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Households advised to locate ’emergency off button’ by British Gas | UK | News

Households advised to locate ’emergency off button’ by British Gas | UK | News

Published by Sam Flores

When a leak occurs, your immediate reaction might be to ring a plumber. However, British Gas recommends there’s an essential action worth taking beforehand – particularly during crises. The energy provider’s guidance centres on your stopcock – the critical plumbing valve that regulates water flow to a property. Understanding its location, purpose, and how to shut it off can prove invaluable when pipes rupture or other domestic incidents arise. A specialist from British Gas recently shared their expertise on Instagram. She said: “Did you know that your house has an emergency off button for the water, but in an emergency situation, do you actually know where it is? “Your stopcock is most commonly found under your kitchen unit. Your stopcock can also be found in your downstairs toilets or in your utility rooms. Sometimes your stopcock can also be located in your outside meter, normally in your driveway.” If you’re having difficulty locating your stopcock, follow the pipework backwards from the tap until you discover a valve on your primary water supply. To switch it …

Forget low-rise jeans – Amanda Seyfried just brought back the belly button ring

Forget low-rise jeans – Amanda Seyfried just brought back the belly button ring

Published by Daniella Wilson

To pierce or not to pierce? That is the question that regularly rattles around my head when feeling A) bored B) spontaneous or C) uncool. Take it from someone with too many earrings to count, a new piercing can fix anything, from a dull rainy day to a quarter life crisis. However, I’ve always been on the fence when it comes to piercing a body part beside my face. You often hear horror stories about a friend of a friend who braved the needle only to wind up with some ghastly infection that warranted an emergency hospital visit.  No matter, the idea of a belly button piercing has always intrigued me. Cute and undeniably kitsch, these sparkly accessories have been championed by It-girls including Dua Lipa, Billie Eilish, Priyanka Chopra and most recently Amanda Seyfried – who bore hers proudly while attending the Tory Burch AW26 show during New York Fashion Week. © GC ImagesAmanda Seyfried attends the Tory Burch AW26 Show during New York Fashion Week “I’ll never get rid of it. I’ve had …

The only lithium button battery brand I recommend now – for serious safety reasons

The only lithium button battery brand I recommend now – for serious safety reasons

Published by skeptic

Adrian Kingsley-Hughes/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Lithium button cells can cause severe injury or death if swallowed. Many makers coat their batteries in a bitter substance to discourage ingestion. Energizer has now added a marker dye to make it easier to spot ingestion. Lithium button cell (sometimes called coin cell) batteries are everywhere, from car key fobs to AirTags. And while they seem innocent enough, if ingested, they can cause severe injury from esophageal or airway damage in less than two hours, which can, in the worst cases, result in death. Also: Using rechargeable batteries in your AirTags is not a smart idea – here’s why Each year in the US alone, some 3,500 button cells are swallowed, mostly by children. I’ve encountered one such injury myself, and seen a number of examples in first aid training materials, and it is no joke.   Making button cells safer requires two things: preventing accidental ingestion and being able to spot if a button cell has been ingested. For a few …

5 things your iPhone’s Action Button can do to make mornings easier

5 things your iPhone’s Action Button can do to make mornings easier

Published by skeptic

Most people leave their iPhone’s Action Button set to silent mode and forget it’s customizable (or aren’t aware you can change it in the first place). The default options aren’t exactly inspiring. But after building custom Shortcuts on my iPhone 16 Pro Max, I’ve turned that button into something I actually reach for every morning. My current setup cut the friction out of my pre-coffee routine. If you’ve got kids, a smart home, or just a hatred of fumbling with your phone while half-asleep, there are some hidden iOS settings here worth stealing. Start your morning playlist or podcast instantly Skip the app hunting and get audio playing fast Credit: Jonathon Jachura / MUO Credit: Jonathon Jachura / MUO Credit: Jonathon Jachura / MUO My mornings have a rhythm. Coffee brewing, kids waking up, and the general chaos building. I like having something playing in the background—music, a podcast, whatever. The problem is that getting audio going normally means picking up my phone, unlocking it, finding Spotify, and hunting for the right playlist. That’s too many steps when …

Perplexing blue button jelly looks like something out of ‘Lord of the Rings’

Perplexing blue button jelly looks like something out of ‘Lord of the Rings’

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. At first glance, it looks like an alien eye—a gorgeous blue iris around a carmel-colored pupil, thick eyelashes radiating out like sun rays. The reddish/orange center looks a bit like the Eye of Sauron, but we aren’t in Mordor. We’re on the surface of the ocean, where a mysterious jellyfish relative is floating along, snacking on zooplankton. Meet the blue button jelly (Porpita porpita). It’s a cnidarian (a group of mainly marine invertebrates, like corals, jellyfish, and Portuguese man-of-war), grows to be around an inch wide, and calls l many tropical and subtropical oceans home. The funky little creature consists of a float—the round part featured in the photograph—and a number of tentacles, some of which have stinging cells.  So far, so good. Researchers believe it’s a “quasi colonial organism,” Larry Madin, a jelly expert at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, tells Popular Science.  “It’s considered sort of a colony because there are tentacles that some of them …

Materialism in Science: Touching Another Hot Button

Materialism in Science: Touching Another Hot Button

Published by Jenni Sidey

IAI.TV offers an article summary sure to raise some hackles: The philosophy of materialism has dominated theoretical physics and neuroscience for decades. In this article, theoretical physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín argues that scientific gatekeeping of alternatives to materialism is the most dangerous type of pseudoscience. To make progress, he argues, we need to examine what we don’t understand in our current theories. “Materialism is holding science back,” September 16, 2025 Yes. Challenges to a materialist view of, say, human consciousness, have always and only been phrased in terms of the shortcomings of current materialist theories. Better ones, we are assured, are in the pipeline… indefinitely. The underlying premise is never questioned. And now for that very hot button Àlex Gómez-Marín goes on to raise — in the very venue that hosts, say, Roger Penrose and Sabine Hossenfelder — the validity of telepathy research: Totally debunked, you say? Nope: Half a century ago, a research letter entitled “Information transmission under conditions of sensory shielding” was published in Nature. The piece was a remarkable anomaly in the …