Natural Cooling: The Fresh Air Bed

...e cold and falling risk. There’s even a newsreel on the baby cage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NerS17sC0Bg These days child protective services would stop by if you stuck your kid in a cage out the window. The idea lives on, but only for cats, in the form of the Cat Solarium and in many homebrew kitty window solutions. But enough about cats, what we really need is to bring back the California Fresh Air Bed Company’s clever indoor/outdoor bed....

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Get a Kill A Watt Electricity Usage Monitor From Your Local Public Library!

...you can check out just like a book. I’ve got one right now and I’ve been running around the house checking out our gadgets. Some appliances, such as the refrigerator, that cycle on and off need to be left plugged into the Kill A Watt for at least a day or longer to get an accurate result. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7K2uBZKLOEg I found the instructions for the Kill A Watt a bit confusing. Naturally, I looked up a YouTube video for a clearer ex...

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Saturday Tweets: Dutch Bicycles, Landscaping and a Ski Sled

...r Failed Planting https://t.co/Pzl4A9vtnu #greeninfrastructure pic.twitter.com/WO8JpVh1by — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) March 27, 2017 Gorgeous collection of public domain illustrations of space https://t.co/u41GETa7Bf — Root Simple (@rootsimple) March 27, 2017 And Magpies? Is wind blowing them nearly off their perch? Is the kestrel actually seeing his reflection?–trying to communicate? https://t.co/EwsiRtIw6q — (((cassandrasilver)) (@planthol...

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Saturday Tweets: Faux Victorian Couples, Junkyard Flintnapping and a Squirrel-cam

...a Pine Forests' on #SoundCloud #np https://t.co/u7MryHaJDm pic.twitter.com/h6THd1qq3X — Roger Bales (@rbalesuc) August 15, 2016 Squirrel-cam footage https://t.co/IIqLsdafM6 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) August 15, 2016 This app aims to gamify biology and let amateurs discover new species. https://t.co/KidGZ0NRIo #STEM pic.twitter.com/r8ezFYqMeD — SRS @ UCSD (@SallyRideSci) August 13, 2016 Carless Renters Forced to Pay $440 Million a Year for Par...

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