My wife and I replaced our original 1955 oil furnace with a natural gas 98% efficient furnace 2 years ago and it's fantastic. We were in the same situation as you, paying way too much for fuel oil and had a natural gas line into our home (water heater). Total cost for the project was around $6000 and that included…

I swear, you guys are tracking me. Every time I'm researching something, I see a post on Lifehacker about it the next day.

Sorry, but I don't care how much you shake it, you can't change the simple laws of physics and chemistry.

For any solid that is soluble in a particular liquid, the liquid will only hold a specific amount of that solid at any given temperature. You get to points where you are doing what is known as super saturating the…

Anyone else notice in the linked article that, of the 5 pictures with rugs, only 3* follow their own 'Mind the Rugs' rule? (I say 3 because you can't really tell with the first picture, it could be 4)

Every phone I had before a smart phone had a ring setting of "Vibrate then Ring". I don't understand why they got rid of that.

I've been doing a similar thing for years now. It's a ringtone with four seconds silence, then a single bell. This is repeated by the phone.

Why not just do the polite thing and put your phone to silent/vibrate mode BEFORE going into places where a ringing phone would be inappropriate?

Actually, Jeroen, I WILL and DO say "it doesn't work".

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As a young physician, this is incredibly true. Nutritional education in Medical school is an absolute joke and very few students take it seriously. Everything I know about nutrition was self educated. I continually am amazed at the lack of basic nutritional knowledge displayed by physician/PA/Nursing colleagues.

One that doesn't name blizzards.

Exercise is one of the recommended ways to increase HDL. However, increasing the fat in your diet will also help to raise HDL levels. Don't get too hung up on numbers. Cholesterol numbers are nothing more than an imperfect "marker" of disease, they are not in and of themselves problematic. Many people with normal…

It said in the abstract that "Statistically significant differences in knee kinematics, the peak values of GRF, joint moment, and joint power trajectories were identified."

What got me over the hump was buying some of the rubber band-like resistance bands, and looping them around the pullup bar. Put one foot on the loop, and then I would do pullups with essentially less weight, due to the aid of the resistance band contracting. Eventually I graduated to a lighter resistance band, then…

My husband, who does a lot of physical work around the house/yard, but no "typical" exercise, decided he wanted to start working out. He hung a bar. He did 10 pullups like it was no big deal, but he was bothered that he could only do 10 on his first try. So, we can kind of hate him for that, right?

Good tips! I used negatives to work my way toward full pull-ups, and THEY WORK.

Use a stool. P90x got me started with that cheat. And now I can rock plenty of pull ups. Get a nice cheap rubber stepping stool at ikea. It never tips or slips