We live in an age of optimized everything. We track our sleep, count our steps, and bio-hack our diets, all in a relentless pursuit of peak wellness. It was only a matter of time before…
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It’s not about suction. It’s a coordinated attack of thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and chemistry. Here’s how it works. A visually clean carpet is one of the great illusions of the domestic world. To the naked…
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Take a moment and look at your living room carpet. It might look clean, a uniform landscape of color and texture. But if you were to shrink down to the size of a dust mite,…
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It’s a uniquely modern form of misery. You’re midway through a shower, enveloped in a cloud of steam and blissful warmth, when the water temperature plummets. The sudden, icy shock is a primal insult, a…
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