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8180How to generate more Sudoku puzzles
Those addictive Sudoku puzzles keep us busy for hours, and once addicted, we get through loads of them. We'll download them, buy books of them, find them in newspapers and magazines, we can't get enough of them. But we can make many more Sudoku...
1 comment95Why did the Haiti earthquake happen?
When the devastating earthquake struck Haiti on Tuesday 12th January 2010, around three million people were directly affected with between 100,000 and 200,000 losing their lives. The quake measured 7 on the moment magnitude scale (the successor to...
66 comments76ITEC Reiki Qualification - is it worth doing?
ITEC is an international examining board that offers vocational qualifications recognised around the world and it now offers an award in Reiki, the alternative therapy based on the idea of healing energy. Despite research and trials, no-one has...
8 comments75Ubuntu hardware compatibility
When you buy a computer from a retailer, you expect everything to be working, all the hardware to be installed properly with all the necessary drivers. It works. Wonderful. But then you buy a printer, or a web cam, or a scanner, and you expect...
2 comments76Free radicals and antioxidants
Go to any website talking about diet and you will find an enormous amount about free radicals and antioxidants, long lists of foods which you should eat, and those which you should avoid. But in almost all...
7 comments88Why are conspiracy theories so popular?
The web is full of the most amazing conspiracy theories ranging from the claims that no-one has landed on the moon, through the CIA planning 9/11, right up to earthquakes being caused by testing experimental weapons. Somewhere in between comes the...
8 comments82What is global dimming?
We all know what is meant by global warming: the trend for the temperature of the planet to rise. We also know the cause, human activity mostly through the increased production of atmospheric carbon dioxide. ...
10 comments79Dental anaesthetics - can they fail?
Almost everyone has had experience of pain during dental work. They have an injection of anaesthetic and the dentist starts work a few minutes later after checking that the numbing has worked and then,...
2 comments86How to make a phone call in Spanish
One of the hardest things to do in any foreign language is to use the telephone. When we speak face-to-face we pick up innumerable cues about the meaning from the expression of the person we are talking to,...
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