I made pecan cookies today. Pecan cookies are not the same as pecan sandies. Pecan sandies use a shortbread cookie base. These pecan cookies have more of a traditional sugar cookie base... kinda..?**  But they're pretty good! They're thin and crispy and not too sweet. Most importantly, my dad really likes them... and I hope that you like them too! All the ingredients!!! Ingredients...

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Ever since reading Guila Ender's Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ, I have been pretty obsessed with my bowel movements and also I am way more conscious of salivating.  This was a good read. The pace is very fast, and I didn't feel boggled down and overwhelmed with the scientific terms (all the science stuff sounded very credible... but I...

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Recap: My old college roommate's birthday is coming up and I made her a golden snitch clock through woodworking. All the woodworking is finished (wings, snitch body, and clock cavity) and now all that is left is to paint! To paint the wood pieces, I first applied a thin layer of primer. It is very important to apply primer prior to painting. There...

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The Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Program awards individuals with the CFA credential upon passing three very difficult exams and satisfying the four year qualified work experience requirement. Check out their " CFA fact sheet" here. I just started the program, and in December 2015, I'll be taking my first CFA exam (CFA exam level 1). I'm very new to the financial world, but I've...

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As a kid I would sit in the backseat and look up out the window and wonder why the sky was blue. But as an incredibly lazy kid, I never bothered to find out the answer until college. And it wasn't even me looking the answer up. We were given the explanation in p-chem lecture. The skinny The air molecules in the Earth's...

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I want to give my friend, Francis, a very amazing Christmas gift- a gift so amazing that he will be moved to tears and there will be no way he can reciprocate a gift as amazing in return and maybe he will feel like he owes me and will treat me better and not be as mean yes that would be very okay....

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My college roommate's birthday is coming up and I wanted to make her a golden snitch wall clock.  In Chinese culture, giving clocks as gifts is considered a major faux pas. 送鐘 (sòng zhōng, to give a clock) in Mandarin is a homophone of 送終 (sòng zhōng, to attend a funeral), so it's not great. Clocks also symbolize the end of time, and unfortunately that sentient...

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