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    Destroy the Palm Trees - Five Reasons Why Palm Trees Need To Go Away

    by PenguinPete

    This article is selected for 123ish 3D Gold Coin Art Collection NFT      I'm here to tell you about a vegetable menace that is the AIDS of the plant world. If you live in most parts of North America, these plants have you surrounded.  They're butt-ugly brown sticks thrusting phallically into the sky in unnatural rows, crowned by a spidery fright-wig of spikes. They look like a raspberry on a stick.        I'm talking, of course, about the omnipresent palm tree, found everywhere in your city. It doesn't matter…
    Score: 12.3
    01/06/2019

    How To Build An EDH Deck For Magic: The Gathering

    by PenguinPete

    This article is selected for 123ish 3D Gold Coin Art Collection NFT      Ready For Commander?  Commander, also called "EDH" (stands for "Elder Dragon Highlander," an outdated in-joke), is the most popular format of the collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering, counting over-all formats.  While EDH doesn't appear much in competitive formats when the tournament is over, and the last booster box handed out, look for the players to be huddled up in the corner over a Commander game.  It has every…
    Score: 6.56
    07/04/2019

    Thailand VS Philippines in language, culture, money, and love

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    Score: 6.19
    02/09/2019

    Star Trek Is For Liberals, Star Wars Is For Conservatives

    by PenguinPete

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    Score: 5.28
    01/25/2019

    Why Are Disney Songs So Catchy - How Disney Songs Hijack Your Brain?

        We’ve all heard them, and they get stuck in all our heads. But why? Why is it that Disney can seemingly create earworms?  Though there’s no such thing as a Disney formula, today we’re going to get close to one. And best of all, this theory is not one that I’ve hacked together to try to show something new and inventive. Not at all.  I stumbled upon everything you’re about to read.  About two months ago, I was asked to do a medley of several popular Disney songs. I ran into a problem.        One of the keys of…
    Score: 4.36
    03/01/2019

    Nuclear War

    The nuclear test sites heritage

    by Dominus

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    Score: 1.11
    04/02/2018
    Crochet

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    Score: 1.0
    03/23/2019
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    How To Avoid Eating Excess Sugar

    by kristyleann

    I have a health condition called PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome). I won't go into all the details about it but it puts me at a very high risk for developing type 2 diabetes later on in life. So recently I decided to start eating healthier and to cut out excess sugar from my diet. And from that point on, I've noticed that food companies put sugar in everything. Obviously, if you really want to know exactly what's in your food you should probably cook it yourself from scratch, but…
    Score: 1.17
    02/01/2018
    Training with Positive Reinforcement

    A Journey to Mindfulness in Horse Training

    by SuchSweetYarrow

      As a young girl, I could not wait to run to the barn after school. I would spend hours sitting on the fence or wandering through the pasture as my horse grazed. I felt content grooming or just spending time with her. Riding or working was never the main goal; I wanted to feel connected. At that time in my life, I felt I could communicate with my horse. We did not need words, it was more like a dance - two partners moving fluidly through space, speaking a language all our own.    As I got older…
    Score: 1.0
    01/31/2020
    Japanese Education

    Five Outstanding Features of Public Schools in Japan for Americans

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    Score: 1.11
    10/21/2018
    Linux

    The Top Linux Distros for Everyday Use for Everyone

    by PenguinPete

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    Score: 2.44
    05/04/2019
    Social Media Activism

    It Is Indeed Time To Police Social Media

    by PenguinPete

        It is time we faced the music, Internet fans: We broke everything. Social Media was a mistake. None of us are close to understanding how or why, but apparently we have created a monster.    Social media seemed harmless enough when it came along.  Social media was nothing but an extension of the exact same Internet we'd had for decades. Believe it or not, there is very little difference between modern Reddit and Usenet circa 1990. There's also very little difference between modern Twitter and an AOL…
    Score: 1.19
    09/22/2020

    #MeToo: Did Anything Change?

    by OldFashionedMillenial

    2 words… 2 words and what was once known as a pound sign lit up the internet, was stoked by celebrities and ignited the world into discussing a topic that once was too taboo to even speak behind closed doors. Though this movement has proven to make major waves in the world of the celebrity - with the big name arrests of Bill Cosby and Harvey Weinstein - what is happening for everyone else? What about the everyday woman without the money, power, and influence behind her?The first time I was…
    Score: 1.06
    07/11/2018
    Parenting

    Helicopter parents

    by Dominus

    Parents love their children. They want to protect the young ones from everything that can harm them and teach their adorable little humans everything they need to know to become responsible, self-sufficient adults. Parents teach the child the proper way to do things and then they have to give that same child space to practice on their own. That means that in some situations the child has to be left alone to find his/her own solutions to increasingly more difficult problems, based on what they…
    Score: 1.72
    02/11/2018

    Finally, Custody! Becoming a Dad

      Dreams realized usually create new dreams.  It is hard therefore to accept that a dream is not very far from a nightmare. Nor a nightmare far from a dream!  To say I love my daughter is an understatement. To say I understood what I was getting into is a gross understatement. Parenting is different than wanting to be a parent.  My daughter is smart, intelligent, sassy, good-looking, organized and controlling. Children of alcoholics often feel that their life is out of control and that they have no…
    Score: 1.2
    07/12/2018

    Parenting, Raising a child.

    Parenting at best is a no-win situation in the present and a winning situation if you are lucky in the long-run.    Life teaches hard lessons and as a parent, just because you teach the hard lesson is no guarantee of the right outcome. I've seen great parents have troubled kids, and seemingly lousy parents have incredible kids. I have no answers. I could only do what I thought was right for my daughter and me and my family. I tried to teach honesty, trust, helpfulness, kindness, thoughtfulness…
    Score: 1.06
    10/01/2018
    Grief

    Thoughts On Grief

    by SuchSweetYarrow

    While sitting in my favorite spot by the water, the last beams of sunlight warming my skin, I read these words (written by Lisa Gungor in her book The Most Beautiful Thing I’ve Seen) -    “But I’ve found my life is built on ordinary days of going in and coming out… This is where I’ve found grandness. This is where I’ve found what I believe about life and where I’ve found myself applauding others instead. It’s in long nights on a good porch, letting the silence sit next to you. It’s the hard things…
    Score: 1.16
    03/07/2020
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    We Always Need A Black Mirror

    by PenguinPete

        The Netflix original series Black Mirror has attracted a surprising number of critics, some ridiculing the very premise of the series - and having that backfire - others just dismissing it as "pretentious," while others claim the very title sailed over their heads, and finally a whole subsection out there blowing it off because it's similar to The Twilight Zone franchise.    Um, yeah, that's the whole point!      For those out of the loop: Black Mirror is a modern speculative fiction anthology series with…
    Score: 1.28
    12/29/2018
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