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What Is Color Blindness?
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Are Lice in My Hair Alive or Not?        
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Why Do Things Fall?    
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What Falls but Never Hits the Ground?  
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Why don’t your eyelashes grow as fast as your hair?
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Why Owning Less Is Really More
After latkes and doughnuts, why not indulge in the gift of breathing space?
Miriam Yafit
Simply Organized
Organizing "Things"  
Let’s transform your personal space into zen and peaceful rather than cloudy and stressful
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On Topic
Quiet People in a Noisy World
On Purim, Esther Hamalkah reminds us of the strength that lies in silence
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Everybody's Looking at Me
What triggers and exacerbates self-consciousness — and how can you overcome it?
Miriam Bloch
Pearls of Wisdom   
Real Royalty
We can learn from Batsheva to mentally “bow” before Hashem’s Will, to accept His supremacy before making any requests
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Pearls of Wisdom   
Shopping with Soul
I was excited to find that the Alshich on our pasuk offers grounded and timeless wisdom on how to buy clothing
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Free Fall
Jumping Into Freefall: An Author Looks Back
Freefall took me 12 months — and 25 years — to write. Now that it’s over, while other old and new responsibilities bang at my door, I’ll ignore the knocking for a bit and share a short retrospective on life during Freefall
Miriam Stark Zakon
Free Fall
Freefall: Chapter 55
The colonel’s lips were a straight, unsmiling line. “Not German, Freed. They need someone who speaks Yiddish”,
Miriam Stark Zakon
In the Arms of Rabi Shimon
In The Arms of Rabi Shimon
Eyelashes grow until they reach their optimum length. Then they fall out and new lashes grow   Hello kiddos, This is Professor Mordy Maven, Thinker, Wonderer, and Figure-Outer of all things Science-ish. What that basically means is I try really hard to figure stuff out. I do the hard work so you don’t have to!
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In the Arms of Rabi Shimon
We're Still Holding On
We’re holding on, Tatteh. Listen to the hespedim, listen to the anguished voices as they praise You
Yisroel Besser
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So why exactly do knuckles crack? And why do people seem to like cracking them?

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Why Don’t You Laugh When You Tickle Yourself?

The thing about tickling is it’s actually only funny if you’re not expecting it

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Why Do Onions Make You Cry?

Vegetables don’t make you cry? I’ll bet they would if you were chopping onions!

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