I thought you were talking about light bulbs to start with, and my brain was really struggling with the idea of squirrels (that's skwi-rels, not skwerls) eating light bulbs.

It would have been pretty amazing to take out all those walls and floors without dislodging *any* tiles, so I suspect that at the very least it's been put back together a bit (the tiles of the inco...

I was also initially thrown by the fact it's a heating thermostat (the same model used in most of the houses I lived in as a child) yet the article was about cooling. I was shocked whe...

I like how you give a temperature in Fahrenheit, and show a picture of a thermostat that uses Celsius.

Why would wet paper be non-recyclable? Surely the first stage of recycling paper is to pulp it by *adding* water, so if it was wet already it wouldn't matter. Or am I missing somethin...

How on earth does it ensure that all the plastic chips are removed from the clothes at the end of the cycle, and that you don't end up with loads caught up inside pockets, and duvet covers and pill...

We always used to be fascinated by the doorstops in our grandma's bungalow. They were the spring type, and we used to enjoy "doinging" them. You hardly see doorstops in house in Engla...