Here at Mashable we love our computers, phones and other gadgetry, but what we certainly don’t love is the tangled mess of wires that comes along with them. If you’ve got more than a few wires crossed under your desk, then to help you out of cable chaos we’ve found 10 great solutions to help [...]
Most of us know that baking soda can be used for more than just making homemade cookies and other dough rise. It’s not uncommon to see an open box of this leavening agent deodorizing refrigerators, for example. But did you know that there are at least 40 different ways to use baking soda?
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As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill shows little sign of abating, TIME takes a look back at history’s greatest environmental tragedies.
When it comes to air pollution, coal is enemy #1. We were curious to know which countries burned the most, so we compiled a list of the top 10 coal-burning countries in the world based on the latest statistics from the U.S.
With our previous posts on free wallpapers for your desktop, today, we bring you a wide array of another type of wallpapers that you can also download for free… These wallpapers are mostly themed around amazing nature images that will surely take your breath away. The wallpapers are created for dual screens users with astonishing [...]
Keeping your living space presentable and sanitary can sometimes feel like a daunting task — it seems as if there are always more cleaning projects than time in the day! Day-to-day tidying is a must, not to mention those bigger cleaning projects (such as washing the windows or getting the dust out of the curtains) [...]
As consumption of fossil fuels and other, damaging non-renewable energy materials reaches it’s greatest extent, it’s becoming increasingly obvious that sustainable power will play a significant part in shaping (and possibly saving) the future of the planet. Here’s our list of 10 of the most promising new green technologies – some can be implemented on [...]
Who hasn’t heard of a tyrannosaurus Rex or a velociraptor thanks to movies like Jurassic Park? When we think of dinosaurs, we almost all think of a very small subset of these giant creatures from history. But perhaps more interesting are those which are far less familiar to us all.
The last days of winter tend to have an emotional resemblance to the layers of dust peeking out from behind your furniture. While the mood of winter calls for quiet colors like calming browns and cool blues, spring screams for color! Bright pastels and lively shades of red and orange bring life to a dormant [...]
Lars Tunbjork for The New York Times The New York Times Magazine did a photo spread of some rather extreme conversions of churches, shipping containers and water towers and even caves.
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In previous lists we have looked at amazing holiday destinations – today we are looking at the bottom ten; these are ten places you don’t want to visit! Having said that, maybe the curious would get a thrill from visiting some of these strange and dangerous places, but for most of us, reading about it is quite enough. Feel free to mention any other contenders for the list in the comments.
The Caribbean is a region consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts but it’s also much more than white sands and azure-blue seas.
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Planet Earth, although I think the people that our home that we all took and still won a dangerous place to live, especially some of her extreme and unexplored parts.
