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119 Body Language thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
READING BODY LANGUAGE
Shuffling feet signify a restless listener. Feet flat on the floor show attention. Toe tapping indicates impatience.
Dean Sheridan, electronics technician and deaf actor, Torrance, California
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Current Rating: 5.9 out of 10 based on 32 reviews
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375 Children thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
RAISING CHILDREN
Never fill a child's glass more than half full.
L. Musselman, office manager and mother of young children
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Current Rating: 6.8 out of 10 based on 31 reviews
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631 Precipitation thumb thumb thumb thumb
PREDICTING RAIN
The number of stars visible inside the ring around the moon is the number of days before rain.
Glenn Saha, builder
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Current Rating: 4.2 out of 10 based on 14 reviews
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APPROXIMATING THE SIZE OF YOUR BRAIN
You can approximate the size of your brain by putting your fists together so that your wrists touch and your thumbnails face you side by side.
Dennis Palaganas, Gainesville, Florida
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Current Rating: 4.9 out of 10 based on 20 reviews
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1143 Children thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
WATCHING A KID FOR TROUBLE
A child who constantly mutters under his breath is a time bomb.
Cookie Ohlson, teacher, Prospect Park Middle School, Pennsylvania
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1399 Temperature thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
CHEMICAL REACTIONS
The rate of a chemical reaction doubles for every 10 degree Centigrade rise in temperature.
Ken Partymiller, chemist, Lexington, Kentucky
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Current Rating: 4.8 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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1655 Religion thumb thumb thumb thumb
DEALING WITH A NEW AGE EVANGELIST
If a person has experienced only one kind of transformational experience, take everything he or she says with a lot of salt.
Andrea Frankel, computer scientist, engineer, holistic health practitioner, San Diego, California
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Current Rating: 4.4 out of 10 based on 17 reviews
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1911 Education thumb thumb thumb thumb
TEACHING CHILDREN
The rule for getting along with seventh and eighth graders is: don't do anything that annoys them. And they know what annoys them better than you do.
Cookie Ohlson, teacher, Prospect Park Middle School, Pennsylvania
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2167 Weather thumb thumb thumb thumb thumb
FOLLOWING SPRING
Spring moves north about 13 miles a day.
Jon Reis, photographer, Ithaca, New York
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Current Rating: 4.5 out of 10 based on 14 reviews
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2423 Tools thumb thumb thumb thumb
USING A WRENCH
One good pull on a nut with a socket wrench is equal to about 20 foot-pounds of torque.
John Towle, Salinas, California
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2679 Tests thumb thumb thumb thumb
PASSING A PHYSICS TEST
If you're taking a multiple-choice physics test and don't know how to calculate a certain value to solve a problem, manipulate the data mathematically until you get a value with the same units as the one you're trying to calculate.
Dennis Palaganas, Gainesville, Florida
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