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If you live in a cold region, it is reasonable to assume you need heat in the winter. After all, a human would freeze to death if he were di...

We have already ranted against television . Your life is much richer without it! But what about "concentrated television", where y...

This stuff may make sense in hospitals, but it's a waste of time and money in the real world, which is so plastered with "germs...

Has there ever been a point when your life seemed so painful that you considered suicide? Sure, we have all probably thought about it, at le...

Now, I'm not going to claim that indoor plumbing can't be USEFUL. In dense cities, modern sewer systems and sanitary drinking water ...

People seem willing to pay enormous amounts of money for a "room with a view"—like a hotel on the beach or a house on a hillside o...