Knowledge Handler

Information Sources & Information Sifting Techniques

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I am a retired librarian, most recently serving at Indiana Wesleyan University's Cleveland Education Center.

Monday, September 30, 2024

Reignite Love for Your Partner

Melanie Curtin suggests a dialog tool which can reignite your love for your partner .

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Saturday, September 28, 2024

Internet Archive and the Disappearing Web Pages

Chris Stokel-Walker applauds the Internet Archive for saving select web pages after they disappear from their original web server.

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Friday, September 27, 2024

Aging and Timesense

Ephrat Livni suggests why time passes faster as one ages .

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Thursday, September 26, 2024

Forestalling Hip Pain Which Occurs When Walking

Chloe Gray addresses hip pain that impairs walking. On the same topic, Priyankaa Joshi suggests stretching regimes which may prevent such pain.

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Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Greedflation

Alina Selyukh examines reports of "greedflation ." "Greedflation" is a term describing when grocery merchants raise prices to increase their profits. Alina finds that many of the price increases were directly or indirectly a result of the pandemic, and that prices show signs of being reined-in by consumer pushback and competitive forces.

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Tuesday, September 24, 2024

Data From Old Disk Drives

Christian Cawley provides detailed direction for harvesting data from undamaged old hard disks . These methods include:

  1. Connect it using a special USB adapter cable.
  2. Hack an external HDD.
  3. Build your own external HDD.
  4. Use a USB docking station for disk drives.
  5. Install the disk in your PC.
  6. Install the HDD in a laptop.

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Monday, September 23, 2024

Planned End of Life for the Windows 10 Operating System

Ed Bott offers options if your Windows 10 PC cannot be upgraded to Windows 11 when support for Windows 11 ends October, 2025 .

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Friday, September 20, 2024

Oversleeping

Austin Meadows and Anis Rehman review the effects of oversleeping .

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Thursday, September 19, 2024

Mobile Phone Security

Lance Whitney offers suggestions to improve mobile phone security .

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Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Electric Earthmovers

Chris Baraniuk recounts how electricity now powers some of the largest earthmovers and other large machines.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2024

Ticklishness

Lauren Leffer shares the research of Shimpei Ishiyama as to why humans are ticklish . This is a social bonding behaviour observed in humans and a few other social mammals.

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Monday, September 16, 2024

Brain Speed

Discover Magazine's Physics ArXiv Blog discusses the contemplations of Jieyu Zheng and Markus Meister about how the brain filters-out sensory information .

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Friday, September 13, 2024

Electronics Recycling

The U.S. Enironmental Protection Agency offers advice on electronics recycling .

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Thursday, September 12, 2024

The Most Durable Vehicles

ISeeCars has created a list of the most durable vehicles available in the U.S. market .

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Wednesday, September 11, 2024

Remembering 9-11

Pocket has curated a list of articles on the terrorist attacks September 11, 2001 .

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Tuesday, September 10, 2024

Confront or Be Quiet?

Jonny Thomson explores the ethics of choosing of confrontation and quietism when a stressful discussion topic is raised.

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Monday, September 09, 2024

Metabolic Problems Associated with Aging

Melanie McReynolds pinpoints metabolic problems associated with human aging .

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Friday, September 06, 2024

Financial and Technical Aid Allows Impoverished Women to Reach Their Potential

Bedassa Tadesse writes about battling gender inequality in third-world nations with needed financial and technical support.
Best practices include:

  • Incorporate gender considerations in all development projects
  • Engage men and boys
  • Ensure that efforts are relevant and practical
  • Respect the social, political and cultural contexts
  • Encourage and strengthen governmental instituions
  • Promote education for women and girls.

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Thursday, September 05, 2024

Nonverbal Learning Disorder

Kaitlin Sullivan explains the basics of nonverbal learning disorder .

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Wednesday, September 04, 2024

Resurgence of the American Chestnut

Steve Wick reports that the American Chestnut is making a comeback after a blight killed about four billion trees. More information is available from the American Chestnut Foundation.

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Tuesday, September 03, 2024

Dog - Human Communication

Ross Pomeroy summarizes the research of Jennifer Holland, an expert in how dogs communicate with humans .

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The Great Dying: The Permian Mass Extinction

Darren Orf explains that global warming was the cause of the Permian Mass Extinction .

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Monday, September 02, 2024

Wet Bulb Events

Lewin Day discusses the potentially fatal impact of "wet bulb weather events", as well as remediation methods. Both Kenney et al. (2302) and Sara Chodosh have written on the same topic.

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