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CARING FOR A HORSE
You should allow at least one hour per day to feed and groom a horse.
Mary Flinn, Starlane Farms, Lansing, New York
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Current Rating: 5.3 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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CHOPPING WOOD
Most people who try chopping a tree with an axe soon discover that the axe will wedge in the wood if the cut is not made wide enough. In most cases, the width of the chop area should be as wide as the tree is thick.
Peter van Berkum, Kittery Point, Maine
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STAYING IN A HOTEL
The most important part of your hotel room is the bathroom. No matter how nice your bedroom, if the bathroom is bad, it can ruin your trip.
Bob Greene, author
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TREATING MUNICIPAL SEWAGE
You can plan on one-fifth of a pound (dry weight) of body waste per person. Anaerobic digestion of a pound of this material produces 18 cubic feet of gas with a heat value of 650 BTUs per cubic foot.
Dan Cortinovis, sanitary engineer
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PICKING YOUR BEVERAGES
Get the orange juice for free on the airplane and buy the coffee in the terminal after you land. OJ is pricier in the airport than decent coffee, and you'll certainly never find decent coffee in the air.
Mark H. Anbinder, Technology Evangelist, Ithaca, New York, USA
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Current Rating: 5.9 out of 10 based on 30 reviews
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SIMULATION COMPLEXITY
If your simulation has N parameters it needs to produce at least N+1 nontrivial results if it is to be a good scientific model.
Anders Sandberg, Computational neuroscientist, Oxford, UK
(4) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-09)
Current Rating: 4.9 out of 10 based on 16 reviews
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COHEN'S SIXTH RULE
If you're expecting a telephone call, it will come as soon as you give up and leave the house.
M Cohen, Troublemaker, Charlotte, NC, USA
(23) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-01-15)
Current Rating: 5.8 out of 10 based on 15 reviews
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MAKING A PERFECT MERINGUE
When beating egg whites, the point where you have the meringue perfect is when you just lose the shine from the egg whites.
Chef Jeffrey Buben, Washington, D.C., as reported by Joe Palca, NPR
(EC) Collected by The Editors
Current Rating: 8 out of 10 based on 12 reviews
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THE SEEDY MEXICAN RESTAURANT RULE
The quality of a Mexican Restaurant is often in reverse proportion to the quality of its architecture.
Gary Wheeler, AIA, LEED AP, Architect, Modesto, CA, US
(21) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-04-12)
Current Rating: 5.1 out of 10 based on 11 reviews
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CALUCLATING DELAY TIME
Sound travels at 1,129 feet per second. For practical purposes, simply remember that sound travels approximately 1 foot per millisecond. This is useful when dialing in digital delay times in pro-audio applications.
Nick Marques, Engineer / Programmer / Geek, Woodstown, NJ, USA
(2) Contributions from this contributor since (2008-08-09)
Current Rating: 5.4 out of 10 based on 12 reviews
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IF YOU WANT TO MOVE TO SOUTH CAROLINA
Rent before you buy.
Wankel, Computer analyst
(69) Contributions from this contributor since (2009-06-07)
Current Rating: 5.7 out of 10 based on 11 reviews
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