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Collection of Famous Einstein Quotes “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.” “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” “Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” “I want to know [...]

This is a useful method for when travelling between imperial and metric countries and need to know what kilometres to miles are. The formula to convert kilometres to miles is number of (kilometres / 8 ) X 5 So lets try 80 kilometres into miles 80/8 = 10 multiplied by 5 is 50 miles! Another [...]

Let’s start off with looking at converting Kilos to pounds. 86 kilos into pounds: Step one, multiply the kilos by TWO. To do this, just double the kilos. 86 x 2 = 172 Step two, divide the answer by ten. To do this, just put a decimal point one place in from the right. 172 [...]

So how does the 12′s shortcut work? Let’s take a look. 12 X 7 the first thing is to always multiply the 1 of the twelve by the number we are multiplying by, in this case 7. So 1 X 7 = 7. [private] Multiply this 7 by 10 giving 70. (Why? We are working [...]

When I was in geography class my teacher taught me how to remember which one forms from the ceiling and from the floor. Stalagmites and stalactites form from travertine; water that has a high calcium carbonate content and other minerals in it. Stalactites form from the ceiling and hang down. To remember this, I think [...]

We can all use log tables to look up these rules, but I am going to show you one method that will hopefully speed up your trigonometry. Sin, Opposite, Hypotenuse, Tan, Adjacent, Cos. There are several methods to remember this, when I was in school my maths teacher said it like this: So, tow a [...]

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This is a meumonic to remember the 12 pairs of cranial nerves : On Old Olympus Towering Top, A French And German Viewed A Hop = Olfactory, Optic, Occulomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facil, Auditory, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory and Hypoglossal… Now out of these how do you remember how many are sensory, how many are mixed [...]

Certainly, you can use the memory techniques from here to memorize the phone book, but why? How many times can you really show that? This trick will imply that you’ve memorized the phone book. Imagine this: You hand out 9 cards or slips of paper, each with a different digit from 1 to 9, and [...]

on the lines of a g staff you have the notes -f -d -b -g -e which can be formed from bottom to top into the sentence Every Good Boy Does Fine The notes between the lines form from bottom to top the word face That’s for treble clef. I use (for lines, working from [...]