Author: Stephen Macintyre

I've been writing since 2008 about a wide range of topics. I also love making furniture in my spare time, and birdwatching with my wife near our home in southern England.

In the modern world it is almost impossible to imagine a company which ignores the opportunities provided by the Internet. Whether you are a small local bakery or a fast-developing retail store with high ambitions, digital presence is essential and usually best achieved through the establishment of a business website or a product landing page. Apart from the benefits these give, they also may incur several undesired side effects online.

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Like clockwork, Apple announces its new phones around this time every year. In fact, Apple’s annual announcement showcase is one of the biggest dates on the technology calendar. People all over the world tune in to see what the trillion-dollar company has come up with. 2018 has been no different. This year, the new Apple iPhones are the iPhone XS, the iPhone XS Max, and the iPhone XR; three premium handsets that offer industry-leading features and impressive specs. The iPhone XS Max leads the pack though, offering the best and most lust-worthy specs of the three new phones. So let’s…

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Writing a research paper in cognitive neuroscience research is an extremely complex process, especially if you want it to be professional and well-respected. The basis of any cognitive neuroscience research paper is thorough, well planned out and well thought through research, conducted properly and able to withstand significant academic and specialist attention. Without this, you will be unable to write a professional research paper. If you are organized enough to be reading this before starting the research, the remember to keep detailed notes as you progress through.

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If you’ve ever been away during a delivery, you have most probably left a note for the delivery driver, to either leave the parcel with the neighbours or leave it in a safe place. Or maybe the other way around where the delivery driver has left your parcel somewhere, and the note is telling you where they had left it. These 8 examples are some of the funniest notes that have been left.

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If you are in high school, college, university, graduate school, or a post grad program, you are already familiar with the dreaded concept of “academic writing.” For too many students, “academic writing” is synonymous with a dry, mechanical form of writing designed to be written by the uninspired to be skimmed by the uninterested and then locked away in the infamous circular file never to be seen again. But it doesn’t have to be that way. While academic writing might never rise to the excitement of a pulp fiction thriller, it doesn’t have to a mechanical exercise in stringing together…

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Did you know that every spot in Central America, regardless of location, is only a stone’s throw away (200 kilometers) from the ocean? Sometimes called Mesoamerica, the land that joins Northern and Southern America is a treasure trove in terms of culture and biodiversity. With a combined population of approximately 47,000,000 people, Central America’s ancestry goes back to the Aztecs and Mayans. In today’s article, we’re going to talk about four of the most popular Mesoamerican countries – Belize, Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua – and how their rare mix of old and new cultures transformed them into great holiday…

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