Filament light bulbs are often very delicate, especially if they’re cheaply made. Mechanical vibrations, over a long enough period, can contribute to sudden blowouts by causing the filament to snap. These vibrations can come from nearby appliances, sound waves, second-floor foot traffic and many...
Dave threaded the boat past the high stone reef north of Sucia Island where more seals sat with their heads just above the waves. We join a couple other tour boats as they followed a family of orcas on the hunt! There was one more professional hanger-on in contrast to us tourists- a ...
But I’m looking forward to it, because after a year or so in which most of my writing has been for editors, for money, pitching sensible essays that make some broadly comprehensible point, I’m excited to have the kind of space in which I could maybe do a cheeky Nando’s again. Ei...
根据第二段中的“Today,the paradox is more usually cast in light of the inability of radio- telescope searches to detect the equivalent(相等的)of the radio waves that leak from Earth into the universe, and have done for the past century.”今天,这个M悖论通常是由于射电望远镜无法探测到过去一...
As these lasts come and go without us even realizing, we want to remember how much we enjoy our relationship with them in its ever-evolving form at this moment in time. I do not remember the last time I brought my 12-year-old daughter to dance and stayed for the duration of all ...
They don’t necessarily go together, but they often do, and they are both routinely claimed as root causes of plantar fasciitis. Personally, I think therapists just like to accuse their patients of “pronating” because it makes us sound like we know what we’re talking about. Sound a ...
It’s kind of like extending virtualization. The virtualization journey began at the CPU tier. But then businesses, as they roll out these private clouds, ask themselves: “How do I deal with where the real spending complexity is in my environment? My Oracle database is sitting on HP-UX,...
the benefit of hindsight today, the piece has an almost cassandra-like quality, foretelling a future both unpleasant and unavoidable—a future that feels a bit too much like now. it may be the most eerily prescient story that wired published in its early years. featured video how d...
In these cases, there IS sexual chemistry, connection and respect but the guy is just lazy/not ready/whatever. A lot of it has to do with how much women are willing to give to a guy so he doesn’t really have to do anything. He won’t make a girl his gf if he doesn’t HAVE...
In recent days, award-winning writer, actor and director Ben Affleck (Chasing Amy, Good Will Hunting, Argo) made waves in the press for his card-playing prowess. But oops! This was not the World Series of Poker he was besting. This was blackjack. Granted, it sounds like he was doing ...