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In areas where you get creative—your home office, workshop, or kitchen—researchers have found that clutter can enhance c...
29/03/2022

In areas where you get creative—your home office, workshop, or kitchen—researchers have found that clutter can enhance creativity. In several experiments, subjects were asked to complete creative tasks—complete a puzzle, take a "Remote Associates Test," and create a drawing—in a cluttered room and a pristine one. Those in the messy room completed the puzzle fastest, scored highest on the Remote Associates Test, and earned the best marks from the drawing-judging panel.

Fans of American Beauty have their theories about what the red door in the film (and a red door in general) was supposed...
29/03/2022

Fans of American Beauty have their theories about what the red door in the film (and a red door in general) was supposed to symbolize. But as it turns out, a red door can mean very different things depending on what country it's in. In China, it symbolizes "welcome" in the Feng Shui tradition, while in Scotland it historically meant that the person living there had paid off their mortgage.

Europeans once stashed their shoes in walls, chimneys and under floors in an effort to fend off evil spirits. It wasn't ...
29/03/2022

Europeans once stashed their shoes in walls, chimneys and under floors in an effort to fend off evil spirits. It wasn't because they smelled bad—the shoes were seen to possess magical charms that served as protection. So many shoes were found in old buildings that the Northampton Museum and Art in the United Kingdom has created a Concealed Shoe Index to track these discoveries, tracking about 1,900 concealed shoes so far.

We usually think of home burglaries occurring in the cover of night, but in fact, homes are more likely to be subject to...
29/03/2022

We usually think of home burglaries occurring in the cover of night, but in fact, homes are more likely to be subject to burglary while the sun is out. According to FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics, burglaries were 6 percent more likely to occur between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. (when residents were at work or running errands) than at night.

The age-old question of whether it's better to rent or buy a home was answered in a survey by The Telegraph newspaper, w...
29/03/2022

The age-old question of whether it's better to rent or buy a home was answered in a survey by The Telegraph newspaper, which asked 5,800 Brits about the subject, along with questions about stress levels, financial circumstances and more. It turns out that those renting were more likely to feel they had the right work/life balance compared to those who owned their homes.

From inside your couch cushions to the piggy bank on your shelf to the coins in your pants pocket, you've accumulated a ...
28/03/2022

From inside your couch cushions to the piggy bank on your shelf to the coins in your pants pocket, you've accumulated a lot more change than you probably realize. Guess how much spare change you have around your home. According to Coinstar, you should probably double that guess—in a study the maker of change-conversion kiosks conducted, while consumers estimated they had an average of $28 lying around their home, the actual number when gathered and brought to the kiosk was $56.

It's called "the IKEA effect"—when you build something yourself, you value it more. That was the finding of a group of r...
28/03/2022

It's called "the IKEA effect"—when you build something yourself, you value it more. That was the finding of a group of researchers from Harvard, Duke, and Tulane University, who found that when a group of subjects put in the effort to create three different, and fairly simple, objects—IKEA storage boxes, origami, and Lego models—they placed greater value on them. In many cases, they even overvalued the objects.

We use the two terms interchangeably, but coaches and sofas are two distinct things. To help define the difference, look...
28/03/2022

We use the two terms interchangeably, but coaches and sofas are two distinct things. To help define the difference, look no further than eBay, whose helpful selling guide helps sellers tell the difference between the two by defining the couch as "a piece of furniture with no arms used for lying" (even though that definition is slightly outdated) and coming from the French word "couche."

As you might expect, advances in refrigeration grew out of an effort to keep beer cold. Specifically, James Harrison, a ...
28/03/2022

As you might expect, advances in refrigeration grew out of an effort to keep beer cold. Specifically, James Harrison, a Scottish-born journalist and the inventor of the first refrigerator (invented in the 1850s using ether), used it to chill beer, according to Tom Jackson, author of Chilled: How Refrigeration Changed the World and Might Do So Again.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this handy shipping material was not originally intended to help prevent breakage in pac...
28/03/2022

Sorry to burst your bubble, but this handy shipping material was not originally intended to help prevent breakage in packing. Instead, its creators—engineer Al Fielding and Swiss invetor Mar Chavannes—intended for it to serve as a kind of textured wallpaper (their original idea was to seal two shower curtains together to create the air bubbles. When it failed to sell, the creators marketed it as greenhouse insulation, which also failed. It took a marketer in 1959 to strike on the possibilities as a packaging material.

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