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Vintage life hacks for old school improvement; technology makes everyday life easier, but some useful instructions never go out of style.

How to Become 5% Bill Gates
Today, we’re going to look at an important ingredient for a better, brighter, and happier life — the right way to think about personal responsibility for your own life. We’re going to help you understand this aspect by mixing both practical information and a solid dose of inspiration.
By Entrepreneuria3 years ago in Lifehack
What it would be like to be brainwashed by insurance.
These days, I have been invited as a guest speaker to deliver two sessions on revenue generation for an insurance company. Some of the audience may be unfamiliar with the term "revenue generation meeting", so let's explain.
By Kuranda3 years ago in Lifehack
Spend five hours after work to boost your happiness, something you can do at home
Maybe it's because I've been taking it easy at home for the last few days. Suddenly I'm back to commuting to and from work, and I want to give a thumbs up to the person I was a year ago.
By Kuranda3 years ago in Lifehack
There are five things that do not recommend installing a glass roof on a sunroom roof
Sunrooms, with their excellent light and open views, are favored by more people than ever before. However, there are many different practices for sunrooms. Take the roof of a sunroom as an example, there are the more common glass roof panels, and there is also the color steel insulation board roof and some other composite panel roof panels. But we will find such a phenomenon, is to do the roof of the sunroom, many friends do not recommend the installation of the glass top. So why is this the case? Which kind of sunroom roof panel is better?
By Kuranda3 years ago in Lifehack
The country rejecting throwaway culture
"Hmm," sighs Bruno Mottis, squinting through his brown tortoiseshell glasses. "Did you spill water on it? Or put more than a kilogram of weight on top? The wiring inside appears to have been fried or disconnected somehow."
By Gu Wei Di Qi3 years ago in Lifehack
A neglected protein-rich 'superfood'
As we head towards the end of another extraordinary year, BBC Future is taking a look back at some of our favourite stories for our "Best of 2021" collection. Discover more of our picks here.
By Lonetoft3 years ago in Lifehack
The fastest way aviation could cut its carbon emissions
Aircraft use an incredible amount of fuel. A Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet carries 63,000 gallons (240,000 litres) of jet fuel, equal to about a 10th of an Olympic sized swimming pool, and burns through it at a rate of 4 litres (0.9 gallons) per second.
By Lonetoft3 years ago in Lifehack
How flooded coal mines could heat homes
Coal mines were the beating heart of Britain's industrial revolution. Their sooty, energy-dense output gave life to new-fangled factories and shipyards, fuelling the nation's march towards modernity. They helped shape a carbon-intensive economy, one that took little notice of the natural world around it. The mines paved the way for a global dependence on fossil fuels, and in doing so, fired the starting pistol on the climate crisis that today confronts us all.
By Lonetoft3 years ago in Lifehack
How to save energy at home
n a quiet corner of rural Northern Ireland, not far from the Mourne Mountains, the Golemboski-Byrne family lives off-grid in an energy efficient cottage. Husband and wife Steve and Claire renovated Lackan Cottage Farm themselves 10 years ago, adding solar panels, a small wind turbine, double glazing and heaps of insulation.
By Udley3 years ago in Lifehack
How Hong Kong protects people from dangerous landslides
"It happened as quick as lightning, but it only took seconds to create so much destruction." Michael Lau, now 63, speaks with a slight tremor as he describes how he witnessed one of the most deadly landslides to occur in Hong Kong in the past 50 years.
By Fra Tusha3 years ago in Lifehack
How ending mining would change the world
"If you can't grow it, you have to mine it" goes the miner's credo. The extraction of minerals, metals and fuels from the ground is one of humankind's oldest industries. And our appetite for it is growing.
By Holy horse3 years ago in Lifehack
Life/Work Balance
Researchers in the United States and Western Europe have discovered a "Happiness U-Curve," in which the happiness we enjoy in the early and later decades of our life plummets (to the bottom of the curve) in our mid-40s. But we don't have to suffer through this statistical low point if we take control of our time, stress levels and life/work balance.
By Karpenaru3 years ago in Lifehack