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There is a particular kind of notebook that turns up when an old farm changes hands. Page after page of dates, each with a few figures beside it:…
Copper and the alloys made from it - brass and bronze among them - have a property that no other common building material has. Microorganisms that land on a copper…
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In 1974 an American science fair project was three panels of cardboard taped together, lettered by hand in marker, standing on a folding table in a school gymnasium.…
Fire engines are red almost everywhere, it is one of the most universally recognised conventions in use, and there is a substantial body of research indicating that red is close…
Around the edge of every car windscreen there is a solid black band, and along its inner edge a row of black dots that get smaller and further apart until…
A wine glass has a stem, a tumbler does not, and the difference is widely treated as a matter of formality - stems are for occasions, tumblers are for everyday.…