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How to avoid buying a dodgy used crawler tractor

Crawlers tend not to clock as many hours as conventional-wheeled tractors (they're typically parked up in the shed for six months of the year) and so it's not unusual to find 10- to 15-year-old examples with 5,000-6,000 hours on the clock. There are ...

Forget the 'To-Do' List, You Need a 'Stop Doing' List

Forget the 'To-Do' List, You Need a 'Stop Doing' List. Shane Parrish @farnamstreet. Feb. 27, 2015. SHARE. twin-bell-alarm-clock Getty Images. Shane Parrish writes Farnam Street. It's interesting to think about the things you want to accomplish in life ...

The Mystery of the Continuously Functioning Battery From 1840

Luckily for anyone who may be stationed nearby, the bell is not incessantly dinging like some possessed alarm clock. It's actually barely audible, because the charge is so low—the metal ball responsible for the ringing only delicately vibrates between ...

157 years ago today, the burglar alarm was born in Boston

Holmes's alarm worked similarly, except instead of sending signals from a circuit linking Washington to Baltimore, it linked doors and windows to a little bell connected to an electromagnet. And instead of making a tapping sound Business boomed ...

What Is Melatonin And Should You Really Take It For Sleep?

late and the light intensity [of the day] goes down." Melatonin is key in regulating your body's internal clock, also known as your circadian rhythm, says Andrew Westwood, M.D., a board-certified sleep physician and assistant professor at Columbia ...

Teens Are Getting Less And Less Sleep

By Cari Nierenberg, Contributing writer. Published: 02/17/2015 02:45 AM EST on LiveScience. The amount of time that teens spend sleeping has substantially declined over the last 20 years, a new study suggests....

Daylight saving time 2015: Five tips to spring forward and beat grogginess

Remember to set clocks forward one hour before turning in Saturday night. Most smart phones, Androids and iPhones will change the time automatically. Daylight saving time is also a good time to check smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors in ...

Mad about the '60s

Refrigerator colors come and go, but Betty's is the same classic choice as now, white. The Ritz crackers on top of her ... Westclox ad, midcentury • Alarm clock. The midcentury go-getter stepped smartly on time to his first meeting of the day thanks ...

Tyneside cyclists are Coppi cats

She was Guilia Occhini, known as The Woman in White. The Pope personally urged Coppi to return ... In his first race as an attached rider he won an alarm clock – but Coppi was ahead of his time already. “When Fausto won,” said a contemporary ...