To make a bleach bath, add anywhere from a quarter to a half cup of 5-6% bleach to a tub full of warm water.
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Mark Gurarie,
Health,
27 Mar. 2025
The simple act of boiling water in a new kettle will leave you with between six million and eight million microplastic particles per cup, Boland and his colleagues found.
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Marta Zaraska,
Scientific American,
27 Mar. 2025
The seminal 1952 Miller-Urey experiment sent jolts of electricity through a flask of water and gases intended to represent early Earth’s atmosphere, and found that certain amino acids and other important biological molecules were produced.
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Michael Irving,
New Atlas,
17 Mar. 2025
In the courtyard of the Paris Observatory, all 11 of his flasks turned cloudy with multiplying germs.
Force Ghosts • Raise a tankard of Weequay Pirate Brew to Michael Abels, The Acolyte’s composer.
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Noel Murray,
Vulture,
5 June 2024
Old New York money probably chased a tankard from around 1710 that belonged to Henry Beekman, whose grandson, Robert Livingston, signed the Declaration of Independence.
The rookie hero, opening beer bottles with his eye socket, pulling out his own tooth with pliers, and being stabbed by a fan in Mexico wielding a pen, made news everywhere.
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Chuck Murr,
Forbes.com,
26 Mar. 2025
Manufactured objects — plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concrete buildings, teabags, wind turbines, cell phones, T-shirts, aluminum cans — outweigh the living world and will form distinctive, if sometimes hard to interpret, clues to our existence.
Expect pictures from various party headquarters, with everyone huddled around lead candidates — champagne flutes or beer steins in hand, depending on the party — waiting for those first results.
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Christopher F. Schuetze,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
The ceremonial keg tapping takes place Friday evening, and the weekend lineup includes a German chocolate cake baking contest, a stein hoisting contest, and a chicken dance competition (costumes and creativity encouraged).
Once the donuts are long gone, reuse the bucket as an Easter centerpiece or during your annual egg hunts.
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Lauren Thomann,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Apr. 2025
Nets two-way guard Tyson Etienne scored his first career buckets early in the fourth quarter and fellow two-way Tosan Evbuomwan played for the first time in over a month.
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