reason for such youthful looks for her age (all without any surgery by the way!). Leaving genetics out of the equation for a moment, the one interesting thing that popped up was the fact that she takes a cold shower every morning. So I did a little research about the subject and found 4 main benefits that you gain by taking cold showers.
Now when I say cold shower, I want to clarify exactly what I mean by that. Taking a full cold shower, meaning no hot or warm or lukewarm water at all, is borderline torture! Especially in the cold winter months (I am from Montreal, and it is VERY…
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