The complaint that women's clothing has no usable pockets is old, correct, and usually explained badly.
The usual version is that women were deliberately denied pockets to keep them dependent.…
Every box of shoes, every new handbag, every electronic device arrives with a small paper packet of beads marked with instructions not to eat it, and almost all of them…
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In 1960 a great many buttons were cut out of freshwater mussel shell with a hollow drill under water, then ground, drilled, polished and sorted by hand into…
There are two different kinds of date printed on food, they mean entirely different things, and the difference is not intuitive from the wording.
One is a manufacturer's estimate of…
A light bulb attaches to a fitting in one of two ways. It either screws in on a threaded base, or it pushes in against a spring and twists a…
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In 1960 a television was hundreds of components wired point to point by hand, by rows of women at benches, into a chassis that slid out of a…