You will need: A smooth, non-slipperyfloor Super bouncy ball Low table with a smoothunderside Open place Try yet another trick with your bouncing ball and watch the ball bounce back at you. INSTRUCTIONS Perform this experiment in a room with no delicate/breakable objects around, or in the open place. Take your super bouncy ball and […]
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Start with a square piece of paper, coloured side up. Fold in half in 2 directions. Turn the paper over to the white side. Fold the paper in half, crease well and open. Then fold it again in the other direction. Using the creases you have made, bring the top 3 corners of the model
You will need: Large uncooked, rawpotato Simple drinking straw For your next party, try this trick. Ask your friends to push a straw through an uncooked, raw potato. When they try and fail (which they will), show them the right way to pierce a potato. INSTRUCTIONS Practise this experiment a few times before you perform
You will need: Oil (preferably baby oil) Water 2 large transparent glassbowls or beakers 2 measuring rods or anyother small clear glassobjects Try this science experiment to make glass disappear and befool everyone with simple physics. INSTRUCTIONS Take 2 large transparent glass bowls or beakers. Fill one with water and the other with baby oil
Take an origami sheet and fold along the creases as shown. Fold the bottom corner inwards as shown. Place it horizontally and now fold from the center. Fold the both upper left corners inwards and the right corner backward. Cut the tip of the tail and fold it. Draw the eye and the teeth of
Take an origami sheet and make creases. Fold all the four corners inwards. Make creases on all the four sides as shown. Open from the top and bottom. Fold A and B to the center. Fold the top portion downwards along the creases. Fold bottom side in the same way. Your box is ready.
Chapter 30 If I knew how to solve everybody’s financial worries, I wouldn’t be writing this book, I would be sitting in the White House—right beside the President. But here is one thing I can do: I can quote some authorities on this subject and make some highly practical suggestions and point out where you
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Chapter 29 If you are under eighteen, you will probably soon be called upon to make the two most important decisions of your life—decisions that will profoundly alter all the days of your years: decisions that may have far-reaching effects upon your happiness, your income, your health; decisions that may make or break you.What are
Chapter 28 Do you worry when you can’t sleep well? Then it may interest you to know that Samuel Untermyer—the famous international lawyer—never got a decent night’s sleep in his life.When Sam Untermyer went to college, he worried about two afflictions—asthma and insomnia. He couldn’t seem to cure either, so he decided to do the
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Chapter 27 One of the chief causes of fatigue is boredom. To illustrate, let’s take the case of Alice, a stenographer who lives on your street. Alice came home one night utterly exhausted. She acted fatigued. She was fatigued. She had a headache. She had a backache. She was so exhausted she wanted to go
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Chapter 26 Good Working Habit No. 1: Clear Your Desk of All Papers Except Those Relating to the Immediate Problem at Hand.Roland L. Williams, President of Chicago and North-western Railway, says: “A person with his desk piled high with papers on various matters will find his work much easier and more accurate if he clears
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Chapter 25 ONE DAY last autumn, my associate flew up to Boston to attend a session of one of the most unusual medical classes in the world. Medical? Well, yes, it meets once a week at the Boston Dispensary, and the patients who attend it get regular and thorough medical examinations before they are admitted.
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Chapter 24 HERE is an astounding and significant fact: Mental work alone can’t make you tired. Sounds absurd. But a few years ago, scientists tried to find out how long the human brain could labour without reaching “a diminished capacity for work”, the scientific definition of fatigue. To the amazement of these scientists, they discovered
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Chapter 23 Why am I writing a chapter on preventing fatigue in a book on preventing worry? That is simple: because fatigue often produces worry, or, at least, it makes you susceptible to worry. Any medical student will tell you that fatigue lowers physical resistance to the common cold and hundreds of other diseases and
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Chapter 22 I HAVE a folder in my private filing cabinet marked “FTD”—short for “Fool Things I Have Done”. I put in that folder written records of the fools things I have been guilty of. I sometimes dictate these memos to my secretary, but sometimes they are so personal, so stupid, that I am ashamed