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How to Read the Bass Clef: Sheet Music Basics
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoIf you know how to read music, you're already familiar with the bass clef, also known as the F clef. Similar to how the treble clef allows you to notate...
Poseidon: God of the Sea, Earthquakes and Horse Races
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 3 hours agoPoseidon, god of the sea, was an integral figure in ancient Greek mythology. Although the name Poseidon means "lord of the earth," this powerful god mostly controlled the oceans and waterways ...
Interquartile Range: How to Calculate and Visualize IQR
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo Finance· 3 hours agoThe interquartile range (IQR) is a statistical measure of the middle values of a sample data set that is separated into four equal parts. This middle-value grouping can provide a median range ...
How to Use the Mnemonic 'SOHCAHTOA' in Trigonometry
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 1 day agoThe mnemonic device SOHCAHTOA helps budding mathematicians remember the trigonometric functions sine (sin), cosine (cos) and tangent (tan), which they...
How Many Sentences Are in a Paragraph, Really?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 days agoHave you ever found yourself staring at a blank page, wondering if your paragraph is too short, too long, or just right? Well, you're not alone in asking...
Does a Criminal Conviction Bar You From Running for U.S. President?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIn the U.S., the bar for running for president is deliberately set low – only age and citizenship...
Indica vs. Sativa: How to Distinguish Between Cannabis Plants
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 1 day agoUnderstanding the major differences between indica vs. sativa strains of marijuana is important for cannabis use due to the different effects they incur on the human body and mind. Although ...
Situational Irony Can Be Funny, Tragic or Even Terrifying
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIrony is one of those things that everybody seems know about but few seem able to precisely define. To make matters more complicated still, there are different kinds of irony (cosmic irony, dramatic irony, verbal irony and so forth).
Do the Planets Ever Actually Align?
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 days agoIf you imagine the eight major planets in a single line stretching out from the sun, this alignment occurs roughly every 13.4 trillion years. And our...
How Absolute Value Works in Equations and Graphs
HowStuffWorks via Yahoo News· 6 days agoAbsolute value is a mathematical concept often used in conjunction with a number line or graph to represent the relative value from zero (modulus). To illustrate this idea in a different way ...