11 Surprising Uses for Aluminum Foil!

Flexible, durable, moisture-proof, and grease-proof, aluminum foil is most often used in the kitchen. But foil can do so much more! Keep this multitasking treasure on hand, and you’ll always have a quick fix for ironing, crafting, or even heavy lifting. Keep reading to discover more interesting and unusual ways to use aluminum foil for more than storing leftovers.

 1. Cutting Edge

 Dull scissors are the bane of crafters everywhere. Sharpen worn-down scissors by stacking several layers of aluminum foil, folding them in half, and then cutting them with the blades; six to eight swipes should leave your scissors nice and sharp.

2. Smooth Slide

 Foil makes an inexpensive improvised slider to help move heavy furniture. Simply wrap foil around the bottom of the legs, dull side down. (The dull side is more slippery than the shiny side.) The foil will make it easy to slide the furniture across the floor—no heavy lifting required!

 3. Pour More

Use foil to make an instant, disposable funnel to transfer messy liquids like oil, or sticky ones like honey. Simply double up a length of heavy-duty aluminum foil and mold it into the shape of a cone. The highlight of this easy hack is that there’s no messy cleanup—when you’re done, just throw it away, or clean it off and toss it into the recycling bin.


4. Easy Bake

 Line the bottom of your oven or grill with foil before cooking; once you’re done, simply remove the dirty foil and throw it away. To really get your money’s worth, before tossing the old foil, crumple it up and use it to scrub off stuck-on food debris from grates or baking pans.

 5. Battery Buddy

The springs that hold the batteries in your remotes, flashlights, and toys can lose tension over time and gradually cause your devices to stop working. Use a small piece of foil as a quick remedy to this annoying problem. Fold the foil until you have a small pad that is thick enough to wedge between the batteries and the spring. This will eliminate the extra space and help keep everything in place. 

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Curiosity Rover Snaps Awesome Selfies on Mars During Mountain Trek

NASA's Curiosity rover captured a glorious selfie on Mars this month, shortly before resuming its trek up a huge Red Planet mountain.

The 1-ton Curiosity rover snapped several low-angle shots with the camera at the end of its robotic arm on Aug. 5, at a site called Marias Pass in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) Mount Sharp. Mission team members then stitched those photos together into the amazing selfie, which NASA released Tuesday (Aug. 18).

Curiosity stayed at Marias Pass for several weeks, studying a "geological contact zone" where two different rock types come together. Curiosity's Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument measured high levels of hydrogen beneath the rover's wheels in the area, suggesting that lots of water molecules are bound to minerals in the rocks there. [Latest Amazing Mars Photos by NASA's Curiosity Rover]

"The ground about 1 meter [3.3 feet] beneath the rover in this area holds three or four times as much water as the ground anywhere else Curiosity has driven during its three years on Mars," DAN principal investigator Igor Mitrofanov, of the Space Research Institute in Moscow, said in a statement.
The rover drilled into a Marias Pass rock dubbed Buckskin, collecting powdered samples for future analysis by its onboard instruments. The mission team hopes those analyses help them understand why the Marias Pass region is so "wet," NASA officials said.
The Buckskin operations marked Curiosity's first full-on drilling work since a brief short circuit was observed in the drill's hammering percussive mechanism in February.

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Curiosity Mars rover took a low-angle self-portrait on Aug. 5, 2015, above the "Buckskin"  …

"We were pleased to see no repeat of the short circuit during the Buckskin drilling and sample transfer," Steven Lee, deputy project manager for Curiosity at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in the same statement.

"It could come back, but we have made changes in fault protection to continue safely drilling even in the presence of small shorts," Lee added. "We also improved drill percuss[ion] circuit telemetry to gain more diagnostic information from any future occurrences."

Curiosity finished its work at Marias Pass on Aug. 12 and headed farther up Mount Sharp. (The rover reached the base of that peak in September 2014.) Mission scientists want Curiosity to climb through the mountain's lower reaches, reading a history of Mars' changing environmental conditions in the rocks as it goes.

The six-wheeled robot covered 433 feet (132 meters) in drives over the past week, bringing its total distance traveled since touching down on the Red Planet in August 2012 to 6.9 miles (11.1 km), NASA officials said.

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Some Tips for Your Wednesday

9 Brilliant Cleaning Hacks Every Adult Should Know!



Use Bread for Broken Glass
When a plate or cup breaks, it can be tricky to sweep up all the glass - small shards are especially easy to overlook.  Once the larger pieces have been tossed, drop a slice of bread on the floor and press down on it to pick up and less noticeable remnants.




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College football's 25 Most Intriguing Games of 2015

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1. Baylor at TCU, Nov. 27. This time, the winner WILL make the College Football Playoff. Even though both were snubbed last year, the game was madly memorable: the Bears won a 61-58 shootout by scoring the final 24 points in the last 11 minutes. Then they may (or may not) have rubbed a little subliminal salt in the wound in this year’s team picture. In it, senior Jarell Broxton (No. 61) is right next to senior Spencer Drango (No. 58) on the front row. It was a “weird coincidence,” according to a Baylor spokesman. Probably didn’t seem coincidental to the Horned Frogs.

2. Ohio State at Michigan, Nov. 28. Is one of the game’s great rivalries back, with the arrival/return of Jim Harbaugh to Ann Arbor? Eventually Harbaugh vs. Urban Meyer could be the 21st century version of Bo vs. Woody – but how soon? The Buckeyes should be undefeated and the Wolverines defeated multiple times by the time they meet, but that may not matter. Even bust Brady Hoke managed to get his team to play over its head against Ohio State the last couple of years, so expect more of that with Harbaugh in charge and the game in the Big House.

3. Alabama at Auburn, Nov. 28. Seems like sacrilege to put the Iron Bowl way down at third on this list, especially after the last two wild ones. This time, the nation’s fiercest rivalry returns to the scene of the most amazing play in its history: the 109-yard return of a missed Alabama field goal with no time left that catapulted Auburn to the 2013 SEC West title, ultimately to the SEC title and into the final BCS championship game. That ending will never be topped, but the stakes could again be sky-high.

4. Oregon at Michigan State, Sept. 12. Sexy intersectional matchup played a key role in the 2014 season: the Ducks won in Eugene, launching Marcus Mariota’s Heisman Trophy bid and helping Oregon to a place in the College Football Playoff. The loss put the Spartans behind the Playoff 8-ball, and they stayed there after losing in November to Ohio State. Both teams are ranked in the USA Today top six heading into this season, so the matchup again carries a heavy payload. First huge test for Oregon transfer QB Vernon Adams.

5. Michigan State at Ohio State, Nov. 21. The two programs have alternated delivering haymakers to each other since Meyer came to Columbus in 2012. The Buckeyes won the first meeting 17-16. The Spartans won the next one, a shocking upset in the Big Ten title game that kept Ohio State out of the BCS championship game. And last year the Buckeyes went into Spartan Stadium as a four-point underdog and won, one of the biggest steps in a national championship season. If the 'dog is going to win for the fifth straight year in this series, Mark Dantonio will be a happy man.

6. Alabama at Georgia, Oct. 3. Could be a preview of the SEC championship game, and it starts a rigorous six-game stretch for the Crimson Tide. This also is the first meeting between the two in Athens since Nick Saban’s original Alabama power move – the Tide went between the hedges on an amped September Saturday night in 2008 and destroyed the Bulldogs, marking ‘Bama’s return to heavyweight status. It has maintained that status ever since, while Georgia has continued the elusive search for consistent excellence.

7. Florida State at Clemson, Nov. 7. The Atlantic Coast Conference divisional and overall titles figure to be on the line again in Death Valley when these two meet. The Tigers have lost just seven games the past three seasons, but three of them are to the Seminoles – who, not coincidentally, won the ACC each of those three years. Clemson let Jameis-less Florida State off the hook last year with some short-yardage coaching blunders; can Dabo Swinney & Co. get it right this time?

8. USC at Oregon, Nov. 21. Another game that in theory could be a conference championship preview. Trojans pack a lot of hype into this season, but not since the Pete Carroll days have they gotten into November as a factor in the national title race. Second-year USC coach Steve Sarkisian certainly has something to prove: He’s 0-5 against the Ducks, with every loss by at least three touchdowns.

9. LSU at Alabama, Nov. 7. Annual manly man showdown has a chance to usurp the Iron Bowl and return to Game of the Year status in the SEC. If the Tigers handle Mississippi State (road) and Auburn (home) in weeks two and three, they could be 8-0 going to Tuscaloosa. The idea of seeing Derrick Henry and Leonard Fournette bring 470 pounds of running back awesomeness into the same stadium is quite appealing.

10. Oklahoma’s Baylor-TCU two-step, Nov. 14 and 21. If anyone other than the Bears and Horned Frogs is going to win the Big 12, it’s probably the Sooners. And if they’re going to regain primacy with Bob Stoops’ rejiggered staff, they’ll have to do it on successive Saturdays late in the season. Oklahoma goes to Waco on Nov. 14 to face a Baylor program that has pounded it two years in a row, then hosts TCU on Nov. 21 in a rematch of a game that stamped the Frogs as serious contenders last year. Is Oklahoma back, or still trending toward obsolescence?

11. USC at Notre Dame, Oct. 17. Fighting Irish getting a lot of preseason love, but the front-loaded schedule reaches a climax with this annual rivalry game. If Notre Dame has gotten through Texas, Georgia Tech and Clemson with one or fewer losses, this could be huge. Irish were an injury-riddled mess last season in Los Angeles, losing 49-14. Can they make up five touchdowns on the Trojans in a year?

12. Ohio State at Virginia Tech, Sept. 7. The Buckeyes’ one revenge game of 2015 was shaping up as a beatdown, but then star Ohio State defensive end Joey Bosa and a couple of key receivers were suspended. This still should be an OSU victory, but the task has gotten tougher. On the road, Labor Day night – Ohio State has to show up ready.

13. Oregon at Stanford, Nov. 14. These two have split the last six Pac-12 championships – four for the Ducks, two for the Cardinal. In the last five years, the winner of this game has won the league. So, yeah, it’s a big one.

14. Washington at Boise State, Sept. 4. Chris Petersen revisits the program he helped build into an unlikely power. The folks in Boise are quite bullish on this year’s Broncos, who have experience everywhere but quarterback (kind of an important element). If they can beat their old coach week one and win at BYU week two, they could run the table.

15. Michigan at Utah, Sept. 3. The sport lucked into the perfect season lid-lifter. The Most Intriguing Coach in the country makes his Michigan coaching debut on Thursday night, on the road, against a quality opponent. And that quality opponent could reveal a stealth Heisman Trophy candidate in running back Devontae Booker.

16. UCLA at USC, Nov. 28. How do you set yourself up to coach in one place as long as you want? Beat your arch-rival. Jim Mora is 3-0 against the Trojans as the coach of the Bruins – winning the first two as an underdog and easily covering the spread in all three. If Mora can get to 4-0 in this rivalry, it could derail a USC Pac-12 South title bid – and may elevate his own team’s title bid.

17. Louisville vs. Auburn in Atlanta, Sept. 5. On paper it’s a legitimate but manageable opening opponent for the Tigers. Then you factor in Bobby Petrino’s record in season openers – a perfect 10-0. And then you wonder where things stand with problem-child Auburn receiver D’haquille Williams – one of just four returning offensive starters for Gus Malzahn. This could be tougher than it looks for the Tigers.

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