The average adult person reads approximately 250 words per minute, a little over four words per second — a speed […]

Question: Why is it that celebrities seem to overdose only in hotels, rather than in their or their friends’ houses?
Ivan Pavlov was the first to explain in the late 1800’s that classical conditioning is a powerful tool in human behavior[1]. He showed us that the environment we’re currently in can have a large effect on our actions, but also in parts of our body that we don’t know about.

There was a college philosophy class that students always tried to get into because of how cool they heard the professor was. They said he gave open-ended writing assignments and provided ample time for debate and discussions in the classroom. Although he was lenient in the classroom, he always made sure the students learned by his dreadfully hard tests. His system worked well; students heard about how hard the tests were, so they tried extra hard to learn the material they needed to pass.

Single-dial combination locks are a common appearance in safes and places such as locker rooms and school hallways where tons of locks need to be used in many different places. These combination locks unlock by spinning a dial clockwise to the first number, reversing the direction to the second number, and rotating clockwise again for the third and final number (assuming the padlock only has three-number combinations, which this guide will cover).