More lifestyle self-tutoring: the tutor shares the term eustress. eustress noun: a good kind of stress. An example of eustress is the anxiety one might feel while trying to set a new best time for a 5K run. Another is …
Shopping for groceries can mean continual self-tutoring. The tutor shares a discovery. Grocery shopping, in my opinion, is best not done in a hurry. Being able to browse for deals beyond what brought you there is often an advantage. Furthermore, …
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Researching the human body can mean continual self-tutoring. The tutor begins about the critical hormone cortisol. Cortisol is a hormone produced by the adrenal glands. Its release is augmented when the person feels stress. It has many effects; what follows …
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For me, refining search techniques leads to constant self-tutoring. The tutor shares a discovery about searching on some sites. Today I was at a site and entered the search term “triglyceride”, quotes and all. Two articles were offered in reply: …
Bird watching means constant self-tutoring. The tutor mentions another encounter with a dark-eyed junco. March 8 last year, my post was about a couple of dark-eyed juncos. This morning, I had no idea they’d compel me to write another post …
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For me, search skills lead to constant self-tutoring. The tutor shares a technique he’s noticed. “word” ≠ “word ” Searching my posts for the word fire, I got many results in which it was part of a word – Firefox …
Having two teenagers means continual tutoring. The tutor mentions how he got schooled by his thirteen-year-old. everyplayerforher/him-self! My thirteen-year-old plays a video game that begins with 100 players, but ends with only one. It’s a free-for-all: each player tries to …
Maintaining vehicle safety, for me, means self-tutoring. The tutor shares an experience with tire pressure gauges. 26 or 35? I noticed the car tires might look a bit low, so wondered about their pressure. I found a gauge and checked …
Tutoring programming, you encounter all kinds of instances. The tutor mentions, with Perl, incrementing a counter variable in a for loop by a decimal amount. Can you increment a counter variable by a decimal amount? In my experience, with Perl, …
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Tutoring web design, you might get asked about some basics. The tutor mentions the rule of thirds. Rule of thirds: the idea that two-thirds of a line should be one style of content, then the remaining third, a different one. …