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4 Steps to Digital Addiction

  A friend of mine is a yoga instructor, and she is really frustrated with her students. When she tells her class to take a child’s pose for rest and recovery, they proceed to grab their phones and scroll on their screens instead. Who needs relaxation when you can answer work emails? After being annoyed with this too many times, she started making her class more intense than yoga needs to be, using rigorous movements to keep her students’ hands away from their phones. What’s going on here? Why are people unable to part with their phones even in the middle of meditation? Short answer — not their fault. Nassim Nicholas Taleb said it best: “The difference between technology and...

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Tiny Science

Vendor: Hachette Type: Toy Price: 9.99 HAVE FUN experimenting with precision scientific instruments! WONDERFULLY SMALL SIZE makes it perfect for backpacks, sleepovers, or on-the-go adventures! HIGH-QUALITY science equipment to perform real science. 48-PAGE LAB BOOK book guides kids through 20 tiny and fun experiments. 24 PIECES TINY SCIENCE 2020 INCLUDES: 5.2 x 3.4 x 2.2-inch tin to keep instruments organized and portable, funnel, petri dish, beaker, Erlenmeyer flask, magnifier, test tube, pipette, graduated cylinder, measuring scoop, balance scale, and 3 weights

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Skinamarink (2023) Review

Horror by its very nature is subjective. What might terrify or otherwise excite one person could be a total dud for another. Skinamarink is one of the most extreme stress tests of that principle. Taking place entirely in one house, the story deals with two scared kids who are trying to make sense of a macabre situation. It’s bound to be polarizing, especially since the point of view is with the kids (who are barely seen or named). That’s on top of everything else we already talked about!  Skinamarink relies heavily on first-time-viewing and some jump scares, much like other staple found footage flicks. Again, the kids are ostensibly alone, minus some strange appearances from their mother and father (who...

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Jonathan and Nicola Custance find work/ life balance in their resort-like home and office in Porirua

Nicola and Jonathan Custance were about to embark on a major rebuild of their central-city home when they came across Pari Moana and made a very different lifestyle choice — one offering generous spaces, a large garden, a country-style school and a friendly community vibe. The house was designed by Stephen Seddon and completed in 1994. Many hours of hard work have driven a designing couple to great career heights. It helps that they like each other — a lot. Words: Kate Coughlan  Photos: Tessa Chrisp In the late 1970s, a 21-year-old recent graduate of Wellington’s School of Design took himself off to the Awaroa Inlet in Abel Tasman National Park and, staring out to sea, pondered how to make...

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4M Crystal Growing Science Experiment Kit

Encourage your child’s curiosity with the award-winning 4M Crystal Growing Science Experiment Kit. These globally-renowned science kits are wonderful STEM gifts that engage kids with fun, accessible hands-on experiments. Introduce chemistry and geology principles while providing beautiful, real crystals that kids can keep and display. Simply follow the directions to conduct seven crystal growing experiments. […] The post 4M Crystal Growing Science Experiment Kit appeared first on Frugal Coupon Living.

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