How To
How to Find the Surface Area of a Pyramid
The surface area of any pyramid can be found by adding the surface area of the base to the surface area of the lateral faces. When working with regular pyramids, you can find the surface area using a formula, as long as you know how to find the area of th...
How to Do Electrical Testing
Test and inspect electrical products to help determine if they are suitable or safe for service or not.
How to Make a Pokémon Sprite
Although the number of Pokémon species was billed at 150 on the animated TV series, the number of these "pocket monsters" continues to grow as the franchise grows through video games, manga, and anime for television and the movies. It's also possible for...
How to Start a Personal Statement
Personal statements are usually written to accompany a scholarship or other academic application, such as to a college or a graduate program. They express your background and unique abilities, as they apply to the program in question. Find out how to star...
How to Start a Compare and Contrast Essay
Compare and contrast essays are often assigned to students because they promote critical thinking, analytical reasoning and organized writing. A compare and contrast essay should look at a subject in a new way, with fresh insight, using the similarities a...
How to Play MKV Files
This wikiHow teaches you how to play a video saved in MKV format on your Windows or Mac computer, using either DivX Player or VLC Media Player.
How to Clean a Grill
Keeping your grill clean is essential to ensuring its longevity and making sure that you cook delicious food. Whether your grill is charcoal, gas, or electric, it needs to be cleaned after every use to remove bacteria and food particles that stick to the...
How to Read the Maya Calendar
The Maya (often mistakenly called the "Mayan"[1] X Research source ) calendar received a great deal of publicity as the year 2012 drew to a close, resulting from claims that it predicted the world would end on December 21 of that year. Howeve...
How to Make a Loki Mask
The comic book and movie versions of "The Mask" both deal with a magical mask that gives its wearers the power to warp reality at the cost of warping their minds. Although the comic book mask was described as being made of jade, the movie Mask of Loki had...
How to Get Rid of Study Stress
Regardless of your age, schoolwork and studying can be very stressful. It can be easy to fall into a bad study routine which can leave you feeling stressed and anxious. Luckily, there are a few techniques for planning ahead and pacing yourself that you ca...
How to Tame a Horse in Minecraft PC
In Minecraft, taming a horse is required to ride it or breed it. You can tame a horse by repeatedly mounting it or feeding it apples. This wikiHow teaches you how to tame a horse.
How to Make a Box Out of Cardboard
Whether you are shipping Christmas presents or replacing an old Scrabble box, there's no need to spend money on pre-built boxes. You can assemble cardboard you have lying around into boxes the perfect size for your project. Corrugated cardboard is the bes...
How to Write a Separation Agreement
Even the most amicable of separations is never easy, but having a written separation agreement can take some of the guesswork out of navigating your lives independent of each other. If you want your separation agreement to be a legal document, it needs to...
How to Teach a Child to Write in Cursive
While cursive was once commonly used and taught in school, it has started to drop from school curriculums, so it can be difficult to make sure your child learns cursive from their teachers. Cursive is usually taught in third grade, and can help children t...
How to Not Be Afraid of Contact Lenses
More than 36 million people in the United States wear contact lenses. This large number attests to the relative overall safety of wearing contacts; nonetheless, many other people refuse to wear contacts based on groundless fears such as the dangers of ins...
How to Grow Dreadlocks Free Form or Twist & Rip
Anyone can grow dreadlocks without using wax or gels—all you need is clean hair and patience. You can either grow freeform dreads, also known as neglect dreads, simply by letting your hair separate itself into natural locks when you stop brushing it. Or,...