No, you buy fruit according to their ripeness. You can usually tell by a gentle press. The heaviest will be the most recently picked, but if you want to eat the fruit today or tomorrow you will need ones that have ripened.

When it comes to the electronics, refurbished products are actually more reliable than new, especially the ones returned as faulty. Each part has a failure rate with a "bathtub" shape so the failure rate of each part is relatively high in the first 50 hours of usage. The product gets used for some time then a…

Any one who has played an instrument or sung to a reasonable level knows that to perform a piece really well, you have to practice until your bored, then carry on practicing. Soon you come through and can play the piece semi-consciously leaving your consciousness to refine the nuances, which makes the difference…

This would be good when implementing the Pomdoro method strictly, which is aimed at cutting out the procrastination and getting down to work. But the first Rule to deliberately relax is to say "Once the Pomodoro rings I have up to 10 minutes or so to reach a point where it's sensible to have a break". Lets face it if…

Let me see in my local Indian restaurant I could order Onion Bhaji with side salad for starters, a Brinjal Korma with a bottle of wine and I have all of these food groups covered easily oh don't forget the complementary chocolate after. Ideal diet? Hardly!

Like many comments on the wired page, this doesn't work, at least not for all users. Try the method out first on just *one song* and undelete it if the cloud downoad option is not available for you.

Two problems with this (from experience): 1) You still need to get up in the night to go to the loo, as with normal beer, probably even more likely to as you're drinking the same amount of liquid but the diuretic effect of the Alcohol is absent so fewer pit stops during the evening. The biggest sleep problem I have…

Everyone self-censors all the time, just in different ways in different environments.

You've just agreed with me.

Nope I just get 7 if I type Alt+7 with num lock on. It could well be system dependent though.

But this is a pretty non standard way of using your desktop — as a to-do list rather than your commonly used programs.

"built a light that turns on and off depending on the lighting."

If yer from Lunden it is, but "Life" 'nd "ackker" wud have a gap between em (officially called a Glottal Stop)

... or any work that is done by the employees in the "research group"

Are you really most creative at 11pm or whenever you've had few beers/glasses of wine? :-)

No adult can speak a language fluently after six months starting from square one, you might be able to get a job using that language that's well below "fluent". The only exception is when the new language is so close to one you are already fluent in like Portuguese and Spanish.

With Num-Lock off.

12v will work and be safe. The only issue is it might etch a bit quicker.

TL;DR

You read in low light, then turn the light off to sleep.