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Use clean pruners to make a cut at a 45-degree angle near the end of the branch. Trim the tip of the branch straight across ...

Happy New Year! If you want to achieve a goal (big or small) this year, make sure it's specific, concrete and realistic. In this episode, writer Gretchen Rubin shares how to set and maintain ...

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Overview:  When learning systems rely on historical data, they often reproduce past biases, shaping student outcomes in ways ...

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Some plants bend the rules of plant life so far that they barely resemble plants at all. Balanophora is one of them - a ...

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