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Hobbies & Games > Role Playing & War Games Role-playing game reviews: Mutants & Masterminds: 1 of 2
Mutants & Masterminds is a best-selling, award-winning role-playing game line produced by Green Ronin Publishing. It boldly proclaims on its cover, "The World's Greatest Superhero Roleplaying Game," and while "greatest" is surely a subjective matter, I will agree that this is a great game. I initially was wary of purchas... More..
Hobbies & Games > Role Playing & War Games Role-playing game reviews: Boot Hill 3rd edition: 1 of 1
Early in the days of role-playing games, TSR (original publisher of Dungeons & Dragons) brought to market a number of other games for different genres: Gangbusters, Top Secret, Gamma World, and Boot Hill. Most of these games had very little difference from Dungeons & Dragons. Gamma World was essentially D&D but w... More..
Health & Fitness > Healthy Living & Wellness Alleviating carpal tunnel syndrome pain at the office: 7 of 13
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) is caused by pressure on a nerve in the wrist which then causes tingling, numbness, weakness, or pain in the fingers, hand and sometimes the forearm. Repetitive activities using the wrist is a primary risk factor in developing CTS - so typing on computers and adding machines is usually the culpri... More..
Relationships & Family > Communication Skills How to make people think you're smart: 9 of 16
Shut up. Seriously, that's my advice. The best way to make people think that you know more about a subject than you do is to talk less. Learned people (not necessarily intelligent people) tend to listen more than they talk. That's how they became learned. You do not learn while you are talking, you do learn while you are lis... More..
Sciences > Psychology Ways to stop worrying so much: 11 of 19
This is kind of a foreign topic to me, because to be honest, I've never really spent a lot of time worrying about much. It's just not something I do. I'm not sure why, because I remember I used to worry a lot about things when I was little but I outgrew it. Being of the correct age to have grown up during the cold war, I use... More..
Health & Fitness > Vitamins & Dietary Supplements Do adults need vitamin supplements?: 7 of 12
On June 19, 2002, The Journal of The American Medical Association announced that "all adults should take vitamin supplements to help prevent chronic diseases." This was a complete reversal on their previous anti-vitamin position published in a report twenty years earlier in which they insisted that vitamin supplements were a... More..
Jobs & Careers > Self-Employment Building a home office space in a closet: 9 of 14
Someone explained to me that in the state of Oregon, you are not allowed to deduct the expense of a home office from your tax returns if you have a closet in the office; Because then it isn't considered a home office; It is classified as a bedroom. So the obvious solution is to build your office space directly into the close... More..
Jobs & Careers > Job Search (Other) Career change and job search challenges after 40: 12 of 18
A Career Change at 40? I remember when I used to think that 40 was old. But when you think about it, when does a person's productive years really begin? At 18 years old? I personally wasn't that productive at 18. Let's round that to 20, just to give you two years to waste with partying. Now then, when does an adult's product... More..
Sciences > Psychology What a smile can do: 13 of 19
CAUSE AND AFFECT I know several of you read the title and exclaimed, "A-ha! A spelling error!" Well, while I applaud your watchdoggedness, I actually intended to use the word affect and not effect. Specifically the noun form of affect meaning "Feeling or emotion, especially as manifested by facial expression or body language... More..
Health & Fitness > Nutrition Basics Nutrition: Fresh vs. frozen vegetables: 11 of 16
Which are more nutritious, fresh or frozen vegetables? Well, it depends on what you mean by "fresh?" I live on an island, so all the "fresh" vegetables in our produce department have been shipped from somewhere on the west coast. How long did it take for that boat to cross the pacific? Are vegetables still fresh after three ... More..