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Having honest conversations with those around you can result in quicker resolution of conflicts. If the person you have a conflict with is being passive-aggressive, try using honesty to disarm their behavior and focus the conversation on the real issue.

When you open up the discussion, you stop the problem from growing. Being direct brings the talk back to what is really bothering the other person and how you can address their concerns. Mallory Cara, writing on the Trulia blog, gives an example:

But experts say there are plenty of ways to clearly tell your roommate to do his or her dishes, keep the volume down, and, in my case, mention you’d like to watch TV.

Instead of storming off to my room and cueing up Hulu to watch Olivia Pope’s latest adventure, experts say, I should’ve opened up communication immediately by saying, "Are you saying my TV shows aren’t your type and you’d like to watch something else?"

For more tips on dealing with passive-aggressive people, check out the full post linked below.

Ways to Deal with Passive-Aggressive Roommates | Trulia

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Many of the cool products we see come from large companies, but some of the most outside the box ideas come from small startups. They don’t have the big budgets of companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon, but that doesn’t stop them from innovating and making the coolest gadgets that we want to buy! Founders of startups come from all walks of life and all different education backgrounds, but which school produces the most? Let’s take a look at this image below, which breaks it all down for you! Via WhoIsHostingThis Click To Enlarge

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So, you want ensure you always win whenever you play the wonderful time-waster that is Dots and Boxes? The secrets, believe it or not, is not to get greedy.

In this video, famed mathematician and game theorist Elwyn Berlekamp explains how you can win every hand of the game you play. A crucial first step: not taking every square you can. With patience, young grasshopper, comes the greater victory. [Numberphile]

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Japanese carpenters are famous for their elaborate joining techniques that put their wooden constructions among the most durable in the world. These videos show how this neat ancient technique works.

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HughPickens.com writes The LA Times reports that Los Alamos National Security, the contractor managing the nuclear weapons laboratory at Los Alamos, NM has been slapped with a $57-million reduction in its fees for 2014, largely due to a costly nuclear waste accident in which a 55-gallon drum packaged with plutonium waste from bomb production erupted after being placed in a 2,150-foot underground dump in the eastern New Mexico desert. Casks filled with 3.2 million cubic feet of deadly radioactive wastes remain buried at the crippled plant and the huge facility was rendered useless. The exact causes of the chemical reaction are still under investigation, but Energy Department officials say a packaging error at Los Alamos caused a reaction inside the drum. The radioactive material went airborne, contaminating a ventilation shaft that went to the surface giving low-level doses of radiation to 21 workers. According to a DOE report, the disaster at WIPP is rooted in careless contractors and lack of DOE oversight (PDF). "The accident was a horrific comedy of errors," says James Conca, a scientific advisor and expert on the WIPP. "This was the flagship of the Energy Department, the most successful program it had. The ramifications of this are going to be huge. Heads will roll." The accident is likely to cause at least an 18-month shutdown and possibly a closure that could last several years. Waste shipments have already backed up at nuclear cleanup projects across the country, which even before the accident were years behind schedule. According to the Times, the cost of the accident, including likely delays in cleanup projects across the nation, will approach $1 billion. But some nuclear weapons scientists say the fine is an overreaction. "It was a mistake by an individual — a terrible mistake — and Washington now wants to punish a lot of people," says Conca. "The amount of radiation that was released was trivial. As long as you don’t lick the walls, you can’t get any radiation down there. Why are we treating this like Fukushima?"

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The Ice Light by Westcott is a $450 light source that many photographers swear by. It is a powerful, variable LED light that can be hand held and gives a nice directional strip-like spread. Then again, it costs $450, which is no peanuts. If you are in the photography stage where you have more time […]

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