On his birthday , a king was supposed to let a prisoner try to escape his prison with his life. The king was to place two marbles in a jar that was glued to a table. One of the marbles was supposed to...
Recently I put a couple of ice cube trays into the freezer. After a couple of hours I opened the freezer and before my eyes the cubes suddenly turned cloudy, seemingly from the bottom up. Obviously...
Is the after effect of an imploding bubble created by the pistol shrimp, which is a tiny burst of light, some version of the casimir effect in practice or just plain old cavitivity? It's just one of...
Ok, whilst sitting out at a bbq in the south of england 3 days ago I recieved 36...yes 36(!) mosquito stings (bites, injections...whaever) on my ankles and knees and feet. Needless to say that i'm not...
I live in the NE of England and my underfloor heating has been down for 4O years and has stopped working. I believe there is a tool which will locate where the break is and then that bit of concrete...
After years of reading modern literature, I am now setting myself the goal of reading a few classics! I have 'done' to kill a mockingbird, 1984, of mice and men, animal farm, catcher in the rye. Of...
sorry if this comes across as being a stupid question but ive always wondered how anyone can say that every fingerprint and snowflake are all different without seeing each and every one?! because how...
We're told that drinking alcohol dehydrates the body and that it's bad to drink when the weather's hot. If you were trapped in a wine cellar with unrestricted access to bottles of wine and some...
I am not sure if this would be the right category, but it is worth a try...I need a homemade thing that I can make that will allow me to hear something better that I am hearing. There is this band...