May Internet addicts lose their minds?
How many hours a day do you spend on the Internet? Do you use the Internet every day? Do you feel "out of it" if you can't use a computer…
Messy desk: evidence of the indomitable creativity of your soul
The workplace for many people is a second home. For those that have the option of having a desk, work space, or cubical it’s a little place that transcends a bit of yourself. A grumpy cat poster slewing some remark about “Mondays” or a family picture on the desk corner to remind you of the little humans you couldn’t possibly forget in the 8 hours you are absent from home. A work space could also be a place in which one shows off that college diploma or certification that one hopes to hear praise for. Regardless of what’s on display in your area of productivity, one thing that reads true is how cleanliness in the work place may actually hinder your creative juices. That messy workplace may have some unsung virtues hiding there.
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Is the handwriting important?
Most probably you did not know that your handwriting can indicate more than 5,000 personality traits? Here it is what it counts: the size of your letters, space between the words, shapes of letters and more other characteristics can all signify different characteristics. Handwriting analysis (also known as graphology) can be used for detecting lies and revealing possible health ailments. The infographic below can teach you about what your handwriting says about you, plus it is also fun analyzing the handwriting of your friends and family members, so be sure to hand it off or pass it along!
Why should you learn a foreign language?
If you did not know by now, there's a lot to be gained from learning another language. Some of the things that can be mentioned as a benefits are career…
UK vs US spelling: The same, but still different
English being the language of our age has its UK and US spelling differences. You might not have noticed them, thinking that there must be a typo, but what you…
1 word = 179 meanings
The Second Edition of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary contains 171,476 words in current use and 47,156 obsolete words. 9,500 derivative words included are considered subentries. More than half of…
11 words that you can not translate into English
There is no doubt that the relationship between the words and their meaning is a fascinating one. Linguists spend countless years deconstructing it, taking it apart letter by letter, all in order to figure out why there are so many feelings and ideas that we cannot even put words to, describe the meaning from one language to another. The richness of the English language is in the willingness to accept new words from different cultures and languages – this is one of the reasons that makes it so popular and widespread. However, in spite of all the richness and variety of words for thousands of terms, there are still words that can not be translated with one word only. Here are only 11 words that can not be translated into English and they all come from different cultures. I hope you find them interesting.
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Why learning Spanish is essential for a good career?
For everyone who does not know, learning Spanish certainly has its perks and advantages. People are recommended to know the language as it is quite easy to learn it, if they spend a good amount of time and study with determination. It is quite an old language and is spoken in many parts of the world currently. People can benefit a lot from knowing the language since it tends to help pretty much while traveling. When people decide to visit Spanish speaking countries, they are likely to find no problem in interacting with the native people.
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5 top tips for learning any language faster
Learning a new language is a fantastic goal and the sense of achievement it brings every time you further your knowledge is immense, particularly when you get to the point of being able to use your language skills to communicate in the real world.
It’s not an easy thing to do though – often, becoming close to fluent can take many years and a lot of hard work, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t speed up the process by learning smartly. Here are a few tips to help you along:
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Can you use mind control to create an addiction?
We have all heard it before – the most powerful human organ –the mind- is the least known to the scientist. Teams and teams have been working on its exploration, but it still remains a big mystery, some say that humanity barely knows 10 % of the actual mind structure functioning.
Having said this, it is good to know that with all the paranoia of mind control and how Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) can be (and is) used to “mess with people’s heads” it is high time to pull the cat out of the bag and let people know exactly what is possible and what is actually not possible to achieve.
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