Your house is full of pipes, carrying fresh water into your taps and wastewater out of your drains. When they’re working, you don’t think much about them. When they’re backed up or not draining, you can’t t
What Are Your Pipes Made of? Find out with Crowd the Tap Citizen Scienceoften referredbillion people worldwideAdditional ResourcesEarth is often referred to as the "water planet," as most of its surface is covered in water...Nugent, JillNational...
What is a boiler in a house? Put simply, boilers are a type of appliance used to heat the home. Boilers work by heating water, possibly to the point of boiling (hence the name). The resulting hot water or steam is then pushed through pipes or a radiant heating system to heat your ...
Life in a Hothouse What might life on Earth be like under such conditions? Although no examples from the past perfectly illustrate the warmest phases of these two scenarios, several of them are nonetheless informative. Immediately before the last ice age-between 130,000 and 117,000 years ago-...
There are a number of triangular, “Flatiron”-style buildings in the Meatpacking District, including theLiberty Innon 14th Street. This building has a long, louche history that begins in 1908 when it was the Strand Hotel, a boarding house for sailors who passed through town at a time when...
From the gold we wear as jewelry to the oil that powers our cars, Earth's storehouse of amazing materials can supply virtually every need. Chemical elements are the basic building blocks from which all the materials inside Earth are made. There are 90 or so naturally occurring elements and ...
and gum stimulator to help you aim for your cleanest smile. The floss can be reused up to a week, and are recyclable, which effectively cuts down on your bathroom waste. "As someone who's a pretty diligent flosser, I liked the idea of going electric but wasn't sure if it would be ...
Assets that carry gas, air or fluid are best monitored by using pressure analysis, that is, the process of measuring and evaluating the pressure levels within an asset. Maintenance teams can use pressure analysis to determine the flow rate and velocity of fluids through pipes and valves; to op...
The first is the El Niño/La Niña cycle. During an El Niño, in which ocean water around the northwestern coast of South America becomes warmer than usual, Atlantic hurricanes are suppressed, while La Niña creates more favorable conditions for hurricanes, Bell said. ...
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)The first thing I’ve learned from failure is that the four things which matter most are:The quality of the people doing the development The expected value of the ...