new years
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Turns Out We’ve Been Making New Year’s Resolutions For 4,000 Years
As we welcome in the new year, a common activity across many cultures is the setting of new year resolutions. New year represents a significant temporal milestone in the calendar when many people set new goals for the year ahead. Here in Australia, over 70% of men and women (over 14 million Australians) are reported…
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How Australia Is Transforming The World Of Fireworks
Over a thousand years ago, Chinese alchemists created an early form of gunpowder. Made primarily of potassium nitrate, sulfur and charcoal, the ingredients were packed into bamboo shoots and thrown into the fire. The idea was that the subsequent explosion of noise and light would ward off evil spirits. A millennium later, we use this…
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8 Healthy Tech Habits To Adopt In 2015
Hello, 2015. How are you? I’m fine, but still bouncing back from my NYE hangover. Not a great start, but that doesn’t mean we can’t better ourselves this year.
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What Are Your Tech Resolutions For 2014?
We all have our standard, age-old New Years resolutions. Quit smoking. Work out more. Come to terms with ever present self hatred. But there’s more to life than just health and wellness. There are computers! And social networks!