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POPSTop Ten Uses For Vinegar. Some good cheap tips here. I have always used vinegar as a fabric softener, (no, there's no smell once the clothes are dry) and as scale remover. It's a good disinfectant too and it cleans stained aluminium. Put a bit in the water when you're washing windows and bling bling, their sparkling shiny and clean. Good for cutting through the muck on car windscreens too. Uhm... what else? :roll: Oh yeah, it's really, really cheap, non-toxic, pet- and child friendly, environmentally harmless and good for your health too. :) 10 Health Benefits of Vinegar Grandma knew that her old remedies worked even if she couldn't explain to the scientific world. She knew that diluting vinegar in the ear would help infections due to swimmer's ear. Now, the American Academy of Otolaryngology endorses this remedy. There's something to be said about how smart grandma was.
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POPSThe Greatest Gadgets of All Time Gadget Lab asked people to submit entries and vote for what they think is the 'Greatest Gadget of All Time' . The ancestors of whatever we have today win of course. ;) The tiny numbers that appear in different places in the clip are the votes given to each gadget. Numbers to the left are "up" votes; right are "down" votes. More gadgets at the site.
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POPSBarbecue Grills and Recipes for Real Men "Where there’s smoke, there’s fire and barbecue, and men love grilling for the sheer danger of it. With one part lighting fluid, a flame and some breeze, what could possibly go wrong? If there isn’t the chance of a 911 call, many men couldn’t be troubled with the task. And there’s a world of difference between a ho-hum grill and a real man’s barbecue to make you the Dadio of the patio. " The recipes can be found at the source in a series of video instructions - quite a few of them!
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POPSSt. Louis Arch Couldn't Exist According to Its Own Description It turns out that for more than 40 years, there's been a blatant mathematical error etched into the plaque at the base of the Gateway Arch and apparently the mistake has only been caught now! The Arch is a giant inverted catenary, a curve with a precise mathematical equation. One of the geometric equations at the arch turns out to be meaningless. If the Arch were actually built to satisfy these equations, it wouldn't even exist! This could be some kind of national embarrassment, given the prominence of this mistake's locale.
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POPS7 Eco-Resolutions for 2008: I Will Try To Live Green Do you really need berries from Chile? Don't collect stuff you will never use. If you trash those once-new goodies when you’re no longer interested in them, they will live in a landfill for years and years. Cut the power to your electronics by plugging them in to a power strip and flipping the switch to off when you’re not watching or listening. Public transportation use saves 1.4 billion gallons of gasoline each year, and can reduce household expenses by $6,200. Plastic bags are made from petroleum and only about 1 percent of the estimated 500 billion to 1 trillion Annie Bell plastic bags consumed worldwide are recycled each year. Most end up in landfills (wherethey take perhaps 1000 years to decompose) or in the sea. By purchasing recycled paper products you’re preventing trees from being chopped down, and paper waste from ending up in landfills. In addition, less energy and water is required to produce a recycled paper product.
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POPSVoodoo Knife set! I own this set in the RED - SO fun! and dangerous because the first thing I did was rip off the plastic safety covers on the back. ( Like the original designer had intended! ) I've accepted that one day I will impale myself on this - but it's worth it.
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POPSEnvironmental Amnesia While questioning what we buy, we've forgotten where we live continuing:...'I have steadfastly refused to frequent that part of town. But when my son needed a haircut for my father’s funeral, I found myself driving my old walking route to school, in search of a salon open on a Monday. It was supposed to be in here somewhere. While navigating the service roads, I tried hard to forget. But while my son was being pumped up in his pneumatic chair, I saw reflected in the mirror a retaining wall at the edge of the parking lot. I know that pattern of stones. I looked at them every day during math. I was standing in my fifth grade classroom. And the military recruiting center next door would have been the lunchroom. And that drive-through over there was the field where, every recess, my sister and Danelle and I ran, circling and whinnying like wild, wild horses." Good column --only clipped small part.
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POPSBeyond Cold: How the World Works at Minus 459 Degrees Quantum mechanics may seem exotic, but it affects every aspect of your life, from the chemical basis of your metabolism, to the forces that prevent your feet from falling through the floor. The quantum behavior of many particles together is the foundation for much of modern technology. For example, materials like the semiconductors inside computer chips, which consist of electrons traveling through crystals formed by ions, use the quantum behavior of those electrons to make transistors. Some quantum effects in materials are not well understood, such as what happens inside "high-temperature" superconductors that can operate at temperatures higher than the boiling point of nitrogen. In a superconductor, the resistance to flow of electrons through the material vanishes below a certain temperature.
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POPSTurbostove Could Halt World Wide Deforestation - El Salvadorian Innovatioin
More: Nuñez is convinced that his combustion method can save trees and reduce greenhouse gases. He figures the technology can be adapted to any fuel and put to industrial uses such as electricity generation In 1997 he came up with a working prototype he dubbed the Turbococina, or Turbostove. He would spend years perfecting it. The device consists of a metal work table fitted with two 6-inch-high, 6-inch-wide stainless steel cylinders, spaced about a foot apart and rigged with air injectors and electric fans underneath. Finger-sized slivers of wood are fed into small openings in the sides of the cylinders. Pots and pans balance on top of these metal silos, which are essentially raised burners Nuñez said the Turbococina used 95% less fuel than a typical wood stove. Testing at a Canadian lab showed that emissions of carbon monoxide and nitrogen oxide were negligible There is always disbelief," "They think: 'How could a Salvadoran have invented something so wonderful?
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