Thursday, April 25, 2024
Will it be chippy chips, crinkle cut, or spicy peri-peri? Perhaps you prefer skin-on, sweet potato, or triple-cooked gastro? Do you like yours drenched in vinegar, topped with cheese and bacon, accompanied by a generous blob of ketchup, or just straight-up with a sprinkle of salt? Whatever your preference, you’d […]
The currency of a country is often used as a metric of its economic power and development. By that yardstick, Bitcoin, the de facto currency of the Internet is on a roll with valuations breaching the 16,000$ mark recently. This recent spike in popularity has garnered the attention of the […]
Wire rope, although you may not realise, has become one of the centrepieces for the modern world. With multiple properties, it has found uses in over a dozen different industries; with everything from the Food and Brewery industry to the Marine and Military sectors. Wire rope itself is not a […]
When people think of science, they often envision a white-coated engineer, sequestered in a lab somewhere with bubbling beakers of brightly-colored solutions. Nearby, an assistant scribbles down pages and pages of data–all of it meaningless to the average person. But science is a far more hands-on field than that. The […]
The use of wearables has doubled over the past two years. By 2019, this will increase to 33.6 percent of the population, eMarketer projects. With the amount of people using wearables on a daily basis, it’s only natural to start seeing them at work. Here are five ways you can expect […]
In climates where frost is severe or prolonged, heat is needed unless the greenhouse is to remain empty throughout the winter. Where winters are not severe, however, it is worth looking at the limitations of a cold greenhouse. From about mid-spring to late autumn, all the plants that need cold […]
From the earliest days that hunter-gatherers settled in one place, the world has had farmers. The idea of growing food instead of constantly searching for it was revolutionary, and the development of civilization is due directly to the beginnings of agriculture. Of course, agriculture has itself been revolutionized during the […]
A garage door plays one of the most crucial roles in one's life as it protects not only his vehicle, but the people living inside the house. Some people with a garage door in their house have been living with thinking that the main use of having a door in […]
How much time do you lose each day to interruptions? Thirty minutes? An hour? Two hours? Are most or these interruptions of value? When you are interrupted, do you find that when you go back to what you were working on it takes almost as long to get back to […]
Think the Affordable Care Act is the biggest change to happen to health care since the polio vaccine? Just wait. Health care is going to change dramatically in the next 10 years, in ways that are going to significantly benefit everyone. Here are seven ways we predict health care will […]
One of the primary ways that people differ from the rest of the animal kingdom is through their sophisticated and extensive use of tools. This is something that has characterised even the earliest of human civilization. Looking at antique tools produced by toolmakers from different places, cultures and times provides […]
As an employer, either as a business owner or a professional in a managerial capacity with folks working under you, you should know the reality of working with other people. There will always be some disputes. Ideally it would have been nice if life went through its motions, ups and […]