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The difference between mohawks and faux hawks is that the former is punk while the later is in fashion. From Rihanna to Blake Lively, young Hollywood's starlets are totally digging the faux hawk trend and wearing it to movie premieres and awards shows. To learn how to create ...more

Looks like teacher wasn't paying attention! This tutorial shows you how to make it look like you have been bloodily and violently stabbed with a basic school pencil. This tutorial is for the back of the hand, but you can use this technique anywhere.

Players from the Brazilian Soccer Schools show you how to beat your opponent using the Ronaldo chop. Beat a defender with the Ronaldo Chop. This is a fast break move to fly by a defender or goalkeeper. Cut the ball behind the back heel and charge at the defender to chop to the ...more

Players from the Brazilian Soccer Schools show you how to beat your opponent using the 'Ronaldinho elastic'. Beat players the Brazilian way like Ronaldinho! The Ronaldinho Elastic has you pivot on one leg and move from a standing position to move your foot over the ball and ba ...more

Pen spinning is a fun pastime for the school or office environment. Hell, they even have multinational tournaments these days! Improve your pen spinning (pen mawashi) skills with this video tutorial. Learn how to perform the backaround pen spinning trick. The back around trick ...more

Check out this video tutorial to show you how to use a Fuji FinePix digital still camera. This video was made by the equipment room at CUNY Journalism School in New York. You'll learn all of the following steps for using the Fuji digital still camera: check the bag, insert th ...more

It's a chair. It's a musical instrument. Eureka! Techno-guru Brian of tech makeover show My Home 2.0 builds a pipe organ chair, a (very) old-school invention that you can play just by sitting down. Sit back and enjoy this silent movie DIY!

Don't pull a muscle getting a pack on your back. If you don't have a friend to help or a rock to rest it on, here's how to do it safely and easily. Learn more from Backpacker's Gear School in the March 2007 Gear Guide, and at www.backpacker.com/video.

To begin this anatomy lesson on dissecting a human cadaver, you'll need to remove the lower limb at the hip joint. Then, just watch this video tutorial to see how to cut up that corpse with your scalpel, the proper way. If you failed out of medical school, and you want to get ...more

Let's face it: Without armor, we'd all be very squishy. While armor isn't necessary on the every day when we're going to school or hitting up the post office (at least we HOPE armor isn't necessary where you live), it certainly is and has been in battle. Armor goes back thous ...more

When you're examining a patient's chest, you start out by simply looking at them— by inspection. It will be hard to count the respirations visually on a healthy person's chest because it moves so little, but in a patient with respiratory distress, the chest might be overactive ...more

You don't want to look back at your prom photos going, "ugh, I wore that?!" or "oh my god, I look like I have a dead skunk on my head," do you? Make the most memorable night of your high school career memorable in a good way by creating a hairstyle that matches your dress, ma ...more

In this episode of the popular web series Systm, RoboGames founder and SFSU School of Engineering instructor David Calkins shows you how to create your own combat robot using a kit from RoboGames. Note that RoboGames is currently out of stock on the kit Calkins mentioned in t ...more

There's probably a reason that laser pointers are banned from most schools: They're just to fun to put down! Whether you're using them as a pointer, to distract your classmates, or to very wickedly point them in people's eyes, they are toys that are quite addicting. Make your ...more

Check out this video tutorial to show you how to use the Sony DSR-PD170 MiniDV camcorder. This video was made by the equipment room at CUNY Journalism School in New York. The DSR-PD170 is a high quality video camera well suited to a broad range of applications -- from event v ...more

Learn how to do speed full sit ups. Presented by Real Jock Gay Fitness Health & Life. Benefits Have you dropped full situps from your workout routine due to concerns about lower-back injury? If you have, you may want to reconsider. The full situp is actually a great workout f ...more

If you are one of the smaller kids in school, you know that sometimes you have to exert yourself a little bit more to get noticed for your athleticism. There will always be better athletes than you, but only if you don't apply yourself. Weight training is the best way to bulk ...more

Click on Chapters 2 & 3 for the whole tutorial. Fold an origami school bag. Origami Club in English is a free origami information site, with origami animations and origami diagrams. Diagrams for each origami works are printable on B5 and A4 paper. These instructional anima ...more

Check out this strength trick from Revision3, Brian Brushwood and Scam School. We're back with another dirty trick, designed to teach you how to FAKE your way into (almost) duplicating the feats of the world's strongest men. As before, your guest co-host and teacher is a for ...more

Learn how to pull an awesome con in the bar with magician Brian Brushwood. Brian Bushwood is an American magician known for his bizarre magic and bar tricks. Watch this instructional video from Scam School to learn this con/magic trick. This magic trick is a sweet con. All you ...more

All you LARPers out there, watch and see how you can make a blue boffer sword for LARPing. This weapon passes all weapons specs as of Ragnarok XXI War Council for Eryndor. To start making this Eryndor blue sword, you'll need some PVC pipe, DAP, electrical tape, duct tape, blu ...more

If all things go well, you'll only have to take your road test once. That's the goal: to ace your test on the first try and then start driving on your own. Granted, it's a nerve-racking experience, but keep in mind that the California Department of Motor Vehicles wants you to ...more

Give a back massage to relieve tension and soreness; learn the art of giving massage in this free health how-to video. It is important to apply a bit of lotion or oil to your hands before massaging the back. Use you're elbows and forearms in doing some type of gliding strokes. ...more

Cupping is a special massage technique. This massage is fabulous if you get any type of buildup of fluids in your lungs, like little children when they have colds. Learn the art of giving a back massage with the cupping technique in this health how-to video. Take Action Cup b ...more

Celebrate the end of the school year by kicking back on the beach with a sweet gin and tonic (only if you're over 21, of course) and minimal but glowing makeup. Watch this tutorial to create an extremely wearable, bronzy summertime look that easily transitions from hot summer ...more

You might not realize, but there's about twenty different ways of lacing your shoes... and we have one right here called the "doubel back"! Go to school showing off a different lacing than everyone else... with the "double back".

If you've ever watched "The Hills" or have seen Lauren Conrad out at a red carpet event, then you're familiar with this hairstyle. Known as the French braided side bang, it's one of the easiest hairstyles you can do and takes minimal time. Take a gander at this hairstyling vid ...more

In this how to video, you will learn how to hold a guitar pick. This is useful if you want to successfully rock out. A pick is a triangular piece of plastic. First, lay the back of the pick into the crease of your index finger. Next, lay your thumb perpendicularly across the b ...more

Ah, adding fractions. It brings back memories of awkward elementary school yearbook photos with braces and having a crush on our super hot Brad Pitt lookalike math teacher. But we digress. Fractions are not always a joy to do, but since you're pretty much forced to do them an ...more

Acne sucks. And if you thought it sucked badly enough during your high school years, then imagine how utterly frustrating it is to have your skin clear up for a few years and then for the acne to come back as an adult. Thankfully, there are measures you can take to combat adu ...more

Boomerangs can be dangerous. Oatmeal containers aren't. That's what makes this kids toy the perfect build for school or play. After constructing this "comeback can" toy, you'll have a can or container that you'll roll on the ground or table, and it will always come back to you ...more

Watch this pen spinning video tutorial to learn how to do some basic pen spinning tricks, like the Twisted Sonic, the Reverse Twisted Sonic, Thumb Around, Multiple Thumbspin, Infinity, Shadow, and Back Around. Pen spinning is a form of object manipulation that involves skillf ...more

Check out this language video to learn what some old school hip hop slang words really meant. Dr. Dre and Ed Lover let us know what some of these old school hip hop slang used in the Yo! days really meant. Slang terms have a way of coming back so brush up and learn how to spea ...more