Experiences of a plagiarist hunter… — Ever since I started writing articles 10 years ago on the HubPages network of sites, I’ve wasted lots of time dealing with plagiarists. I reckon over that period, I’ve dealt with hundreds of instances of people stealing text, photos or infographics and using them without permission in their articles. Possibly…

Approximately the size of a clenched fist and weighing about 9 ounces, the organ that we call the heart is a formidable device. — Every day, it pumps the equivalent of seven IBC containers of oxygenated blood around our bodies, that’s 7000 litres or 1850 US gallons. The human heart is effectively a twin pump system in one organ. Superficially, how it functions is straightforward and easy to understand. One of the left chambers…

If you’re a novice and you’ve just bought a cordless power tool, you may have noticed that the battery has some numbers on it. One of these is the battery voltage. However, the other number has the letters “Ah” after it. So what does this mean, and what does “Ah”…

A Holiday of a Lifetime: Athens, Paros and Santorini After disembarking the flight from Athens to the Greek island of Paros, I was annoyed to discover after collecting my luggage that the material around the hinge area of my suitcase was damaged. This is the story of how I fixed it (with some sight seeing on the way!). …

Unmissed Notifications My old Nokia 6300 dumbphone had blue LEDs on the sides that flashed when there was a missed call or a text message was received. So if I was away from my phone, I always knew about them when I came back to it. This was something I missed on…