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How to Sharpen Scissors
Over time and with consistent use, all scissors will eventually dull and loose the sharp edges they once possessed when you first bought them. If you are having trouble cutting with dull scissors, you might consider going out and buying another pair, sinc...
How to Juke in Football
American football often gets a bad rep as being a game that values brutish, unfocused physicality above all else. In fact, even the bulkiest linemen have to play with speed, precision, and mental agility to be great assets to their team. One part of the g...
How to Kick (in Martial Arts)
Kicking is one of the most important features in several martial arts, but many people can't throw good kicks because they have trouble balancing and coordinating their bodies. Luckily, getting better is just a matter of practice. There are many exercises...
How to Make a Padlock Shim
Have you lost the key to a padlock? You could call a locksmith or cut the shackle, but you may be able to quickly and easily open it with a shim, a thin piece of metal that you slide into the locking mechanism. You can buy shims for anywhere from $2-20, o...
How to Avoid Being Scared at Night
The feeling of being scared is a natural response in certain situations, such as being in the dark at night. Being scared stems from fear, which is part of our body's "fight or flight" response that helps us know if we are in danger.[1] X Research sour...
How to Excel in High School
High school is all about endurance and management – no longer can you coast by. With competition for high-demand courses and tuition fees in colleges rising, and consequently scholarships becoming more and more of a necessity, it's time to face the facts:...
Medically Approved Ways to Lower Your Heart Rate Fast
You’re going about your day when suddenly your heart starts beating faster and faster and faster. How can you slow it down? Is this normal? On average, the resting human heart rate is anywhere between 60 and 100 beats per minute.[1] X Trustworthy Sourc...
How to Play Scholar’s Mate (Or Defend Against It)
Scholar's Mate (also known as “Mate-in-Four”) is a famous chess play that lets you win the game as white in just 4 moves. To pull off this play, open by moving a pawn to e4 and then a bishop to c5. After that, move your queen to h8 and then use it to capt...
How to Make a Mini Flyable Hot Air Balloon with Candles
Have you ever wanted to make your own hot air balloon and watch it gracefully float away into the night sky? It's easier and cheaper than you might think! This article will show you how to make a mini hot air balloon that really flies using a plastic bag,...
How to Overlay Pictures
This wikiHow teaches you how to place one image on top of another using free software on your Windows or Mac computer. Overlaying pictures can involve anything from placing one picture on top of another picture to creating a collage of several different i...
How to Shrink Cotton Fabrics
Cotton, a natural vegetable fiber from the seed pod of the cotton plant, can be a fickle fabric. Due to cotton's tendency to expand when wet and shrink as it dries, most everyone has a tale to tell of cotton catastrophes in the laundry room, from shrunken...
How to Get Smokey Eyes With Makeup
Smokey eyes are dramatic, daring, and bold, and they’re perfect for everything from a night out to a special occasion. Even better, with a little practice, anyone can pull off this versatile look. Any color can be used to create a smokey eye, although you...
How to Add Two Cells Containing the Sum of Other Formulas in Excel
This wikiHow teaches you how to use the SUM function to add two cells containing other SUM formulas in Microsoft Excel. If you get an error when trying to add your two cells, it's usually because one of your original formulas contains additional character...
How to Make Paper Look Old
Whether you’re looking to spruce up an art project or give a poem a better platform than printer paper, you might need to age a sheet of paper. While the internet has many aging methods for you to try, crumpling and spritzing is the top action to take. If...
How to Link Within a Page Using HTML
While a menu or table of contents can help, it's tiresome to visit the top of a long webpage, then scroll down to find what you're looking for. Save your visitors a trip by linking directly to an anchor instead. An anchor can appear anywhere on the page a...
How to Stop Liking Your Crush
An old proverb holds that absence makes the heart grow fonder. But what it doesn’t say is that too much absence often makes the heart grow cold. If you have a crush on someone and they don’t feel the same way about you, it can be very difficult to get ove...