According to the Environmental Protection Agency, leftover paint is the largest volume material collected by hazardous materials collection sites and costs local governments a lot of money to deal with. The EPA estimates that 10 percent of the house paint purchased each year ends up discarded. There's got to be a better way.
Technology
10 Uses For Leftover House Paint
Inventions Ahead Of Time
There are many examples of inventions that were way ahead of their time. So much so that some would not come into use for another thousand years and some would only come into general use almost 100 years after they were designed.
Supervolcano: Do We Have Chances to Survive?
The landscape after Pinatubo's eruption may give a glimpse of what early humans experienced.
The first sign that something had gone terribly wrong was a deep rumbling roar. Hours later the choking ash arrived, falling like snow in a relentless storm that raged for over two weeks. Despite being more than 2000 kilometres from the eruption, hominins living as far away as eastern India would have felt Toba's fury.
Shampoo...
In modern society, the practice of good personal hygiene is usually a minimum expectation instilled within children from the earliest possible moment.
Electrical Socket
Nowadays almost everything that we have at home depends on electricity. Computes, fans, cell-phones. All this was created by human mind due to invention of electricity. Now I’d like to tell about a provider between these two worlds – electricity and devices – it is a well-known electrical socket.
The Size Of The Sun Compared To Earth
It is the fire of life. It can be kind but it can get angry. But it never throws its weight around. It is the sun. And although it is 330,000 more massive than earth and contains 99.8% of the mass in our solar system, it is small in comparison with some other stars.
The Greatest Accidental Discoveries That changed the world
When we think of new inventions of creations, we often think of Thomas Edison trying hundreds of variations of the light bulb in order to get it right. However, many times inventions come accidentally, often as a side effect of something that the inventor is working on.
Internet Flame Wars
Hello, stupid! If you weren’t such an idiot, you’d understand why you’re wrong about everything. But apparently you’re so retarded that you can’t even spell right. And also you’re fat.’
Researchers who Experimented on Themselves
Being a scientist, doctor or a researcher takes dedication and a sometimes a thirst for knowledge…at any price. These ten researchers took the ultimate challenge and tested their theories on themselves, sometimes with fatal results. Here are the top 10 researchers who used themselves as lab rats.
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