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897
Driving
SPOTTING SLOW DRIVERS
The speed of a vehicle drops by 10 percent for each gray-haired person in a car.
Bob Horton, consultant and writer, Largo, Florida
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Design
DESIGNING A MODERN CHAIR
If you're designing a chair and want to know how well your design will stand the test of time, imagine 30 of them lined up in a laundromat.
Steve Carver, illustrator, Ithaca, New York
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Language
HOW TO WRITE WELL
Use semicolons freely; most readers will credit your erudition.
Denis Smith, high school counselor, Camarillo, California
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Driving
DRIVING DEFENSIVELY
Drive like you are playing a video game with your last quarter. After ten minutes of this, you will have a better idea what defensive driving is all about.
Gerald Gutlipp, mathematician, Chicago, Illinois
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Joker
BUYING SODA FROM A MACHINE IN THE OLD DAYS
If your money falls right through a soft-drink machine and lands in the coin return, forget about feeding it coins and try pulling a bottle out of the machine. The chances are about one in five that you will get a free soda. Someone else put money in the machine, and the relay didn't release the bottles until after they gave up and left.
Eric Kimple, motorcycle racer, Columbus, Ohio
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Military
MILITARY SUPPLIES
Peasants carrying supplies for a Chinese army will eat one-third of the rice, regardless of the distance.
Norman Brenner, Fleetwood, New York
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Personalities
SQUARE DANCING
The fact that someone is a square or contra dancer greatly increases the chance that he or she is also a computer programmer or scientist (At least in Colorado, Vermont, and Washington).
Ellen Klaver, musician, Boulder, Colorado
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Computers
ON-LINE USERS RULE
If you get a group of 100 people online then one will create
current logic
, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Quoting Charles Arthur in The Guardian, July 20, 2006.
, Software Developer, Ithaca, New York, USA
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2945
Money
WARREN BUFFETT'S RULE OF GREED
"...try to be greedy when others are fearful and fearful when others are greedy." - Warren Buffett
OntologicalDoubt, Psychologist, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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3201
Speaking
SPEECH RATE
To estimate how long a speech will take to deliver, count the number of words and divide by 150
Jeremy Rose, Adjunct Professor, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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3713
Exercise
IS IT OK TO EXERCISE WITH A COLD?
If your symptoms are above the neck (stuffy nose, sneezing), go for it. If your symptoms are below the neck (chest cough, muscle aches and pains, intestinal), skip it.
fixedgear, bicyclist
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